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100 startup ideas

Announcing RFS 100

Mario Gabriele
May 25, 2020
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Editor's Letter: When it comes to startup ideas, genius steals

In 2003, Tesla Motors had nothing to do with Elon Musk.

Sitting in Disneyland's "Blue Bayou" restaurant with his wife, Martin Eberhard suggested a name for the company he'd been working on with his co-founder, Marc Tarpenning. After selling e-reader business Rocket Book in 2000 for $187MM, the…

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