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

American Entrepreneurship

The iSTEM program was designed to provide a platform for students who struggle in conventional learning environments yet exhibit exceptional creative and problem-solving abilities. At the same time, Launchpad@Stevens supports student innovation by providing mentorship, funding, and networking opportunities.

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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. Be resourceful, creative, and ready to take risks. Lessons Learned: Lesson #1.

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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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10 Questions for Brooklyn's Innovation Community

This is going to be BIG.

There's no specific agenda or goal, other than to bring together all of the people that have an interest in this great community and its ability to incubate cutting edge and creative ideas. 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

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. 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.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! They come from smart, creative, inspired risk-takers.