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Holmes’ sentencing sends a clear message that the startup ecosystem must be built on good faith

TechCrunch

Sure, due diligence matters in the investment process, but lying about your capabilities can undercut the founder-investor relationship — and in extreme cases, to the detriment of the larger, global startup market. Soon she was the CEO of a company with a $10 billion valuation, but it turned out that the technology didn’t work.

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S3 Ventures, Tacora close on new funds to boost Austin startups

TechCrunch

“While building a company here between 1994 and 2003, I saw the Texas ecosystem firsthand and was excited about what it offered,” Smith told TechCrunch. “It In fact, the firm believes that Texas is going to be the second-largest tech ecosystem in the U.S. Digging into the Alkami Technology IPO. Keri Findley, founder of Tacora.

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Slope brings on new CFO, customers, capital as it rises to offer businesses buy now, pay later

TechCrunch

Its API technology can approve businesses for the BNPL in seconds so they can begin offering the installments. Instead, the underwriting process is fully automated and takes seconds, while the technology integration takes minutes versus months. He was also head of capital markets at SoFi and began his career at Deutsche Bank in 2003.

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American Airlines to buy 20 jets from Boom Supersonic

TechCrunch

The Concorde, which made its first supersonic flight in 1976 from New York City to London in three hours, was in the skies until 2003, when the Concorde made its last commercial flight, due to a number of issues with the jets. Besides Boom, other companies are exploring ways to bring this tech back to life.

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Alan Kay Biography

The Crazy Programmer

Alan completed his schooling at Brooklyn Technical School in New York. In 1984, he joined Apple and due to his extraordinary contribution, he became an Apple Fellow, but that group was closed in 1997. In 2002, Telluride Tech Festival Award of Technology, Colorado. In 2003, ACM Turing Award.

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To Make It Big, Most Tech Startups Have A Limited Post-IPO Window To Turn Profitable

Crunchbase News

Covering tech startup IPOs generally involves writing about companies that lose money. But in most cases, even the most valuable one-time venture-backed technology companies went public before turning profitable. Meanwhile Palantir Technologies , which was founded in 2003, took 20 years to post its first annual profit in 2023.

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Taking advantage of Latin America’s market downturn

TechCrunch

As a banker covering technology, I thought there was an opportunity to invest in the region and decided to quit my job at J.P. Morgan was simple: writing portfolio reviews and helping unwind a large portfolio of internet companies that had had their share of glory, but were mostly failures by then. Morgan and give it a shot.

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