Up and Running
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
January of 1995. In 1997 we hired an NYU undergrad to create a better bplans.com site, focusing on business planning and especially publishing sample plans. Few people knew of the Internet, Mozilla, and the world-wide web. And I started bplans.com. Businessplan.com had already been registered, but bplans.com was, so I registered it.
The Next Web
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. In 1995 the company went public and overnight I became the CEO of a public company. Now Netflix offers video streaming in 41 countries around the world. I was just in shock!
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YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. He graduated from the University of Utah with Honors in 1994 with a BA in Accounting and earned his MACC from Southern Utah University in 1995. He is a licensed CPA in the State of Utah.
thebarefootvc
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
I won’t bore you with the rest now, but there are fun stories of launching an online startup in NYC in 1997, learning to code (which indulged both my creative and analytical sides), parties (OK, one party) with Mick Jagger in London in 1995, a summer without plumbing traveling around Tanzania training women entrepreneurs (the opposite of said (..)
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 25, 2012
Getting fired from the very company he founded in 1985 before returning to it in 1997 to save it from financial ruin. When Pixar released Toy Story in 1995, Jobs understood that audiences weren’t interested in the process or technological tools that make up the Pixar animation system. That trauma? Technology should be invisible.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 18, 2019
It has stood behind its paywall since 1997, trusting that customers interested in its content would pay upwards of $200 a year for it. We’ve seen a comeback in the notion of a “paywall,” a subscription needed to access what used to be free content, as younger consumers have begun to embrace the idea of paying for quality journalism.
YoungUpstarts
OCTOBER 23, 2011
From 1991 to 1995, Belichick was the head coach of the Cleveland Browns, but after facing a losing season, Belichick was let go. In 1997, Armstrong was fired from the French racing team Cofidis while he was undergoing cancer treatment. Lance Armstrong. The team refused to give Armstrong the rest of his salary and medical coverage.
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