Up and Running

JUNE 29, 2010

That’s for questions about starting up, establishing ownership, finding financing, dealing with permits and legal requirements, even online marketing and search engine optimization. Disclosure: I’ve been working with SBDCs since 1995, as part of what I do at Palo Alto Software.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The search box , where users focused for just over 6 seconds. Of all the feedback the test participants gave, 94% was about design (complex, busy layout, lack of navigation aids, noring web design especially use of color, pop up adverts, slow introductions to site, small print, too much text, corporate look and feel, poor search facilities).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2017

No customer enjoys being blasted by irrelevant banner ads, and they don’t have time to sort through all the noise of products out there searching for an audience. Company finds customers based on interests. The best companies do their homework and find the right customers, based on demographics, prior purchases, and expressed interests.

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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

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 9, 2012

Much has been written about the characteristics – and quirks – of the Millennial Generation, those born between 1982 and 1995. As for Internet use, email, surfing and searching for information are the most popular uses for computers and mobile phones.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2018

He went on to work at IBM for almost 17 years and served as a programmer at several major financial firms before launching Craigslist from his apartment in 1995 as a way to share information. This led to the idea of an algorithm to analyze page rank, which Page realized could be used to build a superior search engine. Source: Pexels.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2014

and searching for what you’re great at, and meant to encourage women to go right through those walls. So I started an exec search firm as a creative way to look for a new startup. My first IPO wasn’t until 1995—the VC business takes patience. So I started Foundation Capital in 1995. Insidious, yes? Find Your Obession.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2018

, certificate programs, pledge regimes, quota laws (Norway, Spain, Italy, France, Germany but probably not for the United States), mandatory disclosure, voluntary disclosure, structured search (Rooney Rule) adoptions, and more. Cast a wide net. Compared to other countries around the globe, the U.S.’s

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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. Non-software companies need to be thinking much deeper and further than ever before about search, build, grow funding strategies. This was the beginning of the 5-year dot-com bubble.).

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2017

RankSense was designed to use AI to simplify search engine optimization (SEO) for small businesses and get companies noticed. . Morebeer.com is a homebrew equipment supplier that started as a mail order company back in 1995.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2018

Dave Jilk turned me on to it when I was a freshman (he was a senior) and from 1983 to 1995 I read almost every issue cover to cover. A Google search on ICO Pump and Dump turns up a bunch of current stuff that is fascinating to read. When I was in college and my early 20s, I read Forbes Magazine religiously.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2011

Search for interesting topics on Twitter and share that with your fans. 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. Share videos (funny, informative, educational) about.com is a great resource for videos.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 5, 2012

Most spend their days applying for jobs, not just because they need the opportunity to work and earn a living, but also because job searching is a prerequisite for collecting unemployment compensation. Most unemployed Americans have only a few options. Get a Job - or Start a Business? But thanks to Senator Ron Wyden (D - Ore.) There’s more.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 29, 2013

Use the “search” box located in “Start” button on the bottom tool bar of your computer. If your file doesn’t appear using the search function, double check the recycle bin or trash on your computer’s desktop. Sometimes the simplest of answers can be the ultimate solution. Leave it to the Professionals.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 24, 2017

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. Just as with cars, clothes, tools, or anything else we buy online, we can download an app, enter our specifications, and search massive databases of available properties.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

In 1995 Paul started a company that aimed to put art galleries online. At first, Google seemed like a bad idea; there were already several search engines doing what they did. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. The difference?

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The ’90s saw broader adoption by the middle class but even in 1995 only 28% of US households had a computer (US Census / Pegasus Research). My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. In the ’80s a home computer was the preserve of wealthy and upper middle class families. Previous Entries.

