• Start-up Company
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BMC Software 1990s
Greg Hassell of the Houston Chronicle
stated in a 1991 article that after 11 years
of growth in the company, BMC "has the
soul of the little guy" and "still run like a
start-up company" since it still used tactics
used by smaller firms to expand.
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Bricks and clicks
Part of the reason for its success is
that it is far easier for a traditional
retailer to establish an online presence
than it is for a start-up company to
employ a successful purely online one,
or for an online only retailer to
establish a traditional presence,
including a strong and well recognised
brand, without having a large marketing
budget
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Cisco Systems - Acquisitions
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During the Internet boom in 1999, the
company acquired Cerent Corporation,
a start-up company located in
Petaluma, California, for about US$7
billion.
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STMicroelectronics - Rousset, France
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In 1988, a small group of employees from
the Thomson Rousset plant (including the
director, Marc Lassus) founded a start-up
company, Gemalto (formerly known as
Gemplus) which became a leader in the
smartcard industry.
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Media for equity
Media for equity funding fills a gap in
funding which exists after a new company
has spent its initial seed money, and hasn't
yet grown enough to attract large venture
capitalists. The company uses the
advertising to increase its customer base,
thereby increasing the value of its stock.
The start-up company makes money
directly, and the media company can sell
the stock at a profit.
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VMware - Acquisitions
In May 2008, VMware acquired Israeli
start-up company B-hive Networks for an
undisclosed sum. Following the acquisition
VMware opened an R&D center in Israel,
based initially on B-Hive’s facilities and
team in Israel.
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Eindhoven University of Technology - Shared minors
In addition, students must come up with an
innovative plan and develop a start-up company.
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GeeksPhone
'GeeksPhone' is a
Spanish start-up
company and producer
of smartphones.
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Adam tablet - Controversy
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In late January 2011, leaked photographs
supposedly taken during US Federal
Communications Commission (FCC)
inspections created a fresh round of
criticism, with commentators remarking on
the inferiority of the build to established
brands, with respect in particular to hand
soldered wires and components.Thomas
Ricker, , 28 January 2011 In the official
Notion Ink blog, CEO Rohan Shravan
defended the Adam's build quality as a
product of a start-up company and stating
that the wires are solid and belong to the
antenna.
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Venture capital - Alternatives
Furthermore, many venture capital
firms will only seriously evaluate an
investment in a start-up company
otherwise unknown to them if the
company can prove at least some of its
claims about the technology and/or
market potential for its product or
services
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Jeri Ellsworth - Biography
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On May 18, 2013, Ellsworth revealed that
she had developed an Augmented Reality
development system named castAR with
fellow ex-Valve engineer Rick Johnson,
with the blessing of Valve
Corporation|Valve's Gabe Newell. and
would be funding it via Kickstarter later in
the year. Her start-up company, Technical
Illusions, is developing castAR.
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Ambient device
The New York Times Magazine
announced ambient devices as one of
the Ideas of the Year in 2002 on the
heels of a start-up company, Ambient
Devices, releasing their first product
Ambient Orb, a frosted-glass ball
lamp which maps information to a
linear color spectrum and displays the
trend in the data
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Viki (website)
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The name Viki is a play on the words
video and Wiki, drawing similarities
to those companies' use of volunteers
for content management. The
company won the
TechCrunch|Crunchie award for best
international start-up company in
January 2011.
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Pedelec - History
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In 1995, the first Flyer in the same
year founded the Swiss start-up
company BKTech AG in small series
by e-business (as an integral part of
the start-up) to the market.
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Altran Foundation for Innovation - Ecologic system of soil decontamination
The Altran Foundation jury awarded the
first prize 2001 to 'Julien Troquet', a young
research engineer and founder of the
start-up company
[http://www.biobasicenvironnement.com/us
/presentation.html 'Biobasic
Environnement']
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Extraordinary Measures - Inspiration
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The small start-up company Priozyme was
based on Oklahoma City-based
Novazyme. The larger company, called
Zymagen in the film, was based on
Genzyme in Cambridge, MA. Novazyme
was developing a protein therapeutic, with
several biological patents pending, to
treat Pompe Disease, when it was bought
by Genzyme. The patent portfolio was
cited in the press releases announcing
the
deal.[http://www2.prnewswire.com/cgibin/stories.pl?ACCT=104STORY=/www/st
ory/08-07-2001/0001550115EDATE= ]
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PayPal - eBay acquisition
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In January 2008, PayPal acquired Fraud
Sciences, a privately held Israeli start-up
company with expertise in online risk tools,
for $169 million, in order to enhance
PayPal's proprietary fraud management
systems
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Business rules - Real world applications and obstacles
This lack of consistent approach is mostly
due to the cost and effort required to maintain
the list of rules. The cost of maintaining the
list increases in situations where the rules are
rapidly changing, such as in a start-up
company. Another common obstacle to the
adoption of formal business rule
management is resistance from employees
who understand that their knowledge of
business rules is key to their employment.
