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Seeking A Job in Start-Up Land

Seeing Both Sides

My first time jumping into the start-up world was as a freshly minted Harvard MBA in 1995. Are you more of a B2C type or a B2B type? Your co-workers in one start-up become your co-founders in another. In order to narrow things down, I recommend following a simple, four-step heuristic. Here's the advice I give: .

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. Well, we’re a B2B marketing agency that specializes in services and intangible products. As founder Craig Walker remarked, sometimes a great name just can go unused. co” URL or name, Walker approached Yahoo! Thanks to Kevin Namaky, Gurulocity ! #11-

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.