YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2013

If you are designing and selling your own merchandise, this added differentiation can also dissuade buyers from price shopping. Effle joined Vendio in 1999 as one of the first 10 employees. The small added cost of branding can usually be more than made up in higher sales prices. Image is everything.

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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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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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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. CETRA offers a range of employee benefits including trips for staff and families to offer thanks for helping the company reach its goals.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Initially as a systems designer and programmer and post MBA as a strategy consultant. On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. Some companies / products are designed for large organizations from day 1. Companies post the $5 / month product designed for self-service clients.

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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. He stressed the importance of creating a startup’s culture by design, rather than by accident.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. If you can, design for circumstances where, once youre ready to start talking about your idea, youre encouraging people to "disclose" your efforts. legal , nda , startups , trust.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 7 Habits of Highly Effective Employees – [link]. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Employees – [link]. Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 – [link].

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Apple became the most valuable company in the world (measured by market capitalization) in August by offering simple, attractive design that made technology invisible to the user. Disruption in the Education Space: When I first started looking at education technology investments in 1999, very few VCs would go near the sector.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us

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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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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Today, crowdSPRING is the world’s #1 online marketplace for creative services ranging from graphic, web and industrial design to copywriting services. In January of 1999, I co-founded a marketing agency with a former boss. I re-ignited Anvil as consultancy, but I wasn’t quite ready to hire employees yet.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. Research in Motion (RIM). Video Recording.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 9, 2013

Until recently, the designation “multinational” was reserved for giant corporations. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. This is no longer the case. Go “Glocal”.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Karen Bantuveris has 15 years experience as a consultant in customer centric- leadership development, marketing strategy and business process design. Karen Bantuveris, Founder and CEO of VolunteerSpot. She is the Founder and CEO of Volunteer Spot an online coordination app that facilitates volunteering.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2018

I feel fortunate that, since 1999, KeepCool has been able to be a conduit for the growing number of people who are making such conscious choices. This means delivering a beautiful and functional design using the best quality materials, all at an incredible value. And that’s become something of the company motto.

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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. They even added a couple employees onboard. Maybe it was time to move the company out of Mom’s basement.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

Buah, a company producing and selling freeze dried fruits in Germany overhauled their e-commerce platform completely while their business was still green then rebuilt it with new designs, labels and new packaging. 1 Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy, March 24, 1999.

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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. They even added a couple employees onboard. Maybe it was time to move the company out of Mom’s basement.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. (This was the area I visited in this trip to China.) Seed Funding (Innofund).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2016

Your time – and your employees’ time – is limited but you have a great deal to accomplish every day. If your website looks like it was designed in 1999, consider a redesign. More about this in 10 Important Web Design Best Practices and Tips for Small Business Websites. Ask Your Employees For Ideas.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Dictionary.com defines coworking as “ an arrangement by which freelancers or employees working for various companies share an office or other workspace. “ Some spaces have created designated podcasting and photography rooms to meet your creative needs. Let’s dive in: - What is coworking? Want to bring your dog to work?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

5- Reflecting on our services, personable nature of employees and some humor. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In addition to the one in Beijing, China has set up 53 additional industrial parks and in them are ~60,000 companies with 8 million employees. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. (This was the area I visited in this trip to China.) Seed Funding (Innofund).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

IDEON is a contract furniture company specializing in high-quality, stylish lounge seating and tables for design-minded businesses. A helpful Online Design Tool was created for the Architect + Design community to help visualize options and take creative control of their specs. 12% created account on the Online Design Tool.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Consumer RSS: 1999-2010 - Venture Chronicles , September 11, 2010 paidContent made an interesting connection about Bloglines being shut down and the broader question of RSS in the age of Twitter. Why You’re Going to Hire the Wrong Designer - Tony Wright dot com , September 14, 2010 “We are not UI experts but do know when we see a good design.&#.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In January 1995, it had around 100 employees. A few months later, it had 200 employees. One of those employees was a friend of mine, and when I heard him talk about what was going on there, I sometimes thought to myself, “Maybe I should try to get a job there too.” It was 1999. Whatever its title was.

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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. When I was reading the Fab.com website I noticed that the CEO refers to Fab’s “one thing” as being design. They’re the place focused on design. They think design wins.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. 16- Treat employees in a better way. My parents were also small business owners.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

They design it and defend it.” The act of trying to define your culture is one way to be deliberate about it and I’d love to tell you how we defined, designed and defended ours so that you can take a few pointers of what worked and what didn’t when we went through the process of creating our culture code.

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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.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

Since there was very little documentation my time was split between the design engineers who built the system and the test and deployment team getting the system ready to go overseas. 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.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

For them — and anyone else who wants to increase their employees productivity and sanity — lets take a look at some of the assumptions management makes regarding hours, output, efficiency, and production costs; and see how a century of industrial research has conclusively, consistently proven those assumptions wrong. Its ironic.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

For instance, there was the young Chinese woman from a poor background who used DHGate to sell her clothing designs, which eventually allowed her to move to Paris to study fashion design. Wang, whose resume includes stints at companies like Microsoft and Cisco, co-founded one of China’s first e-commerce sites in 1999.

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Jeff Hilimire

MAY 7, 2014

Check out these two stories from a story on Larry Page (Google co-founder) in Slate : In 1999, for instance, the method by which large Web companies such as eBay, Yahoo, and Google added server space had become fairly routine. In 1998, Page and Brin decided to take all eight of Google’s employees on a company ski trip to Lake Tahoe.

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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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