1997 Bootstrapping Employee Startup 
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. The launch, by the way, was a failure.
K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. In a startup cash is king.
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Reid Hoffman
MARCH 19, 2019
But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 19, 2015
Since the recession, and at least partially sparked by it, I’m seeing a real resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index.
Professor VC
FEBRUARY 12, 2015
I doubt Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures believed that a horse with a horn existed when she wrote Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups in late 2013, but she probably had no idea that it would become a hot buzzword in Silicon Valley and hit the cover of mainstream business press, Fortune Magazine. igthwghjg2q2g8hu4).
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