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6 unusual facts about startup company


Dunkeswell

Dunkeswell Eco Business Park, located near the aerodrome, was constructed to provide environmentally-friendly business space for start-up businesses, businesses run by younger owners or women, and businesses that have outgrown existing premises.

Kappa Theta Pi

Kappa Theta Pi was founded on January 10, 2012 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is the University of Michigan's first and only startup technology fraternity.

MerchantCircle

MerchantCircle is a San Ramon, California-based start-up company which helps small businesses network with other local businesses and reach local customers through free marketing tools and social media features.

RAD Group

The group typically has a similar approach for starting new ventures; a business idea of an entrepreneur (an existing company employee or an outsider) or from the company's management team, forms the basis of a start-up.

Startup company

In a 1960 study, Douglas McGregor stressed that punishments and rewards for uniformity in the workplace is not necessary, as some people are born with the motivation to work without incentives.

Truancy Intervention Project, Inc.

TIP staff help implement truancy projects elsewhere by offering training and resource manuals, on-site start-up assistance, and ongoing planning and implementation support.


Jerusalem Venture Partners

The fund specializing in investments in startup companies, focusing on Digital Media, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors, Storage and Cyber Security, and currently runs investments of over 900 million dollars in eight funds.

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.

Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen

Klaus Lynggaard Hougesen is co-founder of Northernmind a Scandinavian Startup incubator whose sole purpose is to create viable business with special focus on medical company/it & web technologies amongst others carecord.com.

Robert Tappan Morris

2005 – Co-founded Y Combinator, a seed-stage startup funding firm, that provides seed money, advice, and connections at two 3-month programs per year (with Paul Graham, Trevor Blackwell, and Jessica Livingston)

Series A round

A Series A round is the name typically given to a company's first significant round of venture funding in the Silicon Valley model of startup company formation.

Speak Social

Speak Social was founded in November 2010 when Brad Bogus, now president of Speak Social, partnered with Adam Price, a former SEO expert with HostYouOnline.com, to integrate the concept of video sharing (and other social media platforms) with content marketing utilizing SEO practices to form a social media marketing startup company.

Table saw

The feature's inventor, after trying to license it to manufacturers without success, started SawStop, based in Tualatin, Oregon.

Taguspark

In an area of approximately 3.6 km², 2 km² of which are occupied by the Park, there are several research and development labs, innovative startups and business incubators in a range of fields such as information technologies (e.g. Microsoft, MIPS Technologies), telecommunications, electronics, materials, production, energy, environment, biotechnologies and fine chemistry.

Winterton Hospital

New homes have been built to the south of the site in the style of townhouses while the middle section has been used for various high-tech startup companies collectively known as Netpark.


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Comparison shopping agent

The first commercial shopping agent, called Jango, was produced by Netbot, a Seattle startup company founded by University of Washington professors Oren Etzioni and Daniel S. Weld; Netbot was acquired by the Excite portal in late 1997.

Havoc Pennington

From 2008 until June 2011, he worked on a consumer product for the startup company Litl (hardware, and proprietary software and services).

Herb Rule

In addition to his legal career and political career, Rule has farmed soybeans, rice and corn near Keo, Arkansas; has been a real estate developer; co-owned a restaurant; and was a board member and stockholder of a plywood startup company in the Arkansas delta.