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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Over a 25 year career, Baughman has gained experience in leading worldwide sales organizations, brings expertise in full life cycle product management, proven revenue creation and growth management including taking a start up from zero to $1.6B, and shepherding companies through all phases from start up launch to IPO to acquisition.

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For Those Recently Laid Off From Google, Leaving Your Job Doesn’t Mean Losing Your Identity.

Hunter Walker

Google was about 1,000 people when I started in 2003, which means last week’s layoffs were more than an order of magnitude larger than the entire company I’d originally joined. Originally Published June, 2013 [and lightly edited/updated] hunter@google.com: From 2003–2013, it was a pretty powerful email address for me.

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You Are Not Your LDAP: Why Leaving Your Job Doesn’t Mean Losing Your Identity

Hunter Walker

hunter@google.com: From 2003-2013, it was a pretty powerful email address for me. Obviously he’s an engineer). People would stop me on the street to tell me their Google search stories of triumph or failure, ask me about their website ranking, and, around the time of the IPO, make wild assumptions about my net worth.

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The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

2003: Spitzer’s Global Research Analyst Settlement, which had the unintended effect of depriving small companies from getting research coverage. We should all be concerned about this because small companies are the engines for job growth and new job creation in America. cents or 6.25

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If, Why, and How Founders Should Hire a “Professional” CEO

Reid Hoffman

In another study of 212 startups , Wasserman found that it was rare for Founder-CEOs to run their companies in the long term; less than half were still CEO after 3 years, and less than a quarter of the CEOs of the companies that reached an IPO were Founder-CEOs. For Jeff’s part, he went above and beyond to immerse himself in the company.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. Many don’t know that since 2003, the Texas Enterprise Fund has provided incentives for businesses that relocate to Texas and create new jobs.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company). If my memory serves me, <10% of our pre-IPO employees at PayPal lived in SF and literally 1 of the first 40-50 folks at LinkedIn were city-dwellers.