Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

Uber became a household name in only a matter of years, and although there have been many complaints about the service, you can’t deny the way that it has changed the transport industry worldwide. I truly have a weak spot for entrepreneurs who don't let their past define their future and make it big after going through extreme hardships.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2011

Bubbles are not new; we have had them for hundreds of years (the Tulip Mania , South Sea Company , Mississippi Company , etc.). And it was hammered home with Color —a startup without a product —raising $40 million, at a reputed $100 million valuation, from brand name VCs who should have known better.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

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.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” Except at this VC conference, 100 or so of the 300 attendees had badges that had their first name and only the last initial of their last name. (And

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

T ool: Curalate URL: Curalate.com What it does: Monitors and measures traffic from “visual-based platforms”—namely (for now, at least) Pinterest. First Name. Company Name. * Mississippi. Mississippi. and the impact of those for our traffic.” Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h. New Jersey.

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Up and Running

JULY 16, 2015

By contrast, Stuart grew up working in his father’s law office in the Mississippi Delta. Red Wagon has been named “Best of Eugene Frozen Treats” by local newspaper “Eugene Weekly,” and their ice creams have been featured in food blogs and magazines such as “Sunset” and AAA’s “Via.”

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. Domain Name/Basic Site. Mississippi. Mississippi. Why use your real name? COMPANY AOL COMPANY|AOL. Software. -

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