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27 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The company provides management consulting services to small to mid-sized businesses, as well as government agencies – I wanted clients to know that the company’s values include balance, perspective, integrity, stability, and practicality. I’ve been a member of the North Face global athlete team for over 10 years.

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Driven to Distraction – the future of car safety

Steve Blank

The Department of Transportation was created in 1966 but it wasn’t until 1979 that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ( NHTSA ) started crash-testing cars (the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety started their testing in 1995). In 1984 New York State mandated seat belt use ( now required in 49 of the 50 states.).

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. It’s a great business.

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What is Coworking? Everything You Need to Know

Austin Startup

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City.

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Stop Bad-mouthing the Millenial Generation and Read the Facts

Up and Running

Moreover, 89 percent said that, in light of the new economy and job market, entrepreneurship education was important. Yet 72 percent said that the classes they’d taken didn’t adequately prepare them to start a business, and most didn’t think enough support was available from the government and banks.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. We estimate that the global GMV for ride sharing was over $100B in 2018 (including Uber, Didi, Grab, Lyft, Yandex, etc) and still growing handsomely. The New York Times describes Hipcamp as “ The Sharing Economy Visits the Backcountry.”

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Loading… New York. Netscape and Opsware, which he helped found, went public with single-class share structures in 1995 and 2001, respectively. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Global Support. Data Policy - NEW. Mozilla Firefox.