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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Marvel’s fascinating turnaround story is no less than a heroic action story where the protagonist flips the scales at the last moment and arises like the phoenix, just like the many superheroes it helped become household names. Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals.

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

Austin Startup

Bill Wood, founder of Silverton Partners and an early General Partner at Austin Ventures before, said something that got me thinking (quoting from the SiliconHills article ): Because it’s easy to startup a company and doesn’t take a lot of money, Silverton Partners sees more startups forming, Wood said. in the long-run, I say!?—?success

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Three Common Expense Tracking Mistakes

YoungUpstarts

by William Olsen, CPA, Co-founder and VP of Product Development at Deductr. William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. The vision of sorting through receipts “mining” for deductions makes procrastinators out of all of us.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. Thanks to Brandy Runyan, Black Diamond PR Firm, LLC ! #2-

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A Glimpse: My American Dream

thebarefootvc

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Looking for Funds in All the Right Places

Austin Startup

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. He is the founder and former Co-Chairman and CEO of Motion Computing. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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When VCs Don’t B t You

Feld Thoughts

His name will be familiar to plenty of you – it’s Fred Wilson. The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. He’s someone we trust with anything and listen to carefully whenever he has feedback.

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