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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. UEC Electronics — Engineering contracts. In 2001, they secured their second SBA loan for the business.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs? Most of the costs incurred by Microsoft in developing new versions of Windows involve paying engineers to write software codes. These costs are largely fixed.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. 16 years later it’s just another software company.

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Why Tim Cook is Steve Ballmer and Why He Still Has His Job at Apple

Steve Blank

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. 16 years later it’s just another software company.

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To Infinity and Beyond: How Entrepreneurism is Making Space Tourism Viable

YoungUpstarts

In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept. In 2001, in conjunction with the Russian Space Agency, American entrepreneurs Peter Diamindis, Eric C. Named after Alan B.

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Why Search Is Hard

Diego Basch

I realized that many people who search Google in 2013 are too young to remember the early days of web search (I’ll use Google as an example for this post, replace with your favorite search engine if you’d like). Today’s search engines are no longer about the web. Fast forward 16 years. I’ll stop here.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. We grew it to just under 20 people and were acquired at the height of the bubble in 2000. VatorNews : What do you like to invest in?