YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2015

by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. In addition, although executives in the business make the decisions, it is the employees — the underdogs — who are out on the frontline, selling, interacting with customers, and creating the products that keep the business functioning. What Do You Stop Doing?

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. Data is moved, updated, or maintained by repetitive processes that are done manually, squandering time and employee-resources. A company will not be successful without employees who desire to, and do, perform their job well. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

It is tough to lose your best employees wanting to advance their careers. And, as in today’s story, sometimes it can mean the beginning of an amazing journey leading to a story for the ages… We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible. Good to hear from you.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. A pre-IPO board usually had two founders, two VCs and one “independent” member. Technology Cycles Measured in Years.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

With a little research I found a few notable names in relatively recent businesses, although each of these actually started with some big-company experience: Fred Smith, chairman and founder, Federal Express. The company now has more than 160,000 employees and revenues of $44 billion. He built an overnight competitor to the U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2013

With a little research I found a few notable names in recent businesses, although each of these actually started with some big-company experience: Fred Smith, chairman and founder, Federal Express. The company now has more than 200,000 employees and revenues of $21 billion. He built an overnight competitor to the U.S. Postal Service.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a little company called Apple Inc., His management style was closer to that of a marine drill sergeant than a Cub Scouts pack leader. Great management is like The Beatles. And with Pixar, Jobs went so far as to compare his management team with the Beatles.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. 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 Communicate – The most important challenge in managing any large organization is communication.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

With a little research I found a few notable names in relatively recent businesses, although each of these actually started with some big-company experience: Fred Smith, chairman and founder, Federal Express. The company now has more than 160,000 employees and revenues of $44 billion. He built an overnight competitor to the U.S.

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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). As the most connected and technologically equipped generation in human history, Gen-Y entrepreneurs are using today’s tools of communication, collaboration and mobility to build startups with little or no startup capital and few employees.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

A new study shows that startups do better when they’re launched in the place where their founders were born or have lived for a long time. Our first guess was that the key to startup success is the founder’s ability to go to their parents’ house to cadge a hot meal. Makes sense, but the reasons why are surprisingly complex and modern.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. This changed their interest from managing your board for their liquidity to managing the board for all shareholders. This was the beginning of the 5-year dot-com bubble.).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

by Jerry Nettuno, founder/CEO/ chairman of Schedulicity. Give credit to employees and clients. Jerry Nettuno is Founder/CEO/Chairman for Schedulicity. He then joined his 3 brothers to launch the national expansion of Nettworth Financial Group in 1995 which today manages over $1 billion in assets nationwide.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2016

by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. More human employees will be required to not only configure and manage the automation technologies, create and develop new products and services, but also to perform front-facing, customer service roles. percent and 9.5

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

This is a guest post by Christian Gheorghe, founder and CEO of Tidemark. 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 Communicate – The most important challenge in managing any large organization is communication.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. Drew Silverstein.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

20 years ago, the classic startup model was to have young founders start a breakthrough company, then bring in “grey hair” in the form of experienced executives once it was time to scale the business. In other words, Ben asserts that bringing in a professional CEO should be a last resort for a founder. During the dot com era, Yahoo!’s

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Cracking the Code

MAY 29, 2019

A CEO has to manage issues of strategy, culture, talent, customer service and reputation – often all at once. John : As a CEO (and/or founder), you have four areas of responsibility; Strategy and vision, management team, culture and the communication of all of the above. That is culture from the top. Ask what they are.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

A new study shows that startups do better when they’re launched in the place where their founders were born or have lived for a long time. Our first guess was that the key to startup success is the founder’s ability to go to their parents’ house to cadge a hot meal. Makes sense, but the reasons why are surprisingly complex and modern.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. 3/29/1996: 22.3. 3/31/1997: 23.3. 3/31/1998: 30.8.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. Who flourishes? What a mistake!

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2012

A new study shows that startups do better when they’re launched in the place where their founders were born or have lived for a long time. Our first guess was that the key to startup success is the founder’s ability to go to their parents’ house to cadge a hot meal. Makes sense, but the reasons why are surprisingly complex and modern.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2023

This movie's message resonates with employers more than employees. Don't be so consumed with leadership aspirations that you forget that you're managing human beings. 10- The Founder Photo Credit: Steve Ramos This movie taught me many things I constantly like to remind myself daily. Chase excellence and success will follow.

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Berkonomics

MAY 7, 2011

We’d all like to retain our best managers and employees forever or at least for as long as possible. But sometimes our corporate wants and needs conflict with what is best for an employee and his or her career development. The company had grown to 233 employees and served 16% of all automated hotels worldwide at that time.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. 12 – It was Just Time. Image Credit: Jane Scudder.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank. The management team wasn’t strong enough. Been there. They were envious.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 So, the average company on the S&P 500 IT index with $10M in annual earnings would be worth $210M in March of 1995, $820M in March of 2002, $310M in March of 2004 and $155M in March of last year. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0 3/29/1996: 22.3 3/31/1997: 23.3 3/31/1998: 30.8

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Receive and manage newsletters. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc., Why Register? Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions. Todays Paper.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 13, 2011

One of my portfolio company CEOs, Will Tumulty of Ready Financial , is a former Navy SEAL (1990-1995). Brendan emphasized the importance of training and practice in all areas - employee onboarding, management practices, etc. One CEO objected that he had 1000 employees in his company and couldn't possibly hire all "A's".

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 1, 2013

My first time jumping into the start-up world was as a freshly minted Harvard MBA in 1995. Your co-workers in one start-up become your co-founders in another. It's a natural phenomenon - they build relationships over time that lead to one opportunity after the next. Pick a Stage.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

Dictionary.com defines coworking as “ an arrangement by which freelancers or employees working for various companies share an office or other workspace. “ Its founder, John McGann, discussed the community and productivity aspects of the space in this article from 2004 : “People are here to work.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank. The management team wasn’t strong enough. Been there. They were envious.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

5- Reflecting on our services, personable nature of employees and some humor. I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. As founder Craig Walker remarked, sometimes a great name just can go unused. We put on 3 events, and no one new how to pronounce the event. So ultimately, it was a bad name. 11- Quite simple.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 3, 2019

That’s all good and well, but Tuesday morning, I was also a new employee walking into his office on the first day of a new job. The last time I’d done that was when I started at MovieFone in 1995 (the first day of starting one’s own company doesn’t count!).

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