VC Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2021

So much so, that the internet is already filled with articles such as “ 5 money lessons millennials can learn from Gen Z ”, explaining how those who were born after 1995 are improving the ways in which they make a profit. One of Robinhood’s ads (currently available only in the US).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

Reduce unnecessary costs. Prior to founding EnableSoft in 1995, Richard was a partner and served as Senior Vice President of FiTech PLUSmark, Inc. In 2013, the Bay Area News Group recognized 95 companies as Top Workplaces based on an employee survey regarding their workplace (Herlihy, 2014).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The Golden Age (1970 – 1995): Build a growing business with a consistently profitable track record (after at least 5 quarters,) and go public when it’s time. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Present a yummy spreadsheet that quantifies the cost of inaction , how much money you’ll lose by not delivering a 25% improvement every week. Yes, from 1995! If you are still in that world—don’t worry, I still love you—know that a behavioral shift from an emphasis on cost to an emphasis on the benefit will make a huge difference.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 22, 2015

To give you some background, I moved to Santa Fe, NM from the East Coast in 1995 to start a company with my older brother. Our civic leaders have to deal with the higher cost of housing from wealthy out of state housing buyers yet the local workers are trying to survive on minimum wage jobs and the government on an insufficient tax base.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Enter your monthly sales and costs and LivePlan calculates your financial data for you, and presents it visually with easy to digest charts and graphs. . This site started in 1995 and has been growing ever since, with a lot of pruning and paring to keep it fresh and relevant. How to get funding. How to pitch to investors.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are terrific free YouTube channels for entrepreneurs and small business owners and many online schools and sites offer free or low-cost online courses. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. Fortunately, we live in the golden age of online learning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 21, 2013

By definition, Gen-Y is the generation born between 1977 and 1995 (synonymous with Millennials). Cloud-based tools, like virtual phone solution eVoice® , let small business owners convey the image of a larger, professional enterprise for a fraction of the cost of a traditional business phone system. Avoid all work and no fun.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Sculley is currently doing well, despite his setback at Apple, as a partner in Sculley Brothers, a private investment firm formed in 1995. If you plan to become an entrepreneur, and already have business experience or an undergraduate business degree, skip the two-year delay and cost of the MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Enter your monthly sales and costs and LivePlan calculates your financial data for you, and presents it visually with easy to digest charts and graphs. . This site started in 1995 and has been growing ever since, with a lot of pruning and paring to keep it fresh and relevant. How to get funding. How to pitch to investors.

Business Plan 60

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

Designing for support is now as important as designing for low cost, ease of use, and quality. Generation Z (born after 1995) is a new major spending demographic, who expects to do everything via their smartphone, and lives on YouTube videos, instead of reading instruction manuals. Reward responsibility and creativity in support.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more Costs – e.g. how many of the licenses that were purchased for the various cloud applications are being used as anticipated? Marc released Mosaic in 1993. What’s the ROI?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

In 1995, while in high school, Seth wanted to start a business scanning paper documents for companies, but realized it was a non-starter when he learned that a scanner costs $4k. Why do you love speaking to students at universities? Seth’s interest in helping others grew out of his lack of having a mentor.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2013

Sculley is currently doing well, despite his setback at Apple, as a partner in Sculley Brothers, a private investment firm formed in 1995. If you plan to become an entrepreneur, and already have business experience or an undergraduate business degree, skip the two-year delay and cost of the MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 30, 2014

How will you track schedules and costs? Julie May is CEO of bytes of knowledge (b:ok) , which she founded in 1995 with her husband, Charles. This question applies to all of the images, content, data, software, system configurations and files that collectively represent your project.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2013

This “I can see the future” method of project planning leaves very little room for adjustment and typically results in rigid specifications that cost too much to develop, while also failing to reduce project uncertainty. Julie May is CEO of bytes of knowledge (b:ok) , which she founded in 1995 with her husband, Charles.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

There are terrific free YouTube channels for entrepreneurs and small business owners and many online schools and sites offer free or low-cost online courses. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. Fortunately, we live in the golden age of online learning.

Programming 48

Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 48

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In 1995 there were ~1,350 public hospitals representing ~27% of the industry. The cost of capital nor commercial insurance pricing improvements are enough to excite the public. Sunshine Laws required that board meeting minutes, strategic planning documents, and similarly important materials were available for all competitors to see.

