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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Guss is 28 years old and he is the co-founder of Octane Lending. Source: Pexels. Sean Belnick. Peter Gylfe.

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

YoungUpstarts

In 2001, in conjunction with the Russian Space Agency, American entrepreneurs Peter Diamindis, Eric C. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Since its founding in 2002, Musk’s SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies) has been at the forefront in the conceptualization and manufacture of efficient space rockets.

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

Campus Entrepreneurship

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), Booth has announced a course called Building Interet Strartups: Risk, Reward, and Failure and it is being taught by two of Groupon’s co-founders.

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Every Generation Learns The Same Lessons

Feld Thoughts

I spent the weekend with a friend from the last 1990s who was the lead banker on the Interliant IPO (I was a co-founder and co-chairman.) My foundational moment, where I really learned the lesson, happened during the collapse of the Internet bubble in 2000 and 2001. My first moment with this was Black Monday in 1987.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Value brands can also effectively reach out to pained-but-patient consumers who previously bought higher-end brands, a strategy Wal-Mart aggressively used with its ‘everyday low prices’ policy in the 2001 recession.” What the big studies have shown. Premium-brand market leaders [.]

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

Google Ventures was one of our co-investors, and in addition to all the other typical support GV provides their portfolio, this startup gained some unique insights for their organic and paid search strategy which were impactful and couldn’t have been gleaned elsewhere. .

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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Two Local Veterans

Austin Startup

Veteran’s Day Spotlight: Serving in the Army Prepared Joshua Lawton & Michael Dougherty to Become Entrepreneurs by Faith Vera at Sputnik ATX Accelerator Joshua Lawton & Michael Dougherty , veterans and co-founders of Health Hat, are working together to bridge the gap between healthcare and business.

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