YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2015

by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. Richard Milam is the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated ( www.enablesoft.com ). Prior to founding EnableSoft in 1995, Richard was a partner and served as Senior Vice President of FiTech PLUSmark, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2015

by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. Richard Milam is the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated ( www.enablesoft.com ). Prior to founding EnableSoft in 1995, Richard was a partner and served as Senior Vice President of FiTech PLUSmark, Inc.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

is the CEO and co-founder at ShoutEm , a self service mobile website and mobile apps creator, a ‘Wordpress for mobile apps.’. In 1995, I was the only one of my friends using email and there were no cell phones. Viktor Marohni? A look at how CMS evolved. 1st phase (late 90s, early 00s): New Web programming languages and frameworks.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Such was my recent meeting with Seth Sternberg, founder & CEO of Meebo. And I’d recommend them to any talented startup founders out there.&#. 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.

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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

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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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera is one of the biggest online educators with over 20 million registered users and 150 education partners which include universities from all over the world. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. ” Lynda.com.

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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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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2010

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. Until 1995 startups going public typically had a track record of revenue and profits. Netscape’s 1995 IPO changed the rules. The system worked in predictable and profitable ways.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The event will be held at the recently-established Stamford Innovation Center , of which fellow panelist Barry Schwimmer is Founder and Managing Partner. CI was created by the state legislature in 1989 and has been investing private money since 1995.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera is one of the biggest online educators with over 20 million registered users and 150 education partners which include universities from all over the world. Lynda.com is the oldest education resource online , with an origin story that stretches all the way back to 1995. ” Lynda.com.

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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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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Before my partner Marc Andreessen and his friends at the University of Illinois invented the browser in 1993, most people thought only scientists and researchers would use the Internet. 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.

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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 It’s a start, a work of art. To revolutionize make a change nothing’s strange.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995. After selling my first company, I’d invested as an angel investor in a bunch of companies, was a non-executive Chairman / co-founder of a few, and had lots of ideas for new things to do. We moved to Boulder in November 1995 and never looked back – it’s been amazing.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

Kathryn has been the founding VP of Marketing of Oracle , a successful recruiter, a world class Venture Capitalist, a co-founder of a Venture Capital firm, a great board member, one of my mentors and most importantly a wonderful friend. Or one of the first women co-founders of a VC firm – “I co-founded a great firm.” But then, trouble.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2016

by Richard Milam , the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated. Richard Milam is the Founder and CEO of EnableSoft Incorporated ( www.enablesoft.com ). Prior to founding EnableSoft in 1995, Richard was a partner and served as Senior Vice President of FiTech PLUSmark, Inc.

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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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Brandanew

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Most recently, I met up with one of the founders of the Arbor Brewing company, Rene Greff. Arbor brewing company was set up in the summer of 1995 in Ann Arbor, Michigan by the husband-wife duo of Matt and Rene Greff. But our partner, Gaurav was from U of M (University of Michigan) and had spent a lot of time at the Brewpub.

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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 Public Enemy, Fight The Power. Marc released Mosaic in 1993. Final thought.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. Holy sh*t!!!

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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. Catan, published in 1995, became an international hit, and popularized the German game genre throughout the world, including in America. I love games, and I love talking about them.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 12, 2017

About the Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Program Created by the Texas Legislature in 1995 and administered by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), the Texas Mother-Friendly Worksite Program recognizes employers with written policies reflecting their support for their breastfeeding employees.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 29, 2019

At VivaTech last week, we got an insight into the first-hand experience of John Chambers who was CEO and Chairman of Cisco from 1995-2017, and who now invests in early-stage tech start-ups around the world, with a particular focus on mentoring emerging leaders. If you have people problems, we will give you eight seconds.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. Three years after that, I was fortunate enough to find a firm, Land Carroll & Blair, with a same client-oriented mentality and partnered with them. When I met my co-founder and partner, we inspired each other to take a chance and start our own business.

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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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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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., Stock Quotes.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

If O’Reilly had that same insight in 1995, it could have been an amazing blitzscaling opportunity. The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. They’ll probably kill you,” he said.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. Holy sh*t!!!

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Small Business Force

OCTOBER 25, 2015

As much as anything, it's about the two distinctly different founders whose diversity was the reason for the company's rapid growth.and its nearly catastrophic decline. RIM went from less than $5 million in revenue in FY1995 (February 1995) to $20 billion in FY2011, then back down to $3.3 It needs a business partner!

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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. With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses.

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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 went on to HBS and McKinsey after the SEALs and then started his own hedge fund with a partner, so he had an interesting, multi-faceted perspective. The discussion was wide-ranging and entertaining.

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entrepreMusings

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

5) A magnetic personality – to attract talent, partners, investors, etc. Hire a women venture partner. In the accounting profession which used to be mostly men, now at the mid manager and lower level it’s almost 50/50 women…women still have a harder time getting to partner because of the lifestyle.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

11-Suggested by my partner’s husband. but then my partner’s husband piped up, The Renegade Writer. We had a tough rebrand as we were initially founded as Trainer Communications in 1995, however we made the official transformation to 10Fold Communications in 2015. Thanks to David Batchelor, DialMyCalls ! #11-Suggested

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

However, the seeds had been planted between 1995 and 1999 with the opening of several hackerspaces and “work clubs” devoted to bringing people together and instilling a sense of community while working. 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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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

I bought Forevervinyl.com back in 1995 and went online. Several years ago, my partner and I were busting our tails for 18 hours a day, but we weren’t really running our home services business. As founder Craig Walker remarked, sometimes a great name just can go unused. Thanks to Kevin Namaky, Gurulocity ! #11-

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