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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Seven years ago I launched a business that would eliminate my savings and push me to the verge of bankruptcy within 18 months. Thanks to notably Erin LaCkore, LaCkore Couture ! #8-

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. I figured if Matt was on the verge of bankruptcy and one mentor changed his trajectory, what if we had a formalized, community-wide program?

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. Leena Rao currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography.

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No Need To Reinvent The Wheel?

YoungUpstarts

How do you create a compensation model aggressive enough for this small group to feel like their options are the stunning wealth that comes with success or the “bankruptcy” of failure? How do you keep the best people in projects with poor short-term prospects? This solves many problems and the teams are turned into real entrepreneurs.

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Priavte Startups May Get Liquidity With the Launch of SecondMarket in Israel

VC Cafe

SecondMarket will provide Israeli companies with the tools to access capital and facilitate secondary liquidity for shareholders, including bankruptcy claims, auction-rate securities, and limited partnership interests in private equity and real estate funds. SecondMarket was founded in New York in 2004 and has grown substantially since then.

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Successful Entrepreneurs Think This Way

Growthink Blog

Would you have bet in 2004 that Apple would develop sensational products and become the world's largest company based on market capitalization? And that from 2004 to 2011, the company's revenues would grow EIGHT times? , Alta Vista, Lycos, and others would eventually dominate the industry? Or take Apple. Milton Hershey, P.T.

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Capital Market Climate Change

Ben's Blog

3/31/2004: 31.6. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. Down rounds are bad and hit founders disproportionately hard, but they are not as bad as bankruptcy.