Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. 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. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

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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. startups and small businesses.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. 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. He later changed the name to Facebook. million.

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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

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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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 city’s definitely on the rise as a startup hub, and Cornerstone’s size and duration make its name an accurate description of its role in the scene. Weather’s certainly a big draw to LA, but it’s not the only.

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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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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company. Think of it as a mantra in 1998, in a second shareholder letter, or 1999 Yeah. (20:43): If you can remember a good Italian name like Carmine Gallo.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

But, the name of the game is your target audience. Is the sponsor’s name, address, phone number and web address listed prominently in the official rules and on all advertisements pertaining to the sweepstakes? For example: in New York one must bond prizes valued above $5000. Borderless world. Unless you’re giving away Ipads.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. 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. another account.

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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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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. And that was the start of an interesting journey.

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