Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. It helped that in the nuclear winter that followed the crash, 2001 – 2004, startups and VCs were extremely risk averse and amenable to new ideas that reduced risk. The Lean Startup isn’t dead.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

A robust document management system (DMS) that takes care of tedious tasks for you, while ushering your office into the digital age with an entirely paperless workflow. Here we explore how a document management system makes this automated workflow happen, and a few of the key benefits this remarkable office asset offers. Manager name.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2013

So when you or other higher-level leaders ignore the company’s values, department managers think they can behave that way too. Meanwhile, employees will think they can ignore important change initiatives because management gets to ignore them. Your behavior makes clear what the real corporate values are.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. We weren’t the first investor in Rally. Ryan quickly raised about $400k of friends and family money. Get Agile with Rally Release 5.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2015

When I get coffee with another entrepreneur, I almost always learn something important about my market or get tips for solving business challenges such as managing employees, organizing work or even fundraising. Farbood is a former educator who was named 2001 National Teacher of the Year by the Princeton Review.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 15, 2018

As multichannel data continues to overwhelm small businesses, trying desperately to collect and organize a deluge of data like paper receipts, invoices, legal documents, and scattered digital assets, a digital management system to handle of all that data becomes a necessity. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc. Structure Loss.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names. Folksonomy.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I came up with my company name by asking myself, what will I be doing often? When I was naming it, I had a few criteria.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2014

These are the people who screw up meetings, upset customers and suppliers, and give your company a bad name because they’re consistently tardy. Sure, there are legitimate reasons why even the most responsible person might be running late: a fender bender, a sick child, an unfortunate coffee spill, to name just a few.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). People buy companies for 3 primary reasons: 1) they want the management team / talent 2) they want the technology or 3) they want the market traction (revenue, customer base, profits, etc). Minutes 11-16 in the video. <<

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 21, 2014

The second dimension is the internal trust between employees, managers, and top-level management. Plus, people are just more likely to abide by an agreement if they’ve signed their name to it. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Do leaders keep their promises?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Mastering document management search and store features is one of the first steps in effectively leveraging a document management solution. We’ll begin by assessing some of the cloud-based document management functions of these solutions. The Speed of Information Drives Document Management Search and Store Success.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

There are plenty of cases where a small startup has managed to grow into a billion-dollar company. At the time, a company called Network Solutions was essentially the only place from which people could register domain names. That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2014

The second dimension is the internal trust between employees, managers, and top-level management. Plus, people are just more likely to abide by an agreement if they’ve signed their name to it. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001. Do leaders keep their promises?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 28, 2013

When not executed correctly, businesses are missing out on major productivity, efficiency and money saving benefits that come with paperless data management. As someone who has been in the document management industry for over 10 years, the most common pitfalls I’ve seen are as follows: Mislabeling or inconsistently labeling files.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Honeywell CEO Dave Cote also cautions against shortsightedness during economic downturns: I’ve been a leader during three recessions and I’ve never heard a management team talk about how the choices they make during a downturn will affect performance during a recovery. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Exclusive: Returns for brand-name VC funds By Dan Primack August 20, 2012: 12:15 PM ET. FORTUNE -- Its no secret that venture capitalists were hit hard by last decades dotcom bust, considering that median returns for 1998-2001 vintage funds are all underwater. Crosslink Ventures IV (2001): 246% (104%). Management jobs.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Belnick founded BizChair.com with $500 in 2001. The name of this startup was Flipkart and they started it with $6,500. Millennium Management and Balyasny Asset Management were his employers at some point. This year, Goldman Sachs agreed to give his company $250 million in investments to manage. Source: Pexels.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

In that role, he championed the acquisition of a little known company named Weblogic. In recognition of his phenomenal vision and execution, BEA named Alfred its new Chief Executive Officer in October 2001. So how would Alfred, coming off a role managing thousands of people, billions of dollars in revenue, and achieving an $8.5B

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

I’m excited about the program below on “Investing in Intellectual Capital: Intellectual Capital: Patents, Trademarks, Domain Names, Litigation, Government Rights, and other Intangible Assets” Click here to make a reservation. Joe Chernesky, Vice President and General Manager of Global Licensing Sales, Intellectual Ventures.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 12, 2023

