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Praying to the God of Valuation

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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. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built.

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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

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Cayuga Venture Fund recently closed an investment in a company called Agronomic Technology Corp (ATC). Part 1 of 2 part posting by guest blogger Debra Eichten, Entrepreneurship at Cornell staff, interview with the founders of Agronomic Technology. The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

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

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In 1999, my brother Aaron and I started InternetSafety.com. In a flash of brilliance, we took our dial-up filter technology and built a software product that would run on any computer regardless of its Internet connection type. After the acquisition, I managed the Safe Eyes team at McAfee for two years. 9, FilterSnap.

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Small business tips: mobile technology, the iPad, and your business

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The iPads contained engineering data from the 1999 restoration of the monument. This is just one example of how businesses are embracing mobile technology. Car dealers are adopting the technology and issuing iPads to their sales staff to help them to stay with the customer from the moment one walks onto the showroom floor.

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The Parenting Of Corporate America (Or Tips On When And How To Say “No” For Project Managers)

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By Russell Harley, veteran project manager and Director at PMO. In the Y2K projects – which had to get done by the end of 1999, or “bad things” would happen – there were executives who wanted different projects to get done first, and so, requested the Y2K projects have their end-date moved. about projects.

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Leadership Failure! What Will It Cost You?

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Just one floor below him, one of Mike’s managers, Rambling Roger, started running a different racket. This manager wasn’t one of Mike’s political buddies. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Mike’s employer took it on the chin.

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Why Corporate Dysfunction Is Deadly

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And true to their word, senior management promoted Matt amidst great fanfare. Soon production managers picked up on the insular mentality and it spread. Keith Martino is head of CMI, a global consultancy founded in 1999 that customizes leadership and sales development initiatives. Matt’s branch shot to the top.