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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

Steve Blank

A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. The entrepreneur who founded and grew the largest startup in the world to $10 billion in revenue and got fired is someone you have probably never heard of. Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint, Michigan, in 1947. The company closed in 1931.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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SXSW Startups: Pathware

Austin Startup

This sample-specific quality review verifies the adequacy of any given biopsy with 96% certainty, matching the accuracy of a pathologist’s manual interpretation at a lower personnel cost. Tell us a little about your business model. Our model will initially operate on two revenue streams. passes per biopsy.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

The Social Enterprise Alliance offers this definition: “In its early days, the social enterprise movement was identified mainly with nonprofits that used business models and earned income strategies to pursue their mission. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. economy in general—U.S. Here in the U.S.

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

online.wsj.com

Loading… Business. Loading… Tech. more in Small Business. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Mossberg Reviews the iPhone 5. INTERNET BUSINESSES. Business Services (B2B). Web Design/Tech Services. » More.

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Why Leave A Six Figure Corporate Job For Internet Entrepreneurship?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, a top ten business program year-in year-out and love to pretend to brag about it. The business however is doing very well today. Buying an underperforming business at a price well under market is similar to real estate or even buying and selling websites in many ways.