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Brad Brooks

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After acquiring the company with Bain Capital from the Walt Disney Company in 2000, he helped grow the company from less than $10mm of revenues to over $80mm in 2005 when he took the company public on the London Stock Exchange at a $200mm valuation. Brad received his BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

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He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany. Steve notes that in 2005, when Four Steps was published, conventional wisdom at business schools was that, “Startups are nothing more than a smaller version of a large company.

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Reflections on 2018: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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He later earned his JD/MBA degrees from UCLA. In 2005, Perdew won Season 2  The Apprentice  and worked directly for President Donald Trump in NY on multiple projects and published his book, Take Command, focused on applying military leadership principles to business.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Unexpected Startup Lesson #1: Quitting the day job - Currently Obsessed , May 10, 2010 This post is the first of a series on “unexpected lessons&# learned through my experience as co-founder and CEO of Snapvine , a venture-backed mobile social networking service founded in 2005 and acquired by WhitePages in June of 2008. Where Do You Fit?

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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

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Atif Siddiqi: We've been operating in the college space since 2005. I went to USC, and was doing grad school and my MBA when I met Atish. We also rank and rate students after they've completed a mission, which helps them build a reputation, as well. Where'd you get the idea for the company? After graduation, I worked at Warner Bros.

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TZ Presents 2013 Startup Forecast

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Prior to TripAdvisor, Erik spent over four years at eBay, where he held a variety of positions, including leadership of eBay’s premium features business, which grew during his tenure from $124 million in revenue in 2002 to $410 million in 2005, significantly outpacing overall eBay revenue and listings growth.

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REACH | Disruptive Technologies Impacting the Future of Gaming [Live]

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He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated with honors from Harvard University. From 1997 through 2005, Robin was a marketing executive and general manager at PepsiCo. He joined SGN from Fox where he was Vice President of Business Development and worked on the acquisition of MySpace and the launch of Hulu.