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...budding internet entrepreneurs, the moral of Google's $1.65 billion purchase of video start-up YouTube is simple: Build a real, functioning company, then sell it to a bigger one. During the dotcom bubble of the late 1990s, garage innovators could peddle imaginary businesses in initial public offerings. If an idea seemed as if it might make money someday (remember Pets.com?) that was good enough. Today's upstarts are more fully formed and are often led by wealthy veterans of the first boom. They know Google's not the only shopper. Yahoo! has spent close to $100 million for start...
Remember the last company to take on Google? It was a little video start-up called YouTube, which out-cooled Google Video, grabbing 46% of the online video market to Google's paltry 10%. That victory catapulted founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen from chips to caviar in just over a year...
...Part of it is the economy. When a company or an organization is growing financially they need more people to do their work as well,” Mount says. “Certainly the dot-com boom was a huge start-up sensation. There were some very new companies that were using recruiting, and who, a few years later, no longer existed...
...places on the planet. You can use your mobile phone to pay for parking your car, buy bus tickets and check your children's school grades. More than 80% of taxpayers file their declarations online, wi-fi hot spots are ubiquitous - and free - and the nation's most famous start-up is Skype, the Internet phone titan, which was acquired last year by eBay for $2.6 billion. That amount is slightly more than the annual output of the entire Estonian economy 15 years ago. The economy, once a basket case, is now one of Europe's most dynamic, racing along...
...announcement came as the College this week also recognized a student-run, for-profit start-up that offers “unofficial” campus tours competing with the University-sponsored Crimson Key Society guides (see story...