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Cisco - Acquisitions
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During the Internet boom in 1999, the
company acquired Cerent
Corporation, a start-up company
located in Petaluma, California, for
about US$7billion
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Google Inc. - Acquisitions and partnerships
The start-up company developed a
product called Earth Viewer that gave a
3D computer graphics|three-dimensional
view of the Earth
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GO Corp.
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'GO Corporation' was founded in 1987 to
create portable computers, an Operating
System, and software with a pen-based
user interface. It was famous not only for
its pioneering work in Pen-based
computing but as well as being one of the
most well-funded start-up company|startup companies of its time.
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Wikileaks - Founding
WikiLeaks relies to some degree on
volunteers and previously described its
founders as a mixture of Asian dissidents,
journalists, mathematicians, and start-up
company technologists from the United
States, Taiwan, Europe, Australia, and
South Africa, but has progressively
adopted a more traditional publication
model and no longer accepts either user
comments or edits
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Paramount Pictures - 1911–1920: Early history
Beginning in 1914, both Lasky and
Famous Players released their films
through a start-up company, Paramount
Pictures Corporation, organized early that
year by a Utah theatre owner, W
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Lotus Approach
As a start-up company, Approach was
formed in 1991 and won over 30 awards
the first year, including best of show at
Comdex. The program was considered
the first end-user relational database that
did not introduce yet another file format.
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Delrina - Corporate history
Bennie facilitated an initial seed
investment of $1.5 million CAD to finance
a new start-up company, Delrina, to
develop this idea
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Private equity - Venture capital
is a broad subcategory of private
equity that refers to equity
investments made, typically in less
mature companies, for the launch of a
seed or start-up company, early stage
development, or expansion of a
business
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Worcester Polytechnic Institute - Alumni
* Mike Abramson (Class of 2005) is the
founder of the Drinksavvy, which is a start-up
company selling anti date-rape straws and
cups, and is the brother of Edward Austrian.[
http://www.boston.com/dailydose/2012/12/11/
new-straw-detects-date-rape-drugsdrinks/w9zDzE3blWz8COnfnWWh8L/story.ht
ml] New straw detects date-rape drugs in
drinks[ http://www.cmn.com/2013/01/whatsin-your-cup-drinksavvy-helping-stave-offdate-rape/] What's in Your Cup? DrinkSavvy
Helping Stave Off Date Rape
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Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. - Timeline
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*1995 – Cofounded Viaweb, a start-up
company that made software for
building online stores (with Paul
Graham (computer
programmer)|Paul Graham)
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S-PLUS - Historical timeline
1988: S-PLUS is first produced by a
Seattle-based start-up company called
Statistical Sciences, Inc. The founder and
sole owner is R. Douglas Martin, professor
of statistics at the University of
Washington, Seattle.
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IIT Kharagpur - Entrepreneurship Cell
E-Cell has been instrumental in the
establishment of Rajendra Mishra School
of Engineering Entrepreneurship. The ECell has played a key role in the Deferred
Placement Programme (DPP), whereby, a
student can opt for placement a year after
the completion of his/her course, in case
they are involved in a start-up company.
This is the first time such a programme is
being offered at the undergraduate level in
India.
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Sweat equity
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The term is sometimes used to describe
the efforts put into a start-up company by
the founders in exchange for ownership
shares of the company
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Comparison of Business Angel Networks
A Business Angel Network is a
conglomerate of Angel investors|Angel
Investors, whose prime concern is to
facilitate the investment of Seed
Enterprises and Start-up
company|Business Start-up for
investors.Angel Investor Network.
Startups.co. .
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Jerry McNerney - Early life, education, and business career
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Before being elected to Congress, Jerry
served as the CEO of a 2004 start-up
company manufacturing wind turbines,
named HAWT Power (Horizontal Axis
Wind Turbine Power)
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Civic crowdfunding
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to create and sell a new product) or a financing
campaign for a start-up company.
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Short (finance) - History
During the Dot-com bubble, shorting a
start-up company could backfire since it
could be taken over at a price higher than
the price at which speculators shorted.
Short-sellers were forced to cover their
positions at acquisition prices, while in
many cases the firm often overpaid for the
start-up.
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Infogear
The original product concept was
developed as part of an internal innovation
project at National Semiconductor – code
named Project Mercury. Bob Ackerman, a
strategy and technology consultant
working with National Semiconductors’
Demetris Paraskevopoulos, first
discovered the project in National’s labs.
