Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

In the Kauffman Foundation Survey of nearly 5,000 companies that began in 2004, nearly two-thirds of the founders are now between the ages of 35 and 54. One new incentive is the falling transaction costs and barriers to entry for entrepreneurs of every age. These trends seem likely to persist.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

And if their initial guesses were wrong, they needed a process that would permit them to change early on in the product development process when the cost of changes was small – the famed “pivot”. They needed to be sure that what they were building was what customers wanted and needed. The result? Carpe Diem – Seize the Cash.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

This notorious quote has been attributed to many individuals, but, originally it was used at a stand-up meeting in February of 2004 by David J. This has proven to greatly reduce risks and associated costs. Anderson , the thought leader and the pioneer of the Kanban movement and CEO of Kanban University. Reduced risks. Summing up.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

A broken process or a subtle quality issue can generate a flood of customer satisfaction problems, cost overruns, and loss of market share. Way back in 2004, he cared enough about an associate's injury to spend time investigating, and used the exercise to isolate a root cause without blaming anyone. Don’t waste time fixing symptoms.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

” I started experiencing, and understanding, agile in 2004 when I made an investment in Rally Software. One of the emails reinforced the challenge of “traditional software development” vs. the new generation of “Agile software development.”

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

The first modern e-cigarette was made in the mid-2000s and started to be sold in 2004, but the trend only caught up worldwide after 2010, when the interest in vaping started to increase and, consequently, the number of e-cigarette users too – a strong indicator of why this growing industry is currently trending amongst entrepreneurs.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

DECEMBER 15, 2021

in 2004 and has grown her project management company into a success that makes $1 million in revenue annually. If a business owner is faced with an issue like a natural disaster, employee injury or even a lawsuit, they’ll have to cover the costs themselves out of pocket. Increasing health care costs. Do a Cost-Benefit Analysis.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2015

The sheer volume of cost-per-whatever models can be simply overwhelming for some companies. The cost of hiring an agency, of course, can easily be out of reach for smaller businesses and newer vendors without thousands of dollars to spend each month to secure their place in the digital world. Here’s how it works.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

Sales reps are also likely to be familiar with Salesforce because it’s the most widely used CRM, reducing onboarding costs for companies that use it. There are five types of moats: Low-cost production; High switching costs; Network effects; Intangible assets; Efficient scale. Low-cost production. High switching costs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2011

We ended up putting in our equipment at no cost, and two days later the smell was gone. It’s not sexy, nor is it costly (in hard costs, but the time she puts into it is certainly of high value), but the specificity and clarity with which she writes is something I deeply appreciate.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

But for some, the benefits are better than the cost. Response to this low cost alternative to traditional housing has been nothing short of stellar. In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. I love that the harder I work, the more I get to help others. That is not a joke.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 15, 2015

This chart shows the beneficiary as customer value rather than product value, but product quality drives customer value in two ways: lower customer acquisition costs – great product drives word of mouth marketing (which is why companies now obsess over NPS).

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Founding Date: 2004. Obviously most of these employees are working hard primarily for equity upside compensation, but Kayak’s personnel costs are roughly $200K/head so the company is highly productive on a per employee basis. round closed in June 2004. 1.65M extension round closed Nov 2004. Series A Preferred.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

Two factors: cost and range (and charging infrastructure, to a lesser extent, but that will be remedied when there is more demand). The Nissan Leaf battery pack alone costs about $18,000 (though government incentives bring down the overall vehicle cost to the customer). The real barrier to adoption is cost.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

In 2004, Googling terms like “high tech marketing” and “startup” I discovered “ The Four Steps to The Epiphany ” at Cafépress.com. However, when I looked into the detail, most of them did not have even early adaptors and the problem wasn’t “chasm crossing,” it was that almost nobody wanted their products.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. I wanted to find a way to vastly simplify loyalty programs, eliminating most if not all of the costs and making them much lighter to deploy and manage. A new paradigm. Early results are exciting.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2012

Businesses will have to perform at maximum, avoiding mistakes at all costs before they happen. Avoid at all costs using symmetry in your cover photos. Serban Enache is the CEO of Dreamstime , the stock photography site he founded in 2004. Companies need to invest time, energy and passion into maintaining their social platforms.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital. Third, the data above reflects companies which typically took a decade to build.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to get press coverage when we were no longer “hot.&# I learned how to manage costs effectively. There is a high probability that the person you’re hiring will leave you within 18 months.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2021

But that was back in 2004 and the trillions of dollars of wealth created since in startups, big tech companies and crypto makes earlier questions of extravagance seem quaint. I’m off to research how much it actually costs to privately own a giraffe…. It’s not about scarcity, it’s about abundance.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2020

No matter the cost, there are people who are willing to buy the products. Facebook was founded and developed by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. The company has become the most valuable company in terms of company and stock success in the tech sector. The company was founded by three people: Steve Jobs, Ronald Wayne, and Steve Wozniak.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

I first blogged about this in 2004—14 years ago!— Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. (This post is running concurrently on the Return Path blog.). It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. online experience.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech? One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). A: Tech is a $5tn industry, and is only a small % of total GDP. Was this a lost decade for venture capital?

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

I first blogged about this in 2004—14 years ago!— Consumers are coming to understand and appreciate that the real cost of a “free” internet lies in advertising and data collection. (This post is running concurrently on the Return Path blog.). It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. online experience.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Purchasing supplies and property in such an environment is a cost effective way to make the most out of your new venture. It is also worth noting that the cost of land and property in Wilmington is a fraction of what you will pay in other cities with this amount of traffic and visibility.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Q: What is going to happen to the cost of capital? Q: What is the opportunity cost of not being in tech? One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x). A: Tech is a $5tn industry, and is only a small % of total GDP. Was this a lost decade for venture capital?

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

While it was still a college-focused SNS, Facebook of course launched in 2004 and there were plenty of other examples of social networking already… Friendster (2002), LinkedIn (2003), MySpace (2003), Orkut (2004). It was filed in 2005 and issued in 2010 which means there was a good deal of prior art around SNS before Yahoo filed.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

So when we strip out pass through, and then we measure the margin on that pass through, it's almost like we have two layers of cost of good sold, which is a concept that a lot of accountants kind of struggle with. And that's mostly gonna be the labor cost of the work that we do for clients. I like actually selling results.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Our goals are to increase quality, by offering patients the best providers across the country, to increase access, by removing transportation barriers and connecting patients with these providers anywhere, and to lower costs, by eliminating the reliance on traditional healthcare infrastructure. Thanks to Stanley Kovak, Mirror Care !

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

They provide an excellent way for startups to train their employees without incurring the cost of a physical location or hiring more staff members. Gmail has also changed a lot since it was first introduced in 2004, with the most significant change being that now emails are automatically archived and deleted after 30 days.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2022

Companies are discovering that remote work is a cost-effective and productive alternative because of the developments in broadband & cloud computing. The number of new entrepreneurs in the US has been rising annually since 2004. New solutions that work anywhere will distinguish the future of entrepreneurship.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The most notorious faux pas was in 2004, when competitors Dell and Gateway used photos from the same photo shoot in their “Back to School” promotional material. It was taken with a point-and-shoot camera that cost a couple hundred bucks. But did it stop there? The white background in the photo is called a sweep.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 24, 2019

TorFX was founded in 2004. However, their transfer fees are a bit hefty and will cost you 47.79 World First began in 2004 with its founders’ desire to give customers an alternative to big banks when it comes to money transfers. There are no transfer fees for sending 10,000 AUD to the UK. GBP on their end.

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