Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

But before we jump into it, make sure you saw my first two tips: #1 – Have a long-term focus #2 – Dream big, but start small (the 48in48 story) Storytime Once upon a time, in a land not-so-faraway, Raj Choudhury and I started a little web design business in the dorm room at UNC-Charlotte.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

That was designed to allow information storage and manage customer contact information. His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. As very often happens, to understand the present, you have to know the past. All manual operations.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Survey design.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

#6- To portray importance of the artistic side of interior design when working on a project. I came up with the name Artful Conceptions because I wanted to portray how important the artistic side of interior design is when working on a project. – If it could be related to our niche (web design and digital marketing).

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 1999, Jack Ma created Alibaba , a Chinese-based B2B marketplace for connecting small and medium enterprise with potential export opportunities. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. Sell your designer goods on The Real Real. Interested in “Unlocking Wealth” Yourself?

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? . Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004).

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Waterfall development is a sequential way to develop a product (requirements, design, implementation, verification – ship.) In 2000, new investors bought Iridium’s satellites and network for $25-million, or one half of one percent of the invested capital. Lessons Learned.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

Founded in 1999 by college student Bryn Carey, this ski and snowboard rental and delivery service is used by over 30 ski resorts in locations such as California, Colorado and British Columbia, Canada. Bought by Mike Pfieger in 2000, this company provides agricultural goods and services. CETRA Language Solutions (Great Lakes).

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Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. Instead he pressed on: “Someone who has designed a large organization, someone who knows great senior executives and brings prebuilt customer relationships, someone who knows what they are doing.”.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

… An apparently perfect device can provide a safe harbor for numerous threats– in the form of old and vulnerable chip designs, Trojan horses, or kill switches– that are difficult or impossible to detect.” networks, an approach that is very different from the current path that the U.S. is following. “ WESLEY K.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. I will argue that LPs who invest in VC funds will also need to adjust a bit as well. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am also in a few select boutiques and Hotel Gift shops including the famous Mohonk Mountain House and a design collective in Australia) My collection features unexpected combinations of raw and polished gemstones, opulent pearls, precious metals, custom clasps, and exotic minerals from the world’s treasure troves. (I

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. The essential design paradigm can be sketched on the back of an envelope. I guess the design will go to my grave with me. And that shouldnt require a contract at all. or Portland.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

Because Netscape was where, at the time, there was the greatest concentration of smart people designing the future I knew I wanted to be a part of. It was 1999. Then, in 2000, after five crazy years where founders could attract millions in venture capital based on little more than a good URL, the dot-com bubble burst.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

When I left my in-house art director job and started my own design business, I was worried that clients would think I wasn’t large enough to handle big projects, so I came up with that name for my company to sound bigger then it was. I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

They learn design skills alongside sewing and patternmaking, so that there is less reliance on mass manufactured clothing retailers, and they get to wear fashionable, unique handmade garments. . #8 We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA).

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They can call a meeting with all the stakeholders in the room and then just let them fight it out – this is design by committee and it rarely yields anything beyond mediocrity. But back in 1999, a then very young Netflix based in Los Gatos with less than 20 employees, was on the edge of going bust. The combination is amazing.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Handspring in a Existing Market As an example, imagine it’s October 1999 and you are Donna Dubinsky the CEO of a feisty new startup, Handspring, entering the billion dollar Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) market. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Attempting to improve the health, education, and welfare of the impoverished by starting a business designed to support the local need is admirable, but your typical banker is not the one to be approached for a business loan. AWDF, the first Africa-wide fund-raising and grant-making fund, was established in June 2000.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 26, 2011

This is odd, because in the previous technology bubble of 1999-2000, the veteran companies such as Cisco, Sun, and Oracle experienced meteoric rises in their share prices. When I pointed this out, Mr. Blank modified his argument to say that the bubble would only be seen in the new companies.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Raj , Danny and I were “lucky” enough to be forced to commit to our business way back in 1999. Here is a snippet from our story : In 1999, fate struck in the form of New Zealand, Choudhury’s latest destination. It’s so easy to put off the difficult things until a later date, which really never comes.

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Jeff Hilimire

JUNE 28, 2012

Raj , Danny and I were “lucky” enough to be forced to commit to our business way back in 1999. Here is a snippet from our story : In 1999, fate struck in the form of New Zealand, Choudhury’s latest destination. It’s so easy to put off the difficult things until a later date, which really never comes.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Web Designer (Req. The firm—which controls a $2.7 billion war chest and invested in Facebook Inc., POST A JOB.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Until recently Showplace Square’s post-quake red-brick warehouses were home to furniture and interior design showrooms, but soon, if the real estate developers have their way and the tech economy continues to expand, they will be converted to offices filled with even more “techies.” So what of the tech sector and its bubbles?

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. I got out of the university in early 2000 and I never went on to a full-time job, so it’s always been an online business for me. It’s very simple.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 20, 2010

I never would have paid for music back in 1999 or 2000 when I was sporting my 64mb Creative Nomad, powered completely ilegally by Napster. People like Instapaper because of the simple and elegant design. Remember when they said that people wouldn't pay for music? Because it was a tremendous pain in the ass. 6) Consumer Friendly.

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