YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2015

I’ve been investing in, buying and restructuring small businesses for over 20 years and it’s a passion of mine to see everyone succeed from employees to shareholders, owners and investors. Here’s how to change your business model in order to mitigate or leverage seasonal demand: Level out revenues. Mitigating Seasonality.

Startup 100

Startup Bankruptcy Campaign Demand 100

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Except I disagree with that definition of “success.” Support.com — On 2.5m

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

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. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone.

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Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009). Not Teaching the Right Skills.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

My general advice is to go join a startup as an employee, and learn from experience. The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009). Not Teaching the Right Skills.

Silicon Valley 69

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Remarks to the Visionary Companies Conference, Billings, MT May 27, 2010 It’s a fact that all net job creation since the 1980s has come    with under 100 employees.   The company grew to 250 employees in two states.   The company grew to 250 employees in two states. People are the whole game.

Bootstrapping 60

Bootstrapping Startup America Employee 60

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on.

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Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105