Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. million, by selling 2.6

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. million, by selling 2.6

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut. Among these was the realization that a formal onboarding process for new hires is critical. Anand : …We hire really high achieving people, and they felt that they weren’t achieving anything.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Where developing a new system in a start-up environment, work with the business to develop use cases, user stories, user experience design and wire-frames.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. million, by selling 2.6

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 10, 2019

For example: I will still be as “retail” as possible with my new colleagues since my natural inclination is to focus on the people in the business, but I can’t possibly get to know hundreds upon hundreds of people all at onece the way I got to know an even greater number over many years of hiring and onboarding them myself.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. The business model.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Salmon points out that “not a single one of the 12 [candidates] is a CEO who was hired to run a company by its board of directors.”. But remember that when Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he was doing so as the co-founder and CEO of NeXT computer, a marginal computer workstation company which Apple purchased for less than $500M.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. Attending events around London, or talking with some of the development agencies present at the events, one might hear a startling set of opinions.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. Recording video on magnetic tape was developed in the mid 1950’s by Ampex, and had evolved into a consumer-friendly cassette by the late 1960’s.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Are Israeli companies on the verge of developing a repeatable playbook to scale their companies and become market leaders, not just acquisition fodder for the Silicon Valley giants? To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So back in 1996 I wanted to start my own business and I asked my mom, “Hey, what businesses could I do from home?” I was just going to get hired somewhere. Lance Cummins: I think content has gone through some interesting developments, let’s say. Lance Cummins: You’re going to love this.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. We will always work side-by-side with our founders and be with them every step of the way as they build their first product, hire their first employee, close their first customer, and realize their full potential.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Jobs by Simply Hired. Programming and Web Development Lists. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. Back to top. Moms and Family Resource Lists. Movie Lists.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? Here is the full YouTube — Please enjoy this episode: How to Scale Unicorns.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Fortunately, I’ve found my niche that’s afforded plenty of travel and great times while also paying the bills and letting me hire several full time people. But when I embarked into entrepreneurship in 1996 it was because I wanted more time with my daughter. I’d rather be poor and free than trade my time for money.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The niche audiences were slower to develop, and advertising support never really showed up. It doesn’t matter when, but eventually as companies grow, a founder cannot make every decision, read every email, follow every thread of conversation and interview every new hire. It caused unwanted anxiety all around. They may [.].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. He always was. But his favorite line was, “can you please slow down and explain this again?

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 22, 2009

I still kick myself for not moving here in 1996, when I started my first company. Things like choosing a law firm, finding an accountant, hiring people, finding an office, figuring out equity structures, raising money. A decision to hire someone when you don’t know how you’re going to pay him/her yet.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

As a developer you have the ability to build/hire out/buy applications and websites, where the margin is huge and you have something unique. The better route is to find a drop-shipper who will ship directly to your customers once you’ve made the sale.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. And, it will lead the developer to write badly normalized databases. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said. Agree with BillG.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

16:53] As a consultancy with a few clients how does one determine their first hire in order to scale? [18:22] No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. I like working with software developers. What's my first hire? But beyond that, you need to hire a money person, C-O-C-A-O, whether it's part-time or full-time.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And Apple used the capacitive touch screen to develop a new paradigm for computing. The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As noted in Beware The Consultant , such pay-for-hire charlatans barter their time for your money – the more time they trade with you, the more of your money they take. Other than a second-rate musician, “Cisco” is descriptive of nothing, offering no hint as to the company’s initial core competency in router design and development.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Akamai: The Present.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I joined when there were around seven people there and ran business development there for a little over a year. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. I can hire a development team. It started in college when I started my own music marketing and production company.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 24, 2012

They used this to win the 1996 election by rallying people who were tired of such a weak, debt ridden economy. We’re hiring.) I’m paraphrasing a Clinton/Carville line “It’s The Economy, Stupid” in the title above. Sound familiar? The Bubble Begins To Pop. million in investment and 18 months of operation.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2019

Devised by Patricia Smith in 1996, the metric takes into account the minimum number of pages required to complete a task, then compares it to the number of pages actually visited by the participant. Finding the percentage of people who complete a task is one thing. But how do you know if it was easy for them? SEQs can be quite subjective.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Develop Test Design: A/B Testing tools allow the test builder to create one or more digital treatments, served to unique visitors via a browser cookie and Javascript calls. Testing on essential store elements or proposing new offline functionality that might require significant resources to develop or launch can present real dangers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

To illustrate this and the lack of improvement in forms, take a look at IBM’s contact form in 1996 and their form in 2016. Without having to read the question text, the icons make it clearer that this question is asking us to choose what we’re looking to hire – a developer, a designer or both.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Jeffery Hayzlett (02:26): It goes back to the time in which a guy named Rob Ryan started the hero group back in 1996. And even with your family or with your employees or with your customers, you have to develop what those are. Let's dive into the book and let's begin with the beginning. What is the hero factor?

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