Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55) 18:08) Carl's experiences at USAA following Hurricane Harvey's devastating 2017 hit on Texas. (18:21) Highlights from the show: Carl details his background and experience. (4:22)

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. For reason number two people pay a higher price & rent in New York than they do in San Antonio, Texas. Yes, there are some factors that can affect property prices beyond these two factors (e.g.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Our team members have literally been at the bleeding the intersection of real-time AI and computer graphics since 2000. My first was AI.implant in 2000, which allowed non-programmers to create and simulate huge crowds of interacting autonomous characters. It boils down to our culture. This is my third startup.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The CEO of Blockbuster, John Antioco, said in 2000, “Redbox and Netflix aren’t even on the radar.”. The tortoise and the hare is a great bedtime story, but also proffers some advice to every young business owner and entrepreneur alike. He was also a member of the U.S. Treasury’s SSBCI Venture Capital Steering Committee.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

To support this growth, SailPoint also grew its headcount to 125 and doubled its office space in Austin, Texas. SailPoint doubled its customer base in 2010, adding 40 global companies. In 2010, SailPoint closed two strategic corporate transactions to broaden its product engineering and services teams and further expand its global footprint.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

After buying our first home in 2000, I realized how great the housing market was, saw how everyone else was buying up houses for little or no money down to rent them out and started to do that myself. With that crash, I made the decision to move my family to Houston, Texas. By the year 2004, I had somewhere around 12 rentals.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2015

My royalty checks had stopped, but fortunately I had started Feld Technologies and 1986 was the summer of 2430 Denmark in Garland, Texas. Texas real estate was booming, until it wasn’t. The oil and gas business wasn’t the only one that got slaughtered by this. I learned this lesson again, but in a more profound way.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. In 2006, PMC-Sierra acquired Herzliya-based Passave, a developer of system-on-chip semiconductor solutions for the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) access market, for $300 million.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 13, 2022

And we've now over a thousand student, over 2000 students, I've gone through that program. I got a call from this place in Texas. We have now thousands of implementations, we have a training institution or school or whatever you call those things, training curriculum that our, uh, readers can choose to go through. It's a barbecue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

John, just a few years ago, my loyalty to Amazon was tested because up to that point, in Texas, they were not charging sales tax. ” They’ll show you that it’s got four and a half stars from 2000 reviews. Roger Dooley: Well you and me both. They will show you, “This one is a best seller.”

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. New Hampshire.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Alan Bourgeois, Texas Authors, Inc. #4 We founded the company in 2000 and have since continued to grow our client base and revenues and, at the same time, have been named to a lot of ‘best places to work’ lists, including the big one, Fortune’s. Thanks to B. 4 – Professional Claustrophobia.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Do you tax a business traveler from Texas who orders TurboTax on his WiFi at Starbucks in Cherry Creek or a tourist from Oklahoma who does so from his SmartPhone while sitting on the chairlift at Vail? On the low end, think of a download of small mini-apps: a $.95 95 ringtone, a $1 MP3 song, a $2 e-book, a $5 upgrade to your GPS.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Key Takeaway: In a recent Texas Tech Survey, out of 2000 consumers, 89% of them claimed they had a business that they loved enough that they would gladly recommend — only 29% of them actually did it. And I'm going to start by citing a, a recent Texas tech survey of 2000 consumers. Why is there such a gap?

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2014

million ad featured in the 2000 Superbowl. Worse, he got rid of practically everyone who knew anything about clothing retailing, including 600 folks from the company’s Texas headquarters and thousands of middle managers across the country. The 1999 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade even featured a balloon created in its image.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. In 1978, John Mackey and Rene Lawson Hardy opened up a small natural foods store called Safer Way Natural Foods in Austin, Texas.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

In 2008, I moved to Austin, Texas and transferred to The Junior League of Austin. Add 2000 more and that’s the size of the Austin roster. I quickly said yes, knowing that it also meant I would get to sit on the prestigious League board during my third year as a member. Lafayette has about 500 women in its league.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In January 2000, the New Zealand based company went out of business, leaving Hilimire and Spunlogic behind in the wake of its crash with no money. “At But last Friday I interviewed a guy that is looking for a new career, he has two little kids at his home in Texas, and they are going to either be moving to Atlanta or Seattle.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Like I had back in my real estate days, cuz I used to do a ton of now we're talking about the stone ages, you know, the early 2000, but I did a lot of postcard mailouts and radio advertising and print advertising and so on and all. I didn't have the benefit of having a big war chest.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Wikipedia gives the impact on financial bubbles as an example: “The Dot-com bubble, also knowns as Internet bubble, referenced the speculative investment bubble that was created around new internet startup companies between the years 1995-2000. This is probably to get my greed/hope triggered. If she can do it, I can too, right?

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

It’s free for up to your first 2000 subscribers. Once you got your website going, getting your email marketing going is really an important thing. All of us around here just love MailChimp. It’s easy to use. Even once you start paying, it’s inexpensive. Now, I’ll have to check it out.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The system is used by over 2000 companies in 30 countries, helping them to achieve better results in almost every digital marketing and sales field. states (North Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, and Texas), and have launched a Pop-Up Code Initiative in order to grow coding talent in areas we don’t already have a location at.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). Dec 26, 2009). Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

I mean, we support roughly 2000 employees across cities in the US. So there was a huge, huge amount of fear that I felt around that. I think the second order of business was "What is going to happen to Revolution Foods?" Our parents we serve often are our employees. So there's absolutely no doubt that the need is enormous.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

By all accounts, the first one burst in 2000 when the NASDAQ crash brought the first dot-com era to a close. is mostly sanguine, claiming that the market’s standards for viability have increased since the 2000 bust and citing Twitter (revenue but no profit) as the model for the new public tech company.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

I live in Sheboygan, Wisconsin but I was born in a small town in southwest Texas called Crystal City. After my youngest brother Ethan was born, my parents decided to move the family back to Austin, Texas. Between 2000 and 2007, I did not do any graphic design work. As a teenager, I was not a very happy camper about this move.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

I live in Sheboygan, Wisconsin but I was born in a small town in southwest Texas called Crystal City. After my youngest brother Ethan was born, my parents decided to move the family back to Austin, Texas. Between 2000 and 2007, I did not do any graphic design work. As a teenager, I was not a very happy camper about this move.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. In many cases, a deeper focus on a particular category or vertical allows these marketplaces to distinguish themselves from broader marketplaces like eBay.

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