Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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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).

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Burma Rwanda United States SMS 40

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

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. So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As The Oblong guy, literally?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. And some of that is changing those organizational constructs that still have us back in 1994. Yeah, I am.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. In April, 1996, Yahoo!

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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. A company has many different functional areas–sales, marketing, product, engineering, finance, operations, and so on. Sometimes, it’s not obvious.

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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. I realized we were really taking off once we opened operations in the New York City and Long Island markets. What’s a BHAG?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Afro-Tech operates on a basis of permissionless innovation — we do not need pre-approval to be black and innovative in tech and as for me, I been doing advanced and epic Internet tech stuff since 1994 so I’m not exactly someone that is easily impressed by an “ex-Google engineer” like the rest of yall, just saying.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Although Box was launched from a dorm room by two 19 year olds, in 2010 the company hired Dan Levin, an experienced Silicon Valley entrepreneur to strengthen its foundations in order to expand. 20 guys in a room is a very different problem than Box today at 600 people hiring ten people a week.”. Strength in experience. Rapid expansion.

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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. Thinking about starting a business from your home?

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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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