Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

In January of 1995, Miller opened the doors to Miller Paper Company and started with $300K in savings and 15 employees. Sylvia Lieberman became an entrepreneur in fall 2007 when she was 90. After quitting her job in the paper industry after 30 years of service, she assumed she was done. Sylvia Lieberman, Age 91.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2015

In 1995 I made a seed investment in a tiny company called Harmonix founded by two guys, Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy. After being acquired by Viacom in 2007, Alex and Eran bought back the company in 2010. After one meeting with them I knew I wanted to be part of their journey and made one of my early $25,000 angel investments.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This blog, however, which started in August of 2007 at entrepreneur.com and has 801 posts since then, is moving there today. And Entrepreneur Press, part of the same organization, is publisher of both my Plan as You Go Business Plan and 3 Weeks to Startup Books (listed with links in the sidebar here).

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/30/2007: 22.6. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/30/2007: 22.6. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This blog, however, which started in August of 2007 at entrepreneur.com and has 801 posts since then, is moving here today. And Entrepreneur Press, part of the same organization, is publisher of both my Plan as You Go Business Plan and 3 Weeks to Startup Books. So, like I say, it’s not a break-up.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It means that guys like Mark Cuban were not simply lucky for starting a streaming video company in 1995 and selling it to Yahoo for $6 billion in 1998. This is one of the striking conclusions of a newly released working paper by Harvard Business School entrepreneurial finance professor Paul Gompers, et al. Think about that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was 2007. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I was baffled. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. They were envious. Let me explain.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/30/2007: 22.6 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/30/2007: 22.6

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 25, 2015

RIM went from less than $5 million in revenue in FY1995 (February 1995) to $20 billion in FY2011, then back down to $3.3 January 9, 2007 changed the technology and telecom markets, more dramatically than almost any other product innovation before or since, with the announcement of the iPhone.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was 2007. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. I was baffled. It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, before the really profitable years of social networking and when many in the industry were despondent. They were envious. Let me explain.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

After graduating from the ACL in London, he began his career in financial markets in 1995 as an equity and portfolio manager at Standard & Poor in London, taking up further posts at Alfred Berg/ABN AMRO in Moscow and PBS in Switzerland. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. In 2007 the word “coworking” got its own Wikipedia page and started to trend on Google, and the rest is history! -

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

After more than a year of searching, we brought Dan Nye in as LinkedIn’s new CEO at the beginning of 2007. As I’ve already detailed, the decision to bring in a professional CEO was one I initiated back in 2007, after a lot of self-examination. At the time we began the search, I wouldn’t have believed how long the process would take.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*).

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Snaptu, which was founded in 2007, is Facebook’s first ever Israeli acquisition and its second international purchase. Unemployment fell to 6.1% in January, as the number of Israelis out of work dropped to 189,300. Unemployment had dropped as low as 5.9% in the second quarter of 2008 – just prior to the financial crisis.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. In 2007 our agency started to service the Medicare market. Thanks to Collin J. Slattery, Taikun Inc. ! #19 19 – A True Measure. Image Credit: Ron Johnsey. Thanks to Dr. Cindy Jones, Colorado Aromatics ! #26

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

This was the start of the Green Arcola project, which began in 2007, that today has become a whole new enterprise of its own. In 1995 the founders set up the Pret Foundation Trust with the aim to alleviate poverty in the UK [17]. It has always fostered a culture of giving back.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

New Zealand – The Unsolicited Electronic Messages Act 2007. When GDPR takes effect it will replace the data protection directive from 1995. Germany – 7 German Unfair Competition Law. Italy – Personal Data Protection Code. Netherlands – Online Privacy Law. Sweden – Swedish Marketing Act.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 7, 2020

The Grateful Dead is the one I’m most interested in because I started going to Grateful Dead concerts when I was 17, and I’ve been now to 75 Grateful Dead concerts, or the bands that followed the Grateful Dead with original members of the Grateful Dead because Jerry Garcia died in 1995.

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