ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. One of the reasons it still made sense for a company like Facebook to hire locally in 2004 was that immature technology made effective remote work challenging. Ditto for Apple.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available. It sounds simple now, but in 1998 it was unheard of. I started my business back in 2004 when I wanted to escape the corporate rat race. Did the Canucks win their last hockey game? What were the election results? What was happening? Image Credit: Ray Higdon.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2012

It is full of awesome anecdotes of how Jeff leads Amazon to keep changing and prospering in our brave new worlds of global and social e-commerce and business. In 1998 when Larry Page’s and Sergey Brin’s Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage, Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling startup.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and was part of the founding team at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped build the firm’s dominant global marketplace for on-demand business expertise. He serves as a Managing Partner of both funds. He is currently a director of Applied Minds, Inc.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Since coming to Australia in 2004 my passion for creativity was further boosted and was well alive while still doing my business degree and working in corporate world until 2011. Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. Our philosophy is simple.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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