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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

from a trip to India and spoke of places with pigs and cows roaming around and no plumbing. But I did write a letter to Indira Gandhi, then prime minister of India, in 1982 before my first trip there. And how much of it was based on luck, and how I could easily have been that child in an orphanage in India.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Not a chance.

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13 industries that tech founders should watch

The Next Web

As my co-founder likes to say, augmented reality today is equivalent to the Internet in 1995. In the same way that Stripe built technology products for other tech companies, infrastructure-related products in developing markets are a huge opportunity. We’re truly on the cusp of some exciting times! Jessica Butcher , Blippar.

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Reflections of America this July 4th

Both Sides of the Table

I had been living in Europe since the start of 1995, most recently in London. Or if you’re a developer perhaps you could donate time by dedicated to their hack-a-thon? In India in order to fill out paperwork to import IT equipment for when I opened our offices there in Pune, the form asked where my grandfather was from.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Our model combined fair pricing and advocacy and direct development projects in each of the communities we bought from that would be managed by the communities themselves, thereby creating managerial capacity among the farmers and self-respect. I train and certify Holistic Coaches and help them develop their professional coaching careers.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

gave up 70% of the company to American Research & Development Corp. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Software Development Engineer, Senior-IEB-Commercial Services (795929) Job -. APG - Associate - Application Developer (NON ALADDIN) -.

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How I Started Selling Information Online: What It Takes To Become An Infopreneur

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

My Internet Infopreneur’s Journey The year was 1995, and the Internet had just come to India. But then, if it becomes a best-seller, it could sell a few MILLION copies over the next twenty years, and the author will get paid royalties all through this time…even if he doesn’t write a single word more!

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