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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. The revenue on the darkroom rental was close to what I was making weekly, I was in disbelief.

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What if it’s 1996, not 1999?

Seeing Both Sides

million in revenue the year before. . Matrix had a fund in 1998 that yielded an eye-popping 514+% IRR. Demand from these, now larger, economies are having a very positive effect on the US tech market. This powerful source of economic demand didn't exist 15 years ago. . ??. billion market capitalization.

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Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA

Steve Blank

from box-office revenue. But the total movie industry revenue was $87 billion. After the VCR was introduced, studio revenues took off like a rocket. 1998 – the MPAA got congress to pass the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), making it illegal for you to make a digital copy of a DVD that you actually purchased.