1994 Founder Naming Operations 
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 30, 2021
Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook.
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 12, 2019
Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook.
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Up and Running
APRIL 18, 2014
With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. “I realized in the early 1990s that there was no appropriate yoga for fitness professionals,” says YogaFit® founder, Beth Shaw. says HourlyNerd co-founder and co-CEO, Rob Biederman. “So
David Teten
JANUARY 10, 2012
Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002.
Startup Professionals Musings
AUGUST 6, 2013
Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook.
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 31, 2016
Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook.
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. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.”
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