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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

While I spent the past three incredibly fulfilling and fun years helping build the tech entrepreneurship sector in NYC, which is now thriving wonderfully (but wasn’t in 2008!), I have the opportunity to build bridges from NYC to Nairobi, from Dhaka to Denver, from Silicon Valley to Singapore.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. Working a full-time (and demanding) job, a home, school and life, in general, was no easy feat, so I chose to leave my corporate job to an academic job. 4- Started as a part-time work.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

million just to replace losses from the current recession, then an additonal 10 million to keep up with population growth and to spark demand over the next decade. Quarterly investment activity was down 47 percent in dollars and 37 percent in deals from the fourth quarter of 2008 when $5.7 In the 1990s the U.S. million a year.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. That was written in September 2008. The Laws of Supply & Demand. The most basic chart of microeconomics is a supply & demand curve.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

So, in 2008, I began selling new and refurbished servers and storage lines, which quickly became advantageous to those small-and medium-sized businesses who needed to save money during the cash-strapped days of the recession and chose upgrading their systems versus buying new. #10) A friend challenged me to expand my offerings.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

Yes, we’ll always want to encourage higher quality, but it won’t matter if we have crappy demand. 09:30 AM: Digitally Rebranding the Republican Party Hilton C – No brand was under attack in 2008 more than the Republican Party, and the GOP entered 2009 with one goal – rebrand and relaunch. Monday, March 15th.

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