Mike Michalowicz

MAY 22, 2017

Everything she does is with authenticity, from how she communicates to her market, to how she manages her staff. Neil Waterhouse, founder and host of multiple Aussie eBay and E-Commerce Sellers Meetup Groups, advises start-ups to focus on proven products with a track record. Nathan Huppatz – Co-founder, Costumes.com.au

Global 87

Global Channel Sales Software Review 87

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999.

Naming 144

Naming Entrepreneur Jordan Merger 144

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

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.

Initial Public Offering 277

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 277

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

When I started my first company in 1999 we spent more than $2 million on technology infrastructure including Sun servers & Solaris operating system, Oracle databases, EMC storage, load balancers, app servers, back-up devices, disk mirrors and on and on. They deal with energy management, security, physical device failures, etc.

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Cloud Technical Review Database Semantic 343

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Why Register? Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions. Todays Paper.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

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. He is also the founder of six companies including the two largest U.S.

Software Review 224

Software Review Employee Retention Government 224

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. approx 1999-07. John Frankel started as an individual angel investor in New York in 1999. Enter Dave: Angel investing is a great way to make a lot of money. 1961- 1996.

Angel Investor 114

Angel Investor Technical Review Venture Capital Pre-Money Valuation 114

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. JMB Realty: Real Estate Management company. For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. Michigan Cottage Cheese: Yoplait Yogurt.

Venture Capital 70

Venture Capital SBIC Technical Review Silicon Valley 70

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

It will be great to catch up with Idea Management System vendors like CogniStreamer , and innovation service firms like Ideas To Go and Maddock Douglas. “The contents are inspiring” – senior research manager, major food manufacturer using IdeaKeg since 2011. They’re always doing something new.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2018

by Kerry Alison Wekelo , managing director of human resources and operations for Actualize Consulting and author of “ Culture Infusion “ The recent suicides of iconic fashion designer Kate Spade and internationally renowned chef Anthony Bourdain renewed attention on a disturbing trend in the U.S.

Employee 133

Employee Operations Cost Management 133

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. Product Management – Brad and Mark discuss the role of Product Managers in Startups. One (thing) we have talked about in the past is a lack of Product Managers, experienced technology Product Managers. (in

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Hunter Walker

AUGUST 6, 2023

. “ Right now, we are in a moment where many founders find themselves confronting problems they didn’t create but must tackle. “ What makes this worth reading is that Charles has empathy for founders (he’s been one), and will continue to show up as one of their investors in a supportive manner.

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Jordan IP New York Founder 68

YoungUpstarts

JULY 8, 2020

In 1885, Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) began mining operations of silver, zinc and lead in Broken Hill, NSW. Mining and steelworks have dominated the industry in Newcastle up until BHP closed in 1999. In 1804, the first permanent coal mine was established in Newcastle. The Boom of Real Estate in Newcastle.

Australia 204

Australia Chad .Net Green 204

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. 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.

Venture Capital 274

Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Over a 25 year career, Baughman has gained experience in leading worldwide sales organizations, brings expertise in full life cycle product management, proven revenue creation and growth management including taking a start up from zero to $1.6B, and shepherding companies through all phases from start up launch to IPO to acquisition.

Naming 59

Naming Hiring Technical Review Virginia 59

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

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.

Initial Public Offering 297

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” Dara has a reputation for running a no-drama operation (a classic naval leader, in other words).

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Software Review Employee 36

Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Liz Dobrinska, founder of Innovative Images, joins Episode 6 of the Profit first Podcast. Liz Dobrinska, founder of Innovative Images, provides consulting, marketing communication, website and design services to a diverse number of clients including universities, private clubs, food service, manufacturing and technology companies.

Web 112

Web Design Pennsylvania Philadelphia 112

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

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.

Initial Public Offering 148

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

by Evgeny Glariantov , founder of FREED. As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). Evgeny Glariantov , the founder of a blockchain project FREED , is an expert on the monetization of game projects.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

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.

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Ben's Blog

JANUARY 31, 2012

After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. Marc and I discussed this often.

Venture Capital 78

Venture Capital Portfolio Cofounder Partner 78

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

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.

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Similarly, my research on venture capital portfolio operations found that Portfolio Operator VCs such as Andreesen Horowitz , First Round Capital , ff Venture Capital , and Google Ventures are hiring unusually large teams and structuring them in traditional pyramids. Our job is to invest in the growth areas of 2018.

Private Equity 114

Private Equity Venture Capital Technical Review Equity 114

abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. These mutual funds “mark-to-market” every day, and fund managers are compensated periodically on this performance.

IPO 40

IPO Term Sheet Silicon Valley Valuation 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. And Yves and I decided to share the Managing Partner responsibilities and to manage generational change over the course of two funds. ” I told everybody I wasn’t going to and I meant it.

Artificial Inteligence 150

Artificial Inteligence Partner .Net Technology 150

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

eCommerce 62

eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Several years prior to this my wife started a newborn photography business, over time I became more involved in the back end operations of the business and within several years had helped her grow her business into a full-time professional position. I’m currently a tech founder, my company is a sponsorship matching platform Vettdeck.

Entrepreneur 61

Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 61

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

While not 1999 all over again but I am observing first-hand the signs of funding frenzy. Many entrepreneurs could be caught in the “series A&B funding gap ” Equally worrying for entrepreneurs if the markets take a turn for the worse is that even if they managed to get angel rounds funded they may run into a VC brick wall.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Brown was one of the four co-founders of Techstars (with Cohen, me, and Jared Polis). A little over a year ago, he joined Techstars full time as one of the three managing partners – the other two being David Cohen and Mark Solon. Brown runs the organization day to day and Solon manages all the fund and capital formation activity.

Boston 137

Boston Cofounder Partner Leadership 137

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software. We had to learn how to be better at “load balancing & replication&# – meaning how we managed data across all the boxes since they weren’t centralized on one box.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

On a “dream big” kind of note, I would love to meet Mark Cuban as he was one of the people responsible for broadcast.com back in 1999 when it sold to Yahoo. Our third co-founder, Aron Yechezkel, joined us at the end of 2015 and we have been working together since then, and now as Sceenic. What are the goals for Sceenic for SXSW 2018?

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. As a Jew who grew up in Germany and moved to Israel in 1999, I find this stoic philosophy Israelis display as one of the country’s key elements of success. At the time of this writing Israel and Hamas just signed a ceasefire.

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Iran Cofounder Germany 148

Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Since founding my business in 1981 as a typing and editing service, I’ve operated under many names/websites. For this work, I operate under the name Going Beyond Sustainability. As founder Craig Walker remarked, sometimes a great name just can go unused. Thanks to Sara Chiarilli, Artful Conceptions ! #7- 27- Unusual way.

Naming 94

Naming Entrepreneur Green LLC 94

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

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.

Initial Public Offering 221

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Office and Operations. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Technology | Thursdays. Finance | Tuesdays.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40