Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? Let me know.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Join our community. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Internet and Online Business. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. ); Login or signup. Welcome | Logout. Forgot login ?

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Coworking spaces strive to create an office experience for people who would not otherwise have an office such as freelancers, entrepreneurs, remote workers, and anyone who can work from home. People can pay for a membership to work from a shared workspace which often includes internet, coffee, desks, and other amenities. -

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3 Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 19, 2012

I was at the University of Chicago when a bunch distinguished professors created UNext.com during the late 1990s — BIG BUST just like the startup I joined in 1999). While people in the article claim ‘this time is different, I am not so sure. (I

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entrepreMusings

JUNE 6, 2011

Randi Shade is the only person on the Austin City Council who is an entrepreneur. She launched a venture-backed Internet start-up in 1999 about the same time I launched my first company. She’s also a mom with two kids. The company was also awarded a patent for its unique method for generating new money for charity.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. So I’m packaging the best of them up for you here in a new series called The Entrepreneur’s Essentials.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. It’s almost like the venture community is almost like an influencer bubble. . Suppose you trace the history of Netflix, which we’ve invested in since 1999 and are still one of the largest shareholders. Jonathan Siddharth . Welcome, David.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Advisory Board. Want to start up in France?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

I started my business when my first book (on telecommuting) was published in 1999 (in the dark ages of virtual work!). During the brainstorming process, I knew in 2012 that the internet was clearly the next frontier in business. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Jin Nonongami, VELDT, Inc. ! #19-My

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Create a profile for me in the Journal Community. Journal Community. The Wall Street Journal is phasing out support of the Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) browser. Internet Explorer. and Groupon Inc., —has naturally won support from entrepreneurs. This time around, technology entrepreneurs are being more assertive.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

At ffVC, our primary origination strategy is to provide a high level of services to entrepreneurs, and then let word of mouth spread. Out of over 70 companies that we have invested in since 1999, about 20 are in our home city, New York. They’re the entrepreneurs on the cutting edge of their respective disciplines.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

While not obvious on the surface, there has been a fundamental sea-change in the investment community that has made the incremental Unicorn investment a substantially more dangerous and complicated practice. The same thing happened to many Internet stocks. In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I had a lot of fun learning what the internet could do for me. 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 was getting more into internet marketing and trying to ramp up my income.

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David Teten

JANUARY 8, 2013

For example, an increase in internet traffic is usually a sign of customer traction. MCM uses the blog to articulate their investment theses to the investment banking community and to become a value added resource for entrepreneurs. Since 1999, its Partners have made over 160 investments in over 55 companies.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

Today’s economy is substantially more freelance for one, but as it pertains to technology and innovative entrepreneurship, we find ourselves in an era that is bringing tech to traditional industries that have yet to have fully embraced what the internet has caused: data, connectivity, globalization, scalability, and efficiency. Imagine that.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Grade A Entrepreneurs , September 5, 2010 Why Krispy Kreme failed in Australia - Start Up Blog , November 3, 2010 Mellow Johnny’s: Retail Stores as Community Hubs - IDDICTIVE.COM , July 14, 2010 Is crowdfunding an option for my business?

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

In fact, if you exclude the Dot Com Bubble of 1999-2000, they have been steady for nearly thirty years. 1999-2000 51.6% Time Period IPO Pop % Above IFR 1999-2000 51.6% 1999-2000 37.5% We have published some research on this topic elsewhere, which I will summarize briefly below. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, the company’s community-based model showed strong resilience while the importance of its culture and values shone through. Today, more than 90 million BlaBlaCar community members travel by carpool of long-distance buses across 22 markets. What would you advise entrepreneurs expanding globally?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Consulting Google, the oracle of the Internet, indicates that there is little in the way of consensus regarding the possibility of a tech boom/bust scenario playing out in the near term. The first page results of a search for “tech 2.0 bubble” include articles and tweets from the Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Forbes, and CNET.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Let me tell you the tale of a truly buzzworthy endeavor by an internet business: back in 1999, Mark Hughes convinced the town of Halfway, Oregon to rename itself Half.com to generate publicity for the growing e-commerce start-up. One example I always love to showcase is Grasshopper’s “$!@#

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