Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

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. If you don’t have realistic expectations, you can quickly get into the wrong state of mind.

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SiliconHills

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Zilliant, based in Austin, announced Tuesday that is has hired Steve Hale as vice president of its newly launched worldwide channel sales. Zilliant, founded in 1999, makes price optimization and price management software. Hale will lead, design and execute Zilliant’s new channel program.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 13, 2013

These vertical solutions would focus on specific pain pain points in the enterprise, such as logistics or customer relationship management. Whereas I may have seen a dozen companies in 1999 with a point solution in a particular area, now I see multiples. – PEOPLE. Or at least get some of them on your advisory board.

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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

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Usually, we hire people with a skillset that enables them to scale with us. One way to cultivate an upbeat workplace is to strive to hire only “A” players, people who want to be the best at their jobs and take pride in making positive contributions. Coach them up. But anyone can be or become an A player. Show appreciation.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 20, 2018

Here are five money management tips to keep in mind to endure the first few years of business and come out ahead: 1. Nowadays, startups are outsourcing their accounting to reduce costs and to get the best accountants and bookkeepers to manage their financials. Don’t Completely Drain Your Nest Egg. Limit Your Spending. Pay Yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

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. If you don’t have realistic expectations, you can quickly get into the wrong state of mind.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The shift to remote work and the easily affordable vendor management systems allow seamless sourcing, onboarding and management of remote teams while fully automating billing and payments. Russia's GDP grew exponentially between 1999 and 2008, driven mostly by oil exports as well as a surge in oil prices.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

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. If you don’t have realistic expectations, you can quickly get into the wrong state of mind.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

companies; the Class of 1999 had founded the bad Internet 1.0 Pivot to the right with a few years of management consulting and use Powerpoint on cross country flights to make stop motion animations. Like overnight lots and lots of contraction, hiring freezes, and pulled offers. But it turned out to be exactly what I needed.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

My job as a (newspaper publisher telephone installer, stockbroker, travel agent, retail store manager) is safe as this economy continues to grow.” Since 1999, the U.S. For example, 81% of businesses hiring today want graduates with business or accounting degrees. Stop me if you’ve heard this story before. “My Thought so.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

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. If you don’t have realistic expectations, you can quickly get into the wrong state of mind.

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Sometime in the summer of 1999, I received an email from Raj telling me to get ready to answer the phone because a guy he’d been talking to in Queenstown, NZ, was interested in us building a website for him. Raj and me in New Zealand in 1999 wearing our Sunday best. We were a ragtag group of misfits if there ever was one. And we did.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2013

These ventures are funded by states to encourage local hiring and often offer crucial support services that can make a difference. He has over 30 years of experience in executive management, corporate governance and business development. Your nearby community banker is a good start. Tom Cleveland writes for BetterMerchantAccounts.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

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. If you don’t have realistic expectations, you can quickly get into the wrong state of mind.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded). Why brand matters more than ever.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

By way of anecdote, from the time Dave Lavinsky and I founded Growthink in 1999 through 2008, more than 95% of our firm’s clients and investors were U.S. and the rest of the world has allowed for phenomena like an Indian manufacturing company hiring U.S. Almost completely shrouded in the anemic U.S. startups and small businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2019

It was 1999 and I had valuable Internet skills. They told me after they raised a fund they’d be ready to hire me. I figured if I were willing to bet on myself and take away their objection to hiring me I would have my foot in the door. By now I knew the world worked on a pull model and that I had to ask. That was 12 years ago.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Technology | Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays.

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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. They may know key reporters, but not know executives you would want to hire. How did such a new venture capital firm raise so much money? They might know executives, but not engineers.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

Investors bet that by offering prospective hires a stake in the company’s future growth- with a visible time horizon of a payoff – employees would act more like owners and work harder– and that would align employee interests with the investor interests. That made sense.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. The firm, which offers cloud-based employee management and training software, boasts 11 million users in 189 countries. Cornerstone also benefitted from having less competition when hiring talent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

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. If you don’t have realistic expectations, you can quickly get into the wrong state of mind.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? Can we squeeze out more from folks that we’ve hired, and are there things that maybe we have completely neglected? David Zhang.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Established 1999 in Chicago. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. So hey, for some people it doesn’t matter, but for me at least it helped sell me on the idea of project management, if not the basecamp product in particular.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

So many companies suck at managing their booths. We had scrambled to get a product to market, built our first website, rapidly hired a technology team, raised our seed round of capital ($1.5 million … yes that was seed in 1999!) If you go to trade shows make sure to read this post. They always need something new.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

I started out my career at the management consulting firm McKinsey which was a truly wonderful learning ground. They don’t need to be a savant in one niche skill; they need to be competent at a wide range of skills and then hire specialists to do what they can’t. Photo Credit: Angela Bradbury. 8 – Almost By Mistake.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. There is a high probability that the person you’re hiring will leave you within 18 months. I learned how to better run a product management process. I never built Google.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 3, 2016

I had actually developed the logo in 1999 and it is now on the back of my entire product line. I was trying to think of a name for my public relations and social media management agency that was memorable and catchy. Now I use “Julie Originals” which is what I used to sign the back of my handmade greeting cards when I was young.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 28, 2010

Manager Bob: “Our associates will not repond positively to further cuts in their benefits. Dick then processes Bob’s pink slip and cuts non-management benefits by 30%.&#. I strongly recommend against it.&#. You know our employees are our most important asset.&#. That’s the classic definition of Grin Fucking.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2019

When I started Coremetrics in 1999, Accel Partners wanted to invest in our Series A alongside Highland Capital Partners. Fast forward to Bazaarvoice, where we were initially obsessive about both our hiring process (which I detailed in The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10 ) as well as checking references. and dangerous.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

I had an MBA, had done a few years of strategy consulting and knew all of the management theory. I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey. We hired people to run the UK and Germany.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Image Credit: Nancy D.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. The first year of revenue (1999) was $4 million – a remarkable achievement. How did Akamai do it? . . Founding Akamai. Gross Profit. $(60).

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

The 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade even featured a balloon created in its image. But over the course of the Edsel’s three-year run, Ford only managed to unload 118,000 of them. When Ford’s public relations manager, C. The sock puppet’s most notable appearance was in an eyebrow-raising $1.2 What Went Wrong?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Therefore, we needed a new management toolkit designed explicitly for iteration, scientific learning, and rapid experimentation.

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