YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

The e-commerce space in Singapore has been ratcheted up by another notch as online shopping platform Shopify partners telecommunications provider SingTel to make available its services to businesses in the country. It also works as a fully featured mobile application, and retailers can manage their shop on the go through the mobile app.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. They did not take salaries during the first two years and invested more money in the firm than they received from management fees. SecondRound.com – This is a proprietary CRM system that was built to help manage the fundraising process.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In 2005, while at the CIA, Don helped found Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki, with his colleague Sean Dennehy. Both of us were very highly respected, we were both managers, we both had really large networks of people that we knew. … . I know what a program manager is.” Anyone can just edit?”

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

” In fact, I’ve written two posts over the years on this topic – one way back in 2005 and a follow-up to that a few years later in 2008 (the 2nd of the post is the more practical advice if you’re pressed for time; or just keep reading below). And partners were former junior partners who had been promoted up as well.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 10, 2011

Business owners must learn to manage and juggle a complex and shifting combination of customer, partner, vendor, staff and advisory relationships in order to survive and grow. This is so critical if you plan to build a strategic partner platform. Internal customer – How often do you take the internal temperature?

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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. Ryan had a vision for an integration web-based system to layer on top of all of this to help support and manage the software development process.

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The Next Web

MARCH 8, 2014

Jason Lemkin is the Managing Director at Storm Ventures , a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage enterprise and IT companies, including MobileIron , Marketo and GuideSpark. Second, to pay salaries and expenses, venture funds typically charge a 2 percent management fee. Until then, there are no profits to the VC partners.

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Austin Startup

MAY 11, 2017

645 Ventures: A New Era of Venture Capital Investing Arena Growth Partners We help great leaders build great businesses. Aligned Partners offers our portfolio companies world-class venture capital expertise while enabling founders to start lean and stay lean all the way through their growth. That drives every decision we make.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

During our best months, it included everyone from upper management to drivers to floor salespeople and was often over 30 pages long! To unlock buy-in and achievement, make your employees feel like valued partners by seeking out their opinions, ideas, and preferences. Handle mistakes with care. In business, mistakes are going to happen.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

One area where good decision making plays a large role in any business is in regards to risk management. A large part of a good risk management plan is a business owner who can determine what the businesses actual risk is and how much of a risk each element represents. There is definitely a difference between actual and perceived risk.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The company didn’t turn a profit until 2003, but by 2005 business was booming – Netflix was shipping out a million DVDs daily. Reddit, a popular website for news and discussion, was founded in 2005 by Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian. When he did manage to start his own business, it was short-lived and failed. 10- Elon Musk.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 10, 2014

Rather than losing respect for you as a leader, they’ll appreciate that you treated them as valued partners — and they’ll feel more invested in your company’s future because they had more of a hand in creating it. Again, this is all about transparency and treating employees like partners. How is your family?”.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Although bootstrapping is still an approach in Austin, a lot has changed since I wrote my original challenge to the Bootstrap Austin group back in 2005. Groups list on March 15, 2005. I farmed out work to Wharton undergrads that were in the Management of Technology program. Below is a post I wrote on their Yahoo!

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

VCs in seed clothing: Chris Dixon, Mark Suster, and Naval Ravikant interviewed - Venture Hacks , May 5, 2010 I recently got on the phone for a cross-continent conference call with Chris Dixon from Founder Collective , Mark Suster from GRP Partners , and our own Naval Ravikant. SlideShare: VC signaling in seed rounds. What should I do?’.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 21, 2011

I took note of both and wrote quick updates – The first was the addition of optimized reviews in Places Pages and the second was the addition of reputation management features in Profile Pages. Two barely noticeable moves in the last couple weeks give hint to the this focus strategy.

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Small Business Marketing Software Review Portland 66

The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Blake has long been involved in the Dallas startup scene, having helped organize the first BarCamp Dallas in 2005. Gabriella is co-founder and managing partner of Tech Wildcatters, a Dallas-based seed accelerator.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

With a demonstrated market need and limited competition, Roland partnered with a custom software developer to co-found Abenity Inc. to offer employee discount management to companies. The team at Abenity has listened to customers and adapted its business model along the way since the company launched in 2005.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Not only do they need to have a high level of diversified technical prowess and proficiency, but they also need to possess strong leadership and project management capabilities. However, it’s more important that the CTO have exceptional interpersonal skills and be able to manage a team effectively. Have an account?

