Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In April, 1996, Yahoo! He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In April, 1996, Yahoo! He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In April, 1996, Yahoo! He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders in over 35 countries. Top 20, since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many fortune 500 companies training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders all over in 35 countries. I've got my email and I just gotta write it on changing names.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Still, since 1996, the only major change to the browser’s user experience has been the addition of tabs. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. On one such night, he developed something called the Netscape Now one button download.

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Board Effect

MAY 1, 2019

HIPAA is a federal act that Congress passed in 1996 to help patients protect their personal and sensitive information. PHI refers to such information as name, address, Social Security number, photo, ZIP code, treatment date, employer, family information, health conditions or other notable characteristics.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

After all, while you want consistency in some of your marketing – you want a strong business name , a great logo design , and consistent branding – you also want to be sure that your messages are tailored differently to different groups of customers. Need email ? Accounting software? A customer service system ? Less Annoying CRM.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Here is some data from Wikipedia: Microsoft – Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. In April, 1996, Yahoo! He later changed the name to Facebook.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

8 years later, it is clear that the prediction of the influential publication has, to some extent, come true: it is hard to imagine modern life in developed or developing countries without collaborative consumption. In 2010, the Time magazine listed the sharing economy among the 10 ideas that would change the world. Prime time.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Starting in 1996 with the Intel P6 (Pentium Pro) to today’s P7 chips (Core i7) these processors contain instructions that are reprogrammable in what is called microcode. Yet the one company’s name that hasn’t come up as part of the surveillance network is Intel. Customer Development Secret History of Silicon Valley'

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So back in 1996 I wanted to start my own business and I asked my mom, “Hey, what businesses could I do from home?” John Jantsch: So I got to know, what’s in the name? So, in full disclosure, you mentioned about your name, Duct Tape Marketing, when you and I were offline a second ago. Lance Cummins: All right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The site was developed using Authorize.Net as the credit card gateway. “No problem,&# I thought, “I’ll just pay the original developer to convert it to PayPal Website Payments Pro (WPP). The quote from the original developer was $900. So I updated the company name while we were on the phone. Ink, people!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. The new device could hold names, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and incoming and outgoing messages. In today’s language of Customer Development , a TiVo positioned as a segment of an existing market (VCR’s) was a no brainer.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 16, 2019

Announce your nonprofit’s role when another user uses the nonprofit’s name elsewhere on the web. The Communications and Decency Act of 1996 also offers some protection for infringement claims for nonprofits. It’s wise to do a search on your nonprofit’s name occasionally and find out who is also using your content.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

I’d rather be Roger Ehrenberg with a thesis around data-centric companies and base my investment decisions on the skills I’ve developed in my career. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. The lucky cards some angels are dealt with mostly have to do with the timing of their investments.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

My name is Jeff Quigley and I live in a small coastal community called Musquodoboit Harbour (pronounced musk-o-dob-it) in Nova Scotia Canada. Is there an interesting business name? I finally was able to buy my first Mac in 1996 and I never turned back. Jeff lives and works in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

My name is Jeff Quigley and I live in a small coastal community called Musquodoboit Harbour (pronounced musk-o-dob-it) in Nova Scotia Canada. Is there an interesting business name? I finally was able to buy my first Mac in 1996 and I never turned back. Jeff lives and works in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Ben & Jerry’s is a quirky ice cream company that’s best known for its creatively-named flavors and outspoken political advocacy. Despite its success and growth as a partnership, Party Pieces has maintained its family business model and Carole continues to be involved in the sourcing and developing of new party products.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

From that point, 3M began to transform more into the one we know today, developing the world’s first waterproof sandpaper, inventing masking tape, and Scotchgard. By the 1930s, P&G had grown to become an international corporation with a wide variety of new products and brand names, many acquired by purchasing other businesses.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

As a developer you have the ability to build/hire out/buy applications and websites, where the margin is huge and you have something unique. Whereas we got some big names interested in Pay4bugs very early, just with SEO. #9 Which is great, except at that point your margins are slim…think 20-40% gross profit. 9 Jeremy on 08.11.09

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Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 The NVCA has developed research going back forty years showing that over 90% of the job growth created by venture-backed companies occurs AFTER their IPO. Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. cents or 6.25

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Hotmail was developed by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia in 1996. Before Apple became a household name and a multi-billion dollar tech company, they went through quite a few struggles. He started developing a new piston ring, but none of the directors approved his project. Hotmail (Rejected 20 Times by Investors).

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Everest climb in 1996, a story made famous by the bestselling book, “Into Thin Air.” Based on the true story first told in the nonfiction book of the same name, “The Big Short” tells the tale of those few who saw the 2008 market crash coming, and bet against the banks in order to win big. He Named Me Malala.

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Austin Startup

MAY 24, 2017

We develop programming (meetups, seminars, markets, festivals and other pop-up events) to promote and connect self-identifying women in creative industry and the arts, because we find stats like these concerning. It was created in 1996 by 12 concerned mothers raising adolescent girls in Austin, Texas. I knew I had found my group!

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature. The importance of a domain name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. I like working with software developers. Scroll back to top Sign up to receive email updates Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. Phil (01:40): Well, when I started, I had no clue. I remember back in 19 what? Do I like working with them?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 24, 2012

They used this to win the 1996 election by rallying people who were tired of such a weak, debt ridden economy. I could name another 20 startup in L.A. I won’t names names, but I see their ads on the web. I’m paraphrasing a Clinton/Carville line “It’s The Economy, Stupid” in the title above.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

People who dont want to get dragged into some kind ofwork often develop a protective incompetence at it. If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. Paul Erdos wasparticularly good at this. Actually its merely tedious.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In fact, 2010 venture capital fundraising is at the same level as it was in 1995 and 1996. The combination of the Internet and open source transformed the functionality in modern programming tools, increasing developer productivity 10 fold. And there are 2 billion people on the Internet.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Front End Developer Resume, An 11-pound Notebook, A 2-pound Netbook, and Internet 1996 → How Third-Party Licensing Can Ruin Your Launch Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. We’d been running in our development environments for two months without any problems.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Felix Salmon, for instance, points out that Fortune’s editorial staff considered twelve other candidates including Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, and Martha Stewart before naming Steve Jobs the best CEO of the decade in November 2009. He worked tirelessly to develop the characteristics outlined above as well or better than any founder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 22, 2009

I still kick myself for not moving here in 1996, when I started my first company. I had all of $5,000 to my name when I started my first company. ” Or “Don’t you think that <insert hot company name here> would be a nice place to work for a while before you go out on your own?”

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Develop Test Design: A/B Testing tools allow the test builder to create one or more digital treatments, served to unique visitors via a browser cookie and Javascript calls. Testing whether major brand alterations (such as a name change) impact the number of localized website visitors. You’re one of the chosen few). Pre-registration.

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