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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

Failing at that business, terminating my employees, and shutting the doors was the most challenging thing I had done. I admire Howard Schultz for using his thinking skills in taking over a company name where he previously worked as an employee. Photo Credit: Ryan Niddel. This included health insurance and making them domestic partners.

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Want Your Startup to Succeed? Stay Home

ReadWriteStart

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Sorenson surmises that startup founders do better amid familiar surroundings because social networks are vital when you’re starting a business.

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Knowing When It’s Time To Sell Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

Google reportedly turned down buyout offers from Microsoft shortly before the 2004 IPO. Just 18 months after this photo sharing program and social network was launched, Facebook offered to purchase Instagram for $1 billion in cash and stock. They only had 13 employees! Unique social networking product.

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Want Your Startup to Succeed? Stay Home

ReadWriteStart

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Sorenson surmises that startup founders do better amid familiar surroundings because social networks are vital when you’re starting a business.

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

reidhoffman.org

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. This gave me an idea: I could help many more entrepreneurs by making the deck available not just to the Greylock network of entrepreneurs, but to everyone. the evolution of LinkedIn as a company.

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Want Your Startup to Succeed? Stay Home

ReadWriteStart

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 Sorenson surmises that startup founders do better amid familiar surroundings because social networks are vital when you’re starting a business.

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Facebook S-1: The Most Anticipated IPO in a Decade ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Founded : Spring 2004, incorporated July 2004. How They Do It : Operate a social network at Facebook.com, through Facebook’s mobile apps, and the Facebook Platform which lets other websites extend Facebook’s tools for authentication and social sharing. Facebook, Inc. Filing Date : February 1, 2012.

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