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unusual facts about start-ups


Michael J Gale

Gale has a minor role as an investor in the 2012 Bravo Television Reality Show Start-Ups: Silicon Valley


1874 in Canada

Anabaptists (Russian Mennonites) start to arrive in Manitoba from various Russian colonies.

1972 Amstel Gold Race

The race stretched 237 kilometres, with the start in Heerlen and the finish in Meerssen.

1974 Baltimore Colts season

Head coach Howard Schnellenberger was fired after three games, after an argument with owner Robert Irsay over whether Marty Domres or Bert Jones should start at quarterback for the Colts.

Air Astana

Originally conceived as purely domestic airline, BAE Systems agreed in mid-2001 to participate in the proposed start-up at the request of Kazakhstan's head of state, President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in order to facilitate an air radar contract it was then negotiating with the Government of Kazakhstan.

Andy Santerre

Santerre made a Busch Series start in 1996 while earning points a Busch North driver, when he drove the #35 Ford for Mike Laughlin Jr. at Daytona.

Automatic identification and data capture

The global association Auto-ID Center was founded in 1999 and is made up of 100 of the largest companies in the world such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, Gillette, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Procter & Gamble, Unilever, UPS, companies working in the sector of technology such as SAP, Aliens, Sun as well as five academic research centers.

Betsy Jochum

Chewing gum magnate and Chicago Cubs owner Philip K. Wrigley decided, in 1942, to start a women's professional baseball league, concerned that the 1943 Major League Baseball season might be canceled because of World War II.

Billy Duffy

Duffy got his start playing in different punk line-ups in the late 1970s, but these earlier years were more notable for his introducing Johnny Marr (The Smiths) to the guitar and encouraging Morrissey to make his singing debut with Duffy in The Nosebleeds.

Bored!

Thomas briefly joined Magic Dirt and subsequently has enlisted various line-ups for reformed versions of Bored! in 1998, 1999 and 2000.

Chris Chandler

However, late in 1996, Jeff Fisher decided that Steve McNair was ready to start, and Chandler was traded to the Atlanta Falcons for a fourth-round draft choice.

Colin Bates

In November 2005 at preliminary auditions for Billy in the U.S., he went to the audition, being 15 when the cut-off age was 14; but director Stephen Daldry, realizing Colin would be too old for the Broadway production but also realizing his potential, brought Bates to London a few weeks later with his family to start rehearsals and debuted on March 13, 2006.

Corsica Cola

Corsica Cola benefited from an unexpected kick start during its launch in May 2003: a heat wave.

Cowboys and Aliens

"Cowboys & Aliens", a song by Gram Rabbit from their 2004 album, Music to Start a Cult To

Danny Buijs

However, ADO Den Haag struggled in the Eredivisie in Bujis first season there and, on 14 April 2010, English Football League Championship side Derby County announced they had agreed a deal to sign Buijs for the start of the 2010–11 season.

Del Dingle

Settling into life in Emmerdale, Del – a talented seamstress – helped Val and Eric start their soft furnishings business and became an integral part of the company.

Edward Fenwick Tattnall

He was reelected to the 18th, 19th and 20th United States Congresses and served from March 4, 1821, until his resignation in 1827 before the start of the 20th Congress.

FlatClub

In January 2012, FlatClub won the TechCrunch One-Sentence Pitching Competition, being ranked 1st place out of 650 start-ups globally.

Francis Joyon

On 6 July 2005 Francis Joyon and IDEC crossed the finishing line between Lizard Point and Ushant 6 days 4 hours 1 minute and 37 seconds after the start at Ambrose Light off New York, breaking the 11-year old record of Laurent Bourgnon for the single-handed crossing of the Atlantic Ocean with a sailing boat.

Glanford Park

The stadium was officially opened at the start of the 1988–89 season by Princess Alexandra.

Grand Isle, Louisiana

Grand Isle's main street is the sea-side start of Louisiana Highway 1, that stretches 436.2 miles away to the north-west corner of the state ending near Shreveport, Louisiana.

