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15 Famous Companies That Started As Something Much Different

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By the 1930s, P&G had grown to become an international corporation with a wide variety of new products and brand names, many acquired by purchasing other businesses. But in those days, as the Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, the only thing they were sending was telegrams. Western Union. billion in September 2011.

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

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How to Fund a Startup

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A big-name VC firm will not screwyou too outrageously, because other founders would avoid them ifword got out. When we got into such a scrape, our investorstook advantage of it in a way that a name-brand VC probably wouldnthave. Thats where the name"incubator" comes from. Im not sure myself.

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The Evolving Economics of the App

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NAME Microsoft. NAME Google. NAME Nokia. NAME Amazon.com. NAME comScore. NAME Katie McMahon. NAME Aaron Rubenson. NAME James Vaughan. NAME Scott Lahman. NAME Mark Wang. NAME Sarah Rotman Epps. NAME Greg Bensinger. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG.