The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. And don’t get me started on how great of a job Netflix does in creating high switching costs (or “community stickiness”) with all of its great ratings and social networking features. And the Blockbuster name became synonymous with late fees.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

There are many companies that are competing to be the “operating system” for small businesses. Although this is not typically how athenahealth is described, it is one way to describe what they are doing that mainstream members of the technology community might understand.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Other people were in the online community called “ The Well &# (founded in 1985). We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). And so it goes with social networking. And then came AOL.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). Nor have they managed to make their work sufficiently known in the typographic community ( Spencer, 1968, p.6

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

I started my company to increase the awareness about marketing within the small business community (what it is, what it is not, how to know you’re doing it right, etc) as I come across many that confuse marketing with PR or sales and are frustrated when their marketing programs don’t create the sales boost they expect.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Mr. Steve Hensley , Executive Vice President at KAL Software , a global software company operating at the forefront of the ATM industry. Since being founded in 1998 LendingTree has facilitated more than 32 million loan requests. Mr. Ned Tobey , VP Product Management, Q2 Holdings (NYSE: QTWO ).

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The year was 1998. Over a million of these gamers clicked to the company’s game web site each month for new information and to form an early Internet game community. The company made little effort to charge for the software or community. The background for my story. How the industry was growing around the company.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  You are all the future of job growth, wealth creation and better communities.   We paid millions in wages in two communities and saw hundreds of employees achieve their dreams of college for kids, second homes – whatever their dream was.   They create wealth for themselves, their employees and their communities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. A nascent community has blossomed into a full-fledged movement. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998! Social entrepreneurs take note!) Boy, was I unprepared for what happened next.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Yet the content industry (principally represented by RIAA and MPAA) has been relentless in pushing for UGC site operators to be deputized in a copyright police state in the interest of fighting piracy. Google, which incorporated in 1998, has a market cap of $200 billion and employs more than 30,000 people.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

I trust her to hear out the community, gather all the data, and, unlike our current Towering Ineptitude, actually make a decision—one that she believes is right for New York, not just politically popular. To me, an organization that hits on all these tiny cylinders at once needs to be led by a competent operator.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s why we have operations alerts trigger a page, but it can also work for other customer events. This is true for split-testing features, but it’s also true for marketing programs or even operations changes. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

As Harvard Business School professor Susan Fournier noted in 1998 , “A brand has no objective existence at all: it is simply a collection of perceptions held in the mind of the consumer.”. ”, decodes the power of community. Be supported by operational changes to achieve stated goals. Android’s slogan, “be together.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Simon Lack reports in The Hedge Fund Mirage that from 1998 to 2010, hedge fund managers earned $379 billion in fees, while their investors earned only $70 billion in investing gains. Would you pay a $379 tip for a $70 meal? Asset managers can earn far more money at less risk than in any other industry.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2016

Moreover, what kind of travel agency does the industry or your local community actually need? Think about the people in your local community too—do they need something specific? “In At Flavours Holidays], we have been specializing in cooking, Pilates, painting, photography, and language holidays in Italy since 1998,” she says.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

The foursquare team was consumed this week with SXSW preparations, but we were fortunate to have as class guests Charlie O'Donnell, who wrote the original blog post on foursquare that got many in the community excited about the company, and Andrew Parker, who was an associate at Union Square Ventures at the time of their Series A investment. .

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

Back then, around 1998, I had a small graphic design firm and I brokered printing for my clients. After much thought and what felt like game show tactics, I came up with the acronym OASIS: Operation And Strategic Implementation Services. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Julie Spira, Cyber-Dating Expert !

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

As I said, I have a very small operation and I’m able to make much more than the average person. I managed to visit Seattle as part of the Australian national Magic The Gathering team in 1998, so that was the highlight of my career as a professional Magic player. The money has been really good. I can’t complain. I love that.

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