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[US][Competition] U.S. Chamber of Commerce DREAM BIG Small Business Of The Year Award 2012

YoungUpstarts

The seven featured companies have already proven their worth as winners of the Blue Ribbon Award for innovative business practices and contributions to their local communities. The company operates a unique policy that requires each of its employees to spend at least one day each month volunteering in the local community.

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10 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

He had the good fortune to be an early employee at Facebook. So they solved it by each department manager, the sales manager, and the owner running their own schedule and telling the junior employees what to do. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. Well done Reed!

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“But I only wanted to write” – Five Questions with Wired’s Jessi Hempel

Hunter Walker

I tried a bunch of jobs: I taught fourth grade, worked at a nonprofit, and made an ungodly amount of money doing odd jobs at a dot-com because hey, it was 1999. So, I enrolled in the journalism program at the University of California at Berkeley. I was going to have to figure out how to do it all day, every day.

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How to Run Effective Online Sweepstakes Campaigns

ConversionXL

Create a new community channel for customer interaction, provide updates, and generate news. A helpful Online Design Tool was created for the Architect + Design community to help visualize options and take creative control of their specs. Are employees of the sponsor prohibited from entering the sweepstakes? Borderless world.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

online.wsj.com

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Funds Slide Hits Paulson Ally A former employee who helped John Paulson make billions has lost a large chunk of his personal portfolio by investing with his old boss.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

We’re still caught in the “post recession bounce” : What’s happening is that the angel & VC community is still feeling good from having bounced back from the nadir of the famous “ RIP Good Times ” funk that we felt in 2008. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy.