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10 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Within a few months, they raised $30,000 (which was a lot of money for them) and were invited to an incubator for new business owners, where they learned how to run a company. That’s quite a turnaround from gaining $30,000 in funding and joining a startup incubator. Airbnb now makes $2.5 billion in annual revenue.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. When I was graduated from university in 1991 it was only the really committed who eschewed the corporate world for creating tech startup businesses. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. Morning in VC.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter December 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

has sales offices throughout Korea and over 1,000 retailers carrying its product line, in addition to a local formulation facility. Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

It had a gut-wrenching pivot as the first business model didn’t work and today is thriving with its new one. voice of their customers and talk them off the ledge that negative reviews wouldn’t tank their overall sales. Our pivot wasn’t a business model pivot?—?it We started Coremetrics in 1999 selling to dot-coms.

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