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What is the right age to found a company?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Vivek Wadhwa of Singularity University in California studied more than 500 American high-tech and engineering companies with more than $1m in sales. Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007. Research suggests that age may in fact be an advantage for entrepreneurs.

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7 PPC Mistakes You’re Probably Making (and How to Fix Them)

ConversionXL

If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? Gone are the days of advertising to everyone in San Francisco, California. The problem (which advertisers and engines alike recognize), is this method greatly undervalues the offline influence some of these search ads can have.

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Terry Time at the NVCA

Seeing Both Sides

Terry co-founded Polaris in 1996 after seven years as a VC at Burr Egan.    Having an NVCA chairman steeped in that world, at a time when the US Government is looking to perform a top-down re-engineering of the health care system, which is projected to make up 20% of GDP in a few years, is good timing indeed. (4)

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. We officially launched in early 1996. It would be too easy for clients to fire them.

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” The Southern California Tody car dealership in is forced to waste its mantra on explaining how to properly pronounce its name (“Not Toady… its Todey (toddy)”). John is a CPA and holds an M.B.A.

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