YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Traditional banks have helped fuel business and economic growth by providing small business owners with startup loans, general business loans, lines of credit and refinancing programs, to name a few.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

by William Olsen, CPA, Co-founder and VP of Product Development at Deductr. William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. It seems like tax time is fraught with last minute scrambling to gather business records for those who claim business deductions.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.”

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. Looking back, I believe that Jeff is one of most iconic, successful founders and CEOs of all time. When you’re that great, you only need one name).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin. Named after Alan B.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 3, 2021

Memories like those, plus a dressing room sign with my name on it, were what I took away from interning on Season Two of Late Night with Conan O’Brien while in college. And looking back, I never should have left the show.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

I still have the Brooks Brothers striped shirt that Len and his partner Jerry Poch gave me when we signed the documents for Feld Technologies to be bought by Sage Alerting Systems (which changed its name to Sage Technologies and then changed it to AmeriData). Under the terms, he signed his name.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The good thing about the Apple logo is that it tells the brand name without having to spell it. Walter Issacson’s autobiography of Steve Jobs reveals why Steve choose the name Apple. As shared by the Cult of Mac , On the naming of Apple, he said he was “on one of my fruitarian diets.” It is probably just that, a myth.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

In 2006, Muhammad Yunus, the bank’s founder and “the father of microfinance,” won the Nobel Peace Prize. Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. Joyce Wafukho used her small savings to open a hardware store in 1994. Marcelino Lopez, Colombia.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

So read on and be inspired… At 30 Years of Age, Tianyi Joe Zhu, Chicago Entrepreneur, Named Amongst the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (PRWEB) JULY 12, 2017.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

By the end of 1994 I had a staff job, reporting to the co-chairmen of AmeriData where I travelled all over the US helping with acquisitions and generally causing trouble. While we have a home in Homer, where we will be for the next three weeks, we still call Boulder, Colorado our home. But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Co-founder Mark Hedlund did us all a favor recently by posting Why Wesabe Lost to Mint. He’s paid his dues: … an entrepreneur-in-residence at O’Reilly Media …VP of Engineering at Sana Security… CEO of Popular Power … founder and general manager of Lucas Online, the internet subsidiary of Lucasfilm, Ltd. Did you Know Wesabe?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Prior to co-founding Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and is also a co-founder of Techstars. Key Takeaway: The first time many founders see the inside of a board room is when they step in to lead their board. [12:15] 16:30] How important is it that board members like and respect each other? [18:46] Yeah, yeah.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Jen Sargent, founder of entertainment news site HitFix, says she can get folks to work for her at much lower rates than the "inflated" fees being offered in Silicon Valley and New York. tech industry since 1994, when he started as an engineer at video game company Activision. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

“You’re talking about a generation that has seen what happened with their parents and Enron, and what happened in 2009 and 2010—the traditional workforce eroding before our eyes,” says YEC founder Scott Gerber. Adjusted for inflation, that’s close to double the amount of debt students graduated with in 1994.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” As we turn the page to 2015, Uber has a new BHAG, and it’s name is UberPool. Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The magazine rated 100 countries by how well they scored in five categories, namely: education, health, quality of life, economic dynamism, and political environment. STANLEY FISCHER NAMED ONE OF WORLD’S TOP 10 BANK CHIEFS. TAKADU NAMED WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM TECHNOLOGY PIONEER 2011. in August 2010.

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Brandanew

JANUARY 8, 2016

Most small business and Startup founders are talking about customer engagement and social presence beyond the customary likes and one-post-a-month schedules. Niraj Ranjan Rout is the founder of Hiver (formerly GrexIt). Martin Harrison , Co-founder, Copify. Martin Harrison is co-founder of online content service Copify .

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

BHAGs were established by management guru Jim Collins in his 1994 book “ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great) “ , co-authored with Stanford professor Jerry Porras. Microsoft worked to become a household name in the world of desktop and laptop computers. What’s a BHAG?

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 15, 2018

We’ve been investing in companies built around technology protocols since 1994. Over dinner, after he had become the COO of Twitter (but before he was the CEO), Dick Costolo (who had previously been the founder/CEO of FeedBurner) told me that he viewed Twitter as the evolution of RSS. One of our themes is Protocol. Time passed.

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