Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. Many startups today don’t do these kinds of sessions. Why on Earth should we as small startup companies think that we have a monopoly on all the best ideas. Turn Your Organization Inside Out.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“My startup business was acquired and I worked for the company that bought us; which was a public company called Ameridata that bought about 40 companies in about three years. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. On the Startup Visa Program.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 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. Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

You are the engine of our future, after all. In 1999, we sold that business and I started angel investing. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. Use your advantages. Do more faster.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 23, 2011

He currently has a 1999 strategy. I asked Harshil to focus his entire product and go-to-market strategy on the college-bound age 18 market and develop his assessment module, vertical search engine for colleges and trust network to address the needs of that market and that market alone. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Turns out that this was a team of engineers inspecting the structure to assess the damage caused by last month’s earthquake and they were methodically inspecting each of the 36,491 marble blocks that makes up the exterior of the giant tower. The iPads contained engineering data from the 1999 restoration of the monument.

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Transformify

APRIL 15, 2016

Kenya has many advantages, including experienced software engineers, healthy early-stage startup community, with good incubator and accelerator support, and enthusiastic and motivated young entrepreneurs. Since then, his leadership of the Fund has allowed several African startups to access capital, mentorship and acceleration services.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2015

If your startup is in the Business-to-Business (B2B) world, you need to realize that the subscription model has evolved considerably since SalesForce.com introduced Software as a Service (SaaS) way back in 1999. business model entrepreneur startup subscription' Do your homework before jumping in with both feet. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 24, 2016

If your startup is in the Business-to-Business (B2B) world, you need to realize that the subscription model has evolved considerably since SalesForce.com introduced Software as a Service (SaaS) way back in 1999.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. It was a disaster.

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Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. Adaptive cruise control –> Mitsubishi & Toyota developed LIDAR systems in early ’90s, Mercedes first launched radar systems in 1999).

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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. That moment is now. Conclusion.

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David Teten

APRIL 16, 2012

Would you like to have a salary from day one of your startup? Although we are open to various configurations of 2-5 people, we envision a team built around: a CEO, reporting directly to the Board; a Product Manager to harden the vision; and an Engineer to make the magic. Head of Engineering: Strong experience with B2C businesses.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 25, 2013

I was recently at the Melbourne Startup Grind event down at Depo8. Alan is the Head of Engineering for Google Aust / NZ and has been in and around computers since the early 1980′s. NetMind: Alan was a cofounder of this startup, which he said never really made money. They made a trade sale in late 1999. Really hard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. I cant really imagine how much it cost our "grownup" counterparts at other dot-com startups to get their first app up and running. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Before that, Baughman was with Marvell and Intel, joining the latter after nine years at Dialogic Corporation, which was acquired by Intel in mid 1999. Beatty, as Vice President of Manufacturing, brings 18 years manufacturing and business operations experience to Calxeda.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 28, 2010

There is plenty of debate, however, over what drives that job creation engine in our country. 6) The most efficient fuel for this IPO engine is venture capital. The evidence: (i) Startups are responsible for virtually all the new jobs created in the United States since 1977 (Source: Kauffman Foundation). GDP growth, the U.S.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. When I founded my first company along with Brian Moran (whose idea it was) I had no real experience running startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Founded in January 2010 by Stephen Hood (ex-Delicious head of product), Dave Baggeroer (Stanford’s Institute of Design), and Josh Whiting (ex-senior engineer at Delicious and Craigslist).

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I founded a startup years ago, and that’s how I started getting a taste of it. The startup didn’t work out, but I found ways to be around it, whether it was on the sales side in Goldman for a few years. How does that translate into advice that you give to your startups? What guidance for your portfolio companies?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. Startup blogging was hardly "cool" back then.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. (Internet). Evernote, Dropbox). 2002 – “the social network fad is over”. Myspace, Facebook).

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 14, 2010

The general misery that the public markets have subjected us all to over the past 12 years - with the Dow Jones, the S & P, and the NASDAQ all trading lower today than they were in 1999, begs the question - how does stock market performance affect startup investing returns? Startup investing is high returning because: 1.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

Endlessly curious, I went from startups in military intelligence to microprocessors to supercomputers to video games. As time went on, I was a co-founder or member of the starting team for six high-tech startups…. With every startup came increasing responsibility. In fact, unlike in the movies, most startups actually fail.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” Good(ish) Example: Netflix. Understand.

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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 acquisition.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

I guess not the most politic thing I’ve ever done, but you can ask anybody who was in the strategy practice of Accenture in London in 1999 and they’ll confirm I really did this. All startups are hard. Yours had more complexity and less engineering talent secured on the team than most. Don’t be a grin fucker.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Having an electrical engineering background, I knew there had to be a better way and I could help build it. We made a prototype that accurately monitored multiple vital signs and decided to create a startup company that would make tracking a person’s vital signs convenient, accurate and simple. Thanks to Xin Xie, Lifestone. #2

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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. And the great ideas that became todays successful tech startups dwarf anything that had been done to that point.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups.

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andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

2012 has been good to startups. My theory is, we’re currently in a golden age for early stage startups, and the early stage market will stay hot for at least the next 3-5 years. My reasoning looks something like this: Right now, startups with strong teams can easily raise seed funding ($200-$1.5M Thanks, and enjoy!

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

I tried a bunch of jobs: I taught fourth grade, worked at a nonprofit, and made an ungodly amount of money doing odd jobs at a dot-com because hey, it was 1999. I studied creative writing in college, and was dismayed to discover, upon graduating, that it didn’t offer me a surefire way to pay my rent.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2022

Dale has been an SEO specialist for fortune 500 companies and venture-backed startups around the world for two decades. He has been an SEO specialist to fortune 500 companies and venture back startups around the world for two decades. When I started with SEO, believe it or not was in 1999 long time ago. This is John Jantsch.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2010

Founded in Austin in 1999, Coremetrics is known as one of the high-end providers of web analytics, competing with Omniture and Webtrends. After Bazaarvoice CEO Brett Hurt left Coremetrics the company relocated its headquarters to the bay area, but it still maintains an engineering presence in Austin.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

I just spent a few weeks in Japan and China on a book tour for the Japanese and Chinese versions of the Startup Owners Manual. This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. They provide consulting, promotion, product testing, hiring, training and incubation services to startups.

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