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What's the best startup story you ever heard?
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#2James Dyson's story is one of the most interesting startup stories I know. Trying to sell your technology and everyone ignoring you...
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#3Once someone told me about a guy who invented the disk brake, he went to a racing team to offer it, but they told him "we're looking for something to speed up our cars, not to slow them down."
At the end, disk brakes helped a lot in racing because drivers could reduce speed in less time which gave them more time to accelerate.
(I don't know if this is a true story or just a joke, but its a great story!)
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#4I would say Viaweb and/or Vermeer purely because there is so much information about them.
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#5I just read about the 17 year old founder of whateverlife.com yesterday. That is a great story.
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#6"The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis
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#7Gary Dahl, "inventor" of the pet rock.
http://www.petsdo.com/blog/pet-rock-made-man-multi-millionai...
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#8My personal favorite is the story of the Lycos founder in "Founders at Work". The guy just got a call from a VC, saying "we will give you money if you run a company with this great search technology we bought".
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#9Please help keep all these stories at: http://startupflames.com/
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#10I enjoy reading about the early days of Netscape: