Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

A major chunk of this activity is provided by the new class of Super Angels, who may look more like micro-VCs, except that they are investing their own money. Examples of some leaders in this space include Ron Conway in Silicon Valley and Brian Cohen , chairman of the New York Angels, who each may have over 500 startups in their portfolio.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

By Todd Plitt, USA TODAY Neville Clubwala, a Taskrabbit worker in New York City, delivers cupcakes from Butter Lane bakery and champagne, to a recipient who received a promotion. The dot-com boom of early 2000 saw a proliferation of similar anything-at-your-service start-ups. Thats real money."

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How To Calculate Whether A Freelance Web Application Programmer Is Asking For Too Much Step 1: Use the Indeed.com Salary Tool to Search for Their Job Title By Salary Level. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. at this stage. Now you have your burden: $7.15/hr.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

At that time, in the year 2000 there were no spam filters so it was pretty easy to contact other translation companies to setup cooperation. I work with clients from New York to Jerusalem, and get to work on the road, most recently beachside in Cuba and Brazil. Thanks to Mel Judson, Mel Judson Branding & Web Design ! #21-

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Hollywood in the beginning was a bunch of artists who wanted to make entertainment, and then the whole infrastructure of PR and hangers on and the New York money came in. Web platforms were very, very new at that time. There’s no way we’ll ever use a web browser for software.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Be inspired by the tech world’s latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs to create simple, life-improving technologies and viable businesses among a rich and diverse community of cutting edge developers. Small Business Web Summit. Google I/O. VentureBeat Mobile Summit. TechCrunch Disrupt NYC. Inside BitCoins NYC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 8, 2019

web address today, go to launchwith.us John Jantsch: You know, I love sharing tips and resources with small business owners and one of them is you’ve got to choose the right web address for your business and it’s gotten harder. web address today. That’s it, 10 chapters, 20,000 words, 2000 words per chapter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. I have been thinking a lot about what a new version of this test would look like, given what Ive seen work and not work in startups. This is still an essential practice, especially on the web. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

An article in the New York Times titled “ Mom’s Van Is Called Uber ” suggests that parents are using Uber to send their kids to different events. Farhad Manjoo wrote a compelling piece for the New York Times (“ With Uber, Less Reason to Own a Car ”) making just this argument. Transporting kids.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2012

David Heinemeier Hansson doesn’t deserve to be alive either for instance — he makes millions of dollars at his bootstrapped, profitable, beloved business , he’s honored by geeks for creating Ruby on Rails , he’s a New York Times best-selling author and a race car driver, and all this with a 30-hour work-week.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). Since were starting in New York City, this wont apply at first. © 2000-2010 Joel Spolsky. File a CV and let the great jobs come to you! Educational adjustments. About the author.

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Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

BeyondVC

JANUARY 22, 2009

  In an old New York Magazine article from 1999 Josh proclaimed that ""The potential for a company like Pseudo is to start from a Website and replicate the success of ABC, NBC, or CBS — a long shot but an enormous payoff."   I hope you enjoy the trailer and more importantly my brother-in-law's music.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. They talked about how the dream job for Harvard MBAs used to be investment banking where you wore your Rolex watch, drank $200 bottles of wine at fancy New York restaurants and vacationed in the Hamptons.

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Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 384

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

O’Reilly’s article describes two businesses from his own career at O’Reilly—the Global Network Navigator (GNN) web portal, which he sold to AOL, and the Website web server, which eventually fell by the wayside. On the other hand, web servers are not a blitzscalable market. Today, there is no one dominant player in web servers.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

HuffPosts QuickRead. Hiring the best developers is essential because a great developer is easily 3 times as productive as an average developer, yet their salaries are usually similar. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 4, 2011

since the year 2000. Seems they are closing all the factories down in Allan Town – as 23% have closed down since 2000. You’re reading this on-line, and you probably get most of your news the same way. Wired Communications. Wired telecoms declined by 54.9% Manufacturing suffered a 50% decrease. Newspaper Publishing.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY. the 1990s.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

It was well past the Internet boom, well into Web 2.0, I remember the New York Times wrote an interesting article about it. They talked about how the dream job for Harvard MBAs used to be investment banking where you wore your Rolex watch, drank $200 bottles of wine at fancy New York restaurants and vacationed in the Hamptons.

