Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has nearly 2 billion users worldwide.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

million, born 2005-2024, yet to be defined Silent Generation (Lucky Few) – 28.6 First, a quick summary of the major U.S. demographic generations out there today, ranked from large to small: Generation Y (Millennials) – 86.6 million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Generation X (Generation Me) – 82.9

Architecture 144

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide.

Entrepreneur 263

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide.

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” He has said many times that if your vision for your company is to grow it just to flip it to a large company or to take it public and cash out, "you're doomed.” Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great.

Leadership 120

Leadership Entrepreneur Media Startup 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2011

No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. Others foresee just the opposite. Ella says many women don't want to be seen as "soft" -- and others simply aren't. According to her memoir, Tough Choices , she was sometimes referred to as Chainsaw Carly.

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Networking Leadership Demand Entrepreneur 226

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 28, 2015

Steve Jobs summarized his intrinsic motivation in 2005 at Stanford in a talk titled “ How to Live Before You Die.” He has said many times that if your vision for your company is to grow it just to flip it to a large company or to take it public and cash out, "you're doomed.” Do it for meaning. Satisfaction of doing something great.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Leadership Media 120

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

Paul Graham built the mold at Y Combinator , which he founded back in 2005. There is a growing fellowship of special-case start-up programs operated by closely-knit, permanent groups of angel-mentors. They have processed well over a hundred client start-ups so far and have an impressive list of successes.

Incubator 201

Incubator Programming Virginia DC 201

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. He later changed the name to Facebook. But within five years it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide.

Initial Public Offering 221

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2010

No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. Others foresee just the opposite. Ella says many women don't want to be seen as "soft" -- and others simply aren't. According to her memoir, Tough Choices , she was sometimes referred to as Chainsaw Carly.

Entrepreneur 121

Entrepreneur Leadership Networking Demand 121

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 13, 2011

In fact, between 1995 and 2005, these same immigrants founded over 50 percent of the venture-backed technology companies in Silicon Valley, and are some of the key venture capitalists there as well. The evidence is that immigrants don’t take jobs, they create them by the millions.

Technical Review 230

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 26, 2010

of startup businesses as far back as 2005. In case you think that all of these are employed by big companies, listen to these statistics: According to an article in U.S. News & World Report , people over 40 were key players in 86.6% So what are some ideal roles for a Boomer relative to your startup?

Advisory Board 189

Advisory Board Angel Investor Equity Salary 189