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20 Years As a CEO: What I Wish I Knew Then

StartupNation

And so, in 2005, I decided to start a business with only $100 in my pocket. Two decades ago, when my friend and I struggled to acquire a ticket to the Dave Matthews Band concert, the idea smacked me in the brain. What if I could help people easily get tickets to live events (sports, concerts, theatrical performances—you name it)?

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Can You Build a Business with $100 or Less? Yes … and Here’s How

StartupNation

Event Tickets Center → $100 Founded: 2005 Industry : Media and Entertainment Number of employees : 30+ For me, as the CEO and Founder of Event Tickets Center (ETC), the ticket-selling platform is more than just a business launched with $100.

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20 Years As a CEO: What I Wish I Knew Then

StartupNation

And so, in 2005, I decided to start a business with only $100 in my pocket. Two decades ago, when my friend and I struggled to acquire a ticket to the Dave Matthews Band concert, the idea smacked me in the brain. What if I could help people easily get tickets to live events (sports, concerts, theatrical performances—you name it)?

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Chegg Donates $50K to Stevens Institute of Technology, Fueling Student Innovation

American Entrepreneurship

Chegg: A Legacy of Supporting Students Chegg was founded in 2005 by Aayush Phumbhra, Osman Rashid, and Josh Carlson with the mission of making higher education more affordable and accessible for students.

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Transforming Real Estate: Dan Noma Jr.’s Mission to Enhance the Investor Experience for All

Jason Malki

In 2005, he joined the Arizona Best Real Estate team, where he worked for more than six years before opening his own brokerage. As the son of a successful builder and developer, Noma’s passion for real estate began at a young age. He began personally investing in real estate at the age of 18.

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10 Questions for Brooklyn's Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

From 2005 to 2009, I was fortunate enough to be part of a small group of New York City innovation community leaders that sowed some of the seeds of the thriving tech hub we have today. Honestly, it was a fair bit of hand waving and maybe a little smoke and mirrors--saying in 2005 that we had a ton of startup-ready tech talent.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Every startup I knew in 2005 (when I started my second company) was using this. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.