The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Employers must do what they can to keep their employees safe when acquiring or leasing vehicles for employee use, as well as to reduce business liability of company vehicle accidents. In the United States, front airbags have come as standard on all new vehicles since the late 1990s (1998 for cars and 1999 for light trucks).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2018

The best employees want to be successful in something larger than themselves. Are your most talented new employees helping your company recruit new teammates? Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Start today.

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Leadership Incubator Metrics Sales 113

Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Our 70+ employees then became part of the new entity, Engauge. 1999 – Here we are hanging out in our 2nd office – my parents’ basement. 1999 – Raj and I in New Zealand, where we landed the biggest deal we’d ever had…only to have it disappear a few months later. Raj, thanks for everything.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2019

What can you do if you have an employee or leader who has poisoned the well? Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. You wouldn’t need to be a member of Mensa to calculate the cost to his company of Mediocre Mike’s leadership failure.

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Leadership Cost Reputation Global 127

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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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 1, 2016

Dirt and clutter can be distracting for employees, and the shift in focus from work to environment inevitably lowers productivity. It’s hard for employees to take pride in their jobs when the workplace is a mess, and it also reflects poorly upon your appreciation for their efforts, which can damage employee morale.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). I’ve always tried to take the temperature of employees and get in front of what they’re thinking. This is part of my Startup Advice series. Suddenly it was star treatment and all sorts of promises about the future.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 14, 2017

1 Bill Gates, Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy, March 24, 1999. Reddington is responsible for leading the FedEx business across the region, including overall planning and implementation of corporate strategies and operations across 30 countries and territories with more than 18,000 employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons. We were hot.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

companies can no longer afford to provide group health insurance to their employees. And both employers and employees alike have tried to make the most of a bad situation. Below as an overview of the steps you should take right now whether you’re an employer, insurance professional, trusted adviser, or employee: If you’re an employer….

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Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

He had the good fortune to be an early employee at Facebook. So they solved it by each department manager, the sales manager, and the owner running their own schedule and telling the junior employees what to do. In 1999, Alibaba had to face many failures; for the first three years, the company made zero revenue. Well done Reed!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.

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Venture Capital Hiring Software Review Stock Options 285

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.

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Founder Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 299

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).

Programming 170

Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Essentially, sending employees “back to school” is good business, but that doesn’t mean you need to enroll them in Harvard’s MBA program. There’s plenty you can do right within your own doors and that employees can do on their own. Many companies spend thousands of dollars to send their employees to seminars or conferences.

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Balance Sheet America Employee Programming 162

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone. regarding employee issues. ” This must have meant Germany… If a company regularly has more than ten full-time employees, terminations may only be made for certain reasons. .”

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Because I run a 1,000- employee strong remote organization aimed at helping companies build connected, collaborative cultures outside the traditional office, and we’ve been watching the remote work wave come toward us since long before coronavirus set in. Don’t worry about whether remote employees will work hard: they will.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

The concept is that in the “information era&# the overwhelming majority of employees in the world have meaningless jobs pushing papers from one side of their desk to the other side from 9am to 5pm and really don’t have much of an impact on anything. My 2 biggest positives: 1. I did all of this while I had an income.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy, which defines a small business as a firm with fewer than 500 employees, states there are over 30 million such enterprises in the U.S. As president of ABBA, which he founded in 1999, he serves as an advisor to business buyers and sellers throughout the nation.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2021

Outside of government, companies with less than $7 million in sales and fewer than 500 employees are widely considered small businesses by the U.S. As president of ABBA, which he founded in 1999, he serves as an advisor to business buyers and sellers throughout the nation. But let’s look at this through the eyes of small businesses.

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OnlyOnce

APRIL 1, 2021

Even as a 20-something first-time CEO years ago, I was deeply skeptical of the value of a Coach, but that was in 1999 or 2000 when coaches weren’t so commonplace. I’ll start this post with a quick argument in favor of CEO Coaches and Mentors (sometimes called Advisors).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Constantly evaluate employees. When a company is growing and improving, employees need to do the same. He’s an advocate of lifelong learning and expects employees to commit to continual personal improvement through reading, seminars or other educational efforts. To stay on track with those needs, business leaders need to: 1.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2018

The CDC’s recent report showed that suicide rates have jumped over 30 percent in half the states since 1999. Authorities on workplace culture see those numbers as further evidence that employers should prioritize mental health initiatives for their employees. How employees feel directly impacts their contribution.

