If you've never read how Kenneth Cole (shoe/fashion company) started out by launching a movie production company, it's a great story: http://www.kennethcole.com/scripts/aboutus/ourstory.asp
What's the best startup story you ever heard?
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#13Please help keep all these stories at: http://startupflames.com/
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#14Gary Dahl, "inventor" of the pet rock. http://www.petsdo.com/blog/pet-rock-made-man-multi-millionai...
The guy made a million dollars. You know, I had an idea like that once. A long time ago.
It was a "Jump to Conclusions" mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor, and it would have different conclusions written on it that you could jump to.
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#15Of all the stories in Founders at Work I think my favorite is Wozniak's. It still amazes me that he made the entire Apple II by himself, both hardware and software.
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#16Gary Dahl, "inventor" of the pet rock. http://www.petsdo.com/blog/pet-rock-made-man-multi-millionai...
The guy made a million dollars. You know, I had an idea like that once. A long time ago. It was a "Jump to Conclusions" mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor, and it would have different conclusions written on it that you could jump to.
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#17Gary Dahl, "inventor" of the pet rock. http://www.petsdo.com/blog/pet-rock-made-man-multi-millionai...
The guy made a million dollars. You know, I had an idea like that once. A long time ago. It was a "Jump to Conclusions" mat. You see, it would be this mat that you would put on the floor, and it would have different conclusions written on it that you could jump to.
That's the worst idea I've ever heard in my life, Leon.