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Head, Heart, and Hands: 3 Essentials for Startup Success

Up and Running

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?

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Leadership and CEO Succession

Reid Hoffman

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.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

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. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably. It’s a start, a work of art.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

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.

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Revolution at the Edge

Ben's Blog

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. Keep hand-rolled, brittle server, storage and network infrastructures working reliably. Public Enemy, Fight The Power.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #9: How, and why, to ask for help

Austin Startup

Jacob went from intern to our head of marketing in Europe and today he is the co-founder and CEO of Wisecrack , a company we are proud to be backers of. minute long interview with Steve Jobs from 1994 has been floating around the Web recently and I love it. But I digress. He told me about how he was fearless to reach out to anyone?—?but

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Silicon Beach emerges as a tech hotbed

www.usatoday.com

Jen Sargent, founder of entertainment news site HitFix, says she can get folks to work for her at much lower rates than the "inflated" fees being offered in Silicon Valley and New York. Nick Smoot just leased offices in Venice for his social-networking app for businesses, Here On Biz, based on all the activity in the area. "I