Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2021

He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Tom is CEO and co-founder of ASLAN Training, a global sales enablement company appearing nine consecutive years in the Selling Power Top 20. Since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders in over 35 countries. Marketing Podcast with Tom Stanfill. This is John Jantsch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

I am talking about the nitty-gritty reality of operating a business, paying the bills, washing the dishes, and managing employees. If you choose carefully you can save a great deal of money, increase your own productivity, and keep your employees happy with the benefits and services you provide them. Payroll and record keeping.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2021

He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. Josh founded his first startup in 1996 in his college dormitory at Carnegie Mellon University and now teaches a class at the University of Texas for student entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. In tech startups stock options were here almost from the beginning, first offered to the founders in 1957 at Fairchild Semiconductor , the first chip startup in Silicon Valley.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

by Ken Burke, founder and CEO of The entrepreneurNOW! On the road to launch, you’ll pitch your idea to dozens – maybe even hundreds – of people, from friends and family to potential employees. Ken Burke is founder and CEO of The entrepreneurNOW! Entrepreneurs are, by nature, big thinkers and risk-takers.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 27, 2014

I’ve known Cindy and her husband Terry Gold since 1996, shortly after I moved to Boulder. It went from an idea and a few founders to an almost $10 million revenue company, before growth peaked about a decade ago. I was an early board member, then angel investor, and subsequently VC investor in Terry’s company Gold Systems.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

JoAnn and I entered real estate in 1996 when interest rates were almost 9 percent. JoAnn and I found that sharing our intentions to always put clients first with our employees, with colleagues, and with clients themselves made them ‘real’. I should know. HOW-TO HINT: Practice going first.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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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. Our goal was to be the best first check partner for enterprise founders, bringing the value add of a VC firm while moving with the speed and conviction of an angel investor.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Dave Tisch is Founder and Managing Director of TechStars in NYC and is an angel investor through the BoxGroup. Mike Yavonditte, CEO, Hashable.

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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). That institution will touch many people in its life: customers, investors, employees, and everyone they touch as well. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. I will come back for more.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Believe it or not, three years after founding the company in 1996, Larry Page and Sergey Brin actually tried to sell Google for $1 million. The founders sold the two year old company to eBay in 2005 for $2.6 They only had 13 employees! . - Modest profitability. - The price offered was high for this type of business.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong. Research in Motion (RIM).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. And this is one of the pillars we talk about internally, but also to our founders. We think of it much more in terms of how many employees does the company have? We’re a crossover fund.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3. First, if you did not understand how radically the fundraising environment might change, then there is no chance that your employees would have understood it. In fact, if you are like most companies, your managers probably implied to your employees that your stock price would only rise as long as you were private.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Energy Brands was founded in 1996 by J. Considering the fact that Wal-Mart is the biggest company in the world with more than 2 million employees and 8,500 stores worldwide, it’s hard to believe that the corporation began as a mom-and-pop business. The company now has 19 production facilities across the world.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/29/1996: 22.3 First, if you did not understand how radically the fundraising environment might change, then there is no chance that your employees would have understood it. In fact, if you are like most companies, your managers probably implied to your employees that your stock price would only rise as long as you were private.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. Even more tragically, the company's founder, Danny Lewin, was killed on one of the 9/11 airplanes.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

Laughs and playfulness will connect your team and help strengthen bonds and relationships amongst them, which then will help solve issues that can be found in unhappy employees such as retention, engagement, physical and mental health problems, or lack of innovation and creativity. That wasn't my intention in 1996.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. As we looked at the history of great technology companies, we discovered that founders ran an overwhelming majority of them for a very long time, including: Acer—Stan Shih. Thomas Watson, Sr. The innovation business. Moral authority.

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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 can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

I am the founder of RawFoodMealPlanner.com, a free high-raw, plant-based meal planning service. I made a terrible employee, and I wanted control of my time. It was a no brainer for me to stay on the entrepreneurial path vs. being an employee! #3 – Wasn’t Fulfilled. Image Credit: Samantha Salmon.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

For example, in 1996 a relatively large supermarket chain “Dominick’s Finer Foods” discovered through experimentation that framing discounts in a bundle (“2 for $1”) instead of as single unit discounts (“1 for 50 cents”) significantly increased the number of units purchased. Will it be a required change or opt-in only? Is it feasible?

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

In all cases, these names were derived by the Founders, without the involvement of consultants, MBAs, focus groups, statistically valid surveys or other detriments to a startup’s ability to make quick, sound decisions. Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.”.When

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The Next Web

JULY 15, 2012

Gonzo is a passionate internet entrepreneur who has been doing business online since 1996. Felix Dennis, founder of Maxim magazine, found that out as well when Maxim tried to approach the catalog business. A critical employee called in sick. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Gonzo Arzuaga. Tons of unanswered emails.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

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. The founders have started companies before. More recently, Israeli founders are themselves moving to the U.S. So how do Israeli ventures scale up? American VCs are critical.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

After college, I was a very early employee at a web company called Tumblr. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. It’s designed for small and mid size companies and it all started based on a focus of the employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. For those too young to remember perhaps the best known of this era came in 1996 and was known as Dancing Baby , a strange, animated gif of — you guessed it. Back then there were “email forwards.”

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