Startup Facts

HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common — apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.

Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

The famous Windows start-up sound was composed using a Mac.

YouTube launched on Valentine's Day 2005 as a video dating site. The slogan was 'Tune In, Hook Up.' Users were meant to upload videos describing their ideal partner - nobody did. The founders even posted on Craigslist to recruit women to the site. Still no takers. So they opened the platform to any video. Less than two years later, Google paid $1.65 billion for it.