Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. And then was hired by Stephen Spielberg for Minority Report.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

I was reading an article written by marketing guru Seth Godin a while back where he mentions that “it takes about six years of hard work to become an overnight success”. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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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. Over and over, he has gambled on products and product areas where no current market existed. I helped establish product market fit. I helped establish the network.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Because we African-Americans have our own urban communities, we are smart people and there is real demand for innovation, our people can quickly move forward with blockchain and go straight to market. First of all, no enterprise is going to base any transaction or operation on “50% or greater consensus” among externals nodes or people.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2014

For example, in 1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Washington, and Harley-Davidson started out of a home—and a shed—in Wisconsin. Whether you hire an accountant or teach yourself how to use accounting software, you need a method to measure your success. To do so will take some marketing skills. Finding customers.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. But a prime time for freelancers … The agencies aren’t hiring staff, the staff they do have, are worked to the bone, but they still have briefs coming out of their ears!

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. But a prime time for freelancers … The agencies aren’t hiring staff, the staff they do have, are worked to the bone, but they still have briefs coming out of their ears!

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? The college student I hired to take me around the ancient temples of Bagan had a mobile phone that he paid well over $1000 for – and knew it was likely being tracked by the government (hmm, that’s another post).

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 30, 2015

And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? The college student I hired to take me around the ancient temples of Bagan had a mobile phone that he paid well over $1000 for – and knew it was likely being tracked by the government (hmm, that’s another post).

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Burma Rwanda United States SMS 40

thebarefootvc

JULY 30, 2015

And furthermore, why shouldn’t the transactions be cross-border and interoperable, and not dependent on a specific mobile operator? The college student I hired to take me around the ancient temples of Bagan had a mobile phone that he paid well over $1000 for – and knew it was likely being tracked by the government (hmm, that’s another post).

Burma 40

Burma Rwanda United States SMS 40

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. I realized we were really taking off once we opened operations in the New York City and Long Island markets.

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