Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. How was VisionSpring named? We have come really far since then – next year is our 20 th year.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am also in a few select boutiques and Hotel Gift shops including the famous Mohonk Mountain House and a design collective in Australia) My collection features unexpected combinations of raw and polished gemstones, opulent pearls, precious metals, custom clasps, and exotic minerals from the world’s treasure troves. (I

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The defining moment for VisionSpring was when Founder Jordan Kassalow went on a volunteer mission to Mexico at age 23. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked. How was VisionSpring named? We have come really far since then – next year is our 20 th year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. Kirsten Saenz Tobey : My name is Kirsten Saenz Tobey. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods. Kristin Groos Richmond : My name is Kristin Groos Richmond. I'm the co-founder and CEO of Revolution Foods.

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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. Survey design. can introduce a ‘fighter brand,’ a lower-priced version of the premium offering sold under a different name and backed by minimal advertising.”

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

by Alon Alroy, co-founder and CMO of Bizzabo . The DEMO conferences for years has served as the launchpad event for big name companies and has a well earned reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow’s cutting-edge technologies. . Hopefully we will see you there! Google I/O. TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. InfusionCon.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Identifying the possible negative consequences of our decisions and entrepreneurial initiatives and then naming their potential solutions reduces uncertainty and increases confidence. Is it $2000, $3000, five, six, or seven clients per month? Lack of confidence is often a fear of failure. Identify the magic number.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Examples: Clearslide , Salespatron (I’m a co-founder) and Brainshark. Lead intelligence: Find out names and email IDs of target prospects. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. Outbound prospecting. Attract relevant people.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. This person proposes design approaches for review and agreement from peers and his or her supervisor.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

They learn design skills alongside sewing and patternmaking, so that there is less reliance on mass manufactured clothing retailers, and they get to wear fashionable, unique handmade garments. My co-founders and I started eVestment for two primary reasons. Thanks to Jess Waldeck, Maven Xchange. #10 Photo Credit: Jim Minnick.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. So that's the quick and dirty of our origin story is that, and Bob Young, by the way, is still the sole owner and founder of the company, and very much and involved in what we do on a day-to-day basis.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

Melissa is the CEO and Co-founder of Webinar. As a revenue-driven founder specializing in sales and business development, Melissa has learned how to build companies with very few resources — by automating what she could, outsourcing wherever possible, and inspiring talented people to join her team with shared focus and enthusiasm.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. I'm very sensitive to it though because I know it can be devastating to a startup, especially a single founder startup. Dying at 70?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers. Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes. Agilent is a $5.8

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

Actually we even use the visual editor for all the pages and landing pages that we design so go check it out at ducttapemarketing.com we’ll have a special line in the show notes for today and check it out. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David thanks for joining me.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

It is a place to grow as an entrepreneur by learning new skills, meeting other entrepreneurs, and getting feedback from local thought leaders—just to name a few. It has close to 2,000 entrepreneurs and gives you the tools to pitch to investors, find co-founders, and launch your product to the press and more.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Jay Townley is the co-founder and partner of Gluskin Townley Group, a consulting firm with over 75 collective years of experience in the bicycling, research and retail industries. Profitability is the main key to business success.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Jay Townley is the co-founder and partner of Gluskin Townley Group, a consulting firm with over 75 collective years of experience in the bicycling, research and retail industries. Profitability is the main key to business success.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Jay Townley is the co-founder and partner of Gluskin Townley Group, a consulting firm with over 75 collective years of experience in the bicycling, research and retail industries. Profitability is the main key to business success.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Mapping programs, CAD, circuit design, EMF simulators, speech-to-text… the documentation was disorganized and ambiguous, and the interfaces looked like they were designed for Windows 3.1. at 9:17 am Spot on, Rob.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. I’m studying design.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They can call a meeting with all the stakeholders in the room and then just let them fight it out – this is design by committee and it rarely yields anything beyond mediocrity. They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

When investors interrogate founders, these interrogatives arise, but with a twist: Adding the word “why” in front of each. But also you de-risk by aligning the solution to the founder’s existing abilities, for example in using whatever language/framework the founders are already adept in. When → Why now?

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. The world was also in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. They were selling hot sauce.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. 19:36) Brian on his background as a RISD-trained industrial designer. (20:32) 19:36) Brian on his background as a RISD-trained industrial designer. (20:32) 6:06) Resilience and adaptability in people and companies. (8:22)

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

In 2000, the average attention span for a human was 12 seconds. Aspects of type design that affect legibility include “x-height, character shapes, stroke contrast, the size of its counters, serifs or lack thereof, and weight.” The name of someone who gave a testimonial? Why Does Scanning Matter? Legibility.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Domain Name/Basic Site.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

As Brian tells me, "Design your organization or it will be designed for you." Brian's philosophy of building and designing both products and organizations is based on two things: trust and love. But what new institutions will our grandchildren thank us for having created, for having designed out of this pandemic?

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

JSON is designed to get into Rails quite easily indeed — just POST it at the server, wham, YAML.load(attacker_data) happened. (The This helps to co-opt some security researchers so that they e.g. get in touch with you about the problem prior to just going ahead an exploiting it. Patrick is the founder of Kalzumeus Software.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. While I had previous experience with many various aspects of online marketing such as web design, email marketing, etc., With TOAD we offer customers the ability to choose everything about their planner product; be that size, cover-design, start-end dates and format.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Bill Clerico, CEO and co-founder of WePay. Homebrew, an early stage venture firm focused on this same revolution has illustrated the following: An engineer or designer gets work by offering his skills via vertical marketplaces. An entertainer sells music, tickets and merchandise directly to her fans online.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

BHAGs were established by management guru Jim Collins in his 1994 book “ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great) “ , co-authored with Stanford professor Jerry Porras. Microsoft worked to become a household name in the world of desktop and laptop computers. What’s a BHAG?

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Though this was 2000 , and all startup & VC blogs we've grown to love didn't exist yet, I did have mentors available. Startup Culture Lessons From Mad Men - OnStartups , July 26, 2010 The following is a guest post by Brian Halligan who is my co-founder and CEO at HubSpot (which means he gets to do most of the really hard work).

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