Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
He just hired Meg Whitman. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. And it may work.
Up and Running
JUNE 21, 2021
Rather than seeking private funding, the company’s owners obtained funds through DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), committing them to building products for government use. Thanks to that decision, the company was able to see quick growth, leading it to take out a second SBA-backed loan, this time for $807,000, in 1995.
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Reid Hoffman
MAY 16, 2020
The biggest happened much earlier in my career, in 1995.”. I’m sure it sounds unbelievable today, but in 1995, Fujitsu was a much bigger company than Apple in those days. And you didn’t need to get permission from the government or corporate gatekeepers. In January 1995, it had around 100 employees.
YoungUpstarts
AUGUST 1, 2018
That is particularly true of tech, exhibit “A” in the corporate failure to hire and promote women. From startups to the largest firms, firms themselves actually hire and promote females. Branches of the industry, such as video gaming, are overtly misogynist in governance, in culture, and in product content.
ConversionXL
MAY 1, 2017
Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6
VC Cafe
APRIL 7, 2011
Barclays Capital is opening a financial technology research and development center in Israel and plans to hire up to 200 people. The government will pay 40 percent of the wages of employees, up to a maximum wage of 25,000 shekels ($7,000) per month, during the first year of operation of the Barclays center. Unemployment fell to 6.1%
Hearpreneur
APRIL 9, 2017
I was tired of the bureaucracy of government and corporate work along with limited vacation days (my balance was always bouncing off of zero!). Before I knew it, I had a solid client base and too much business to handle on my own – I incorporated, made my first hire, and became an accidental business owner. Image Credit: Ruth A.
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