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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

He invested in a new division in his company in 2009 and has expanded significantly since then. He started it in 2009 with 10 employees and sold it to Susino Umbrella in 2014. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Jason Guss.

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A Deep Dive On Timothy Sykes, Millionaire Stock Trader and Entrepreneur

The Startup Magazine

In 2003, during his senior year in college, he founded Cilantro Fund Management with a starting fund of about $1 million raised from friends and family. In 2009, Tim started Investimonials, LLC, which was essentially a TripAdvisor for the finance industry. In 2017, be donated $1M to Pencils of Promise.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Lauren Bush at Under30CEO , April 21, 2011 : Lauren Bush, co-founder of FEED Projects, discusses how she applied her entrepreneurial skills to the nonprofit, social justice sector. Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. Either way, bootstrapping is a viable model.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

Four years later, in May of 2003, they launched Taobao Marketplace, Alibaba’s answer to eBay. With the launch of Airbnb in 2008 and Uber (*) in 2009, these two companies established a new category of marketplaces known as the “sharing economy.” SHARING ECONOMY MARKETPLACES. This is a major “unlocking.”.

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The VC Shakeout: Are We There Yet?

Agile VC

There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. The reality is that it wasn’t until the GEC (Global Economic Crisis, Great Recession, Credit Crunch, call it what you will) of late 2008 and early 2009 that the shakeout really began for venture capital.

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Ten Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups

Software By Rob

Starting as a tool for one of the founders to update his portfolio, co-founders Spencer Fry, Dave Gorum, and Jason Nelson launched a self-funded, $12 per month plan in 2007, alongside their established free plan. In January 2009 they won a Crunchie for best bootstrapped startup. How’d they do it? Startup #3: Litmus.