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From Blue Collar To Millionaire… You Can Too

YoungUpstarts

By the year 2004, I had somewhere around 12 rentals. With that crash, I made the decision to move my family to Houston, Texas. After buying our first home in 2000, I realized how great the housing market was, saw how everyone else was buying up houses for little or no money down to rent them out and started to do that myself.

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The Trend Towards Lean Startups :: Small Business Marketing Blog.

Duct Tape Marketing

Drew Houston, CEO and Founder of Dropbox applied Eric Ries’s Lean Startup concepts and started iterating their product much faster in order to test what customers really wanted, early and often. One of my favorite case studies in the book involves a tool I use everyday – Dropbox.

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What is Coworking? Everything You Need to Know

Austin Startup

One of the first early coworking spaces (although the term “coworking” wasn’t used yet) was called 116 West Houston in New York City. Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work.

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[Singapore] Far East Organization Unveils New SOHO Brand And Property

YoungUpstarts

The concept of SOHO originally came from “South of Houston” in New York City’s Lower Manhattan area, which is notable for its artists’ lofts and galleries as well as chic, upscale and trendy boutiques. ” Small Office, Home Office.

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Summer in the City: Why there's no other place I'd rather be than New York

This is going to be BIG.

When even a guy trying to be Mayor of your city leaves it… As they say, “Houston St., Union Square Ventures raised its first fund in NYC in 2004 and it wouldn’t see the first local IPO from that fund, Etsy, until 2015. At least, that’s what Mayoral hopeful Andrew Yang and many, many others thought, too. we have a problem.”