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Employee Operations Cost Management 133

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. Some will be obvious: investors, consumers, business partners, employees. Writing a business plan can help make sure Office Space doesn’t feel relatable [ source ].

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Business Plan Angel Investor Partner Naming 92

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

by Keith Martino , head of CMI and author of “Expect Leadership” Companies that train their employees in what are commonly referred to as “soft skills” are finding those efforts pay off in productivity and retention. A thank you to a deserving employee also forges a more trusting, respectful relationship.

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Leadership Retention Employee Global 167

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Back in 1999, Amazon patented a feature and changed their own process and on-line commerce forever: One-click purchasing, versus re-entering name, address, and credit card information for every transaction. Thus I agree that in the focus on customers and employees, every entrepreneur can and should take lessons from the hospitality business.

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Artificial Inteligence Reputation Viral America 205

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

7 Habits of Highly Effective Employees – [link]. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Employees – [link]. Mobile app startups are failing like it’s 1999 – [link]. I wish I could play ping pong as well as they play. Plus, there’s that trick of freezing time (watch the video) that definitely could come in handy.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

We know that he reached out to dozens of former employees via LinkedIn, for example, many of whom haven’t worked here in years. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review API Security 54

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

When I was raising money in late 1999 I had an investment team in Germany (I was in the UK) suggest that they should get a lower valuation than others because they were ex McKinsey guys and had better access to industry.

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Finance Term Sheet Technical Review Warrant 286

OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

We know that he reached out to dozens of former employees via LinkedIn, for example, many of whom haven’t worked here in years. Since our founding in 1999, we’ve kept consumer choice, permission, and transparency at the center of our business.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review API Security 48

YoungUpstarts

MAY 1, 2018

Teachers, police officers, firefighters and other government employees generally receive a pension. But entrepreneurs can’t automatically rely on any of those features; instead they have to put saving/investing plans in place for themselves and their employees. In 1999, he started Asset Retention Insurance Services Inc.

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Small Business Retention Matching Salary 124

YoungUpstarts

JULY 2, 2014

The Cycle to Work scheme was launched in 1999 and has helped countless employers and employees to save time, money and get fitter ever since. Crucially, there’s no upper value limit on the bike or equipment loaned, plus it’s even possible for the employee to have two bikes loaned to them under the scheme.

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Salary Employee Hiring Cost 154

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

I kept pointing to the artificial gains in the Nasdaq in 1999 and said, “just because you bought in Feb ’99 and sold in Sept ’99 for a large gain doesn’t meant the asset was correctly priced.&# My message to everybody at the time, “Sell! At dinner parties I was wrong for several years but I stuck to my guns.

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Florida Technical Review San Antonio Los Angeles 299

SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Tiff’s Treats, started by former University of Texas at Austin students Leon and Tiffany Chen in 1999, now has more than 700 employees at 34 stores in Texas and Atlanta. Austin’s homegrown fresh baked cookie delivery company, Tiff’s Treats just closed on $25 million in funding to accelerate its national expansion.

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Atlanta Texas Austin Employee 79

thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

Additionally, while we are in a very bullish funding market, this will eventually change (having invested through the boom and bust 1999-2003 in Silicon Valley and the run up and financial crash of 2004-2009 in NYC, I can virtually guarantee that cycles will continue).

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Matt worked at Return Path twice over the years — first as employee #3 (more on that in a minute) and then over a decade later as CMO. When I first met Matt and he joined me and Jack to launch Return Path in 1999, he was fresh out of business school and focused on sales and marketing from his prior career in investment banking.

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Framework Partner Developer Employee 62

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2014

And that’s what differentiates founders and early employees. But then you can springboard from there to your next gig and you’ll be an experienced startup employee with functional experience at sales, marketing, product or whatever roles you played.” And it’s still less than I was paid at Accenture in 1999.

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