David Teten
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
Michael Smith, leader of the Social Innovation team at the Case Foundation , introduced the Foundation as a non-profit started in 1997 by Steve Case (AOL co-founder) and his wife, Jean Case. It’s designed to provide capacity to nonprofits in the areas that they’re weakest. 3 specific issues: 1. How we embrace technology for good.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 22, 2011
I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I learned long ago at the University of Chicago where I got my MBA that investors tend to want to invest when markets become over-valued and sell when they become undervalued.
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Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 19, 2019
The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. We are very excited to have Chicago-bred comedian, writer and actor Beth Stelling. Why are they called the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards?
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 16, 2011
Whether you love Apple or hate it, you can’t deny they’ve designed more than a place to sell products with their stores worldwide. IKEA stores are designed to wind customers through large, showrooms that showcase a variety of ways in which customers can use IKEA merchandise. billion in sales. Build-A-Bear.
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 23, 2013
I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. In 1997 I was sent to England to work on a project for the oil company Halliburton. Then I got my MBA at University of Chicago and reinforced my brand. Yet everywhere I went I was now “strategy guy.”
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Publishers and authors (like O’Reilly and us) also benefit from Amazon’s success.
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 19, 2015
Using our iPhone or Android apps or visiting Handwrytten.com, it is easy to select a card from our inventory of over 80 designs, tap out your message and select a handwriting style. Extremely-Sharp.com originally started with a few retail locations in 1997, and we quickly started the e-commerce site the next year. 22) Self-Sufficient.
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