Heinz Kaminski

The tape recording from Bochum was proof of the start of space travel.

Hereditary Disease Foundation

In 1968, after experiencing Huntington's disease (HD) in his wife's family, Dr. Milton Wexler was inspired to start the Hereditary Disease Foundation, with the aim of curing genetic illnesses by coordinating and supporting research.

International Convention Centre, Birmingham

The foundation stone was laid by Jacques Delors as a start of another 4 years and 5 months of construction.

Jim Berkman

The Sea Gulls compiled an NCAA record 105-game conference winning streak from the start of the 1995 season through the 2009 NCAA tournament.

Joint Working Group between the Roman Catholic Church and the World Council of Churches

According to Armenian Catholicos Aram I, there have been ups and down in WCC-Catholic Church collaboration.

Kevin Rooney

Kevin Rooney was the trainer of world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson from the start of his professional career in 1985, up until Tyson's bout with Michael Spinks in 1988.

KidZone

The show is also notable for providing a start for several young stars, including Sarah Chalke, Devon Sawa, Jai West, Kea Wong and Taheer Mohamed.

Marcos Ambrose

NASCAR did not clear Ambrose to race the NCTS' first three races, as they were held on intermediate to high-speed ovals, and like fellow Wood Brothers/JTG Racing driver Bobby East, Ambrose was not cleared to start in the faster races.

Menny

From now on musical theater and singing were fundamental in life and never stopped Menny appear within his extracurricular activities to the point of dropping out to start a solo career that has taken him to share the stage with artists such as, Maná, Betto Calleti, Fernando Delgadillo, Alejandro Filio, Circle, Conjunto Primavera Diego Torres, Aleks Syntek, Belanova, Jan, Facundo, Jeans, Motel Eduardo Capetillo, etc.

Michigan Department of Transportation

These freeways became the start of Michigan's section of the Interstate Highway System.

MOJO HD

MOJO HD aired original programming series such as After Hours with Daniel, Three Sheets, I Bet You, Pressure Cook, Wall Street Warriors, Bobby G: Adventure Capitalist, Start-Up Junkies, Dr. Danger, The King of Miami, The Show, and Uncorked with Billy Merritt.

Monjo, Nepal

The trail start at Lukla and Monjo is often a stopping point for trekkers, as an alternative of Phakding, on their way to Sagarmartha (Mount Everest) via the Gokyo Ri route or Tengboche route.

Online book rental in India

Cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Pune, Kolkata and Ahmedabad have small start-ups with a few thousand books in their collections.

Prague Half Marathon

The Prague Half Marathon has a looped course format which has its race start and end point on Jan Palach Square near the Rudolfinum.

Progressive tonality

While J.S. Bach in his instrumental and orchestral suites would often place every movement in the same key (see, for example, the solo cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012 or the equally homotonal A minor solo flute partita BWV 1013), in a work like his St Matthew Passion he felt able to 'progress' from an E minor start to an ending in C minor, and his Mass in B minor actually ends in D major.

Raquel Olmedo

She started her career in her native Cuba before moving to Mexico in 1959 at the start of Fidel Castro's regime's rule of Cuba.

Regnal years of English monarchs

However the official "legal year" — that is, the calendar used for legal, civic and ecclesiastical purposes — has not always started on the same date as the start of the historical calendar year which is 1 January (see Old Style and New Style dates).

Sky Net

SKYNET DTH will start boradcast all match of Barclays Premier League from 2013/2014 season after accquired rights from FA.SKYNET DTH also have media rights of all competition held by FIFA,so SKYNET will definitely live FIFA World Cup 2014.

Spécial Dalida

Spécial Dalida is a French studio album released by Dalida at the start of 1982.

Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon

It was sponsored by the Westfield Group, with the start being at Westfield Parramatta shopping centre and the finish at Westfield Doncaster shopping centre (formerly known as "Doncaster Shoppingtown").

The Act-Ups

Music from that record was used in "Um ano mais longo", a movie by director Marco Martins.

The Dark House

Edward Środoń, an unemployed zootechnician from Mosty with a dark past and a growing drinking problem, tries to start over with a clean slate.