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Life Beyond Code

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Each heart operation costs around $2,500 to $3,000. I was excited at the power and reach of the World Wide Web at a very early stage in its evolution, way back in 1995 – and so could tap into it. Most of the families I work with have monthly incomes of $150 or less. MS: It’s hard to say, Raj.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2010

By definition, Gen-Y is the generation born between 1977 and 1995 (synonymous with Millennials). At many companies, employee costs are the largest operational expense. When generations don’t work well together, operational costs go up and effectiveness goes down.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Sculley is currently doing well, despite his setback at Apple, as a partner in Sculley Brothers, a private investment firm formed in 1995. If you plan to become an entrepreneur, and already have business experience or an undergraduate business degree, skip the two-year delay and cost of the MBA. Consider it a waste of time.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

In the late year of 1995, IBM acquired Lotus Development, makers of the Lotus 123 spreadsheet and a proprietary Internet predecessor, Lotus Notes, for $3.5B—more Costs – e.g. how many of the licenses that were purchased for the various cloud applications are being used as anticipated? Marc released Mosaic in 1993. What’s the ROI?

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

Up and Running

JANUARY 6, 2014

Keith Evans, a Florida-based entrepreneur, is part of that statistic, although he jumped on the home-business bandwagon back in 1995. Use free or low-cost services to save on monthly expenses. “I could probably write volumes about the free and low-cost resources an entrepreneur can use,” Evans jokes.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2017

Michael Beattie , who launched MBM Consulting in 1995, knows full well the special combination of training, skills and, importantly, mindset it takes to succeed. It’s what became a problem for a few of the companies that we took over – they just let their labour market and their labour costs get out of control. The end result?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 17, 2015

That decision cost the company its life. She launched her first website in 1995 and in 2001 founded Web Mystery Shoppers, one of the world’s first companies to do remote usability testing of websites and web-related customer service. But as the world around them changes, they may be unable to adapt to the new reality.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2018

Richard Lipman has been a member of L’Ordre des psychologues du Québec since 1995. article on the psychological costs of entrepreneurialism: People look at a man who’s riding a lion and think the guy’s got it together and how brave is he. He also is a member of L’Association des psychologues du Québec.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In big business, data breaches, hackers, and security slip ups are inconvenient major mistakes that cost millions of dollars, hours, lost customers, and lost trust. Starting a business might seem especially daunting in the face of the Amazons of the world, but remember that Jeff Bezos started in his garage in 1995.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 24, 2017

Any time you can remove a constraint created by cost, time, distance, or unpredictable factors, you move one step closer to a sale. Imagine if the classified ads of 1995 had appeared in every newspaper in the country, and that millions of potential buyers would definitely see the paper each day. Expanded Marketing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Finally the amount of capital needed to take a drug to FDA trials could be enormously expensive, at least 10x more than startup costs at an electron-based company. One could argue that there’s nothing new here, as Internet distibution models started in 1995. But in reality they only became mainstream ~5-7 years ago.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. This company is Kickstarter for funding ‘low-cost, high-impact medical care for people in need’. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Except I disagree with that definition of “success.” Support.com — On 2.5m

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

That’s how I joined the company – when Cisco acquired Grand Junction Networks back in 1995. Grand Junction developed fast Ethernet and low-cost switching, and after Cisco bought my company in 1995 I helped build that segment, within Cisco, into a more than $2.4 billion business.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

E-commerce retailers know all this and they have a massive advantage because of it – their advantage isn’t just in cost infrastructure it’s in rich data and information. New low costs of business and access to production and information are facilitating a ‘try it and see’ culture. This is ahead of the USA, the UK and Japan.

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Diego Basch

AUGUST 21, 2012

You could have made the exact same argument in 1995 but used the word “computer” instead of internet. We fly in planes from the 1960s, but the trip takes longer than it used to: security, slower speeds because of fuel costs. To put it in a few words: Silicon Valley and the internet industry are not one and the same.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

For instance, between 1995 and 2008 the market for cellular subscribers grew from 25 million to over 298. Like cell phones, the Internet has become an essential public service, and some degree of regulation is necessary to protect consumers.

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 22, 2015

In 1995 $10 of that $100 might have went into getting filmed developed. Now it goes elsewhere, maybe towards the cost of a smart phone monthly fee. A job that didn’t exist pre smart phone. A simple economic fact is that if a person has $100 in their wallet, it still gets spent. The money always gets spent, saved or invested.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 2, 2012

Doing so would reduce costs for companies while still adhering to the first principle of investor protection.". In our survey of emerging growth company CEOs, 86% of respondents listed accounting and compliance costs as a major concern of going public. Stock image by Shutterstock. Discuss.

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