Word: startup
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decent enough idea, he figured, so he shared it with Eduardo L. Saverin ’05. Saverin, a former president of the Harvard Investment Association, agreed to throw in $1,000 in startup money. This capital, he and Zuckerberg reasoned, would keep the site live for at least two months...
...hope in this kind of program is that by making renewable energy more attractive [for entrepreneurs]—by underwriting some of the startup costs and so on—it’ll be more attractive to build more facilities,” says Larry Black, the KSG buildings manager...
Kim’s magazine, according to the memo, is seeking an investment of $60,000 for the first issue with a total startup cost of $100,000. The memo said the magazine aims to generate a substantial profit by devoting approximately 30 of its 88 glossy pages to advertisements...
...Bomb Magazine has attracted people’s attention since its approval in February. The Undergraduate Council approved a $2,000 grant to cover the startup costs of the magazine in March, one of the largest grants given to a student group this year...
...since the downturn. For one thing, companies are now accounting for stock options as expenses. Consequently, more and more corporations are abandoning a method of compensation that effectively let talented workers place big bets with their careers. Without stock options, we might not see the same level of frenzied startup activity prevalent during the late 1990s. The other big difference is that many of the venture capitalists in Silicon Valley are still smarting from the last round of layoffs and drop-offs in tech stock prices. Sure, hope springs eternal, but that might only stretch so far given that they...