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

The terms and valuation for both offers were comparable and when the team debated which path to choose, we all agreed both firms would have made good partners. We three partners are working hard. Thanks for sharing a candid view of what went on; I’ve heard Reid discuss the process in 2005 at a conference in the UK.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2017

If you are spending more time managing your debt than your business, it may be time to consider consolidating that debt. It can create a more manageable repayment schedule, reduce the number of creditors that you deal with each month and, possibly, get your business a lower interest rate.

Small Business Administration 145

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. This data gives innovation managers and investors a feel for the evidence and trajectory of the cohort as a whole and a top-level view of each teams progress.

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Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

Today in Oklahoma City, Okla, Keith and Cheryl own three separate companies that manage and dispose of a variety of waste, from hazardous and commercial waste, to the treatment of industrial waters and grease trap cleaning. ’” Chuck Herb never planned on owning a waste management company either. No businesses, no trash.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 4, 2016

You must manage through them, correcting course as necessary, to keep realizing your vision for your company. Stephen Sheinbaum founded Bizfi as Merchant Cash and Capital in 2005. by Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Bizfi. As an entrepreneur, your days will be filled with surprises and unexpected lessons.

Small Business Administration 145

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2013

How does a small app developer manage to distinguish itself on the new Microsoft Office app store? Work fast, track competitors and design a great icon. One of the features of the new Microsoft Office revision is the Office Store , where users can download plugins and other tools to supplement the core Office experience. monthly/$49.50

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

This was 2005 when I had no exits under my belt, no blogs … nobody was looking. They scooped up none other than David Hernand who will join the practice as managing partner. Also coming from DLA Piper is another partner – Christopher Shoff. He knows every startup & VC in town.” He was a mensch.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As I build and grow my business, I am challenged to grow my mental, emotional and spiritual capabilities in a myriad of ways learning time management and productivity, communication with clients, mentors and peers, resilience from dead ends and mistakes, and overall persistence and optimism. Thanks to Asad Gourani, AG Wealth Management ! #24-

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 8, 2019

From around 2000, and perhaps coinciding with the need to work harder to win deals as opportunities dried up after the internet bubble burst, individual partners at VC firms began adding ‘helping CEOs win’ to their job descriptions. . Value add strategies make partners at VC firms more personally effective. Building platforms.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2014

If you lack a key component to running your business, consider finding a partner to handle that aspect. If you don’t want to bring in a partner, hire someone to fill in your “business gaps”, because it is exhausting to try to do everything yourself and invariably whatever you’re not comfortable doing won’t get done for the business.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Among other corporate positions in my career, I have been a Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Research Engineer for small private companies, and also some Fortune 500 and even Fortune 10 companies. SAP Business Objects Crystal Enterprise XI, SAP Business Objects Crystal Reports 8.5,

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2022

And I think as we talk just a little bit, as we got started, you started in 2005. Even the blogging software is really referred to as just content management, mm-hmm software systems. Matter of fact, my sponsor GoDaddy, which I've had since 2005, it's remarkable. So Todd, welcome to the show. So you're right there with me.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Likely encouraged by various government schemes to grow the games and animation sector , the Singapore video games industry in recent years have expanded rapidly, growing from $87 million in 2005 to $285 million in 2007. It took the team of 20 some 14 months to develop both games, said Don Sim, the co-founder and CEO of Daylight Studios.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. When I started my company in 2005, I spent too many years working so much both IN and ON the business that I burned out. When the going gets rough in business, you’ll need motivation to keep moving.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

And that was, you know, 2004, 2005 was, I was realizing that it was no longer about working harder. So they need that partner, right. And I think you can level up, you can work with them on their situational leadership and their coaching and time management and project and EQ and all the skills. And then secondly was the text.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2005, David Choe was invited to paint a number of murals at Facebook’s HQ in Palo Alto. If you’re giving a large percentage of your company to someone (and yes, two percent is large), you’re entering into a contract that’s really a whole lot like marriage in that it creates a long-term relationship between you and the employee or partner.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

I’m very stingy with my non-profit board activity after deciding in 2005 to get off any non-profit board that wasn’t focused on entrepreneurship and until yesterday the only non-profit board I’m on is the National Center for Women & Information Technology. I was at the first Startup Weekend in Boulder in July 2007.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

500|5000 Conference Honorees Resources Press Apply 2011 ); Topics > Leadership and Managing > Human Resources > Recruiting and Hiring Employees > How to Attract Talent to Your Start-Up At a start-up, you need employees that are in it for the long haul and fit your unique culture. 500|5000 The 2010 Inc. 500|5000 List The 2010 Top Lists Inc.

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