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RIP Blackberry.I finally quit you

Professor VC

My Original Mobile Email Device My love affair with RIM started with my first blackberry I purchased in 1998 - the fat pager pictured above. In addition to a number of product failures (Storm, Torch, Playbook) and a really crappy web browser, the biggest issue was probably the hubris of the founders.

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Ten things about being a founder I wish I knew when I first started #blindpost

Jeff Hilimire

As I embark on founding a new company , I have become very aware that technically I haven’t done this since 1998 when I started Spunlogic with Raj. And while I certainly helped lead Engauge and felt like I was able to help steer the ship, I wasn’t a founder of Engauge (though I was part of the founding acquisitions).

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

I’m Shelia Fitzgerald, owner and founder of EliteFitz, a destination inspired women’s boutique. We have an amazing co-parenting style that works for both of us, and we’re both happy. Thanks to Emily Reynolds, founder of R PR Firm ! #4 It was 1998 and the internet wasn’t exactly readily available.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity. We make it easy for renters to quickly find, price and purchase renters insurance online and on their mobile devices. 6) Abolish a Phenomena.

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Growthink Innovation Series: FinTech

Growthink Blog

Quite simply, the digital, mobile, and Internet revolutions are transforming the way customers access financial products and services of all types, and across all consumer and business sectors. The panelists are: Mr. Rafe Furst , Co-Founder Crowdfunder. Mr. Alo Ghosh. What does financial disintermediation really mean?

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The Future of Web Startups

www.paulgraham.com

In the last batch of startups we funded, we had several founders who said theyd thought of applying before, but werent sure and got jobs instead. This is a problem for founders, because it makes raising money take longer and cost more in legal fees. Founders and investors have different attitudes to risk.

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Fixing immigration for startups: What the US government can (and should) do right now

The Next Web

George Arison is the founder of Shift , a platform to bring convenience and trust to the used car market. He also co-founded Taxi Magic and formerly held a product manager position at Google. I was the co-founder of a company that would eventually lead to an industry cliché. This wasn’t an X of Y.