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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Americas new business model: Sharing. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Remember Kozmo.com, whose employees promised delivery of DVDs and ice cream in under an hour for free? Americas new business model: Sharing. Game Hunters. Jinny Gudmundsen.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

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The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year. In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Both studies counted only incorporated companies with employees. Languishing businesses were counted as survivors. Massachusetts. Massachusetts. California.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million!