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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

YoungUpstarts

All businesses begin with a specific idea in mind, and although some stick to exactly what they started with, it’s much more common to find that a business has grown and evolved over time to keep up with changes in supply, demand, and even resource availability. Western Union.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. I realize some of what I just said probably doesn't even make sense to nonclinical people, but the work that we do is demanding.

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How to Fund a Startup

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A lawyer I asked about it said: When the company goes public, the SEC will carefully study all prior issuances of stock by the company and demand that it take immediate action to cure any past violations of securities laws. Of course the odds of any given startup doing an IPO are small.But not as small as they might seem.