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A startup or start-up is a company or project undertaken by an entrepreneur to seek, develop, and validate a scalable business model. [1] [2] While entrepreneurship includes all new businesses including self-employment and businesses that do not intend to go public, startups are new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo-founder. [3]
In 2001, for example, BT Group agreed to sell its international yellow pages directories business to Apax Partners and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst for £2.14 billion (approximately $3.5 billion at the time), [79] making it then the largest non-corporate LBO in European history. Yell later bought US directories publisher McLeodUSA for about $600 ...
1994 — The United States hosts the FIFA World Cup, which is won by Brazil. 1995 — Oklahoma City bombing kills 168 and wounds 800. The bombing is the worst domestic terrorist incident in U.S. history, and the investigation results in the arrests of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols .
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Timeline of LGBT Mormon history in the 1990s; P. ... Timeline of the history of the United States (1990–2009)
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "1990s in the United States" ... Timeline of the history of the United States (1990–2009 ...
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee, and Philip B. Scranton, eds. Major Problems in American Business History: Documents and Essays (2006) 521 pp. Bryant, Keith L. A History of American Business (1983) (ISBN 0133892476) Chamberlain, John. Enterprising Americans: A Business History of the United States (ISBN 0060107022) (1974) by popular journalist
In less than 60 years, the Internet has become a mainstay in the way we work and live so much so that it's hard to imagine a time when our lives weren't consumed by cyberspace.
Commercializing this venture was a task far beyond what Edison's small laboratory could handle, requiring the setup of a large investor backed utility that involving companies that would manufacture the whole technological system upon which the "light bulb" would depend—generators (Edison Machine Company), cables (Edison Electric Tube Company ...