YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2019

But she has persevered while pursuing experience in steel fabrication, traffic management, and transportation regulatory consulting. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. She’s encountered her own array of potholes along the way.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999.

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Naming Entrepreneur Jordan Merger 150

Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Since 1999, my passion has been studying high performing IT organizations. Over the years, I’ve come to believe with moral certainty that everyone needs DevOps now, especially software startups where the successful execution of Development and IT Operations preordain success or failure. Enter the Developers.

Phoenix 175

Phoenix Software Review Technical Review Cofounder 175

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customer development, etc. It is the key to “customer development” that Steve Blank talks about. I’m going to save that for a future blog post. I felt the same way.

PR 279

PR Technical Review Portfolio Customer Development 279

Up and Running

MAY 20, 2019

There’s a famous scene in the cult-classic 1999 movie “ Office Space “ where the main character, Peter, is confronted by his boss, Bill. Now that you’ve managed to escape Peter’s situation, make sure you don’t replace it with an entirely new set of hassles that you can’t do anything about. Risk is about outcomes.

Business Plan 92

Business Plan Angel Investor Partner Naming 92

The Next Web

JANUARY 17, 2014

Yu graduated from Nankai University in 1999 with a bachelor’s degree in economics. Such extreme differences between the two markets have made it difficult for US mobile startups to successfully enter China, even if they manage to partner with top local players. Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital. Strategy shift.

China 128

China Marketing Asia Mobile 128

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Yes, VC / Startup Funding is up Massively If you look at how much VC firms have raised from Limited Partners (LPs) over the past 2 decades you’ll see that we’ve returned to a level that we haven’t seen since 1999. If you get into a high-growth company and you have asymmetric information on how the management team is performing?—?this

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Venture Capital IPO Mezzanine Early Stage 292

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. Back then it seemed foreign.

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Customer Technical Review Software Review Mexico 280

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Unless your company is large enough to have dedicated, full-time employees managing your employer-provided health insurance program, the money and time you and your managers spend getting your employees covered is one of the greatest threats to your business. Develop a defined contribution solution.

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Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2015

I know several people who have gone through the with great success and gone on to have excellent software development jobs. When I saw the proposal, I immediately thought of the web consulting rollups of 1999. It’s a powerful model that university education has generally missed on. I’m a big fan of coding schools.

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Stock Options Cofounder Revenue Hosting 70

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

Paige Craig , currently the most prolific, under-dressed, and most eligible angel in Los Angeles, sourced a hot, young startup called Gendai Games (makers of GameSalad - a platform for rapid development of mobile games). The reason I have generally been against convertible debt is that historically it was a mechanism that avoided price.

Finance 286

Finance Term Sheet Technical Review Warrant 286

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). I didn’t have first-hand experience in document management systems other than as a user and nobody had SaaS experience – the market was too new. I’ll always point out when I am.).

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San Diego Entrepreneur Philadelphia Cloud 267

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

I think too many books are written by charlatans and have too much management jargon / double speak that I can’t stand. In early 1999 I made the decision to fulfill my lifelong dream to live and work in Japan. I will also cover how I accomplished this in a separate post but in early 1999 I arrived in Tokyo for the first time.

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France Spain Technical Review Hungary 295

ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

The underlying tech was developed at Cornell (like many of the companies in the CVF portfolio). For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

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. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system.

Initial Public Offering 277

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 277

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2012

Sulaiman Sanni and his partner Ben Lamson were both working for Meltwater Group, a large, well known Software as a Service company, Su as a social media consultant and Ben as a sales manager. We actually consult with each client, and tend to become an extension of their marketing team or development office.”

Small Business 142

Small Business Advisory Board Employee Entrepreneur 142

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

by Larry English, author of “ Office Optional: How to Build a Connected Culture with Virtual Teams “ When COVID-19 began, work-from-home seemed like a blessed stopgap — a way out of working in potentially health- and life-compromising environments, and a way to (partially) manage kids who had nowhere to go during the day.

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Cofounder Employee Hiring Management 179

Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Despite Kenya has been named as the fasted growing payments market in Africa, there is still a lot to be done to develop the local business angel community. Here are a few success stories of business angels, investors and managers who dared to invest their time and cash ( source: [link]. Erik Hersman Founder at iHub Nairobi.

