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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. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Thanks to Will Yang, Instrumentl ! #4- 4- Netflix. Photo Credit: Jen Wan.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., In addition to being one of the most popular domain registrars in the world, it also offers website hosting and a whole range of business related technology solutions.

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How has the price of currency fluctuated as a result of COVID-19?

The Startup Magazine

Make no mistake; the dollar has emerged as a viable safe haven during the Covid-19 outbreak, with a host of emerging market currencies having slumped to record lows against the world’s most dominant fiat asset. Interestingly, this trend is also helping the greenback to reach new highs against a basket of major currencies.

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Top 10 Podcasts To Become a More Well-Rounded Human

Austin Startup

Many hosts tend to speak over their guests or cut them short, but Tim lets them carry on longer before redirecting them to a different question. Founded in 1997, the organization presents a wide range of theme-based storytelling events across the United States and abroad. His podcast gives me that same feeling. Little to no “fluff.”

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The Longstanding Appeal Of Investing In Singapore’s Luxury Hotels

YoungUpstarts

Originally offices, and latterly a post office, in 1997 Sino Land spent S$300 million on converting it into a hotel and developing the adjacent commercial centre. To see that there is also a strong appeal in buildings re-purposed from their original uses to become hotels one only has to look at the Fullerton Hotel in downtown Singapore.

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5 Startup Tips From Successful Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

The venture now hosts regular TEDx events in Iran. They opened a local salon in 1997 and did everything themselves. Where other’s see obstacles, she sees opportunities. She helms Eventbox, an online platform for events based in Iran. Successfully launching TEDxTehran is another Mohammadi milestone.

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Jeff Bezos attended 60 investor meetings to raise $1m from 22 people, just to get Amazon started

The Next Web

Speaking to US talk-show host Charlie Rose , Bezos delved deep into everything from the Kindle and industry disruption, to the early days of his e-commerce empire. Since 1997, our immediate destiny has been in our own hands.” Amazon” himself, Jeff Bezos. “I was most pessimistic literally at the very beginning. .

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