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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. Using this capital , the founders launched and enjoyed exponential growth in their first year, with 10K users and thousands of listings. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). Ryan was encouraged to team up with Tim and shortly after that happened we co-led the first round VC financing with Boulder Ventures. It has been a rocket ship from there.

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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

Sachin Bansal and his business partner, Binny Bansal, launched an e-commerce site in India in 2007. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. This company’s valuation peaked at $10 billion in 2013/2014. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Sachin Bansal.

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After Raising $6.7M For Startups And Winning SEC Approval, AngelList Opens Up Investment Platform To More Companies

techcrunch.com

She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was. Wednesday, April 24th, 2013. AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7

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

The Next Web

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. According to Transparency International in 2013, Nigeria was the world’s 144th most corrupt country out of the 177 countries monitored. Moreover, investment in the country has been slow to accelerate.

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing. Thanks to Dean Cycon, Dean’s Beans Organic Coffee Co. ! #19 So I sat at home for a year to teach myself about optics and ended up founding Light with my cofounder in 2013.

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Playing with Glass – Changing (and Saving) Lives (Part 2)

Up and Running

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. He said this. After all, they had $125 million in the bank, what would they need public funds for?