Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

Today the company still uses the logo that my college roommate created, employs thousands of people globally, and has a market cap well over half a billion dollars. The internet was created in 1983, and people said the same thing about it in 1993. In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 16, 2019

When I left Procter & Gamble as VP in Global Business Services and IT after a career of 27 years, I’d been associated with setting up the first shared services operation in the Philippines in 1993 — program managing an $8 billion dollar outsourcing deal.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

At the Clinton Global Initiative last September, Pierre Omidyar, co-founder of eBay, announced a commitment from his philanthrocapitalist firm to invest millions of dollars in mobile applications and services, with a focus on developing markets globally. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

This was in 1993, and I was the chief marketing officer at Frito-Lay North America. Two weeks later, I was named the executive director of global marketing for GE at the corporate level, working for Beth Comstock. Your first big innovation was also a huge cultural moment. What was it, and how did it come about?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

“When I asked David Cohen, Co-CEO of Techstars, for some advice on writing the book he suggested a collaboration utilizing the experience of the 1900 companies in the program’s global portfolio?—?we we could bring all of these lessons learned by the startups we invest in to a wider audience,” said Schwartzfarb. “Of

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

In 2000, global giant Unilever bought out Ben & Jerry’s for about $326 million in order to eliminate competition with the corporation’s brands, Breyer’s and Good Humor. The mom-and-pop business became an instant success and its annual sales continued to skyrocket each year.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Bill Gates at the Smithsonian Institute , circa 1993: Face it — the staggering majority of startup companies won’t wind up enjoying Microsoft’s level of international success; but that doesn’t mean they can’t pick up more than a few bits of solid advice from the corporation’s founder.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

Eventually, the company was led to global dominance by Alfred P. Forbes, Shopify, and Gillette are among the clients who have learned how FUBU developed a successful global brand. In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time. Photo Credit: Alex Williams.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 2, 2022

For instance, the memorable Coca-Cola polar bear was part of the 1993 global “Always Coca-Cola campaign.” Over 80% of the global consumer population is willing to spend more on eco-friendly companies. If you see the mullet come back in fashion, you know that nostalgic marketing is still effective.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2014

I learned this in 1993 when my first company was acquired by Len Fassler and Jerry Poch, two of the absolute master deal makers I’ve ever worked with. I’ve got a few posts on this topic coming but until then here’s a great post from Chet Kittleson at UP Global about how he thinks about it.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

1993 ; Moriarty & Scheiner, 1984 ; Poulton, 1965 ; Coghill, 1980) ). Sassoon, 1993 ; Rubinstein, 1988 ). Pingback: Using Typography to Your Advantage | Pros Global TV. 2001 ; Tullis et al., 1995 ; De Lange et al., There are some high profile studies which claim to show the superiority of serif typefaces ( Robinson et al.,

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2011

. “Having shown an excellent track record in weathering the most recent crisis via timely monetary and fiscal policy responses, the country earned well deserved respect and confidence among global investors,&# the bank said. FDI IN ISRAEL IN JUNE RISES ABOVE MONTHLY AVERAGE. ICQ FOUNDER SELLS ISRAEL’S DOTOMI FOR $295 MLN.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 29, 2011

Undersecretary for International Affairs and then Deputy Treasury Secretary for President Clinton between 1993 and 1999. Third, Larry’s deep insight into global economics and geopolitics will be highly useful to our companies that intend to expand globally—which is to say, all of them. Became US Treasury Secretary in 1999.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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