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Reflections of America this July 4th

Both Sides of the Table

The funniest experience I ever had on July 4th (US Independence Day) was in 1999. July 4th is a special date in America. America is a place that has always welcomed the best from around the world. I invested in a company whose goal is to bring low-cost computing to inner-city schools in America. And cultural gaffes.

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Why Sending Your Workers ‘Back To School’ Is Good Business

YoungUpstarts

The company has over 1,500 branded foodservice locations across 40 states and is best known for their Champs Chicken franchise brand which was started in 1999. Prior to starting PFSbrands, Burcham spent five years with a Fortune 100 company, Mid-America Dairymen (now Dairy Farmers of America).

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Service Exports - Driving U.S. Startups and Small Businesses

Growthink Blog

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. and the rest of the world has allowed for phenomena like an Indian manufacturing company hiring U.S. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S. startups and small businesses.

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

If Reid were to start a company today he’d probably have every VC in America offering to back him, but this wasn’t necessarily the case when we started LinkedIn out of his apartment in Mountain View at the end of 2002. The rest, as they say, is history. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. They are, in fact, great news for traditional venture capitalists.

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The unimportance of product names

37signals.com

Established 1999 in Chicago. It’s not mind blowing, it wont be muttered in households across america… but it’s something that works. Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. Enter your email below: Content copyright ©1999-2011 37signals, LLC. Apr 27 2010. 27 Apr 10.