Plug and Play Tech Center

Plug and Play Tech Center is a strategic partner to technology start-up companies in Silicon Valley.

Based in Sunnyvale, they are home to a vibrant community of more than 90 start-ups offering a full range of services from full service office space to strategic advice to direct investments (via our investment arm Amidzad Ventures).

Since they opened their doors in January of 2006 they have assisted their resident companies in securing more than USD$ 55 million via Amizad Partners and their venture capital partners. They are committed to cultivating the next generation of revolutionary start-ups in Silicon Valley that will impact people globally.

Plug and Play Tech Center’s mission is to accelerate the entrepreneurs path to success by leveraging a vast network of high-tech professionals who are serial entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors and high tech executives in established Silicon Valley companies.

Source:www.plugandplaytechcenter.com

At this link, you will find informations about start-up working at the Plug and Play Tech Center. 

The Plug and Play Tech Center is a project lead by Amidzad:

Amidzad is a seed and early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in emerging growth companies on the West Coast. We have over 50 years of combined entrepreneurial experience in building profitable, global enterprises from the ground up and over 25 years of combined investing experience in successful information technology and life science companies.

We are seed and early-stage investors with access to an extensive network of resources. Over the years, we have assembled a world-class network of serial entrepreneurs, strategic investors, and industry leaders who actively assist our portfolio as Entrepreneur Partners and Advisors. We partner with entrepreneurs and leverage the resources of our strong network to build successful companies.

source: www.amidzad.com 

eBay

The online auction web site was founded in San Jose, California on September 3, 1995 by computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as AuctionWeb,^[1] part of a larger personal site that included, among other things, Omidyar's own tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Ebola virus.^[2]

The very first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder and asked if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."^[3] The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade PEZ Candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager in 1997 to interest the media. This was revealed in Adam Cohen's 2002 book^[2] and confirmed by eBay.

Chris Agarpao was hired as eBay's first employee and Jeffrey Skoll was hired as the first president of the company in 1996. In November 1996, eBay entered into its first third-party licensing deal, with a company called Electronic Travel Auction to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane tickets and other travel products. The company officially changed the name of its service from AuctionWeb to eBay in September 1997. Originally, the site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar's consulting firm. Omidyar had tried to register the domain name echobay.com(the domain has recently been put up for sale) but found it already taken by the Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company, so he shortened it to his second choice, eBay.com.^[4]

eBay went public in 1998, and both Omidyar and Skoll became instant billionaires.^[3] The company purchased PayPal on October 14, 2002.

 For fun: unusual sale items

• In June 2005, the wife of Tim Shaw, a British radio DJ on Kerrang! 105.2, sold Tim's Lotus Esprit sports car with a Buy It Now price of 50 pence after she heard him flirting with model Jodie Marsh on air. The car was sold within 5 minutes, and it was requested that the buyer pick it up the same day.^[84]
• In May 2005, a Volkswagen Golf that had previously been registered to Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (who had been elected Pope Benedict XVI) was sold on eBay's German site for €188,938.88 ($277,171.12 USD). The winning bid was made by the GoldenPalace.com online casino, known for their outrageous eBay purchases.^[85]
• A seaworthy 16,000 ton aircraft carrier, formerly the British HMS Vengeance, was listed early in 2004. The auction was removed when eBay determined that the vessel qualified as ordnance, even though all weapons systems had been removed.^[86]
• In September 2004, the owner of MagicGoat.com sold the contents of his trash can to a middle school language arts teacher, who intended to have her students write essays about the trash before it was cleared away by a well-meaning janitor.^[87]
• Water that was said to have been left in a cup Elvis Presley once drank from was sold for $455. The few tablespoons came from a plastic cup Presley sipped at a concert in North Carolina in 1977.^[88]
• A Coventry University student got £1.20 for a single cornflake.^[89]
• A man from Brisbane, Australia attempted to sell New Zealand at a starting price of $.01AUD. The price had risen to $3,000 before eBay closed the auction.^[90]
• One of the tunnel boring machines involved in the construction of the Channel Tunnel was auctioned on eBay in 2004.^[91]
• A group of four men from Australia auctioned themselves to spend the weekend with the promise of "beers, snags, good conversation and a hell of a lot of laughs" for AU$1,300^[92]
• Disney sold a retired Monorail Red (Mark IV Monorail) for $20,000^[93]
• The German Language Association sold the German language to call attention for the growing influence of Pidgin-English in modern German.^[94]
• In late November 2005, the original Hollywood Sign was sold on eBay for $450,400.^[95][96]
• In February 2007, after Britney Spears shaved all of her hair off in a Los Angeles salon, it was listed on eBay for $1million USD before it was taken down after some considerable controversy.^[97]
• Bridgeville, California was the first city to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale 3 times since.^[98]
• Boston Red Sox left fielder Manny Ramírez attempted to sell his neighbor's JENN-AIR Gas Grill on eBay. The auction started at $3,000 and the price escalated to an astounding $99,999,999, the maximum amount allowed by eBay. The auction was later closed by eBay because of the promise of an autographed baseball going to the winner as well as the grill; it is a violation of eBay policy to include items other than those advertised.^[99]
• In April 2004, American entrepreneur Matt Rouse sold the right to choose a new middle name for him. After receiving an $8,000 "Buy It Now" bid, the Utah courts refused to allow the name change. He currently still has his original middle name "Jean".^[100]
• In 2004, a partially eaten, 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary sold on eBay for $28,000.^[101]

 Source: Wikipedia

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