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Try On The Decision For 30 Days

Feld Thoughts

My whole world blew up in 2001. I was in New York for it, having taken a redeye the night before from San Francisco. The depressive episode only lasted three months, but the s**t show continued through 2002 as most VCs and Internet companies suffered a massive collapse. There was no joy anywhere.

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Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City

Feld Thoughts

The Internet Bubble (20012002). TechStars Impact on New York. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community.

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20 Most Influential Graphic Design Companies From Around the World

crowdSPRING Blog

You don’t need to look further than the studio’s homepage for an example of this: it features a live webcam that shows what’s going on in New York-based studio right at that moment. Headquarters: New York City. Locations: London, New York City, and San Francisco. Headquarters: London, UK.

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Bringing Depression Out of The Shadows In Startups

Feld Thoughts

A: After I became depressed for the second time, in my mid-30s — in 2001 just after Sept. The last three months of 2001 were awful for me after an 18-month stretch from the peak of the Internet bubble — spring 2000 through Sept. I was in New York City after a red-eye from San Francisco, landing at 6 a.m.

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From email scams to e-commerce wins: How online shopping is helping Nigeria fix its Internet reputation

The Next Web

For many Westerners, Victoria Island resembles the polar opposite of the imaginary Manhattan Island, the high-security prison depicted in John Carpenter’s film Escape From New York. On the island, life is as it is in the West, but the danger lies outside the island and across the Third Mainland Bridge. But somehow Lagos works.

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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.), Lefkofsky launched InnerWorkings, a business-to-business online printing firm, in 2002 and took it public in 2006; it’s now run by CEO Eric Belcher, ’95.

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Episode 1: Business Loans, Website Tips, and the Apple Watch – The Bcast

Up and Running

Twenty-three year-olds in New York City running a small business. Peter: I feel like the industrial design guys were so happy about this kind of thing in 2002, 2004. That’s some 2001 stuff right there. When I started my first business I knew we were weak in accounting. We weren’t just weak. We were terrible.

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