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McComb’s School of Business Birthed uShip

Campus Entrepreneurship

From the article by Stacey Higginbotham: Six years ago I attended a business plan competition where I watched a couple of guys explain how they wanted to streamline the process of shipping bulky items across the country by linking folks up via the Internet. Last week it received its one-millionth listing on the site.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., INTERNET BUSINESSES. General Internet. - Pennsylvania.