Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

As an advisor to entrepreneurs, I find that I often have to remind them that the world of customers has changed since they started their last business. Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981). Make shopping a satisfying experience, whether online or in-store.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 16, 2018

I have been an entrepreneur for 15 years and a major theme for my career has been innovation. How did you come up with your business name? We took a little while to come up with the right name! Any advice you would give to entrepreneurs and business owners? . Tell us your story. Why did you start your business?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million, by selling 2.6

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I’m often asked about the differences between being at a VC and being an entrepreneur and whether I prefer one or the other. The first step we took was to choose a brand name that we felt represented our shared values and that we felt helped force us to live our values. That’s what we’re trying to do at Upfront.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

Ask specifically for the boss’ name. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. What were some low points during that job? Or what part of the job did you not like? In what way were peers stronger than you? Who were the people you worked with?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Ask specifically for the boss’ name. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. What were some low points during that job? Or what part of the job did you not like? In what way were peers stronger than you? Who were the people you worked with?

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million, by selling 2.6

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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. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million, by selling 2.6

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. Pyle was named one of “50 Women Entrepreneurs Who Inspire Us” by Self-Made magazine and has been featured in numerous publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and many others.

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SiliconHills

JULY 11, 2014

Joshua Baer, serial entrepreneur and cofounder of Capital Factory, has joined the board of directors of PostUp, formerly known as PulseConnect, an email marketing software company. Baer founded the Austin-based company under the name of Skylist in 1996 and later sold it.

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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. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million, by selling 2.6

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

I still have the Brooks Brothers striped shirt that Len and his partner Jerry Poch gave me when we signed the documents for Feld Technologies to be bought by Sage Alerting Systems (which changed its name to Sage Technologies and then changed it to AmeriData). Under the terms, he signed his name. ” I learned that from Len.

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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

APRIL 21, 2010

To be sure, a number of well-known tech titans started more-or-less this way: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 21, 2015

See Also: The Year’s 10 Best Movies for Entrepreneurs. Everest climb in 1996, a story made famous by the bestselling book, “Into Thin Air.” See Also: 7 Startup Lessons from an Inspiring Entrepreneur. He Named Me Malala. Everyone’s tastes are different, but I’m sure there are two or three on this list you’ll enjoy.

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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). November 25, 2009 9:54 AM Danny Wong said.

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Brandanew

APRIL 23, 2018

After all, there are more CEOs named John in the US than women. This report about unpaid housework gets to the point easily: Statistics from the 1996 Census of Population confirm that women continue to do the vast majority of unpaid housework and care-giving, whether or not they work for pay.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). I should say that I agree that naive optimism in entrepreneurs can produce higher beta (upside or flops) and that’s good from an investment standpoint if you’re looking for big returns.

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help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

—————————————— [Name withheld]. Consulting rates go all over the place, but you’re going to pay more than that in many cities for a first-rate name-brand management consultant. Entrepreneuring. Your idea has great merit and potential.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

While that’s not true, it is a fact that entrepreneurs only have one word for “startup.” Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). And if I were an entrepreneur I’d rather find investors who understood “my space&# so that in tough times they felt comfortable about “doubling down.&#. Not everybody agreed.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. les leçons apprises par un micro-entrepreneur: Vendre des produits physiques vs vendre des produits digitaux [.] #5 Check out my book Like this post?

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. 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.” Great product names help and bad product names hurt. infoChachkie.

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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.” It was created in 1996 by 12 concerned mothers raising adolescent girls in Austin, Texas. GEN Austin Who?

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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 is now a respected businessman all over the world. Hotmail (Rejected 20 Times by Investors). Apple (Rejected 5 Times by HP).

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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. Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. I like working with entrepreneurs. 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? Instead of what you should pick.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

securities regulators, investors, and entrepreneurs are (1) the steadily increasing absolute size of the offerings itself; and (2) whether or not the companies raising the public market capital are U.S. And this isn’t just a venture capital problem—this is a major problem for the American entrepreneur—since 1991, 47% of all U.S.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I first came across Bill when he was a Wall Street analyst and covered my company Open Market (IPO 1996). Name Media ($50-60m). Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. I always admired his perspicacity, even if he didn’t like our stock all the time! Glasshouse ($90m) – registered for IPO . Hubspot ($25-30m).

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

backed companies, went public raising less than $50 million at various times between 1971 and 1996. IPOs negatively impacts American entrepreneurs most of all, regardless of whether they have venture capital or private equity backing. which happen to all be venture?backed jobs today. Most importantly, the absence of U.S.

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Pascal's View

AUGUST 22, 2009

For a clear example, see the following list of 17 companies that went public and raised $50 million or less between 1971 and 1996: These companies only raised $367 million in the public markets and they account for 470, 000 U.S. While today these companies are household names, when they went publicthey were largely unknown. jobs today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

That wasn't my intention in 1996. John Jantsch (03:19): So I, I can't tell you how often entrepreneurs say I started this business to solve my own problem. 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.

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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. An entrepreneur’s life is full of stress. An entrepreneur’s life is full of stress. As an entrepreneur, you make the best of what you have.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

It was awesome and I recommend it for any entrepreneur out there either working on a company or thinking about starting a company. If you don’t recognize the name Danny Lewin there are two big things to know before you dive into this book. Akamai’s original name was Cachet Technologies. He longed to be at MIT.

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. at 12:45 pm Rob, why aren’t you telling us the name of the company? #8

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