www.usatoday.com
JULY 16, 2012
Americas new business model: Sharing. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. What distinguishes the latest generation of start-ups is a confluence of new technologies and more-efficient business models that leave much of the logistical heavy-lifting to peers who share.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 27, 2011
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 Equity Kicker
APRIL 18, 2013
The brouhaha has come about because economists from the University of Massachusetts have repeated their analysis using the same data but different weightings and found that the median growth at highly indebted economies was much higher. In a fast moving world with little data it’s the only way to progress. Startup general interest'
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 3, 2012
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!
online.wsj.com
SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Overall, nonventure-backed companies fail more often than venture-backed companies in the first four years of existence, typically because they dont have the capital to keep going if the business model doesnt work, Harvards Mr. Ghosh says.
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