Read Jeff Bezos’ 3-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In The CEO is responsible for the executive team plus the fundamental interview and hiring processes for all employees. “I mean damn, did you even see the test. You got D’s, motherf*$@%&, D’s! Rosie Perez”. Kanye West. Does the CEO know what to do? MORE >>

In 1997, I put up two websites—EssayEdge.com and ResumeEdge.com. By the end of my senior year, I was hiring students to do the work and making hundreds of thousands of dollars. It's one of the 25 most-trafficked webites in the U.S., and it was founded by a pair of siblings in New Hope, Pennsylvania. As told to Liz Welch. MORE >>

The company has already hired Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank to manage the process. Founded in 1997, Yandex is one of the few search engines that truly rivals Google in Russian-language internet market. We have been speculating over Yandex's potential IPO ever since Mail.ru filed for theirs last autumn. s 'blockbuster' IPO. MORE >>

magazine named it one of the 500 fastest-growing companies in 1997. She got her funding after assuring VCs that she would hire a nanny. Silicon Valley appears to be the world's greatest meritocracy. Unless you're a female entrepreneur trying to raise venture funding. When I researched the dearth of women, I could find no explanation. MORE >>

In 1997 we hired an NYU undergrad to create a better bplans.com site, focusing on business planning and especially publishing sample plans. January of 1995. Few people knew of the Internet, Mozilla, and the world-wide web. And I started bplans.com. And especially a new membership group. When, how, and why did bplans.com get started. MORE >>