Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2019

If you want to increase your chances of startup success, you should invest in the expertise of select professionals with specialized skills, even in the earlier stages of your company. There’s a lot to be said for youthful energy, but early-stage small businesses and startups can leverage the value of experience as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“My startup business was acquired and I worked for the company that bought us; which was a public company called Ameridata that bought about 40 companies in about three years. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

Most small businesses and startups do not have a dedicated human resource professional to manage the endless details of benefit plans, recruiting, payroll, and records keeping so those tasks typically fall to a founder or general manager. A great guide to the balanced scorecard approach can be found in the classic 1996 book by Robert S.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 11, 2018

The Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996 established specific rules to locate, authenticate, store, audit and transmission of EHR. The post Why hospitals should care more about digitally accessibility appeared first on The Startup Magazine. Secure electronic health information exchange.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

This post follows directly on Steve’s earlier excellent post, Why Companies are not Startups. In this post, I want to share some new thoughts that build on Steve’s post, and connect them to Lean Startup methods. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back, it is relatively rare. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). business entrepreneur exit founder IPO startup' After a record low of 39 U.S. Marty Zwilling.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The biggest difference I cite is that Venture Capital often feels like an “individual sport” while startups are a “team sport.” Startups are team sports because you’re all working on the same shared objective of the company. That’s what we’re trying to do at Upfront.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 28, 2018

By 1996, he had sold $280 million in toys. The post Where There’s A Trend, There’s A Profitable Business appeared first on The Startup Magazine. A few years down the road, his toys weren’t just popular – they became valuable. Some people have even paid $300,000 for “ Princess ,” the Beanie Baby created to honor Princess Diana.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. 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. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981). Customer expectations of a relationship and personalization are stretching every business today, and pervasive use and confidence in social media by customers can override all your image building and marketing messages.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. 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. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. I feel like I know him better personally since he's always in the chat room during the show asking questions). and Half.com.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Point Health, a digital health startup, announced plans to acquire Austin-based The Karis Group, a patient advocacy bill negotiation service. The Karis Group, founded in 1996, brings decades of pricing data, healthcare navigation, and bill negotiation experience to Point Health, according to a news […].

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. 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. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

percent of new entrepreneurs in 1996 and that by 2014, this number had fallen to just 5.6 In fact, almost 50 percent of veterans owned a business after World War II. But today, veteran entrepreneurship is on the decline. The most recent Kauffman Foundation research found that veterans accounted for 12.6 armed forces.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2019

Visionary ideas and dreams of startup success are what keep us inspired. Given that 2 out of 10 startups fail in the first year and just half make it to the five-year mark, you likely recognize that the risk-taking spirit can be potentially destructive. Entrepreneurs are, by nature, big thinkers and risk-takers.

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Austin Startup

MAY 19, 2019

Here’s why but it’s really boring: The 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act called for the creation of an automated system to record arrivals and departures of non-U.S. The visa usually allows them to be in the country for a specific time period. What is Biometric Entrance?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Every startup founder knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road. 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. Yet we always dream that we are the exception to the rule.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These companies can range from tech startups to food trucks to retail stores. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2009: Holding Steady but Changes in Seed and Startup Investments”. Villalobos & Payne: “Startup Pre-Money Valuation: The Keystone to Return on Investment” 117. 1961- 1996. approx 2004-09.

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SiliconHills

APRIL 13, 2019

In 1996, Sridhar Vembu founded Zoho in Silicon Valley. Today, the bootstrapped startup is still in its teenage years even as it finds its stride with the increasing popularity of its suite of software apps aimed at running everything from a small business to a Fortune 500 company.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2021

You are a high potential individual looking to explode your experience and network so that you can start your own company, join Capital Factory or another startup as an executive, or become a venture capitalist investor. He has a separate assistant to handle scheduling and some administrative tasks.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2019

VC’s have just changed the ~50-year old social contract with startup employees. In doing so they may have removed one of the key incentives that made startups different from working in a large company. For most startup employee’s startup stock options are now a bad deal. Why Startups Offer Stock Options.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

Maybe you’re thinking about startups to invest in, or making decisions about where to place resources in your company. Here’s an example using two personal computers, one from 1996 and one from 2011. So when William offered to write a guest post on how to predict the future, I enthusiastically said yes.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

For years, the most desirable exit strategy for startup companies was to go public through an initial public offering. Today, many startups are succumbing to the temptation to sell their companies early. A review of recent case studies from similar startups may make this decision a little easier. Here are a few to consider.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2021

You are a high potential individual looking to explode your experience and network so that you can start your own company, join Capital Factory or another startup as an executive, or become a venture capitalist investor. He has a separate assistant to handle scheduling and some administrative tasks.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In fact, when starting K9 I used my own startups as an example such capital efficiency. I started the company in December 1996, we sold the company in March 2000 (3+ years). I’ve since realized that the reason why my startups were so darn capital efficient was not because they didn’t need that much capital.

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K9 Ventures

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

In fact, when starting K9 I used my own startups as an example such capital efficiency. I started the company in December 1996, we sold the company in March 2000 (3+ years). I’ve since realized that the reason why my startups were so darn capital efficient was not because they didn’t need that much capital.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

It follows the entrepreneurial journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries to entrepreneurial education and more. — Women in startups: ‘It’s just business’. . — Women in startups: ‘It’s just business’.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 28, 2019

The Millennials, the generation with years of birth ranging from 1980 to 1996, is a large and diverse group – so vague generalizations would hardly be correct. It’s not necessarily about giants like Google or Tesla – even small startups are part of this trend. What’s so special about them?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

While there are hundreds (and perhaps thousands) of CRM solutions, not all are alike and not all are created with small businesses and startups in mind. We’ve curated a list of the most recommended CRMs for small businesses and startups to help you evaluate the best CRM that fits your needs and the needs of your business.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Our whole startup team brainstormed for days before coming up with ideas. When I started my company in 1996 at the age of 20 years old, I decided to name it after the family farm. We quickly decided we wanted an animal mascot. I grew up on a dairy farm in rural New Hampshire. Thanks to Link Moser, Windhill Design LLC !

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

These indicate that the correct icon for an entrepreneur may now have gray hair, rather than the warm glow of youth: The number of Baby Boomers starting a business from 1996 to 2011 rose nearly 7 percent, while the start-up rate by those aged 20 to 44 fell about 5 percent.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2018

I was involved in the early years (1992 – 1996) as a judge and funded a number of companies that went through the MIT $100K (which was called the MIT $10K at the time.) Over a decade ago, Brad Bernthal and Phil Weiser were putting real energy into Boulder Startup Community. Bernthal and Jason grabbed this and ran with it.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It claimed that founding new businesses is not just a young persons game , but rather that the average age of a founder of a tech startup was 39. Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007. founders startups infrastructure internet VC'

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2020

Occasionally here at The Startup Magazine we come across an entrepreneurial story that shows there is more to a startup than the quest to become the next billion dollar unicorn. TSM: Tell us about making that leap from a corporate media job to a startup. What were the first hurdles? Jim: The decision was challenging.

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