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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

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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. The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Photo Credit: Rob Greene. 12- Disney.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc.

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Google Boulder’s Gift to NCWIT

Feld Thoughts

The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) has long been a hidden gem of Boulder. I’ve known Scott since shortly after I moved to Boulder in 1995.

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7 Entrepreneurs Share How They?re Incorporating Corporate Service Responsibility (CSR) In Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

They don’t believe they have the time, the people, the budgets, or the technology to make it easy and fortunately, that is no longer true. We’re excited to support this type of green initiative because it directly helps with carbon reduction and allows us to participate in the betterment of our community.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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Photo Credit: Sheryl Green. Thanks to Sheryl Green, Sheryl Green Speaks ! #3- in December of 2004 with just our one little product, and by the end of 2005 we had sold 1 million Finders Key Purse(r). But this time, despite all of my efforts, I wasn’t able to secure a job. Thanks to Will Bachman, Umbrex ! #2-

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GreenPost – Because Bills Should Be Green

YoungUpstarts

That’s also how Anand Singh and Harveen Narulla felt, and that is why they founded GreenBills Pte Ltd, the technology start-up behind e-bill aggregation solution GreenPost. GreenPost launched commercially the following month, and secured its first client in April 2010. Green Growth. The Journey. Starting In Singapore.

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

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Seven long years ago, in 2005, Paul Graham had dinner with a bunch of college kids. A few hours before he had told them, during a talk at Harvard Computer Society, not to come to him for funding, but to seek it elsewhere from individual rich people who had been involved in technology startups themselves. Eight little seeds.