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From Airbnb to TaskRabbit to Zimride, sharing is becoming big business

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Find road-trip partners on Zimride. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Since the incident, Airbnb partnered with insurance firm Lloyds of London to introduce a Host Guarantee program that insures homeowners up to $1 million on most items in the house. Reporter Index.

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6 “Don’ts” Of Starting A Successful Business

YoungUpstarts

A more experienced partner can provide a wealth of new perspectives and unlock possibilities for your company that you could never dream of. He joined the New York City-based company in 2000 as its first salesperson and quickly rose to Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing.

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Returns for brand-name VC funds

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Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Through 12/31/11, less than 66% of the fund-of-funds called capital had been returned to limited partners.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

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In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. Kittredge started making candles in his Massachusetts home and started selling them to interested neighbors.

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1985: Oil Prices Will Go Up Forever

Feld Thoughts

That night I met Dave Jilk, my first business partner and one of my best friends. I never knew what it was going to be, so I was always very excited when the blue Petcom check showed up at 351 Massachusetts Avenue in my mail cubby. My dad, a doctor, was a small partner in a bunch of real estate partnerships. via chartsbin.com.

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Trade Show Checklist: How To Successfully Sell Your Product At Trade Shows

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

A Cardinal Rule One cardinal rule that my partner and I always had was to walk a trade show before we committed to taking a booth. I will always remember that my partner and I did a trade show – our very first one – in New York and were very much out of our element. It was crazy! You don’t belong here!”

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents. Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston.

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