The Saturday Night Armistice

Along with sketches, there were also a number of humorous set-ups, such as Armando tricking O. J. Simpson into autographing a folded piece of paper stating "I DID IT" or sending a bus of Princess Diana-lookalikes to take photographs of News International journalists leaving their office.

Theo Wharton

Wharton was first selected for the Wales Under-17 squad for 2011 Euro qualifiers where he start 2 games against Belgium and Denmark.

Tim Willoughby

Having left Goldman Sachs in late 2007, Willoughby was due to start work at the firm of Citi Smith Barney on 10 January 2008, but died suddenly on 9 January 2008 after suffering a heart attack on board a flight from the United States to Singapore, returning home from a family holiday in New Mexico.

Tuor

Unfinished Tales contains the start of a more mature and complete narrative, which Tolkien began after finishing The Lord of the Rings in the 1950s.

VBTP-MR Guarani

On the 26 November 2009, the Brazilian Defence Minister, Nelson Jobim, announced that President Lula had authorized the start of production for 2044 new vehicles with the new name Guarani, formerly known as Urutu III.

Victor Jackovich

As a career officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, he held assignments in Kiev (1979–1980), where he helped to start the first U.S. government office in Ukraine; Bucharest (1980–1983); Nairobi (1983–1986); Moscow (1988–1990); and Sofia, Bulgaria (1991).

Waydowntown

The radio station CJAY 92 that plays "Start A Rumour Day" throughout the film is a real rock station in Calgary, with the station's actual DJs (the DJ "Bob", is Bob Steele, no longer with the station).

William Sly

He is generally thought to have been with the Lord Chamberlain's Men at their re-formed start in 1594, probably at first as a hired man; he may have become a sharer in the company when George Bryan retired, c.


see also

Ann Kirschner

A veteran of five start-ups, she launched NFL.COM for the National Football League and was the former co-founder of Columbia University's interactive knowledge network, Fathom.com She is now the University Dean of William E. Macaulay Honors College of The City University of New York.

Audrey MacLean

She has provided seed financing to numerous successful start-ups including Pure Software, Pete's Brewing Company, AdForce and Selectica.

CorDECT

The technology is a Fixed Wireless Option, which has extremely low capital costs and is ideal for small start ups to scale, as well as for sparse rural areas.

Derek Reisfield

Derek Reisfield was the founder and chairman of MarketWatch, a leading financial news and information site and one of the most successful content start ups of the Internet Boom.

Joseph M. Pettit

In the aftermath of the launch of Scientific Atlanta by Glen P. Robinson and the subsequent disputes, Georgia Tech's culture encouraged hard work, but did not encourage start-ups.

Jubilee Hills

The neighbourhood is a base to a number of small IT start-ups and BPOs.

Milken Family Foundation

Milken-University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Education Business Plan Competition - Education entrepreneurs from early-stage start-ups compete in the competition, which features seven prizes totaling $145,000 in funding.

Proto.in

Proto.in has been acknowledged as the best platform for start-ups in the country by a broad range of entrepreneurs and investor in the country ranging from Vishal Gondal, the founder of Indiagames.com to Naveen Tewari, the founder of global mobile advertising firm InMobi.

Ramy Adeeb

Ramy Adeeb is the founder and CEO of social curation platform Snip.it and is a former venture capitalist investor in start-ups such as Square and Groupme.

Russ Lorenson

Never one to do things by halves, he moved to San Francisco to be close to the Silicon Valley scene, began working in start-ups and found himself flying high in all senses of the word.

Stephen Kevin Smith

Professor Smith is a founder-member of biomedical start-ups Metris Therapeutics Ltd and GNI Group, the latter undertaking a successful IPO in 2007 and now listed on the Mothers section (comprising high-growth start-ups) of the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

Tarek Kamel

He was board member of Telecom Egypt from 2000 to 2004 and a board member of Egypt’s Private Public Technology Development Fund (TDF) to support start ups and incubators in ICT from 2002 to 2004.