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Kenya Africa Incubator Cofounder 45

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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Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 196

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2020

On the other hand, remarkable wealth and economic boom in Newcastle can also be seen in real estate developments, tourism, lush vineyards, commercial centres and start-up businesses. Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999. History of Wealth in Newcastle.

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Australia Chad .Net Green 204

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. Experienced and serial entrepreneurs in the content management space. At the end of this post I’ll tell you what he said.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

As we collect more and more data, it’s becoming increasingly hard to piece together and manage that data, and more importantly, to use that data in real-time to build better campaigns. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software. Data Management Platform ∩ Marketing automation capabilities.

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Customer Marketing Artificial Inteligence Clickthrough 92

thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Client-server has moved to the cloud (dramatically decreasing the cost of software development and deployment), and mobile apps are everywhere.

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Advisory Board Cloud Venture Capital Vertical 70

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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Global Brazil Russia Singapore 95

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Calxeda is on track with its business and ARM-based product development plans, moving toward providing first samples of its industry-changing technologies in 2011. This is within our reach with technologies we are developing at Calxeda. Baughman is Calxeda’s new Vice President of Business Development and Sales.

Naming 59

Naming Hiring Technical Review Virginia 59

crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Tips For Managing Remote Workers | Business Insider - crowdspring.co/19fk1pf. Fewer US startups now than in 1999. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 8 Must-have Cheat Sheets for Web Designers and Developers - crowdspring.co/GZCuhL.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

than it is to explain how the 1999 UETA and 2000 ESIGN Acts and our https framework help keep us secure. There is so much to manage for an enterprising small business that it makes sense to lean on experts like the one’s crowdSPRING provides for the things like graphic work.

Small Business 105

Small Business New Jersey Internet Bootstrapping 105

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. Remember, from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,028, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,887. Develop action plans 4.

Brazil 69

Brazil Government Angel Investor India 69

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. He’s focused on that sector (not exclusively but predominantly) and therefore has an amazing network at large financial services firms to help you with business development. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds.

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Developer Silicon Valley PR Las Vegas 366

OnlyOnce

JANUARY 2, 2011

Productivity Gains – This is something frequently cited as critical to developed economies like ours in the US. When I left my job at MovieFone in 1999, there were approximately eight administrative assistants in a company of 200 people – one for each senior person. What do some of the buzzwords you read about in the news mean to you?

China 74

China Startup Offshore Silicon Valley 74

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. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system.

Initial Public Offering 297

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

8 years later, it is clear that the prediction of the influential publication has, to some extent, come true: it is hard to imagine modern life in developed or developing countries without collaborative consumption. In 2010, the Time magazine listed the sharing economy among the 10 ideas that would change the world. million CPUs.

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Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Gust

JUNE 19, 2012

I bought the Rocket eBook Reader in 1999. Now, with open source software components, and low-cost development tools, the same job can be done by one good hacker for a few thousand dollars. Like the problem solver I had been trained as in my software development days, I parsed his issue. Managing Partner , Tangent Capital.

Startup 180

Startup Forecast Angel Investor Software 180

Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

Today in Oklahoma City, Okla, Keith and Cheryl own three separate companies that manage and dispose of a variety of waste, from hazardous and commercial waste, to the treatment of industrial waters and grease trap cleaning. ’” Chuck Herb never planned on owning a waste management company either. No businesses, no trash.

Management 108

Management El Paso Oklahoma Las Vegas 108

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We are now well-beyond 11 long years of ZERO public market returns, with major indices (Dow, S & P, and NASDAQ) trading much lower than they were in September 1999. Remember, from August 1982 to September 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average went from 777 to 11,028, and the NASDAQ from 159 to 2,887. Develop action plans 4.

Brazil 54

Brazil Angel Investor India China 54

Growthink Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 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.

Los Angeles 85

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Technical Review Distribution 85

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. Steve Blank calls this “ customer development ” in which you built an initial product that is in search of “product / market fit.” This article originally appeared on Inc.com.

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