Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: In every single year from 1996 to 2010, Boomers between the ages of 55 and 64 had a higher rate of entrepreneurial activity than Gen-Y, aged 20–34. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2024

For decades Land’s unerring instincts for instant products delighted customers. But the biggest threat to Polaroid came in 1976, a year before the Polavision announcement, when Kodak entered Polaroid’s instant camera and film business with competitive products. More detail in a bit. Land gave up the title of chairman in 1980.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In the past few days there has been a lot of discussion on the topic of a Founders Visa. The credit for starting this fire goes to Paul Graham from Y Combinator , who wrote a great essay titled The Founders Visa in April 2009. As an immigrant founder, this is a topic that I can relate to and care about.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). Even in most of these cases, the original startup founders were pushed out, or heavily supplemented, with “experienced” executives. business entrepreneur exit founder IPO startup' After a record low of 39 U.S. Marty Zwilling.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

” With Mattermark , I remember the moment clearly – I was at The Kitchen in Boulder with the founders (Danielle Morrill, Kevin Morrill, and Andy Sparks) and my partner Seth. First, did I care about / have affinity for the product? Next, were the entrepreneurs obsessed about their product?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. But in between he was CEO of Revolution Health, and he introduced me to Aaron Batalion and the other founders of Hungry Machine when they left Revolution to go out on their own.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It was 1996, so within 6 months anyone working in the internet was a relative expert, and I’ve been working in consumer tech ever since. But in between he was CEO of Revolution Health, and he introduced me to Aaron Batalion and the other founders of Hungry Machine when they left Revolution to go out on their own.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. Fintech is triggering a profound rethink for financial institutions, from retail to investment banking.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The internet is a very crowded place and it’s not easy to stand out, even if you’ve got the most exciting product or service in the world. To appeal to the digital natives born between 1996 and 2012 , it’s important to hire a marketer who understands the trends and values that are influencing this generation’s spending habits.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

by Ken Burke, founder and CEO of The entrepreneurNOW! In fact, finding small-scale ways to bring your product to market not only helps you get off the starting blocks, but it gives you the opportunity to gather valuable feedback before making major investments. Ken Burke is founder and CEO of The entrepreneurNOW!

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

founder of HireMyMom.com . Hiring the right candidate with the right skills for the right job can dramatically impact your company’s productivity, outcomes and goals. Lesley Pyle is the founder of HireMyMom.com , a boutique service connecting Small Businesses with Virtual Professionals across the country. by Lesley Pyle, MSc.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

founder of HireMyMom.com . Hiring the right candidate with the right skills for the right job can dramatically impact your company’s productivity, outcomes and goals. Lesley Pyle is the founder of HireMyMom.com , a boutique service connecting Small Businesses with Virtual Professionals across the country. by Lesley Pyle, MSc.,

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

founder of HireMyMom.com . What the final product looks like (e.g. Stipulate who owns the finished work product. Settling on this at the beginning of the project can make for a more productive relationship. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms.

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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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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

We could either have the name represent our service, represent our values, represent us as founders, or just be a word without any other associations. (We We dug in deep looking for names that would somehow represent some part of us as founders. This meant constraining all productive time into four 6-hour days and taking Fridays off.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Correspondingly, your products’ names contribute to, but do not dictate, their success.

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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

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

A recent discussion in the Micropreneur Academy surrounded the topic of starting an online business selling physical products as opposed to software. I’m asked pretty regularly about the best way to start a physical product e-commerce site, or whether that’s a good way to get started selling online.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet. Still, since 1996, the only major change to the browser’s user experience has been the addition of tabs. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. 1961- 1996. After years of leading busy and productive lives, lying on the beach and sipping cocktails just does not cut it. Enter Dave: Angel investing is a great way to make a lot of money.

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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. Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The conventional wisdom says a startup CEO should make way for a professional CEO once the company has achieved product-market fit. In this post, I describe why we prefer to fund companies whose founder will run the company as its CEO. So, why are great technology companies so often run by their founders? Adobe—John Warnock.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Most small businesses and startups do not have a dedicated human resource professional to manage the endless details of benefit plans, recruiting, payroll, and records keeping so those tasks typically fall to a founder or general manager. A great guide to the balanced scorecard approach can be found in the classic 1996 book by Robert S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

Implementing this strategy and activities in the workplace could increase the productivity of your employees and work together as a team towards the common goal for the company. She's the founder and CEO of JAM, a multi-million dollar global business that has connected millions of people through play. That wasn't my intention in 1996.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. Since I had good connections with the University, we got a lot of feedback on how the product could be improved to meet their needs. Our products were iClass, then iMeet, iServe and iShow.).

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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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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). Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 7, 2009

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 | Software by… [.] Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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