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Never Mind the Valley: Here's Paris

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Originally from California, she now lives in Paris, where her involvement in the vibrant startup scene keeps her from spending too much time in the bakeries. There's a thriving geek culture in Paris, and no lack of software development expertise, thanks to superior universities that produce superior engineers.

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12 Questions: Meet Dylan Barmmer (USA)

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Dylan lives and works in Oceanside, California. I was named after the poet Dylan Thomas, and my mother has worked as a librarian for many years (she still does in the Miami-Dade County Public Library System). I probably enjoy that even more than creating names, and wish there were more tagline-writing jobs available on crowdSPRING.

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Jeff Bezos Investing in Google: Luck or Foresight?

Growthink Blog

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 Inktomi and GoTo to name just a few. Alta Vista.

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Project: The Story of Jeff Bezos' $250,000 Investment into Google in 1998

Growthink Blog

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 Inktomi and GoTo to name just a few. Alta Vista.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., COMPANY AOL COMPANY|AOL.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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First Name. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. We have seen the damage that this share structure can cause over the long run, said Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance for California State Teachers Retirement System, a big public pension fund. Why use your real name?

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Y Combinator's First Batch: Where Are They Now?

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With YC I ended up as a co-founder of a startup, met amazing people, lived in California, made mistakes, learned from them, and saw what it really takes to succeed.” Chris had been working on creating a better desktop search since early 2004, knowing that no existing solutions were any good.