Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Back in 1999, it all ended very bad. Even though he isn’t couching it in the “Discovery/Validation&# language you can see that his metrics for success are radically different than one delivering a physical product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. He is a current member of the California State Bar, and the Hollywood Writers Guild. A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. From lists like the “ most business friendly ” countries to California now having a portal where parents can see teacher’s ratings to the U.S. service exports – increasingly from U.S.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Our startup was venture funded in 1999 and we didn’t pay enough attention to this advice! By seeing the video, I gained some more understanding of the slides and concepts (which I have read about on your blog). I like your comment on “get liquid in a bubble&#.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Austin has been one the fastest growing cities in the country for the past 20 years that I’ve been here, but it feels like COVID-19 and California wildfires broke the floodgates already under pressure from high taxes and expensive real estate in landlocked coastal cities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 4, 2011

The funniest experience I ever had on July 4th (US Independence Day) was in 1999. I have always had a strong affinity for Japanese culture, perhaps because I grew up in Northern California. At least not in California. That was the year I spent July 4th in Tokyo, where I was living for 6 months. Nobody cared. Not true in Europe.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2011

It was a sunny day in August 1999 (I remember that because I was living in Santa Monica, CA at the time and every day was sunny). When I first moved to California from New York in 1996 I saw the success of juice bars. back to August 1999. It was August 1999. Here's what really happened. What," I reply.

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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. The seven finalists for the DREAM BIG Small Business of the Year Award 2012 are: Ski Butlers (Western).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

billion into startups nationwide, according to an analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California ( PDF ). Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. The new shape of innvovation is a lot more inclusive of new approaches and sources of startup funding. Slimmer Pickings.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

In California that averages around 42.5% It was 1999. And let’s say that it took 4 years to exit – that’s $31,250 / year. Now … these are stock options and not restricted stock so you’ll likely be taxed at a long-term capital gains rate. Ventro was trading at $8 billion on sub $2 million of revenue.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. Three months after getting up and running, the tech bubble burst and all the money dried up. Improbably, founder and CEO Adam Miller and his partners soldiered on to eventually build a $2 billion+ cloud company.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

billion into startups nationwide, according to an analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California ( PDF ). Levy should know, in 1999 he founded eHatchery, an Atlanta-based precursor to today’s accelerators. The new shape of innovation is a lot more inclusive of new approaches and sources of startup funding.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 21, 2013

At this rate, it would take African-Americans 581 years to achieve parity. ~ Source: University of California, Santa Barbara; U.S. Truth in Sentencing in State Prisons,” January 1999. Consider these statistics: For every dollar of white per capita income, African-Americans had 55 cents in 1968 and only 57.5 Wilson, D.J.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I tried a bunch of jobs: I taught fourth grade, worked at a nonprofit, and made an ungodly amount of money doing odd jobs at a dot-com because hey, it was 1999. So, I enrolled in the journalism program at the University of California at Berkeley. I was going to have to figure out how to do it all day, every day.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. I started the company when I was 25 years old and had just moved from California to NYC. Everyone always talks about Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but my vote goes to Jack Ma and his company Alibaba. Photo Credit: Dana Humphrey.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

APRIL 18, 2012

I have worked for 3 ‘internet startups’ over the past 14 years (my first.com was in 1999) and the two that relied on ‘free’ models (even with ‘freemium services’) did not survive. The article explores some major players and their actions.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

For example: in New York one must bond prizes valued above $5000. Borderless world. Online sweepstakes are essentially border less so they must comply with the relevant laws in all 50 states and, unless the promotion is limited to U.S.residents (or concrete state), international laws.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Reply 7thpixel , on June 29, 2009 at 10:23 am Said: My first start up in 1999 I was employee #10 or so and signed up for a Graphic Designer position. You’re Hired, You’re Fired. Driving across the U.S.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): So I think I'm the only Carmine Gallo in California. Then I started researching Bezos and Amazon. I'm looking at it differently now. Don't look at it as a mission. And please for any of our listeners jump on LinkedIn.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 26, 2009

  Admittedly it is a distant second to California in software and Internet innovation, but as a proud Boston-based VC, I was pleased to see Terry brimming with confidence in Boston as an entrepreneurial hub. billion, as the company has successfully “grown into its valuation” and become the leading in the content delivery market). . 

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. We’re the largest fund in Southern California. I’ve raised in boom markets and when everybody thought the Internet was a fraud. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. Our 2008 fund looks spectacular.

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

In 1999, Lee joined the Silicon Valley new media content contingent as an Internet-company CEO, and has since founded two innovative Los Angeles media companies. He is a current member of the California State Bar, and the Hollywood Writers Guild. A former partner in two leading Los Angeles media law firms, Lee holds a J.D.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. We have seen the damage that this share structure can cause over the long run, said Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance for California State Teachers Retirement System, a big public pension fund.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Israel’s SDE Wave Power Plants and El Salvador’s El Esplendor Development Corp recently announced an alliance to execute Wave Power Technology in El Salvador and California. San Diego, California-based Qualcomm is the world’s largest supplier of chips for 3G mobile technologies. Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 4, 2012

Founded in 1999, AeroScout’s products are used in hospitals to track patients and blood products, such as organs; to manage and monitor equipment in universities; and to keep tabs on products throughout the manufacturing process. Palo Alto, California-based VMware has purchased Israel’s Wanova for between $70-80 million.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

That economy, our new economy, looks vastly different from that which we’re, perhaps, familiar in California or New York. Staying private  — The average age of a technology company before it goes public is 11 years, as opposed to an average life of four years back in 1999. California. Imagine that.

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Venture Chronicles

JANUARY 2, 2011

Since at least 1999 people have been saying that, finally, this was the year of mobile and sure enough, 2009 may have finally been legitimately the year of mobile… which only proves that it is best to say the “year of&# without actually pinning oneself down to a specific year. It all adds up.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs. VCs have also gone back to writing checks because as an industry we can’t be seen as “sitting on the sidelines” for years at a time.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And everybody rediscovers the picks and shovels analogy and says, ” Oh, the Gold Rush in California, the people that made all the money were the guys who were selling picks and shovels to the prospectors.” I know how to do it better, I know how to do it different.

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