Up and Running
JUNE 21, 2021
TRISTAR — Engineering its own success. An engineering services firm, TRISTAR is the first woman and minority-owned firm based in Indiana to offer the Department of Defense (DoD) technical support services. In 1998, a few years after launching, the company got a $200,000 SBA-guaranteed loan.
ReadWriteStart
OCTOBER 22, 2019
It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Companies are relying on the engineering talent provided by remote, distributed, or as we call them , boundaryless teams. Ditto for Apple. But the world has changed.
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Growthink Blog
APRIL 25, 2010
After my column a few months ago regarding Jeff Bezos' now famous (and incredibly profitable) investment into Google in 1998, I was deluged with comments and opinions on this question - was his investment luck or was it foresight? Remember this was 1998 not 1994. million shares of Google stock. Invest in People. Alta Vista. Webcrawler.
Austin Startup
APRIL 26, 2020
Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. a recommendation engine). unemployment now at 8.1% (and California’s unemployment rate at 10.1%). The power of word of mouth cemented their reputation. Their marketing platform was “abolish the late fees”. It worked, big time.
Growthink Blog
APRIL 27, 2010
After my column a few months ago regarding Jeff Bezos' now famous (and incredibly profitable) investment into Google in 1998, I was deluged with comments and opinions on this question - was his investment luck or was it foresight? Remember this was 1998 not 1994. million shares of Google stock. Invest in People. Alta Vista. Webcrawler.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. We were a company whose wholem.o.
Scalable Startup
MAY 16, 2015
They are well educated, well paid, well connected, and often regarded by locals as the vanguard of an invading army (“local” being a relative term when only 37 percent of San Francisco residents were even born in California, according to the 2010 census). California alone lost a million jobs.
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