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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It is more remarkable for a large, well-known company that’s an actual operating business like Yahoo!

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. He continues: It’s OK to continue to operate. What the big studies have shown. Image source ). are moot.”.

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What we can learn from the UK’s top franchises

The Startup Magazine

There are currently over 120 industries that have franchised companies, with the franchisee normally receiving help with their site selection and development support, operating manuals, brand standards , quality control, training and business advisory support from the franchiser. John Looker retired in 1929, but the business didn’t falter.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. They gave the problem to Colonel Bruce Jette, and 90 days and $750,000 later he had bypassed the existing Army acquisition system and bought existing robots from companies. The REF had permission to shortcut the detailed 100+ page requirements documents used by the defense acquisition process.

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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

Others, like Def Jam, have been transformed through mergers and acquisitions. Some of the entrepreneurs below stayed in school while developing and operating their business, while others dropped out in order to give their venture their full attention. The story of each business is as unique as the products they created.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Office and Operations. But with the help of Grahams company, which specializes in creating tech systems for start-ups, Jumpstart grew to more than $50 million in revenue--enough to make it an attractive acquisition for media conglomerate Hachette Filipacchi. Naming a Business. How to Incorporate. Financing a Small Business. Franchises.

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. For innovation to succeed inside of a large company, you need a parallel set of processes, not to replace the existing ones, but to operate on a fast track. Innovators are not entrepreneurs. What prompted these insights?

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