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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals. One of the company’s smartest moves was introducing “Netflix Original” movies and TV shows, first launching House of Cards in 2013 to much success. Thanks to Will Yang, Instrumentl ! #4- 4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan.

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Boston Unicorns

Seeing Both Sides

We looked at the companies in New England (call them "Boston and surrounding") that had exited in the last 10 years (2003-2013) with greater than $500 million in market valuation. In order to have a reasonable population of companies to assess, we tweaked Aileen''s definition. 2004), Kayak ($1.8B/2004) 2004) and Fleetmatics ($1.4B/2004),

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March 11: SXSW Innovation Awards

Austin Startup

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. Why are they called the SXSW Interactive Innovation Awards? The awards emcees and entertainment guests have also been one of my favorite parts of the ceremony?—?particularly

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March 3-6, Birmingham, AL: Alternative Investing Conference

David Teten

The Southern States Business Coalition (SSBC) is bringing some of the country’s leading Plan Sponsors, Institutional Investors, and Alternative Investment professionals to Birmingham, AL, March 3-6 for the Southern States Alternative Investment Symposium 2013.

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Why Search Is Hard

Diego Basch

I realized that many people who search Google in 2013 are too young to remember the early days of web search (I’ll use Google as an example for this post, replace with your favorite search engine if you’d like).

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

This lesson was first shared at Lucky7 on May 17, 2013. I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having DFS was formed in 1997 to provide Dell customers the best financing options. I truly hope it helps you achieve your dreams in 2019 and beyond.

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Early 2014 Harvest for Napa Valley—Hard Data Provides Perspective on the Impact of Global Warming

Pascal's View

We expect harvest to occur three weeks earlier than our 2013 crop, which was picked on October 3. A month ago, 2013 had the most GDD over the last 21 years. Today, 1997 is the leader. We are at 972 GDD, which is 17 GDD, or about one day, behind 2013. 2014 is clearly warmer than the average, but about six days behind 1997.

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