Ackerman worked with his colleague Jeff
Oscodar and the National team to spin the
project out into a start-up company in
1995.
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Veoh
On February 11, 2010, in an open letter
published on his blog, company founder and
former CEO, Dmitry Shapiro, indicated that
the distraction of the legal battles, and the
challenges of the broader macro-economic
climate have led to our Chapter 7, Title 11,
United States Code|Chapter 7
bankruptcy.http://www.dmitryshapiro.com/blo
g/?p=160 On April 7, 2010, it was announced
that Israeli start-up company Qlipso acquired
Veoh for an undisclosed sum
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Buttercoin
'Buttercoin' is a private
company|private American start-up
company that provides a Bitcoin Digital
currency exchanger|exchange services
to other companies. Specifically,
Buttercoin develops a White-label
product|white-labeled platform for
creating local Bitcoin exchanges and
partners with local currency exchange
and transfer businesses to be legally
compliant to local regulations and to
acquire access their partners' client
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Power Mac G5 - P.A. Semi's G5 derivative
Semi's status as a start-up company,
seems to have been the final blow to the
development of Power Mac computers
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Flat-Club
Daniele Beccari (15-08-2011)
[http://www.tnooz.com/2011/08/15/tlabs/flat-club-targetstrust-factor-in-buzz-around-short-term-lettings/ ‘FlatClub
targets trust factor in buzz around short-term lettings’]
Tnooz.com FlatClub focuses on leveraging existing
social, academic and professional networks to create
trust.Robin Wauters (17-052012)[http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/17/flat-clubleverages-trust-social-networks-to-facilitate-short-termletting-lands-funding/ ‘FlatClub leverages trust, social
networks to facilitate short-term letting; lands funding’]
The Next Web (23-08-2011)
[http://www.smallbusiness.co.uk/channels/start-abusiness/dont-miss/1649618/hot-property.thtml ‘Hot
Property’] Smallbusiness.co.uk FlatClub is a start-up
company which is incorporated into the London
Business School business incubator|incubator program.
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Daiichi Sankyo - Acquisitions
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On April 4, 2011 Daiichi Sankyo completed
the acquisition of Plexxikon, a Berkeley,
California-based pharmaceutical start-up
company for $805 million and an additional
$130 million in milestone payments, pending
on the success of Vemurafenib (Plexxikon’s
lead program) an oral, novel drug that targets
the oncogenic BRAF mutation present in
about half of melanoma cancers and about
eight percent of all solid tumors. Daiichi
Sankyo is retaining US co-promotion right of
the (Roche licensed) drug.
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Wurlitzer - Electric guitars
In 1966, music store owner Howard
Holman used his contacts at the Martin
Band Instrument Company, owned by
Wurlitzer at that time, to convince Wurlitzer
to distribute a line of electric guitars
manufactured by Holman's start-up
company in Kansas
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David Walliams - Television
Walliams played Jake Plaskow in the
BBC's Attachments (TV
series)|Attachments, set in an internet
start-up company. In 2001, he was one of
the leads in Cruise of the Gods. In 2003,
Walliams appeared in EastEnders and
Marple (ITV TV series)|Marple.
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Arthur J. Samberg - Early life
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Subsequently, as the first professional
hire at the start-up company Weiss,
Peck Greer, he served as a Security
Analyst
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State (disambiguation) - Computing
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* State (website), a start-up company and
'opinion network' based in London England.
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Comverse Technology - Origins
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The company's origins date to 1982 (or
1983, sources differ), when three
Israelis, aspiring investment banker
Kobi Alexander|Jacob Kobi Alexander of
Shearson Loeb Rhoades, engineer
[http://www.linkedin.com/pub/boazmisholi/21/257/921 Boaz Misholi], and
Alexander brother-in-law and Columbia
University computer science professor
[http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~yemini/
Yechiam Yemini], got together and
founded an Israeli start-up company,
'Efrat Future Technologies Ltd.'Breznitz,
Innovation and the State, p
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David Faiman - Career
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Peter C. Schultz - Other activities
He is also President of a start-up
company (BioSensor Inc., founded in
1997) developing a non-invasive fiber
optic sensor to measure blood glucose
for diabetics, based on Russian
technology. He is a member of the
Selection Committee for the National
Medal of Technology and a Board
member of the National Inventors Hall
of Fame.
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Bill Atkinson
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The obstacles to General Magic's success
may appear daunting, but General Magic
is not your typical start-up company. Its
partners include some of the biggest
players in the worlds of computing,
communications, and consumer
electronics, and it's loaded with top-notch
engineers who have been given a clean
slate to reinvent traditional approaches to
ubiquitous worldwide communications.
