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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

The project was a little unexpected – creating customer cereal boxes called Obama-Os and Cap’n McCains, timely for the 2008 elections. The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Photo Credit: Jen Wan. Thanks to Jen Wan, Soteri Skin ! #5-

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America’s Entrepreneurial Innovation Needs Help

Startup Professionals Musings

In addition, due to Sarbanes-Oxley and other regulations, accounting costs have gone up an estimated four times for all businesses, and 2008-2009 represented the worst IPO market in forty years. Rates around the world are still going down, while U.S. rates have remained fixed for the last ten years.

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Attracting a CTO to your startup

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How To Get a Job In Venture Capital

VC Adventure

” In fact, I’ve written two posts over the years on this topic – one way back in 2005 and a follow-up to that a few years later in 2008 (the 2nd of the post is the more practical advice if you’re pressed for time; or just keep reading below). Get involved in your community. Get out there and participate.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

They're also dedicated to giving back to the community and their employees, who each receive three pints of ice cream per day. Airbnb struggled to attract investors when it first began in 2008, requiring founders Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia to manufacture bespoke cereal boxes to earn money. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

For example, from a post in 2008 about Rally’s $16.85m financing , I riffed on the origins of the company. There are hundreds of paragraphs I could write about all of the amazing things Rally Software has done for the Boulder Startup Community and for the extended city of Boulder. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies.

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How To Get A Job In Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

Things have changed in the last decade since his 2008 post titled How to get a job in venture capital (revisited) , which was an update from his 2005 post titled How to become a venture capitalist. Get involved in your community. And How to get a job in venture capital (revisited – 2008). Take the long view.