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. Very rare case.

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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. Very rare case.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

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. Very rare case.

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Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

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. Very rare case.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

Today in Oklahoma City, Okla, Keith and Cheryl own three separate companies that manage and dispose of a variety of waste, from hazardous and commercial waste, to the treatment of industrial waters and grease trap cleaning. ’” Chuck Herb never planned on owning a waste management company either. No businesses, no trash.

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Management El Paso Oklahoma Las Vegas 108

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

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. Managers can defy old mind-sets and creatively search for superior solutions. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances. Why brand matters more than ever.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Your planning phase must be thorough with financial projections that match up with your marketing view of the future. The products offered by successful business owners rarely match up totally with their original conceptions; Performance. Time will be in short supply as you move forward, and your people skills will be tested every day.

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Cleveland Matching Small Business Government 145

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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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. Very rare case.

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Jeff Hilimire

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Over the years of having digital agencies (I started my first digital agency in college with Raj in 1999!), I called the organization MATCH (Marketers Aspiring to Change Humanity), officially starting it in 2012, and over a few years we had 17 teams helping over 40 nonprofits. And four with four teams.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you’re thinking about joining as the director of marketing, product management manager, senior architect, international business development lead, etc. Or you have to hit the lottery and be an early player middle management player at Google, Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. It was 1999. Let’s face it.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

I was going to try to create some kind of complicated matching donation scheme since I hadn’t made a gift to Naropa yet this year but I decided to just gift them $10,000 (which I just did now through the website) so I encourage you to support at any level if you want to participate in my not-so-complicated match.

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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: Kimberly Rath.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

MAY 5, 2016

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Brian worked at Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers and Thomas Weisel Partners, where he joined at the firm’s inception in early 1999. Fun fact: Meredith was a talent manager on American Idol seasons seven and eight.).

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Collaborative filtering in eCommerce product recommendations was first implemented at scale by Amazon (they filed their initial patent for item-to-item collaborative filtering as early as 1999). I believe, their results speak for themselves. Similarly, a search box on 404 pages can sometimes make up for the UX glitch.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 4, 2010

When we started Return Path back in 1999, we sat down to write our employee handbook, and all I could think was "what things can we add in here that will make this company a unique place to work?" So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality.

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Turkey Leadership Matching Internet 67

OnlyOnce

JUNE 4, 2010

When we started Return Path back in 1999, we sat down to write our employee handbook, and all I could think was "what things can we add in here that will make this company a unique place to work?" So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality.

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Turkey Leadership Matching Internet 54

Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

Those that have been in the Bay Area for a while may remember the 1999 Bill Viola show at the SFMOMA. That being said, being competent with digital capture, Adobe Creative Suite, color managed workflows, and archival inkjet printers is vitally important for the business side of my trade. Uncategorized localbiz'

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 4, 2010

When we started Return Path back in 1999, we sat down to write our employee handbook, and all I could think was "what things can we add in here that will make this company a unique place to work?"  So many people out there don't have that match between interest, passion, skill, and reality.    Cold turkey. 

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Turkey Leadership Matching Internet 59

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

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. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Seed Funding (Innofund). The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 278

Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

In the last decade Torch managed to break free of China’s state central planning bureaucracies. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Seed Funding (Innofund). The best analog for China’s InnoFund is the U.S. government’s SBIR and STTR programs.

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Programming Technical Review SBIR China 170

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. ” What he meant was that since your scarcest resource as a manager or sales rep is your time you need to qualify better.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

My number one goal in 1999 when my wife (fiancé at the time) Abby and I started our firm was to create a business that allowed us to raise and support our family on our own terms—just like my parents’ business allowed them to do for more than 30 years. My parents were also small business owners. Find a problem and solve the sucker.

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Entrepreneur Ireland LLC Kansas 63

sixrevisions.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Based on these content attributes, you are able to navigate to items that match your criteria. From Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox, November 14, 1999: [link]. Project Management. Should We Always Deploy Content Management Systems? Guided navigation is invaluable on large e-commerce sites with a huge and varied inventory.

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Design Vertical Architecture Search 83

Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

I started my business when my first book (on telecommuting) was published in 1999 (in the dark ages of virtual work!). Given that I started my business making light fixtures from recycled glass alcohol bottles, the name Moonshine Lamp Company seemed like a pretty easy match for my business. 3- One of those conversations.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 Second, by better matching supply and demand, direct listings have generally mitigated the magnitude of IPO Pops, thus engendering better overall price discovery.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

I went to the University of Queensland and studied for a business management degree. In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. As I said, I was born and raised in Brisbane. I went to the U.S.

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Technical Review Software Review Prospectus Audience 76

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Fortunately, tone of voice can be deliberately created, managed and optimized. We started innocent in 1999 after selling our smoothies at a music festival. Equally important is how your brand personality matches up with your visitors’ personalities. What’s the Definition and Use? Your visitors’ personalities.

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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. Some of the delay is just overhang of a bad market but we may be delaying true supply/demand matching through the well-intentioned government’s attempt to stem price declines. VCs get paid to “put money to work.&#.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Balance Sheet Government 298

abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Investment banks simply do not match supply and demand. Electronic order matching systems that match all supply and demand for securities to determine a fair market price have been used in our financial markets since the early 1980s (approaching 40 years). The banker’s even brag in marketing documents about this “achievement.”

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IPO Customer Matching Silicon Valley 82

Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The employees at One Hacker Way have managed incredible growth, tried to out-innovate themselves out of jams that killed earlier networks, and have made tons of money. On Facebook Google manages ten (on a good day). Yes, it is likely the Brand Manager considers this to be a success as they were only solving for reach.

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