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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

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Voices.com , an online marketplace that matches voice actors with advertising agencies and TV and radio stations, began in 2004 as an idea scribbled down on a napkin by newlyweds David and Stephanie Ciccarelli. Write it down on a napkin. The expert: David Ciccarelli, Voices.com. The expert: Stacy Goldberg, Savorfull.

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Getting Better at Getting Email

Duct Tape Marketing

min magazine named her one of the “Most Intriguing People” of 2004, Gotham magazine named her one of its “40 under 40” in 2003, and Advertising Age named her a “Woman to Watch” in 2003. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Faulted for Michigan Oil Spill. Faulted for Michigan Oil Spill. Faulted for Michigan Oil Spill. Zynga went public last December with three classes of stock. Groupon went public in November with two classes of stock. Google Inc.

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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., "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. Comcast Corp.,

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The Lean LaunchPad Online

Steve Blank

In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. We taught the first two classes of 25 teams each, and then in March of 2012 trained faculty from Georgia Tech and the University of Michigan how to teach the class at their universities. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 18 – General James Mattis

Steve Blank

But when you get strategies that are built with bipartisan support, as Senator Vandenberg , a right-wing conservative Republican was asked in Michigan 1949, how could you work with that terrible left wing, President Truman, he answered very bluntly, “politics stops at the water’s edge.” It’s 2004. We’re outnumbered.