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7000 Company Histories In One Place

jeffbarson Written by jeffbarson
on January 7th, 2007 / 1 Comment / Print this

Trent Miskin sent me this link to Funding Universe’s 7000 company histories.
While it doesn’t have everyone of interest (I couldn’t find Ebay, or Overstock), it did have PayPal and Amazon in the 7k.
Here’s a snippet from the PayPal history:
“In just eight months time, between January and August 2000, PayPal surged from 12,000 accounts to 2.7 [...]

The Micro VC Maddy Fund & Kiva Entrepreneurs

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on December 24th, 2006 / 5 Comments / Print this

Kiva’s third world entrepreneurs will be receiving some VC funding this Christmas… in the amount of $100 from the Micro VC Maddy Fund.
Kiva.org is a microloan site that lends money to third world entrepreneures to help their businesses and grow markets and economies. So…
I’ve decided to facilitate this process and hopefully my daughter and [...]

Start A Business For $100?

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on December 14th, 2006 / 3 Comments / Print this

Carolynn set herself a goal of starting a business with $100. Then she did it.
She’s writing a blog of this effort at “The Hundred Dollars Business Blog“.
The $100 business is a consignment kiosk at a local mall here in Utah. She got the vendors to sponsor her rent and provide the inventory.
I stumbled on her [...]

Blogging For Kids: Pony Tail Club, My Daughters New Business

jeffbarson Written by jeffbarson
on December 12th, 2006 / 3 Comments / Print this

Pony Tail Club: A girl and her horse blog.
I have a number of businesses and consider blogging to be one of them. I don’t really use it to make money by itself, but to facilitate the operations of the real businesses.
But, I do make a little from my blogs.
My daughter Madison saw a check from [...]

Get Your Christmas Stocking Stuffed With $575 of Free Advertising

jeffbarson Written by jeffbarson
on December 9th, 2006 / 2 Comments / Print this

Paul Allen has a great post about all the current PPC promotions.
Using the links below you can get a combined total of $575 worth of free paid search ads.
MSN ($200), LookSmart ($300), and Ask.com ($50) and Enhance Interactive ($25 - nice landing page!).
Ask.com $50 credit: sign up at sponsoredlistings.ask.com, and enter promo code SESCHI06 during [...]

Guerilla Marketing & Political Correctness

jeffbarson Written by jeffbarson
on December 8th, 2006 / 1 Comment / Print this

In a message that says no one can do anything that anyone can even comment on comes this: A great campaign for ‘Got Milk?’ that created the aroma of freshly baked cookies in bus stops around San Francisco was shut down due to ‘complaints’.
City officials ordered CBS Outdoor, the company that holds the advertising contract [...]

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