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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I was also sick of my own curated life on Facebook and thought, there must be a place more interesting than this to hang out online. ” –Joss Whedon, “Firely” Just a line from a fictional character on a fictional show, but in 2007 when the housing bubble busted, it resonated strongly with me.

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Money Out of Nowhere: How Internet Marketplaces Unlock Economic Wealth

abovethecrowd.com

The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. Other noteworthy and emerging labor marketplaces: HackerOne (*) is the leading global marketplace that coordinates the world’s largest corporate “bug bounty” programs with a network of the world’s leading hackers.

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Snapchat 101 for VCs and Old Folks

Both Sides of the Table

That’s like you saying you don’t want to go to cocktail parties and network anymore while every 25-35 year-old VC steals your customers. Stick with it the same way you “didn’t get” Twitter in 2007 when you signed up but by 2009 you were using it effortlessly. But get on the treadmill.” Use Snapchat.

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