Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

These emerging market economies are now tired of being mere producers of “Designed in California” products and are starting to invest in innovation. This increased competition reduces the benefits of globalization for American companies and their employees, but the net effect remains largely positive.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

California was the first state to step out of the mold with its “Women on Boards” legislation, whereby all public companies based in California must have at least one woman on their boards by 2020. based activist group challenged the legislation with a lawsuit alleging that the new law is illegal under California law.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2019

I was honored to give the commencement speech at the University of California Santa Cruz, right down the road from the ranch. Rather than my usual talks about innovation and entrepreneurship I shared a few lessons learned after serving seven years as a public official on the California Coastal Commission.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Reply Broadening my Reading: 10 Sources I’ve Come to Love « Man in the net :: Ontology :: Semantic :: Knowledge , on December 30, 2009 at 1:13 am Said: [.] Blank provides another decision-making heuristic: Think of decisions of having two states: those that are reversible and those that are [.] Good Enough Decision Making [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

In the kelp beds off the coast of Southern California, one can find thousands of species of fish, but two of the most sought after by commercial fishermen are the California Halibut and the White Seabass. Will you need a big net (full-page ads in the WSJ) to catch lots of small sardines?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Dr. Karrer was valedictorian at Loyola Marymount University, attended the University of Southern California as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally), and I have a connection there if you need a start. My real message is that the best angel you can find is a local high net-worth individual, with whom you or your advisors have an established prior relationship. New England Investment Network.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

By the way, those are the guys who today who have amassed a net worth which is the size of the gross national product of many small countries.”. And yet neither Gates nor Allen invented the now famous DOS Operating System. As Wayne and Garth would say, “ Not! Or did they?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 3, 2019

Successive internships with the New Jersey Nets in both summer and fall sessions continued to develop Hufnagel’s experience on his resume. In Hufnagel’s first year at Cornell, Hufnagel quickly immersed himself into the basketball coaching scene as a basketball manager for Cornell’s men’s basketball team.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2013

For example, in just one minute on an average day, 700 videos, 28,000 Tumblr posts, 100,000 tweets and more than 34,000 Facebook “likes” hit the ‘net – and total Internet traffic expected to quadruple by 2014.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

For the more advanced enterprises who have migrated to the cloud, this will be a year of net new technology and building applications. Large enterprises are also complaining about keeping up with so many different regulations like GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2011

Where I think Robert’s comments are slightly wrong is that AngelList is a net positive for VCs. But to be clear, used properly there is NO downside to AngelList for entrepreneurs. My view for VCs. Most VCs fund companies with a degree of traction.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 10, 2018

Over the past 20 years in San Francisco I went from negative net-worth grad student to Silicon Valley “Middle Class” (the 2%) to running a venture fund that, if we do our job, will ultimately put me in the 1% or better (in California the average annual household income of the 1% is an astounding $1.4m+).

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A study co-sponsored by Crawford International and HR.com in Palo Alto, California in 2006 found that “companies that create adaptive corporate cultures outperform companies with non-adaptive cultures by a factor of 900 to 1 as measured by long term net income and stock price growth.”

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. ”).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Or, do you want to motivate your current consumers to buy more of your product (higher net per sales)? Adriana Lynch is a Chief Outsiders CMO based in Orange County, California. Do you want a target audience to gain greater awareness of your offering as a viable alternative (Brand Awareness)?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Another study , from the University of California at Davis, found that just 1.6% of short-term traders were profitable net of fees. In fact, day traders have an 80 percent chance of losing money over a year, according to a recent study.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder. At this year’s conference, she’ll provide an update on that initiative.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. ———– The 99%. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

We all know it’s better to seek good advice and have a safety net before you need it. The California Online Privacy Protection Act requires a website to “conspicuously post” a privacy policy if it “collects and maintains personally identifiable information from a consumer residing in California.” A Privacy Policy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

My parents and my brother live in Southern California. He was talking about what he thought needed to happen in California and the fact that every state was going to need the kind of expertise was able to muster and probably wouldn't have access to that. So I'm lucky to have that. My brother is actually a surgeon.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Even still, it was another five years before Microsoft went public in 1986, making him an overnight success worth $350 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She’s a painter and a self-proclaimed Bohemian. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 9, 2017

These innovations were those of the McDonald brothers - poor, first-generation Irish immigrants that made their way during the Great Depression to California to seek their fortune. And to a personal net worth in today’s dollars of over $3 Billion. They quickly struck a deal for Kroc to be the company's first director of franchising.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2014

A municipal utility may be able to provide electricity that is cheaper or about as affordable as our current utility offers – or the city may waste millions of dollars trying, just as communities in Florida , California , and New Mexico have done recently.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

To make sure that doesn't happen - and help startups avoid costly lawsuits (another instance where the only people who get rich are the lawyers) I asked Anton Rosandic , a California-based attorney and an entrepreneur himself, for some free advice. For example, are they looking for an increase in sales or in net revenue?

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Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 14, 2012

You want to know my net worth. One of the most popular searches about me is “ mike michalowicz net worth.” For the longest time I did the same net worth searches on authors, entrepreneurs, celebrities, neighbors and friends. Then one day (February 14, 2008 in fact) I discovered how to find the net worth of anybody and everybody.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

It’s working: in the years since opening, Kuykendall has tripled both the bar’s gross sales and its net profit percentage. In 1988 I received my PhD in Psychology, and I even took the California state exam to become a licensed psychologist. Mostly, he strives to make his customers happy. How did you come up with your business name?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 31, 2010

After the project was complete we ended up sharing tips for vacation in California. The first thing is to get offline the net as soon as I can. I won a friend. Who/what are some of the biggest influences on your design work? Science and Astronomy were very strong influences since child. What do you do with your free time?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The population is now approaching 20% of the US population, 40% of California, 40% of Texas, 25% of Florida, 20% of New York … this is a multi-cultural country already whether Trump’s base likes it or not. Latinos drove 69% of total net increasing in U.S. In fact, for every retired person in the United States, they are supported by 2.9

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

It’s working: in the years since opening, Kuykendall has tripled both the bar’s gross sales and its net profit percentage. In 1988 I received my PhD in Psychology, and I even took the California state exam to become a licensed psychologist. Mostly, he strives to make his customers happy. How did you come up with your business name?

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