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9 Big Businesses That Began In College

YoungUpstarts

While at Santa Barbara’s University of California, Allison Perry teamed up with classmates Brenton Taylor and Bryon Myers to build a better, more mobile device to deliver oxygen. Soon after, University of California alum offered the trio a $200,000 to develop their product, and the Inogenone One became a reality.

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Hacking For Defense In Silicon Valley

Steve Blank

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. After the war the U.S.

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Netflix vs. Blockbuster and bad profits (reflections from my Bazaarvoice days)

Austin Startup

Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. And, as a result, they lost almost 90% of their market value in a little over three years, dropping from around $7 billion in value as of Q2–2002 (only one quarter prior to Netflix going public) to their current value of $0.73 a recommendation engine).

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“We are one of just 13 industrialized countries with a rising maternal mortality rate” – Christy Turlington Burns on Fighting for Healthy Mothers

Hunter Walker

.’ Attribute this energy to her yoga and running dedication, or maybe the very personal experiences in Christy’s own pregnancy which caused her to start Every Mother Counts , but either way her internal combustion engine breaks the rules of physics. I still feel like a California girl at heart and come back as often as I can.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. When I could take no more, I left Cape Town, got on a 26 hour flight to California, and started my life all over. Thanks to Siobhan Green, Sonjara, Inc !

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

And everybody rediscovers the picks and shovels analogy and says, ” Oh, the Gold Rush in California, the people that made all the money were the guys who were selling picks and shovels to the prospectors.” They are doing it precisely because nothing else is happening in that sector, and that means the big opportunities are just wide open.

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Nicolas Brusson discusses BlaBlaCar’s journey from French success story to global winner

Cracking the Code

But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. Very few startups say they’re building products for California or the US. A platform will become more complex as it grows over time and will need to be re-engineered. And that was the start of an interesting journey. They’re building them for the world.

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