Sunday, March 27, 2011 Tonight Were Going To Party Like Its 1999 by Tom Eisenmann Are we in a new bubble, as Steve Blank recently wrote, or do current high valuations for early- and late-stage consumer Internet companies reflect sound fundamentals, as argued by Ben Horowitz ? Do Founder/Users Expand Moore's Chasm? and WebMD. MORE >>

In Silicon Valley offices , the framed founder's doodle is as common as jewel-toned furniture and quirky conference-room names. Shaikh was having a conference call with his two co-founders to discuss it. Mahler had met one of the other co-founders, Shaikh's older brother, Amir. The co-founders decided to get more funding. MORE >>

And, two, for Y Combinator and engineering-led startup CEO’s, I hope this can be used as a practical guide to help you evaluate a non-technical co-founder or business leader for your rapidly scaling product. Similarly, I have spent time with many talented technical co-founders who wanted guidance on bringing a business leader onboard. MORE >>

« Leading Brands Demonstrate Best Practices in Customer Service | Main | How The Geek Squad Propagates a Service Culture » Zappos Shares Secrets of 75% Repeat Business Zappos was started in 1999 when the founder saw that there wasnt anything as easy as Amazon.com for buying shoes. Christine (.net) United States License. MORE >>

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.  This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice.  Burger? MORE >>