The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2020

As a great example, we had a chance to interview, Jim Elliott, Founder and President of Diveheart. In 1996, Jim left his career in the media industry—working with Chicago Tribune, WGN Radio and CLTV News—to become a full-time volunteer and teach individuals with disabilities how to scuba dive. Getting visibility? TSM: Very funny.

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Founder Entrepreneur Chicago Illinois 158

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. 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. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. The discussion with Howard Morgan starts off by acknowledging Josh Kopelman as a co-founder of First Round Capital. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

They sold 2 years later for $16 million In the financial crisis of 2008 we had a company that had jointly hired lawyers to consider a bankruptcy and also pursued (and achieved!) Almost every successful company is a mixture of very hard work by the founders mixed with a pinch of luck, good fortune and perseverance.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., And then was hired by Stephen Spielberg for Minority Report.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. 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. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. 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. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. 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. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. 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. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2021

After one year you will take their spot and hire your replacement. He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. You will start as the Assistant Chief of Staff reporting to the current Chief of Staff.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2021

After one year you will take their spot and hire your replacement. He’s the founder of Capital Factory, a coworking community and accelerator designed to help startups find their first investors, customers and employees. You will start as the Assistant Chief of Staff reporting to the current Chief of Staff.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

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. The investors were giving away part of their ownership of the company — not just to the founders, but to all employees. Here’s why.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. 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. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. million, by selling 2.6

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

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. 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? David Zhang.

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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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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). Wondering how do I get in touch with you - I am founder of a company here in San jose, CA and would like to invite you to be part of our advisor team. Your thoughts resonate and I enjoy much your writing style.

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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. The founders could have easily described the product as “the first packet-switched interactive messaging network.”

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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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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. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Which is great, except at that point your margins are slim…think 20-40% gross profit.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

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. Airbnb was a small 40-person company at the time, and Wimdu, raised close to $100 million, hired 400 employees, and opened 20 offices.

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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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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

This was 1996 and let’s just say that these best practices were not established yet. I incorporated a business and started hiring my fraternity brothers to do tech support. You may never be in a better position than you are today to find co-founders for a new company than you are as a student at UT Austin. I had no costs!

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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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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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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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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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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

I am the founder of RawFoodMealPlanner.com, a free high-raw, plant-based meal planning service. 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. #3 – Wasn’t Fulfilled. Image Credit: Samantha Salmon.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Back to top.

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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. Jerry Yang and David Filo, Yahoo’s Founders, chose the name, as they considered themselves to be “Yahoos.”.When infoChachkie. LinkedIn.

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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. Eighty-two percent have global offices, and yet 91% are still run by Israeli CEOs, as opposed to foreign executives hired from the outside. The founders have started companies before.

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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. Is it feasible? Is it wanted? Understanding the math.

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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. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. I can hire a development team. I’m the CEO of Executive Speaking Success and I’m a long-time entrepreneur. I really think of entrepreneurship as the chance to solve a problem.

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