The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

from 1997 to 2014. Entrepreneurs play a vital role in improving the quality of our communities and individuals’ lifestyles; they adopt the last innovations in the production of vast and various goods and services on a large-scale to reduce the cost. The goal is to offer a better product or service at a lower cost.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

When you start straying from the practices that got you where you are, you run the risk of making decisions that will cost you in the long run. According to news reports , the origins of the company’s woes can be traced all the way back to 1997 when Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas, a merger that immediately led to a clash of cultures.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2019

For green technology, the barriers — high costs, lack of supporting infrastructure, the weight of tradition — have been especially prohibitive. Financial investments have been lodged in old technology, keeping costs of research, development, and distribution exorbitantly high. A good idea by itself is not enough to change the world.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. When your competition does irrational things to grow fueled by low-cost capital it makes it harder for you to compete by playing by the conventional rules.

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

" Since 1997, Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) has armed senior executives with cutting edge talent improvement research and benchmarking. Second, it incorporates known best practices (cost & service) and applies them to primary care. Cost: $40 includes complimentary dinner. Click here to buy tickets.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In 1997 at just 42 years old, I suffered a massive heart attack that landed me in the ICU. Our first daughter Sophia was born with a heart defect called tetralogy of fallot, and was also diagnosed with severe autism, which is a neurological disorder that impaired her social and speech capabilities. Thanks to David Hernandez, lotus823 ! #29-

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2018

Lipitor (1997). Make sure your product offers something worthwhile to keep customer’s coming back. New content, an enjoyable experience, or a lasting challenge may all call a user back. What hook will keep customers’ clamoring for your product over time? Image courtesy of The Daily Beast.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Rogue Wave’s fall began during Java’s rise to power in 1997-8. My last year as an art show attendee was 2008, when my sales barely covered my hard costs. In short, people loved their product and Rogue Wave prospered accordingly. The problem was, Rogue Wave loved their product too much. I decided to hang up the business.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 28, 2022

It took three years and cost three million dollars. They began this practice fairly recently, in 1997. The FTC and Chamber of Commerce were the greatest supporters of the Revenue Act of 1938. Meanwhile, construction of the Chamber of Commerce building in Washington D.C. was ongoing. They completed this project in 1925.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2013

A recent American Express OPEN study shows that women-owned businesses are playing a significant role in job creation (second only to publicly traded companies) and that the number of women-owned businesses has increased by 59 percent since 1997. How could they be transitioned into a low-cost business?

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Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Amazon IPO 1997 – 2 years after it was founded. It’s not like other software businesses, because every ride has a real and unavoidable marginal cost. The difference between it and companies like Google and Facebook is that new users come with very little cost increase, if any. Uber, on the other hand, doesn’t.

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Life Beyond Code

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Up your caring quotient: Instead of trying to reduce the cost of the sale, increase your level of caring. Become someone that is hard to ignore: If you bring something really relevant AND valuable compared to available alternatives, it will cost them more to ignore you than it costs to engage with you.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Jim Hornthal splits his time between venture capital, entrepreneurship and education. And Zignal Labs. Jim co-taught classes with me at U.C.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 13, 2015

When Christine started Balance Your Books in 1997, her vision was to create an accounting advisory firm that focused on the growth of entrepreneurs, their business, and their financial health. Throughout this growth, she experienced personal financial growth, but at a cost of her personal time. Jared shares with us how Fundera works!

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

Localisation reduces risks and costs. Not only will there be the investment of management time and financial resources, but market entry failure may lead to shareholder loss of confidence…there is also opportunity cost as potentially better opportunities are forgone”.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

and with inherent cost disadvantages relative to international competition in the pricing of IC’s, hardware assurance for critical infrastructure in the U.S. ceded the center of gravity in the semiconductor fabrication industry to Asia many years ago. “ WESLEY K.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Among those competing for this vision are PayPal/eBay, Square and Groupon, with each struggling to pull together pieces of the equation and, importantly, reach the small business in a cost-efficient manner at scale. The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Founding Story: A Pivot.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. In other words, they’re back to seeking product/market fit, and only an immense market (and excellent fit) will counterbalance their crushing costs and pay back past investments. Support.com — On 2.5m

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Since its inception, there has been controversy over the efficacy, practices, and costs associated with the fair trade label. Because of the certification process that began in 1997, you can rest assured that some of the worst labor and environmental violations—such as unsafe working conditions—will not be happening.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc. Cost: $15/Members of HBS Angels of NY and/or HBS Club of NY; $40/Non-members & Guests. Yavonditte served as vice president of sales for USA Networks Electronic Commerce Solutions Group in New York. as a director in their business development group. Includes buffet dinner.

