Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. In California that averages around 42.5% Or you have to hit the lottery and be an early player middle management player at Google, Facebook, MySpace or Twitter.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 9, 2012

The company managed to increase sales by an astonishing 24,000% with its ingenious events that feature an intoxicating and unequaled blend of races, mud, music, pig roasts and beer. This year’s winner will be following in the coveted footsteps of the 2011 Great Lakes finalist and winner, Chicago-based Red Frog Events.

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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. The firm, which offers cloud-based employee management and training software, boasts 11 million users in 189 countries. The company has managed 95 percent retention of clients.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

billion into startups nationwide, according to an analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California ( PDF ). According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. 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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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 20, 2012

billion into startups nationwide, according to an analysis by the Public Policy Institute of California ( PDF ). According to Dow Jones VentureSource Senior Manager of Corporate Communications Kim Gagliardi, 3,404 venture financing rounds were completed in 2011, down 47% from the 6,361 closed in 2000. Accelerators are also booming.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

So they solved it by each department manager, the sales manager, and the owner running their own schedule and telling the junior employees what to do. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. They would push more work into the bottleneck straining it further.

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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. I was met by a very apologetic manager who said, “We’ve been trying to get a hold of you for the last week. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And without missing a beat, he said Jeff Bezos, because Jay Bezos was not only a visionary, but he was also creative and invented so many mechanisms that startups and managers and leaders use today. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): So plus John, look, we're storytellers.

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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. These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. People who manage processes make more sales. Test interest.

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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. 

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Growthink Blog

JUNE 19, 2010

Get The Answers I am very excited to share with you the opportunity to meet the Managing Director of Growthink's new media and entertainment practice, Mr. Lee Muhl. 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.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Most people want to know management is accountable.". Manage Email Preferences.

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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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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. That’s a really big deal, because that category of software, line managers and businesses have never actually used that software themselves. Actually — we have another one actually that is — well, it sounds esoteric, but it actually is very relevant.

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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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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But the Valley in 1999 was a new world of startups, venture capital, and stock options. 1999/2000 was the startup heyday, and I was in the hot space of telecoms – it all looked promising. Very few startups say they’re building products for California or the US. The company managed to make it happen in just a few weeks.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The employees at One Hacker Way have managed incredible growth, tried to out-innovate themselves out of jams that killed earlier networks, and have made tons of money. On Facebook Google manages ten (on a good day). Yes, it is likely the Brand Manager considers this to be a success as they were only solving for reach.

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