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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

YoungUpstarts

We haven’t seen any records for sale in their stores, but in 2005, The Gap paired up with Apple to give iTunes music downloads to customers who tried on a pair of Gap jeans. But in those days, as the Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, the only thing they were sending was telegrams. Delta Airlines. Western Union.

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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds

Altgate

The three stories that the book is most famous for are the “economic bubbles&# specifically, tulip-mania , the South Sea Company bubble and the Mississippi Company bubble. I confess that when I first bought the book in 1999, it took me a full year to read it as it sat in my “reading rack&# in my bathroom.

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National Security Innovation just got a major boost in Washington

Steve Blank

In 2005, he returned to West Point (where he earned his undergrad degree) and ran the Combating Terrorism Center. His Special Forces time was with the 1st Special Forces Group as a team leader and later as a company commander. He did a tour with the 75th Ranger Regiment as a platoon leader.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. You should be especially suspicious of grants whose purpose is somekind of social engineering-- e.g. to encourage more startups to bestarted in Mississippi. Want to start a startup? Apply for funding by March 3. Few startups get it quite right. Many are underfunded.