YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Aneace Haddad, CEO & Founder, Taggo. Co-branded cards were invented, combining a Visa, MasterCard or American Express payment brand along with a retailer or airline brand. I used to think that the success of my last startup was due to our software quality, thought leadership, patents, etc.

Programming 150

Programming Turkey Social Media Redemption 150

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups.

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

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. Flexibility is essential for decision making and leadership, too. Image source ). Here are some things you can do. Learn from forced efficiency. “I recession in 2009.”.

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Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

A startup can benefit in various ways from having a strategic investor involved in their company, but there are plenty of drawbacks too, both commonly known and more subtle. On the flip side, simply taking strategic investor capital because it’s there or it’s easier or cheaper than other capital rarely works out well for startups.

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Strategic Investors Post-Money Valuation Seed Stage Cofounder 120

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But sometimes the fastest path to sustainable market leadership involves pursuing a strategy that is unprofitable in the short term in order to reach a position that is more profitable in the long term. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. Advisor. ); STARTUP. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Copyright © 2000 inc.com. Finance | Tuesdays. Innovation | Fridays. Todays Small Business News | Daily. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays.

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Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2011

Being an entrepreneur isn’t exactly rocket science, but in the case BlogFrog ‘s co-founder Rustin Banks, he literally is one. But starting, running and growing a startup has its challenges, says Banks. Interestingly, Banks also blogs about leadership. million blogging members and their readers.

Community 162

Community United States Colorado Social Media 162

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I soon found that yoga taught me 2000-year-old strategies, to be more present with my kids, be more patient with my family and feel more calm and energized at the same time! I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. So I cut the corporate cord and co-founded Finespun Clothing.

Entrepreneur 91

Entrepreneur LLC Cofounder Green 91

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Analyzing 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems to Find the 20 Top Reasons that Startups Fail. We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure.

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Startups have forced an accelerated cycle of creative destruction for large companies that didn’t exist in the first half of the 20th century. At HP the founders were still at the company and still running the business.

Silicon Valley 186

Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 186

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Merrill, Pickard, Anderson & Eyre [Silicon Valley] –> Itself an outgrowth of the venture investing arm of the original Bank of America (based in SF), Merrill Pickard backed many startups that ultimately went public. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. July 11, 2012.

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

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. Startup Bonus Generally the startup bonus will be about 10% of a new hires salary and comes with the first paycheck.

Software Review 48

Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

Pascal's View

APRIL 5, 2016

How can the Salzburg community come together to nurture ideas into startups and see these startups grow into globally relevant companies? Ideally, innovative startups should be built on ideas that face little or no competition—and this is one of Peter Thiel’s key messages to entrepreneurs who want their startups to be “born global”.

Austria 28

Austria Global Silicon Valley Advisory Board 28

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

So when Microsoft released the most "full-featured word processor ever for the Mac" that crawled on their Macs -- we're talking literally two minutes to startup-- the community immediately started posting in newsgroups that Microsoft was actually trying to "kill the Mac.". The title is not important; the work they do is.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

As a student of leadership and communication, he learned to elevate the way Amazonians write, collaborate, innovate, pitch, and present. And without missing a beat, he said Jeff Bezos, because Jay Bezos was not only a visionary, but he was also creative and invented so many mechanisms that startups and managers and leaders use today.

Seattle 60

Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 60

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Urbanization of Startups. I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, April 13, 2012.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Marc Andreesen gave a great interview about a year agi about “The Future of the Enterprise” and where the next startups will be playing – Hadoop, Big Data, BYOD, etc. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., You mean startups? I don’t know.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. 50:17) The Heroes Journey, Joseph Campbell (55:03) The need for human connection in leadership and what Brian hopes former employees will take with them into the world. (56:46) And of course, this is 2000. I hope you will.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2020

This is true not just for startups, but for so many of the institutions that govern society. And this is true not just of startups, but of so many of the institutions that govern society. And what's your vision for what this new community of founders and leaders might build when we get to the new normal? What are your values?

Silicon Valley 113

Silicon Valley Design Hiring Government 113

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. How did you end up heading to Silicon Valley from France to join a startup? You then came back to Europe and joined a venture firm before co-founding BlaBlaCar.

Global 62

Global Europe France Cofounder 62

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Now I train people in communications and leadership. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. My founders and I started the company about three years ago. My background with entrepreneurialism is this is my sixth startup. This is really an exciting panel to be a part of. Bates: Fantastic.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95