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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Today, he is worth $1 billion. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. But nothing gets better if we stand still. Work can be a welcome intellectual distraction.

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Taking Corporate VC: When It Makes Sense

View from Seed

Here are the things a startup should ask when contemplating strategic investment from a corporation: 1) Does this corporate VC bring unique strategic benefit to my startup? The round was heavily oversubscribed so the founders could choose their investment partners, but the founders decided to include NVIDIA a strategic investor.

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Groupon Co-Founders to Teach at U of Chicago’s Booth School

Campus Entrepreneurship

My alma mater, and the #1 ranked business school — according to BusinessWeek — continues to strengthen its entrepreneurship offerings. When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), That is a great opportunity for Booth students.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

1 – Very Clear Brief. I am the Founder of Sonjara, Inc – a woman owned small business in Northern Virginia. When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. Image Credit: Joseph Liu.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). Perhaps 1% of the first wave agreed with me. March 25, 2011 at 1:04 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:12 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:13 pm. March 25, 2011 at 1:29 pm. pickup games.

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Outraged by Executive Compensation? Put Entrepreneurs In Charge.

Seeing Both Sides

  In 2001/2002, it was Tyco’s CEO Dennis Koszlowski spending $1 million of shareholder money on his wife’s 40 th birthday party (mine is coming up this summer, by the way, and I don’t think it will cost my LPs very much at all, really).   Moritz views high salaries with immense suspicion.