YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Developing a culture of continued education and continuous improvement is critical if you want to retain your staff and provide them with advancement opportunities. Encourage everyone to read books for personal development. One of my biggest regrets and mistakes in life is that I didn’t start reading books until age 40.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. 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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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

We started all the way back in 1999, and despite the raised eyebrows and lack of roadmap, we’ve fostered some unthinkable transitions. Leaders must be real about what makes them tick as people, and show new hires how to do the same. Isolate “the unteachables” for making new hires.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere. Whereas I may have seen a dozen companies in 1999 with a point solution in a particular area, now I see multiples. – PEOPLE. Or at least get some of them on your advisory board.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. 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

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). So the whole customer development cycle is very streamlined. I’ll always point out when I am.). I learned the domain lesson myself. I absolutely love their product, team and vision.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 8, 2015

In the Y2K projects – which had to get done by the end of 1999, or “bad things” would happen – there were executives who wanted different projects to get done first, and so, requested the Y2K projects have their end-date moved. Will you take care of it, or will you hire someone? It may not hurt.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

A country that is in the process of moving from a developing to a developed stage is considered an emerging economy or market. But today, these nations with rapid economic development have a growing impact on the world economy and are responsible for driving more than 50% of world economic growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. 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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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

You do not have to go to college to be an entrepreneur and you do not have to go to college to develop software. MongoDB’s vice president of business development, Vijay Vijayasankar, also points out the networking advantage of having college classmates: @mjasay college is the first/best professional networking opportunity.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. 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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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

Check to see if your area has a local “incubator” complex or development center. These ventures are funded by states to encourage local hiring and often offer crucial support services that can make a difference. He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. 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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

It was 1999 and I had valuable Internet skills. They told me after they raised a fund they’d be ready to hire me. I figured if I were willing to bet on myself and take away their objection to hiring me I would have my foot in the door. Develop your voice. But I was struggling to find somebody to bring me to Japan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. 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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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 15, 2011

Here are the justifications and logic process for so many claiming they have a startup before they really do, and in many cases actually getting some funding: people feel like they might as well start their own business since nobody is hiring. many more people are learning software development. micro funding ($25K). millionaires.

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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. They may know key reporters, but not know executives you would want to hire. How did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? They might know executives, but not engineers.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

By 1999 we had grown into the largest independent consulting firm in the world. By 1999 it seemed like everybody was growing, though. Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. Everybody was raising a shit-ton of money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. 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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Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Research & Development. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We TECHNOLOGY. Internet and Online Business. Business Software. Computer Security. Telecom and Wireless. Technology. INNOVATION.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. In today’s language of Customer Development , RIM positioned the Blackberry as a segment of an existing market – pager users who needed two-way communication. Filed under: Customer Development , Market Types. Wireless Communications.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2012

Beginning in 1999, in order to make ends meet while pursuing my artistic passions, I looked for odd jobs. It was before the Internet was widely used, so it wasn’t as easy to check it out, and I hadn’t yet developed my SCRAM method. At one point, I was even Ronald McDonald’s bodyguard! Merchandising. Those are merchandisers.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

Our model combined fair pricing and advocacy and direct development projects in each of the communities we bought from that would be managed by the communities themselves, thereby creating managerial capacity among the farmers and self-respect. Soon, I had more work than I could handle, and had to hire another attorney and staff member.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Years ago, Six Apart invited me to be a part of some kind of developers program without telling me what it is. The developer program for which I signed the NDA never came to fruition, and no information was actually disclosed in all that time. If someone hired you, would you have your lawyer look over the NDA? Ideas are cheap.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? It was a disaster.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 25, 2013

They made a trade sale in late 1999. Hire people who are innovative and passionate. On hiring good people: If you don’t hire well, you can’t leave the fort… go into the market. . So hard it is only now becoming functional 30 years later. Though he had a successful exit from it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. The Embrace infant warmer was developed - by getting out of the country -- and how Rob Emrich learned and scaled his non-profit, Road of Life. It's a big tent.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

Although I had been developing softwares since 1999, it was the first time I could think of an idea, write the application, publish it online and virally reach thousands of people! Everything on Facebook is calling the attention of the users and as a developer you have to continuously innovate if you want to be the one they go to.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? Can we squeeze out more from folks that we’ve hired, and are there things that maybe we have completely neglected? Have we become soft?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

M y company had raised a seed round of capital in late 1999 even before either of us were full time in the company (ominous side note: on the way to pitch our seed investor, Delta Partners, a man walking right in front of me died of a massive heart attack making me late to the meeting. We hired people to run the UK and Germany.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line. No matter what the specific tasks are, clients hire us to spread the word about them, and most of our customers want that done really quickly. Thanks to Julie Rustad, Julie Originals LLC. #4 4 – Named for My Hair.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

The 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade even featured a balloon created in its image. Do your market research and develop a business plan before you open your doors. But that all changed when the company hired former Apple retail boss Ron Johnson to take over as CEO in November 2011. Who cares?! CASE STUDY #2: EDSEL.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

They don’t need to be a savant in one niche skill; they need to be competent at a wide range of skills and then hire specialists to do what they can’t. I was a developer. We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA).

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. Salon has an article about naming companies, from 1999: The name game. ” Exactly my thought, finding a product name is perhaps the easiest thing in product development if you know what you’re doing. For developers we present our powerful yet simple open-source web application framework.

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