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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

I started my first company in 1999 and was admittedly swept up in all of this: Magazine covers, fancy conferences, artificial valuations and easy money. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies.

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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

by Shane Kenny, founder of Filtersnap. In 1999, my brother Aaron and I started InternetSafety.com. After the acquisition, I managed the Safe Eyes team at McAfee for two years. Founder of Filtersnap Shane Kenny has been in the filtering business for over 15 years. In 1999, he started InternetSafety.com with his brother.

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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

One of the highlights of my time at Intuit was being part of a skunkworks team in 1999 that developed Intuit’s first payment service, the QuickBooks Merchant Account Service. I was generously rewarded the Intuit Founders Award in 2011 for helping get it started.

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The Making of DigitalMarketer With Founder Ryan Deiss

Duct Tape Marketing

The Making of DigitalMarketer With Founder Ryan Deiss written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Ryan is also the founder and host of the Traffic & Conversion Summit, the largest digital marketing conversion conference in North America. Marketing Podcast with Ryan Deiss. Ryan is an entrepreneur, author, and investor.

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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Veterans of the networking industry, Craig formerly served as the CEO of Packeteer, a high-flying networking appliance vendor that he took public in 1999 with Scott as his director of engineering. At Packeteer, they built a hardware-based appliance that was expensive and complex to manage.

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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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Steven Blank Kills It at Greycroft CEO Summit

Both Sides of the Table

I also really Brooke Hammerling from Brew PR who gave tips on how to effectively manage public relations – and she should know having been Larry Ellison’s personal publicist and representing people like Zynga when they were a tiny company. Key take aways: the CEO has got to be committed to leading PR personally or it won’t be successful.

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