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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

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Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph to combat late fees for video rentals. Before Jobs returned to the business in 1997, its sales, and popularity all steadily declined for 12 years, nearly driving it into bankruptcy. Photo Credit: Rob Greene. Thanks to Rob Greene, Price of Meat. #13-

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Why Now Is The Right Time For New Green Technology

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For green technology, the barriers — high costs, lack of supporting infrastructure, the weight of tradition — have been especially prohibitive. But the timing is finally right for some green tech to take off. The time in the spotlight is finally here for green innovations like permeable pavement. The Rise of Green Technology.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: athenahealth

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Although this is not typically how athenahealth is described, it is one way to describe what they are doing that mainstream members of the technology community might understand. I have found it pretty amazing that so few people in the tech community know their story or understand the scale and scope of what they have achieved.

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

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The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. Policy makers have finally been listening to the start-up and entrepreneurial community to adjust the policies to prevent the choking off of growth. It’s new businesses.

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Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

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An argument has been raging for decades within the scientific and typographic communities on what seems a very insignificant issue: Do serifs contribute to the legibility of typefaces, and by definition, are sans serif typefaces less legible? Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). The php community practically did not bother to defend itself.

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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

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What about the farms, are they environmentally friendly, and are they using green and sustainable methods? Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase.

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

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In his 1997 paper, Sleep, Sleep Deprivation, and Human Performance in Continuous Operations , he found that: Laboratory studies show that mental work declines by 25% during each successive 24 hours of continuous wakefulness. Green, York University, Toronto, Canada. Community Chapters. Prosperity Covenant , Tom Walker.