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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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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

And then when I’d shown a lot of interest in a few stoves, but left to look at other sites and came back, it would have been nice if they’d directed me right to my recently viewed items instead of making me search for those products all over again.” (via Evergage). Focus them on the product categories they were searching in previously.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He invented the category of sponsored search. He created GoTo.com (later renamed Overture) out of a frustration with search. At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. Overture (Goto.com).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 27, 2019

Fertel agreed, and by 1995 the steak house has expanded to over 80 locations. Each continued until they found the success they searched for. Because of legal reasons, she could not use the original name, so changed it to Ruth’s Chris Steak House. In 1975 a regular customer asked if she would be interested in franchising the business.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 26, 2023

Thanks to Ryan Mahoney, Perfect Search Media ! #4- It explains the series of events that took place before the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa. Like Lin, entrepreneurs often face obstacles and setbacks, but it is important to keep pushing forward and never give up on your dreams.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

Beginning in 1995 as BackRub, Google slowly and steadily began to conquer the world. Google was initially meant to be a search engine and today the company has ventured into wearable technology, renewable energy, mobile phones, and other web applications. When it comes to innovation, Google has left every company behind it.

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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. Use this heuristic to narrow down your search and then list out the 10 people that would be your absolute top choices to sit down for 30 minutes with face to face. In fact, I recommended you aim high.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

When I began my career in executive search and then later working in temporary staffing, I was able to build strong relationships with clients to gain a deeper understanding of their working style and culture. I realized this was my chance to bring that personalized approach to the job search process. Image Credit: Beth Tucker.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I’d argue forcefully that we’re still searching for the optimum level of venture capital funding. The very first paragraph of the release states in part: “The increase in dollars invested was driven by several large rounds in the Clean Technology sector, one of which is the ninth largest deal since 1995.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

In the world of online search engines, most people stop with the Big Three. Search are indisputably the most widely used. For those who like to run off the beaten path or march to the beat of their own search engine, here are ten alternatives to consider the next time you need to find information online. Google, Bing and Yahoo!

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

When we started the company it was only web-based and we thought that the best idea would be simply to call it by the website address (driving tests), particularly seeing as the main marketing strategy was search engine optimization, we secured a domain name that was an exact match keyword for what it does and everything was self-service.

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Start Up Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Remember the dot com boom between 1995-2000? When you buy a stock of Apple, Alphabet or Amazon, their prices may well be depressed for a period, but it doesn’t stop people buying iPhones, searching or ordering online. I was experimenting with the technology, rather than investing. Things of value need utility or yield.

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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 best response to the potential negative fallout of speed and scale is to search for ways to apply guardrails to the highway, not to mourn the loss of local dirt roads.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A look at the overall exits for both enterprise (B2B) and consumer (B2C) companies from 1995-2022 shows that both categories can produce power law returns, but they vary substantially: The top five enterprise companies with the largest exits account for $188B in value creation, or 12% of the $1,609B generated in the enterprise category since 1995.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Wikipedia gives the impact on financial bubbles as an example: “The Dot-com bubble, also knowns as Internet bubble, referenced the speculative investment bubble that was created around new internet startup companies between the years 1995-2000. This is probably to get my greed/hope triggered.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 20, 2013

At the time we began the search, I wouldn’t have believed how long the process would take. After more than a year of searching, we brought Dan Nye in as LinkedIn’s new CEO at the beginning of 2007. Sheryl Sandberg is one of the few great leaders who has been willing to be COO, and even then, she’s a unique COO.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Googles plan, for example, was simply to create a search site thatdidnt suck. They had three new ideas: index more of the Web, uselinks to rank search results, and have clean, simple web pages withunintrusive keyword-based ads. For example, dating sites currently suck far worse than search didbefore Google.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We had been developing the company’s product for a while, but we needed to find a name in 1995 to incorporate the company. First, we searched for the names of companies that were in a business similar to ours to get an idea of what our name should be like. We chose The Search Party because it resonated with our purpose as a business.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Pierre Omidyar founded AuctionWeb in September of 1995, and its rise to fame is legendary. These vertical labor marketplaces are to LinkedIn what companies like Zillow, Expedia, and GrubHub are to Google search. Exchange of Goods Marketplaces. That is quite a bit of supplemental income for U.S.-based based teachers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2011

Is this tech bubble as broad as the 1995-2000 dot.com bubble – no. When these governments build “homegrown” versions of these apps, the Orwellian prophecy of the Ministry of the Truth lives in each distorted or missing search result. In 5 to 10 years most of them will be worth a fraction of their IPO price.

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