Entrepreneur 176

Entrepreneur Startup Salary Egypt 176

Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

When my Japanese husband died at a young age almost 16 years ago, I had been doing medical writing for a major New York Hospital and also helping him with his documentary films for Japanese and American public television. I wrote my web copy myself, did my web design myself and officially launched in October 2010.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Bernard is based in New York, was born in Berlin, has lived in and started companies in Asia and Europe as well as America; he is comfortable with globalization. In a consumer Web venture, the hustler/sales guy is non-core (a few biz dev deals are important but not core). Founding teams must be balanced.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 Brands didn’t advertise their web pages they advertised “AOL Keywords.&# You couldn’t pick up a magazine in the 96-99 timeframe without seeing AOL Keywords advertised everywhere. Social Networking in Web 1.0: The Present Era.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

They are from my post The Biggest Mistake Web Analysts Make… And How To Avoid It! I pay monthly subscriptions for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker and National Geographic. This limits a little bit what we can track in web analytics tools. Newspapers: Tampa Bay Times.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

I chose Amazon Web Services to be our marquee reward, and not just for the obvious reason that so many of you are - right this very moment – already hosting on AWS EC2. The service credits are as unrestricted as we could make them, and are open to new and existing customers. The more books you buy, the more valuable the rewards.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 22, 2019

It’s kind of a shady site, but what it is basically is it’s like a web proxy so you can go to Google, use an IP address that’s in the States and search through it, and the cool thing is is that it’s not a VPN so it doesn’t have your browser history or any of that stuff implementing it. I was there.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I started my career working at a large law firm in New York. It was everything I could want as a twenty-something cutting their teeth in a new profession. I was living in New York for a few years and saw the rise of clear aligner businesses. Thanks to Susan Smith, Velden Engineering ! #5- 5- Pursue a mission.

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Entrepreneur Software Review LLC Web Development 143

www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

A deployment process (sending code to customers, putting it on web server, etc). (PS New York City , including free housing, free lunch, and the chance to develop software people will really use, with great mentors on interesting projects. I’m Joel Spolsky , co-founder of Fog Creek Software , a New York company that proves that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Since 2000 we have passed a number of laws and regulations that are killing innovation in the US. All three of the pillars have been under attack since 2000. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, September 10, 2009 4:37 AM Dale B.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

What started as a web site to trade laser pointers and Beanie Babies (the Pez dispenser start is quite literally a legend), today enables transactions of approximately $100B per year. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Loading… New York. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Web Designer (Req. MORE JOBS AND CAREER NEWS. WSJ Web Slice. LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY. Data Policy - NEW. Mozilla Firefox. » More.

Silicon Valley 42

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Brandanew

MARCH 9, 2016

Using the online media like social platforms, your websites, new sites and external web based channels to deliver a story that’s powerful and shares coherent stories is how I’d define online storytelling. Now imagine reading this in a 2000 page academic article. What is online storytelling? What is oral storytelling?

Brazil 100

Brazil Audio Audience Media 100

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

In their startup post-mortem, Nouncer discussed their decision to be in NY as one that hurt their company stating : In my case, New York didn’t lack money, community, able workers, or smart people with good advice. I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve met in New York meetups and events that fit this description.

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Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… New York. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. Web Design/Tech Services. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. New Hampshire. New Jersey. New Mexico. WSJ Web Slice. Deutschland. » More.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

The only problem is I haven’t found a problem or an industry – web, enterprise software, green tech, etc – where I feel passionate. However, i need a technical person (web developer) who can bring my vision to life. I am in the planning (and recruiting) stage for my web start-up. How did you find your passion?

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We had a special edition of This Week in Venture Capital this week shooting out of the Next New Networks offices in New York. Spark Capital is relatively new to VC (founded in 2005) yet has become one of the hottest new VCs having invested in Twitter, Tumblr, AdMeld, Boxee, KickApps and many more companies.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). During this year they.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Sans serif are better on the web. 1998 , Bernard et al., 1995 , Reynolds, 1979 ).

Technical Review 85

Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. While I had previous experience with many various aspects of online marketing such as web design, email marketing, etc., Shaw, Dallas Web Design Inc ! #15-

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