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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users. Author : Jordan Cooper. Title: The Leap: A Memoir of Love and Madness in the Internet Gold Rush. Title: Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet. Post-Mortem Title : Lessons Learned: Startup Failure Part 1.

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6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

Until recently, most Internet innovation has centered around improvements — big improvements, but incremental ones nonetheless — to existing business models and familiar social structures: Amazon is the ultimate retail destination, Zipcar the ubiquitous rental-car agency; Meetup is a sewing circle on steroids.

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The 12 Strangest Celebrity Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The rapper who brought us “U Can’t Touch This” and “2 Legit 2 Quit” is now trying to give us a new way to look him up on the Internet. This actor is most recognized for his role on Melrose Place but in 2006, he made a switch to the business where the real money is: the Internet. MC Hammer’s search engine.