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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. My company name is 3 Leaf Tea. The name is from when tea leaves get picked there’s often one two or three leaves and a bud.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Between 1995-2002 I visited often – especially since I founded my first company there. Paddy got the idea to invite a bunch of founders together in an anti-conference that just focused on building founder relationships and sharing war stories. One of those people was Matt Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress.

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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. Yet he was ultimately replaced a one-semester college dropout, Steve Jobs, who was the original founder.

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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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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

As late as November 1995, Bill Gates wrote a book entitled The Road Ahead in which he predicted that the Information Super Highway would rule the future. After Mosaic, even Marc and his co-founder Jim Clark originally planned a business for video distribution to run on top of the proprietary Information Super Highway , not the Internet.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. I didn’t listen as I didn’t want to work with anyone that was intimidated by a NAME of all of things. Now, the present. I have just started a new job with the Omidyar Network.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2015

My guests this week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM Channel 111 were: Kathryn Gould co-founder of Foundation Capital. Mar Hershenson co-founder of the VC firm Pejman Mar Ventures. Sophie Lebrecht co-founder and CEO of Neon Labs. What did you look for in a Founder ?

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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. Maybe I would have been there through 26 more years (and a few location changes).

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

by Jerry Nettuno, founder/CEO/ chairman of Schedulicity. Be cautious when choosing the name of a professional Facebook page. Once a page has more than 30 fans, the name cannot be changed. Use an adaptable name, like ‘stylist,’ ‘hair pro,’ ‘financial services professional,’ etc. No more missed appointments.

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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. Yet he was ultimately replaced a one-semester college dropout, Steve Jobs, who was the original founder.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Our names. 3- My name+services we offer. My last name also happens to be “Way,” so it was an easy lead to “Way Solutions.”

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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. Yet he was ultimately replaced a one-semester college dropout, Steve Jobs, who was the original founder.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995. If Anchor Point rings a bell to you, it’s because it’s the name of our foundation (the Anchor Point Foundation) and we’ve done some really fun things with it such as the Anchor Point Fellows Program at Wellesley College. We were living in Boston at the time.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. businessname #business #entrepreneur #startup #name #compilation #instagram #ceoblognation #blog #newblog #blogpost #livetoday.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Jack Weil, Founder of Rockmount. Achieving historical fame, various accounts state Mr. Weil either invented the modern bolo tie or named it. Colonel Harland Sanders, Founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Barbara Miller, Founder of Miller Paper Company. Jack Weil, Age 107 d. His secret to heath, wealth and happiness? “He

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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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 30, 2019

Walmart has long been a top name in US retail. But, when Amazon first issued its mission statement in 1995: …to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Let’s get started.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Several of the stops were regularly hang outs of mine between 1983 and 1995 most notably #10 (Miracle of Science) and #11 (Toscanini’s) but also including #5 (MIT Media Lab), #6 (Muddy Charles Pub), #7 (MIT Lobby 7), and #8 (Central Square and the Necco Factory – back when they made Necco wafers.).

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 18, 2021

In discussions with founders and investors, as well as interviews , I describe the role that games have played in my career. You can find a Chess book that lists a thousand famous maneuvers, each named after a past grandmaster. It’s become a somewhat quirky facet of my public persona: Reid Hoffman, game geek.

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

My generation, dubbed Generation X after a popular novel of the same name , was typically characterized as being aimless and cynical, prematurely embittered by dead-end jobs, the generally awful state of the world, and an overall sense of cultural exhaustion. The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. Andreessen Horowitz is telling entrepreneurs it prefers situations where the founders have controlling stakes, reckoning that theyll be better able to resist outside distraction and focus on making great products. One of its champions includes Jason Goldberg, the co-founder and CEO of online design retailer Fab.com Inc.,

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about Thanks to Adam Hergenrother, Hergenrother Enterprises ! #12 12 – It was Just Time.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 28, 2011

To give us just a little bit of belief the ‘fantastical statement’ above this about : Only a decade or so ago a printer was a guy name Tony in who had a little factory Ringwood. These founders are imbuing their new businesses with the values of our time. People born after 1995 have never know life without the internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. If anything it’s the tame version. They were envious.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2017

We were named “Best Bossy Babes” of 2015 by The Austin Chronicle, Tribeza’s Top 10 to Watch in 2016 and we were selected by The White House to attend the United State of Women Summit in June 2016 for our work in Texas.” I actually met the founders at The AWES ( Austin Women Entrepreneur Society )! I knew I had found my group!

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2019

Walmart has long been a top name in US retail. But, when Amazon first issued its mission statement in 1995: …to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Let’s get started.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Every one of these events (with names changed) has happened to companies I’ve worked at or closely with. Imagine how Flurry felt when Steve Jobs called them out by name. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. If anything it’s the tame version. They were envious.

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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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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. Understand the reality of today versus the nostalgia of yesteryear. Instability is here to stay.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 3, 2014

Pat Sullivan, Co-Founder and CEO, Contatta - Heralded as one of the “80 Most Influential People in Sales and Marketing History”, among Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Jack Welch and Bill Gates by Sales and Marketing Management, Pat Sullivan was also twice named Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for both ACT!

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Up and Running

JANUARY 30, 2012

” “Bplans.com is the top destination for small-business owners, entrepreneurs, and big-thinkers looking to find the tools to plan, start, and grow a business,” said Bplans founder Tim Berry, who started the site in 1995. Winners selected in a drawing earlier this week were: Mike the Gardener , New Jersey, USA.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2018

Hackney’s Arcola Theatre is rethinking the way it powers its name in lights. “I would love to give you this romantic story of me on a pedal bike going from artisanal bakery to artisanal bakery getting this bread, but the reality is bread waste is happening at an industrial scale,” says Toast Ale’s founder, Rob Wilson.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 29, 2016

When GDPR takes effect it will replace the data protection directive from 1995. Choose Name and Subject Lines Wisely. Data from Convince & Convert found that 43 percent of email recipients would report email as spam based only on “from” names or email addresses. Best Practices for Compliance. Use the Double Opt-in Method.

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