ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Blockbuster is a classic example of how complacent management can lead to a business’s downfall. In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. As well, Yahoo didn’t care to build a robust search engine feature on its platform. Blockbuster.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

We have been also working with our engineering team since SayYeah in 2015. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. And Jonathan has done artist management agency WISEgroup. What other startups have team members been involved with? Sceenic is based in London.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds). And, for the last category (the shares I own personally), I still use the long-term formulaic approach I came up with in 1998.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Two massive changes are occurring in automobiles: 1) the transition from internal combustion engines to electric, and 2) the introduction of automated driving. These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. auto-throttle – to manage engine power in order to maintain a selected speed.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Guest post by Kevin Baxpehler, Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. Yes, the title is “click-bait” but there is some truth to it, bear with me.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. He picked engineers who were technically-driven but not entrepreneurially-driven. He picked engineers who weren’t comfortable taking risks as great as he wanted to take.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience. My personal background was as an engineer and my companies had been Web-based startups, so that is what I wrote about. Startup blogging was hardly "cool" back then.

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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.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

The goal is to better understand precisely how they look for jobs, so that you can engineer your approach to advertising opportunities to make your jobs visible to them. I am going to share this with our whole team because our clients NEED this to be managed more completely and we NEED to get better at it… period! Donna Svei.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I have a standard aphorism I share when I speak with a group of MBA students: “There are two things that need to be explained away in order for me to invest in your startup: An MBA or a background in management consulting.”. Nothing gets in the way of their pursuit of startup success. It’s okay to prepare yourself first.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

I have a standard aphorism I share when I speak with a group of MBA students: “There are two things that need to be explained away in order for me to invest in your startup: An MBA or a background in management consulting.”. Nothing gets in the way of their pursuit of startup success. It’s okay to prepare yourself first.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

As people get more and more used to piloting, they will start to ask themselves “why wait until the last minute?&# (See Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter Drucker for more on this thesis.) In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi.

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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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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials. Engineering jobs.

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Up and Running

JULY 29, 2015

Let’s start with a website that functions like a grant search engine. This grant was launched in 1998 by Womennet to help entrepreneurs succeed. Loans range from $25,000 to $500,000; you’ll speak with a loan manager who will walk you through the process, and you could get funding within two weeks. Business USA. Funding Circle.

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entrepreMusings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

“At the risk of making this a feminist position… which it’s not really, I would like to add the female perspective because I’ve been a woman on management teams a couple of start-ups and am now starting my own thing. of the nation’s tech and engineering firms. from 1995 to 2005. census, in 2000 less than 0.7%

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Moshe joined Microsoft in 1991 as a product manager after a career as a software developer. He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. If you don’t manage what is said about you in social networks it could be detrimental. ask microsoft, aol/time warner & google].

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Are we following the principles of The Alliance and creating mutually beneficial relationships with managers and employees? But just as important is his experience in successfully growing Expedia into a profitable $20 Billion, 20,000 employee giant that has won praise as one of the best managed companies in its industry.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

Amid the hoopla a few weeks ago at the annual NVCA meeting, where the focus was rightly on improving liquidity, it was barely noticed that a new chairman was elected – Polaris co-founder and managing general partner Terry McGuire, one of the leading life sciences investors in the industry.  4)      Boston.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

But nine months after the first call was made in 1998, Iridium was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. It was a technical tour de force.

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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.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

We managed to create a single software that is so powerful that we can optimize any business whether it is manufacturing, retail, transportation, oil and gas, metals or anything else. My idea was that during market downturns, people need to invest in marketing and reputation management because that’s when marketing matters most.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

The nation quickly managed to transition from an emerging market to a developed market, as opposed to Qatar or Taiwan. Strong education, as well as engineering standards, are mixing with pioneerdom. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured. It is common knowledge that startups are currently soaring in Russia.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

The acquisition of PBM adds another growth engine for Perrigo, which already has a 75% share of the store brand over the counter (OTC) drug market in the US. Amdocs is an Israeli founded provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management (CRM) and operations support systems (OSS). and was founded in 1998.

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Diego Basch

MAY 25, 2011

He was referring to the time back in 1998 when I built an mp3 search engine in C, hosted it on my desktop computer, promoted it until it reached 200k daily queries, and made six figures out of it (all in a matter of months). However, you can read a “Learning X Language” book and manage to write a program from scratch.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I went to the University of Queensland and studied for a business management degree. 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. As I said, I was born and raised in Brisbane.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

When we sold our startup in 1998 I thought one day Id do some angelinvesting. Suppose its 1998. All the search engines are trying toget people to start calling them "portals" instead. The rest exist to satisfy demandamong fund managers for venture capital as an asset class. Seven years later I still hadnt started.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

He is a long time featured keynote speaker for things such as search engine optimization and conversion rate optimization, and I’ve had him on the show a couple of times, some of you may recall waiting for your cat to bark… maybe a call to action definitely [buyer legends 00:53] and a number of other books.

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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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