Up and Running
JUNE 21, 2021
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. Since its inception, iRobot has sold over 30 million robots globally.
ReadWriteStart
DECEMBER 20, 2022
Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. The deal could not materialize — and now the situation is such that the success of Netflix was one of the primary reasons behind the bankruptcy of Blockbuster. To learn more about Yahoo, we search on Google.
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Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 1, 2016
Having an electrical engineering background, I knew there had to be a better way and I could help build it. We founded the company in 2000 and have since continued to grow our client base and revenues and, at the same time, have been named to a lot of ‘best places to work’ lists, including the big one, Fortune’s.
David Teten
MAY 16, 2011
Mr. Geleerd acquired the stadium out of highly publicized bankruptcy and turned around its financial position and ultimately engineered the sale back to the Toronto Blue Jays in 2005. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. In addition Geleerd was recognized by Crain’s Business Chicago 40 Under 40.
Pascal's View
APRIL 5, 2016
In America, Silicon Valley’s cycles of creative destruction and renewal continuously spawn many new challengers– by funding multiple startups that compete relentlessly until they reach dominant self-sustainability, acquisition by a competitor, or bankruptcy.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 16, 2012
I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense). Our 2000 fund is the single best fund of its vintage. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2010
But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. In 2000, new investors bought Iridium’s satellites and network for $25-million, or one half of one percent of the invested capital.
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