Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

5- WhatsApp founders. One of my favorite business turnarounds is the story of the founders of WhatsApp. Airbnb struggled to attract investors when it first began in 2008, requiring founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia to manufacture bespoke cereal boxes to earn money. Ron Wayne, the third Apple founder, was also an Atari alumni.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” ” Kraus was talking about the economics of startups—the cheapness of servers, networks, and other raw ingredients of computing.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2013

How to Win as a First-Time Founder – crowdspring.co/1iGhXzt. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 1993 vs 2013 pic.twitter.com/P5m3MIsUjk. Entrepreneurship is hard – crowdspring.co/1gJLwvJ. 19EITGp.

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www.singlefounder.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Company founders don’t have the luxury of ‘diversifying their portfolio,’ so to speak. They work at their company until funding is pulled, it goes bust, it’s sold, etc… It’s hard to be the founder at multiple companies at the same time. Myth #3: I need a partner. 1 day ago Well, not most.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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