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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

This is when I realized that I can use my business/sales experience that can and therefore I quit my job on the spot and started BuffetGO. At the time, I was a doing sales and marketing for a media company. 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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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

Friendster was at its height, strongly battling MySpace after raising its premium round from Benchmark and Kleiner in the fall of 2003. Friendster raised a big round in 2003; MySpace started gaining traction. Great businesses can be built off this network, starting with matching talent and opportunity.