Up and Running
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
This article is part of our Business Startup Guide —a curated list of our articles that will get you up and running in no time! Starting up a business requires a lot of different steps. And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet. But where to begin?
The Next Web
JANUARY 27, 2013
One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) One of the darkest moments as an entrepreneur for me was to have co-founders leave the company. Mind the overlap.
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Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” This isn’t correct either. A good example is Symantec. Ben Rosen, arguably the best VC of the era”.
Reid Hoffman
MARCH 9, 2021
Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. Looking back, I believe that Jeff is one of most iconic, successful founders and CEOs of all time. That’s a statement of business innovation, not technological innovation.
abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. This is business model nirvana.
VC Cafe
OCTOBER 7, 2010
The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.
Ben's Blog
AUGUST 28, 2012
This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. In a world with little maintenance friction and pay-as-you-go business models, we enter the age of the disposable application.
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