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6 Stories of Successful New Entrepreneurs to Inspire Your Business

Up and Running

Her local Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a resources partner of the SBA, assisted them in developing marketing materials that effectively showcased the company’s unusual range of proficiencies. Columbus Technologies and Services — To NASA and beyond.

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Turning the Camera on Chris Dixon

Both Sides of the Table

This week I sat down with Chris Dixon, co-founder / CEO of Hunch and Partner at Founder Collective in the most recent installment of This Week in Venture Capital. The firm focuses on early stage companies in the Northeast but occasionally invests in California startups.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.) The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Yahoo would hit $104/share in March 2000 with a market cap of $104 billion.) 4) help nurture and grow the companies they invest in.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

Both Sides of the Table

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California! Office Hours – Two or three partners post a sign-up sheet to meet with entrepreneurs. These partners travel to a city and take ten minute pitches from the entrepreneurs.

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“This is an incredible time for technology firms in our city”

The Equity Kicker

The figures are from London and Partners, the Mayor’s promotions agency. To repeat a brief history of the UK venture industry that I’ve given before – the startup ecosystem only got started in the UK in the mid to late 1990s and was pummelled by the April 2000 internet crash when it was still in its infancy.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

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Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. One of the ways vendors and partners--whose behind-the-scenes assistance often is crucial to a start-ups success--can get a piece of the action is to exchange services for equity. FROM OUR PARTNERS. ); ); ); ADVERTISEMENT.

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

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Find road-trip partners on Zimride. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Since the incident, Airbnb partnered with insurance firm Lloyds of London to introduce a Host Guarantee program that insures homeowners up to $1 million on most items in the house. Contact Us.