Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

I met with Jeremy years ago when he had a startup that was building a fantasy sports app where you picked players in a stock-market style and their value moved up and down over time. I began playing Fantasy Football in 1993 before it was even a big thing. We believe there is a similar trend in Fantasy Sports.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

” Kraus was talking about the economics of startups—the cheapness of servers, networks, and other raw ingredients of computing. Tomorrow, that billion-dollar startup acquisition might not need an engineer at all. A decade later, Andreessen Horowitz investor Sam Gerstenzang has one-upped Kraus.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

I started my first business in 1993, right in the middle of the recession, because I didn’t know any better. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. This recession lasted until 1994. Sudden change.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 7, 2013

The second book in the Startup Revolution series, Startup Life: Surviving And Thriving In A Relationship With An Entrepreneur , is shipping in the next week or so. We got married in 1993. Startup Life explores the unique challenges that exist in the context of a relationship with an entrepreneur. Related articles.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Additionally, workers often face harassment in response to taking medical leave, even when it’s covered under The 1993 Family Medical Leave Act. The post Types of Mistreatment No Employee Should Stand For appeared first on The Startup Magazine. To say that many members of the workforce are exploited would be an understatement.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 29, 2022

The term, literally meaning “required carefulness” or “reasonable care” has been in use since the fifteenth century and more recently became a legalised term in 1993 under the United States Securities Act. appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Due diligence can take on many forms, depending on the situation and its purpose.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

This one phrase became the theoretical underpinning of the out-of-control spending of startups during the dot-com bubble. Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. In fact, a 1993 paper by Peter N. Fast Followers – a better idea.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 14, 2014

You can see from the chart below that the number of internet hosts grew 10x from 1989 to 1993 – that’s roughly 2x a year. Startup general interest' Otherwise you just don’t get growth like that. Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, so this was the data he was looking at.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

After that things started to move even faster, moving out of London in 1993 and opening pubs in Bracknell and Norwich. Founded in 1993, Quiz Clothing opened 3 stores in Scotland providing fashionable women’s party dresses to women of all ages and sizes, all for a very affordable price. Quiz Clothing.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2018

The entire experience was foundational for me, both as an entrepreneur and an early angel investor (I started investing in 1994 after I sold my first company at the end of 1993.). Over a decade ago, Brad Bernthal and Phil Weiser were putting real energy into Boulder Startup Community. Bernthal and Jason grabbed this and ran with it.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2014

Their legacy should be an inspiration for startups and small businesses everywhere—even in markets with well established leaders, smaller companies still have the opportunity to etch out a comfortable space. “The Fab Five”—The 1993 NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. On April 5, 1993 the two teams went head to head.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Palo Alto Software’s founder, Tim Berry, discusses these clichés in his latest video on Vimeo: Startups and Entrepreneurship: Beyond the Clichés. 6 common clichés about startups and entrepreneurship. Consider: in about 1993, Apple released the Apple Newton. Cliché 1: be your own boss. Doing what you love is not enough.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 19, 2014

Here’s the quick story: in 1993, we founded our first company, Pinpoint Technologies, which grew from a basement startup to a successful multinational company with $50 million in annual sales and over 250 employees. Startups' Together we’ve had successes and failures over the last 25 years, and we’ve laughed a ton along the way.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 5, 2017

In the fall of 2007, my friend Phil Weiser, Executive Director of CU Boulder’s Silicon Flatirons Center, convened 25 leaders from CU Boulder and the Boulder / Denver startup community. I got involved as a judge in 1993 and was active through 1997 with occasional visits to the finals in subsequent years when I was around Boston.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

The data from the classes seem to indicate that we’ve found have a method how to make scalable startups fail less. While we’re excited by the results, we’ve realized that we’ve been solving the problem for the 1% of new ventures that are technology startups. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S. Serendipity.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

This further bolstered findings from 1993 when researchers concluded that exposure to classical music, specifically Mozart, led to increased cognition in college students. In recent years, there has been a renewed push to engage young entrepreneurs, startup founders and business professionals to tap into their creativity through the arts.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

The internet was created in 1983, and people said the same thing about it in 1993. Twice in a Lifetime was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Which is an accurate statement. Technology revolutions take a while to fully mature.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

When I looked at my inbox this morning, I had emails from six organizations I have advised/worked with over the past couple of years (including Astia and Techstars ) announcing their partnership with the White House’s Startup America initiative.

