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5 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Today HuffPo is one of the most well-read and well respected online media outlets but when she started it in 2005 she had lots critics who dismissed her unpaid bloggers and editorial content. Everyone always talks about Steve Jobs and Apple but my vote goes to Arianna Huffington at The Huffington Post. Photo Credit: Joel Poznansky.

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Founder Interview: Jim Elliott – Volunteer to NonProfit Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

In 1996, Jim left his career in the media industry—working with Chicago Tribune, WGN Radio and CLTV News—to become a full-time volunteer and teach individuals with disabilities how to scuba dive. TSM: Tell us about making that leap from a corporate media job to a startup. TSM: With a bit more detail, what does Diveheart do?

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I Encourage Entrepreneurs To Ignore The Word “Bubble”

Feld Thoughts

While plenty of tech bloggers were tossing around the word “bubble&# , I also noticed it among the mainstream media. In the tech industry, the great Internet bubble inflated between 1999 and 2000 and deflated (or popped) in 2001. I remember it well as 2001 was easily the most challenging year of my business life.

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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

Direct Revenue, meaning no three-way business models and no advertising, media, or content. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. That company merged with another company in Boston and grew to about 80 people and was acquired in 2005. Frighteningly Early.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #17: On failure and resilience

Austin Startup

Instead of crying in their beers about it, Cotter and Tom Ball at Austin Ventures decided what to do next and came up with Small Ponds, which later became Whale Shark Media and then RetailMeNot (named after its largest digital property). Cotter has never been divorced! No matter the name?—?the billion as the juggernaut it is today.

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Working for Equity Instead of Cash

genylabs.typepad.com

Member since 01/2005. Media Fragmentation and the Growth of Small Publishers » April 07, 2008. The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. Emergent Research Selected Media. social media. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. December 2010. Blog powered by TypePad. Invalid URL.

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Making the NYC Community Smaller

This is going to be BIG.

After I graduated in 2001, I remember it seeming impossible to feel the same way about living in New York City. That''s why I''ve been seeking ways to return to the small, familiar groups I used to experience back in 2005-2008. Being intensely involved in community life there made the campus seem small and familiar.

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