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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Joe Coulombe had an idea after running a small chain of convenience stores in southern California. With a new CEO in 2004, the toy company shifted gears and introduced new lines of some of the most popular LEGO sets in history. When Koum was young, his poor family emigrated to California from Ukraine. 24- Jan Koum.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

What this meant for entrepreneurs and VCs was a bit more complex– the IPO market was all but closed (with the Google IPO in 2004 as a brilliant exception), but it was possible find a buyer for your company. My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing.

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Self-Driving Vehicles: The Future Always Takes Longer to Arrive (Part 1)

Agile VC

The first one took place in 2004 and was conducted in the Mojave Desert. Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California. DARPA’s Robotic Cars to Today. 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge winner.

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The Average Startup Overnight Success Takes Six Years

Startup Professionals Musings

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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How Long Should It Take For a Startup to Succeed?

Startup Professionals Musings

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. But add another five years, and Google had made it, going public in 2004 with a market capitalization of $23B. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

Whilst teaching 16-18-year-old college students part-time, I had taken on a Flash website build in mid-2004 for a highly-reputed jewelry company in Bristol, UK, referred to me by a friend, and done a good job, other website opportunities started to come in. My interests were in technology, and my dreams were in California.