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Pitch Deck Teardown: Uber’s $200K pre-seed deck from 2008

TechCrunch

That was a particularly fascinating thought back in 2008 because Uber had yet to launch and didn’t have a clear vision for how it was going to launch UberX. Image Credits: Uber In 2008, smartphones were starting to be a thing. They’re a thing. Size the market and call it a day.

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Hear how Blumberg Capital and DoubleVerify have worked together since 2008 on TechCrunch Live

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days of 2008. Oren Netzer and his co-founder Alex Liverant started DoubleVerify in the heady Web 2.0 Blumberg Capital was the company’s first institutional investor. TechCrunch Live is thrilled to have CEO Netzer and Blumberg Capital partner Yodfat Harel Buchris speak to DoubleVerify’s early pitch deck on March 16 at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET.

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Hear how Blumberg Capital and DoubleVerify have worked together since 2008 on TechCrunch Live

TechCrunch

days of 2008. Oren Netzer and his co-founder Alex Liverant started DoubleVerify in the heady Web 2.0 Blumberg Capital was the company’s first institutional investor. TechCrunch Live is thrilled to have CEO Netzer and Blumberg Capital partner Yodfat Harel Buchris speak to DoubleVerify’s early pitch deck on March 16 at 11:30am PT / 2:30pm ET.

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3 ways to optimize SaaS sales in a downturn

TechCrunch

My first month with a sales quota was September 2008 — not the best month for a 21-year-old to start his career by cold calling strangers and convincing them to buy a $10,000 piece of software. After working on the first Obama presidential campaign from 2006-2008, I had a fresh perspective on how to sell. Sahil Mansuri. Contributor.

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Paystand banks $50M to make B2B payments cashless and with no fees

TechCrunch

During the 2008 economic downturn, Almond’s family lost their home. The company raised $50 million Series C funding led by NewView Capital, with participation from SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund and King River Capital. This brings the company’s total funding to $85 million, Paystand co-founder and CEO Jeremy Almond told TechCrunch.

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When will IPOs return? The past may hold some clues

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The crisis of 2008: The housing bubble pops. Now let’s look at 2008, when we had our most recent major recession. In June 2004, eight months later, Salesforce went public. One month after that, Google made its public debut on July 29. We’re all pretty familiar with the stories of the latter two. What happened?

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What is Blockchain Technology?

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Its been almost ten years since Satoshi Nakamoto first introduced Blockchain technology to the world in his 2008 […]. Read David Hamilton explain all the nitty-gritty of blockchain technology on Security.io