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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Airbnb founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia had difficulty securing funding, so they launched a mini project to build some funds and catch investors' attention. The sales helped them raise $30K and the attention of a startup incubator, which offered them training and another $20K in funding. Photo Credit: Jack Underwood. 3- Sam Walton.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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The 22 Best Blogs to Help Grow Your Business (That You May Not Be Reading)

Up and Running

Management. As the CEO and co-founder of Treehouse, an online tech school that teaches people how to make apps, Ryan Carson has a lot of great insight on running a startup. He recently wrote an in depth, multi-part blog series on the impact of working with remote employees and no managers. Marketing & Sales.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Jump forward 16-17 years, through numerous mergers, sales, wins and losses, and our current agency, HUB, is going strong, powered and pushed forward by that original desire to do a good job, create sustainable digital products and generally make a difference. I started my own marketing and communications agency back in 2003.

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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

This sale turned him into a billionaire. 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. Millennium Management and Balyasny Asset Management were his employers at some point. Today, he is worth $1.5 Elizabeth Holmes. Jason Guss.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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The Lean LaunchPad Online

Steve Blank

That resulted in a new process for Search: Customer Development + traditional product management/Waterfall Engineering. And in 2003 the Haas Business School at U.C. With Rob Majteles as a co-instructor, I started a tradition of teaching all my classes with venture capitalists as co-instructors.

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