The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The 1862 Land Grant College Act: “proposes to establish at least one college in every state upon a sure and perpetual foundation, accessible to all, but especially to the sons of the soil… where neither the higher graces of classical studies nor the that military drill our country so greatly appreciates will be ignored.”.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

2018 set yet another all-time record for the number of paper books sold in the United States, as has been repeatedly true during the era of Amazon. Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. It’s a great business.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

In these uncertain economic times, how has Cisco been able to expand its business operations? Well, first off, Cisco has a focus on operational excellence and productivity. But we’re also fortunate that Cisco’s products and services are fundamental to business operations and consumer. online activities worldwide.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Their firm, Andreessen/Horowtiz , has been prescient enough to invest in social networks, consumer and mobile applications and the cloud long before others. Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. In the last year, we’ve seen Social Networks enable new forms of peaceful revolution.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. 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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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

of the world’s population — has more companies listed on the NASDAQ than any country in the world save the United States and China. American VCs have a significantly wider network and have a capability to access management talent, data, partners, and customers to help a company scale. That’s the good news.

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