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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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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. billion, with 275 million in North America alone (source: Internet World Stats) and an astounding global penetration of 33% of the world’s population. There are 20x more consumers online. And buy people are doing en masse.

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Building a Great Startup Board: Pt 1

Reid Hoffman

I’ve been on so many different boards now that I need to go back and count them up to name the number of different boards on which I’ve served. One of the reasons I joined Greylock is that I shared the firm’s philosophy on investors and entrepreneurs: namely, companies succeed because of the entrepreneurs and executives, not the investors.

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What Is It That You’re ALWAYS Selling?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

It’s this article by Tom Peters I read way back in 1997 that shifted a paradigm in my business thinking, and got me working on a strategy to brand myself. And the collective impact of it all is what goes into creating what Hugh ‘GapingVoid’ Macleod calls ‘ the global microbrand ‘ that’s YOU.