Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2019

From meager beginnings selling books online back in 1994, Amazon is currently the largest e-commerce retailer and cloud computing platform in the world, and now dominates even the giant Walmart. In my role as a business advisor, I’ve long wondered how to pass their secrets along to other new ventures.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

This article is part of our Business Startup Guide —a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! Starting up a business requires a lot of different steps. And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

I stole the ideas for my first startups from other people. And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2013

And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon.com in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the Internet. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands. Much has changed since Edison’s day, but sweat equity is still the most effective kind of startup capital.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Thinking about starting a business from your home? Plenty of well-known businesses have started with simple home-based roots. For example, in 1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Washington, and Harley-Davidson started out of a home—and a shed—in Wisconsin. entrepreneurs start their business at home.

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