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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Rather than seeking private funding, the company’s owners obtained funds through DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), committing them to building products for government use. Thanks to that decision, the company was able to see quick growth, leading it to take out a second SBA-backed loan, this time for $807,000, in 1995.

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Blowing up the Business Plan at U.C. Berkeley Haas Business School

Steve Blank

Berkeley in 2010 to run the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship in the Haas School of Business we were teaching entrepreneurship the same way as when I was a student back in 1995. Here’s the story from Andre Marquis, Executive Director of Berkeley’s Lester Center for Entrepreneurship. —– When I came to U.C.

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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. Number of Venture Backed Liquidity Events 2000-2010. government for funding. One of the ways most predictable ways for an investor to sell these shares was to take a company “ public.”

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I was tired of the bureaucracy of government and corporate work along with limited vacation days (my balance was always bouncing off of zero!). In 2010, I realized that I needed a more family-friendly career without extensive travel and inflexible work hours. Image Credit: Laura Renner. Because I wanted to travel.

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Weekend Reading on Startup Communities

Feld Thoughts

This book was written in 1995 and published by the Santa Clara Valley Historical Association so the updated subtitle should be “A One Hundred Year Renaissance – 20 Years Later.” 3029 in 2010 (Lugar, Kerry) titled “The Startup Visa.”

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

The average venture capital fund raised between 1995 and 1997 returned more than 50% per year. 2010 was a year of firming and climbing out of a hole, but the tepid IPO market and general macroeconomic malaise seemed to linger until late in the year (similar to how 1995 felt). But what if it’s actually more akin to 1996?

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Market Timing Is A Skill Not Luck

Altgate

It means that guys like Mark Cuban were not simply lucky for starting a streaming video company in 1995 and selling it to Yahoo for $6 billion in 1998. ← Startup Failures On The Rise UK Government To Launch VC Fund To Rescue Startups → Comments are closed. Think about that. Bookmark the permalink.