So I think it's like you're gonna, if you wanna work on , if you wanna have people be better at prioritization and time management and their health and kind of have energy and doing a lot of these things, like, that actually kind of needs to be a holistic approach. I see way too many leaders managed to the exception.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

The authors encourage quoting from this article or using the data in articles and presentations but request that the title of this article and the names of the authors be cited for attribution. Corsa Ventures fits this criteria. But the timing of the launch of these new funds almost assured their failure regardless of their investing acumen.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. Authenticating your domain name raises your deliverability rate because the email is coming from your domain.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 17, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Free Website Feedback, Custom Card Designs, Finding Good Domain Names, and more… Paying the Price of Success → Joel on Software is Shutting Down. Long Live the King.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Three years ago today, I grabbed the domain name BrooklynBridgeVentures.com. Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. Getting a domain name. So thanks for playing Inception, Henry.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 23, 2014

Sure, there are legitimate reasons why even the most responsible person might be running late: a fender bender, a sick child, an unfortunate coffee spill, to name just a few. They assume you’re the same kind of person as the manager yelling at his employees. Showing up late. But if it happens again and again, you’ve got a problem.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Another company which is going to have widespread impact is eShares, eShares is going to change the way the private companies manage their equity. In late 2000, early 2001 I started my second company to test whether I can build a successful company again. MK : I chose the name K9 for two reasons.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Published in early 2001, Positioning remains as relevant and actionable now as it was then. From naming your product to using your strengths to your advantage, this short read gives you plenty to implement in your own marketing and branding efforts. In general, the mind accepts only that which matches prior knowledge or experience.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Transcript of Managing an Expanding Business, With Your Mission Guiding the Way written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. If you were to think about your typical, your typical, I won’t name any brands or anything like that but you pay-. Back to Podcast. Transcript. Matt Scanlon: Yeah. Matt Scanlon: Yeah.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

The owner was not equipped to manage people. 3 – Google Regional Sales Manager. Before starting Badger, I worked at Google as Regional Sales Manager. Sales Account Manager. Sales Account Manager for a leading NYC based StartUp. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3 Image Credit: Steve Benson. 4 – Sr.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2018

How did you come up with your business name? OXXO was originally a European cleaning franchise which I liked the name for is metaphoric, hugs and kisses and its colors blue and yellow. The first OXXO Care Cleaners opened in 2001, and there are now more than 50 locations worldwide. Tell us about your products and services.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The best start-up I ever invested in went bankrupt in 2001. They had a great managment team, A list VCs, great technology, excellent sales traction and market leadership in a very exciting space. Name and email address are required. Name is required to post a comment. management. They looked like a sure winner.

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 10, 2012

I thirst for the wisdom from the likes of Harold Thurman Whitma n (1899-1981), Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Dale Carnegie (1888-1955), Mary Kay Ash (1918-2001), Michael Gerber (still very alive and kickin’ and playin’ the sax ), and many others. Just please put a notation next to my name saying “(Not Dead Yet)”

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 9, 2006

Because GoDaddy.com sells domain name registrations, we are required to use an accounting method that is ultra conservative. We’ll manage just fine without the IPO money — thank you. Not one of them took the time to look at our cash flow statements to see that we generated significant operating cash flow during each reporting period.

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Babbling VC

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We often think we can change people, even managers. Without naming the name of the companies, I clearly made two investments convinced of the product and that people would love it. They kept changing the responsible investment manager for the deal as well hence we never really knew whom to speak to when we needed something.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2014

And when the time comes to suggest names for a project, yours is no longer on the short list. They assume you’re the same kind of person as the manager yelling at his employees. You have a sneaking suspicion that your fellow employees would rather not have you on the team. Is it too late to redeem yourself? Probably not.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

My experience of 2001-2004 is very remote from what you are describing. We have in our partnership a gent by the name of Barry Fidelman who puts us all to shame with his intensity. The mantra was as follows: “no one is coming to save us, we are going to make it on our own&#.

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