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Ruth Davidson - Business and infrastructure
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Davidson has proposed that any startup company whose rateable value was
below £18,000, should be incentivised
by being given an initial 2-year ability to
avoid paying Business rates in
Scotland|business rates. She also
emphasises the necessity for proper
infrastructure in rural areas,
particularly with regard to ferry links.
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StrongARM - History
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The Austin design group spun off to
become Alchemy (processor)|Alchemy
Semiconductor, another start-up
company designing MIPS SoCs for the
hand-held market
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Jeff Han
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Han graduated from The Dalton School
in New York in 1993 and studied
computer science and electrical
engineering for three years at Cornell
University before leaving to join a startup company to commercialize the CUSeeMe video-conferencing software
that he helped develop while an
undergraduate at Cornell.
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Fernando Espuelas - Career
VOY was named winner of the best Start-Up
Company award at the Multicultural Media Expo in
2006
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Digital Equipment - Final years
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A 35-year company veteran, he had joined
Digital in 1958 as the company's 12th
employee, passing up a chance to work
for Bell Laboratories in New Jersey to
work for Digital, then a tiny start-up
company in the mill town of Maynard,
Mass
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Armenian dram sign - Date of creation
Apparently, the sign emerged on 7
September 1995. This date refers to a
page in the preserved scratches for cash
flow of a start-up company. Since that date
the sign together with the dollar sign is
constantly present in cash flow records
(euro was not in circulation yet), and no
evidences for earlier dates are tendered
by anybody yet.
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.free
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– a Czech start-up company, but also of
supporters spread around the world and of
people who support the idea of freedom
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Alan Goodman
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Outside of MTV, Goodman has worked
with a major cable MSO to launch a
new pay-per-view and broadband
network; advised independent
production companies; and works
with an internet start-up company.
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Maria Ozawa - 2005-2007: Career beginnings
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Along with Rin Suzuka, Reina Matsushima
and Rin Aoki, she moved from S1 with its
emphasis on glamour to a new start-up
company, Das (studio)|DAS, which
featured scenes of creampie (sexual
act)|creampie and simulated rape
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UTV Software Communications - Subsidiaries/joint ventures
On 10 September 2008 UTV Games
Limited acquired 80% equity stake in True
Games Interactive Inc, (True Games) an
online gaming start-up Company based in
California, USA, thereby making True
Games a downstream subsidiary of the
Company.
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Joe Madureira - Career
He then went to work for Realm
Interactive, another start-up company,
on Trade Wars: Dark Millennium
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Elron Electronic Industries - 2000s
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During the 2000s Elron started operating
less as holding company and moved to act
more as a venture capital fund, jointly
investing in numerous start-up
company|start-up companies and realizing
the investment by selling the companies or
conducting an initial public offering.
Notable investments and Exit
strategy|investment exits include:
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Paramount Studios - 1911–1920: Early history
Starting in 1914, both Lasky and
Famous Players released their films
through a start-up company,
Paramount Pictures Corporation,
organized early that year by a Utah
theatre owner, W
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Cracked.com - Web Series
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*The Start-Up – Michael Swaim, Cody
Johnston, and Katy Stoll as three
people working from home who meet
through teleconference to discuss their
new start-up company (November 2011
– October 2013).
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Martin Eberhard - Career
Later, Eberhard co-founded and
founded start-up company|start-up
companies Network Computing
Devices, Inc. (making X Windowbased network terminals) and
NuvoMedia (making the Rocket
eBook), respectively.
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Crackdown 2 - Development
Prior to its announcement, industry
rumors stated that the new start-up
company, Ruffian Games, a Scottish
studio formed from members from the
Realtime Worlds team, may be involved
in the development of a Crackdown
sequel
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Doing Business Report - Origins
The paper presented data on the
regulation of entry of Start-up
company|start-up firms in 85 countries
covering the number of procedures,
official time and official cost that a
start-up must bear before it could
operate legally
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Chuck Jordan (game designer) - Career
Chuck Jordan began his career at
LucasArts as a programmer and cowriter of The Curse of Monkey Island
in 1997. After working on Grim
Fandango as a script programmer, he
left the company. He later joined
Infinite Machine, a start-up company
founded by LucasArts alumni, where
he worked on the initial design of their
games, including the cancelled Sam
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Burn rate
Some entrepreneurs and investors say
that part of the reasons behind the dotcom bust was the unsound management
and financial investor practices to keep the
burn rate up, taking it as a proxy for how
fast the start-up company was acquiring a
customer base.
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