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Why Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Is A Thing Of The Past And What You Should Do About It

YoungUpstarts

In fact, since 2000, more than 10 million Americans have filed personal bankruptcy due to their employers’ failed health insurance plan. Paul Zane Pilzer is the New York Times best-selling author of 11 books, a former professor at NYU, and has served as an economist in two White House administrations.

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[US][Competition] U.S. Chamber of Commerce DREAM BIG Small Business Of The Year Award 2012

YoungUpstarts

Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada. Bought by Mike Pfieger in 2000, this company provides agricultural goods and services. BoConcept New York (Eastern).

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Playing Startup

View from Seed

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. We were a profitable company at that point with nearly $200M annualized revenue, one of the first tech companies to IPO after the dot-com bubble. So why should I or we collectively care?

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52 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. My oldest son, Coby Joshua, was born with Down syndrome in 1999. Image Credit: Bess Heitner.

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In Defense of the IPO and How to Improve It, Part 2: Peeking Behind the Pop

Ben's Blog

Once again, the 1999-2000 dot-com bubble period shows the highest percentage of pricing above the initial filing range – 44% of deals were priced above. As a result, they are much more mature at the time of IPO (median revenue is about 10x what it was in the dot-com bubble) and thus often higher valued. What do the data tell us?

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. Kate is now a product leader at Shutterstock in New York City. To be specific, AdWords is currently 16 years old, and last year alone it generated well over $50B in revenue.

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They Can’t Kill You And They Can’t Eat You

Feld Thoughts

I’m sitting at the breakfast table at Len Fassler’s house in Harrison, New York drinking a cup of coffee and chewing on a bagel. At the peak in the spring of 2000 Interliant hit $55 / share and was worth over $3 billion. billion market cap) in the spring of 2000. Many Internet companies are struggling. I was exhausted.

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