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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. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. Carlson put $4 million into it. 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

I was an early employee at PayPal and back in the 2000-2001 timeframe, and we ended up taking a fairly significant amount of strategic investment (tens of millions of $) from various banks in the US, Europe, and Asia. 4) Are these investment partners for the long haul?

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

4 – We Brainstormed It. 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: Andrew Greer.

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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.). March 25, 2011 at 4:23 pm. March 25, 2011 at 4:56 pm. [.] I run a.NET development team and before this gig I spent 4 years running a web app written in.Net. JIm Holmes. So clueless.

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