Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

Here are five money management tips to keep in mind to endure the first few years of business and come out ahead: 1. Having emergency cash can cushion the blow and act as a safety net while also giving you peace of mind and a sense of security that you have money to pay rent, food, and other personal expenses. Limit Your Spending.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

When I left my job at MovieFone in 1999, there were approximately eight administrative assistants in a company of 200 people – one for each senior person. We all have access to more tools to self-manage productivity than we used to. Here’s my basic example over the past 10 years. This is related to….

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Sometime in the summer of 1999, I received an email from Raj telling me to get ready to answer the phone because a guy he’d been talking to in Queenstown, NZ, was interested in us building a website for him. Raj and me in New Zealand in 1999 wearing our Sunday best. We were a ragtag group of misfits if there ever was one.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63

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Diego Basch

JUNE 2, 2012

One fine day in June of 1999 I was sitting at my desk, writing code, in the zone. ” I’d heard of the company, it was one of the contenders to be the Spanish-language Yahoo back when Yahoo was the king of the net. Everyone wanted in on IPOs back then, because it was a given that you would multiply your money in a few days.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. I didn’t mean to be so insulting and I didn’t mean for the net to be cast so wide that many people wondered whether I was talking about them when I was speaking of “job hoppers.&# I learned a lot from reading the comments. The benefits of being extremely loyal.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? And so a lot of it is performance management. Have we become soft? Can now use the opportunity to right-size it or improve it?”.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

So they solved it by each department manager, the sales manager, and the owner running their own schedule and telling the junior employees what to do. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. They would push more work into the bottleneck straining it further.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way. The net effect for [my company] for example is we are now doing reasonably well. But the day after you’ll wake up and see yourself more as a manager than an owner. It’s your baby.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? Q2: How is social community management being handled within the creative agencies? The net result of all this is that I think more marketing professionals will emerge from non traditional communications areas.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 14, 2011

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? Q2: How is social community management being handled within the creative agencies? The net result of all this is that I think more marketing professionals will emerge from non traditional communications areas.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. And Yves and I decided to share the Managing Partner responsibilities and to manage generational change over the course of two funds. ” I told everybody I wasn’t going to and I meant it.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Thousands of people around the net participated in a vast, spontaneous discussion that explored issues like mandatory overtime, productivity, job portability, laziness, unionization, lawsuits and the general evil of corporations. Ive spent 20 years developing and managing software projects. What Management Wants.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. Late 2015 also brought the arrival of “mutual fund markdowns.”

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 19, 2016

7/ Net/Net: VC is a hard f **g business but simplification in press makes it seem glamorous & easy – almost swashbuckling. NotGlamorous. — Mark Suster (@msuster) December 14, 2014. I’ve seen Mark post a few versions of this tweet over time and wanted to write a post about it.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Most people want to know management is accountable.". Why Register? Todays Paper.

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Previously, from 1999 to 2001, Seth was a Senior Revenue Accountant for the Veterinary Centers Of America. While there he managed the revenues for over 80 animal hospitals ensuring that the monthly closing entries were prepared so that the monthly and quarterly financial statements could be produced in accordance with SEC regulations.

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). In addition, you’re creating a “second net” that can capture leads your forms can’t. Instead of removing lead capture forms from their website like we did at Drift, the Perfecto Mobile team simply added live chat to their site as a “second net.” The Limitations of Forms.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 10, 2011

V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130.

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Diego Basch

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

In the words of Fred Wilson: VCs are professional money managers. For most people the utility of going from a net worth of 100k to a few millions is huge. Pretty much all of them admitted that they would party like it’s 1999 if they could get a few million out of their startups. I’ll try to explain why.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3 billion in 2010.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Typically this includes the mortgage, property taxes, and management costs (if the investor decides to hire a property management company). Proper financial education is essential to making and managing your money effectively. The investor makes passive income from the cash left over after all expenses have been paid.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Would that help retention and NPS (Net Promote Score)? When I share this, reporters often ask me, “why is management so gullible to sit there and listen to a demand imbalance goal of 30x-50x?”. Their proceeds are delivered net of the banker fee of 5-7%! Do you think those customers would find that interesting and compelling?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

And of course any kind of application could be written to run on this infrastructure including things like a file management system that could compete with Dropbox, a database or raw storage company that competes with Amazon’s AWS or something that doesn’t exist already in today’s world. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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