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Seeing Both Sides

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The Kauffman Foundation’s research on this matter is clear: from 1997 to 2005, job growth in the US was driven entirely by start-ups. This anemic NIH funding level remains despite the well-known fact that the impact on health care costs and job creation is enormous. It’s new businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. As a result, they greatly underestimate how long it will take, in realistic terms, to reach their financial breakeven point, and what it will cost to get there. An unforgiving strategy.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

But his experiments, which hed been conducting for at least 12 years, showed him clearly that cutting the workday from ten hours to eight hours — and the workweek from six days to five days — increased total worker output and reduced production cost. At that point, the costs strongly begin to outweigh the advantages.

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Mike Michalowicz

APRIL 11, 2016

It was not until she married again in 1997, with the encouragement of her husband, she started her first business: With big plans in mind but only a small budget, she began Bermuda Bride in late 1999 and her floral company ‘Petals’ in 2001. For more information on this conference and to register, click here ! Corporate Partners.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 18, 2012

It’s important to realize that it wasn’t that we were out $75,000, but the hardware had cost us 80% of this and we’d already paid our hardware vendor so we were really out over $125,000. I told her I was worried Feld Technologies wasn’t going to make payroll because Hyperion owed us $75,000. We were a $1.5m-ish

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

One of my favorite lines in buried in the middle: “I’ve heard enough companies say “we simply can’t cut costs or it will hurt the long-term potential of the business” to get a wry smile. Pragmatic cost cuts are always possible and often productive.” It’s simply not true.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 3, 2012

Most cigarette lighters are disposable and cost 99 cents or so. The furniture's materials can be compactly packaged for shipping still in the box, at a much lower cost than shipping, say, an assembled dining room table that takes up a lot more space.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Describing your product as “new and “never been done before” instead of “we’re just like those others guys, but better” could cost your company billions. In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. RIM and TiVo are two examples of getting it right and wrong. Research in Motion (RIM). RIM Interactive Pager 900.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2011

Since 1997, he has led an independent consulting practice focused on helping businesses of all sizes elevate performance and achieve healthy growth. What kinds of profit margins will be generated, after costs? And you simply can’t achieve that unless your business performs well relative to some basic laws of economics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. They need a combination of capital and experience to separate from the rest of the pack – the low cost of starting a business means it is even more vital to become the market leader more quickly.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

It cost too much (over $1,000), it weighed a lot and it had poor handwriting recognition technology. All of this changed in about 1997 when U.S. It cost a third of the Newton, weighed a third and had a handwriting recognition system that worked. However, it ultimately failed because it did not meet their customers’ needs.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

We believe that as humans we have the right to lovely luxuries, and the responsibility to ensure they never come at the cost of another life. In 1997 we were IT consultants. Thanks to Kristen and Frank Pizzo, Bath, Body, and Candle Moments. #8 8 – Serious Book Selling. Thanks to Jeff Ellman, UrbanBound. #14

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Not enough people understand the emotional cost of being a start-up founder. As you may remember, I was lucky enough to have recieved, at your hands, the beating I so richly deserved back in 1997 while at ONETOUCH Systems. My good friends and I lived in a house together working on 2 start-ups and we would call the house Sarajevo.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

And also there are a large number of people who would like to do startups in theory, but have high cost bases (family, real estate, school loans, whatever) that makes it very difficult to take the kinds of risks required. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. They were envious.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 6, 2010

The piece details why Prop 13 critics are using false arguments and redirection to avoid talking about the real problem facing California, public employee costs. While we are talking about public employee costs, this issue is also leading to a full financial implosion of Bay Area mass transit systems.

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