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Start Up Blog

JULY 7, 2014

All of which are in their 1993 era. entrepreneurship Bitcoin business entrepreneurs internet startups technology top 10 list' This takes my mind directly to the potential of 3D printing, web of things and the solar energy industry. The only question remaining for entrepreneurs reading is this; What are you going to do about it?

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 2, 2012

A short letter agreement specifying the equity splits and the boilerplate legal docs were the only legal docs we had until we sold the company in 1993. As my partner Jason Mendelson told me after I sent him this the other day, “If things go well, it’s fine. If they don’t, it’s a f **g disaster.”

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

During the recruitment process, you should be familiar with federal employment laws including The Family Medical Leave Act 1993 and the Age Discrimination In Employment Act of 1967. The post From Entrepreneur To Boss: Hiring Your First Employees appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Understanding Your Legal Obligations.

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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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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

As Techstars continues to scale towards a future with billions of dollars under management and funding thousands of startups around the world annually as the world’s most active early-stage investor, the CEO job becomes more specialized. In a startup, it’s easy to talk about everything and decide on things collaboratively.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

The panel will take questions and give stories and advice on startup sales from their vast wealth of experience in the entrepreneurial world. The W3 Method equips startups with the tools to articulate their strategy with their team, company, investors and customers. What are they buying? Why do they buy?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. I hope to finish the final draft of my next book, Startup Opportunities (co-authored with Sean Wise), while I’m up here. While we have a home in Homer, where we will be for the next three weeks, we still call Boulder, Colorado our home.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

I spent the day yesterday doing Denver Startup Week stuff. By 1987 I was regularly using faxes and Federal Express (the only overnight mail I was aware of), but a mobile phone and email didn’t really show up until around 1993 for me.

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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. So we decided we needed to go and attack head on how to do innovation from a cultural perspective, which turned out to be the Lean Startup methodology. That was FastWorks, which you wrote about in The Startup Way.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Remember Lou Gerstner ran American Express before taking the helm at IBM in 1993. Small ball would be acquisitions of companies which help manage and power cloud applications and there’s lots to choose from here: stodgy old guys like BMC to recently public ServiceNow or Splunk to privately held startups (MongoDB, et al).

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 17, 2017

It cost $699 when launched back in 1993. was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. You wrote on it, it recognized the handwriting if you used its funky letter system and it converted your writing to digital text.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

It cost $699 when launched back in 1993. was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. You wrote on it, it recognized the handwriting if you used its funky letter system and it converted your writing to digital text.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

So I’m extra satisfied that “ Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup &# is finished. We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business. Writing a book is hard. Really hard.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

MARCH 4, 2010

Over the 15-year period from 1993 to 2008, small businesses created some 65 percent of the net new jobs in the private sector, according to conservative estimates cited in a new report from the SBA Office of Advocacy. But since the recession took hold, small business has accounted for 60% of job losses.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

As I wrote last week in 10 Tips for Startups and Small Businesses on Naming Your Company , coming up with a great company name for your new small business or startup can be challenging and time consuming. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Coming up with a memorable tagline can present an even greater challenge.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2010

As I wrote last week in 10 Tips for Startups and Small Businesses on Naming Your Company , coming up with a great company name for your new small business or startup can be challenging and time consuming. California Milk Processor Board) – 1993. Coming up with a memorable tagline can present an even greater challenge.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

Future innovators looking to launch their own startup can easily find inspiration in her perseverance and seemingly boundless work ethic. Oprah Winfrey at Academy of Achievement , Feb. His promising career began when he was just a high school freshman, and he provides some awesome insight about starting something big from something small.

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Start Up Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Web zealots have been espousing the end of Television since the first internet graphical user interface Mosiac started getting downloaded in 1993. It’s 17 years later and TV hasn’t disappeared yet. Sponsored links might just evolve into something more disguised. Things will change dramatically.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 31, 2021

They gathered almost $30,000 in two months and were invited to a training session for a startup incubator, where they received training and $20,000 in cash. In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time. He pivoted his startup to a new strategy.

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