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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. Thanks to Nick Chandi, SlickPie Accounting Software ! #8 We are now based in Atlanta, but we started out on a college campus in Jamaica as a team of one: me. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game?

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

We think of the techniques were developing for dealing with large numbers of startups as like software. Sometimes it literally is software, like. The way to get really big returns is to do things that seem crazy, like starting a new search engine in 1998, or turning down a billion dollar acquisition offer. Well have to.

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