www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Employee Benefits. 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 a 50-employee provider of e-marketing solutions to small and midsize businesses, based in Needham, Mass. "We Business Taxes.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 16, 2013

This conference is an evolution of the Alternative Investment Roundup that the executives at SSBC designed, developed and ran each February in Arizona from 1997 through 2008. Gail Stone , Executive Director, Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System (APERS). My Partner John Frankel and I are both speaking.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Since 1997, women-owned businesses rose by 68 percent. As for employees, take the time to hire competent people who you’ll trust in their jobs – and then trust them! I had to make drastic cuts, including letting go beloved employees. That’s up from 602 in 2011-12. You’ll make yourself miserable and your business will suffer.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

Getting fired from the very company he founded in 1985 before returning to it in 1997 to save it from financial ruin. Pay your employees. What’s more interesting is what Jobs learned over time as a result of the trauma some say he brought upon himself. That trauma? How do you turn this on? Why am I being prompted to do a reboot?).

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JUNE 16, 2014

Kentucky Fried Chicken first came to Vietnam in 1997 through the vision of Singapore entrepreneur and franchisee Tony Chew. KFC Vietnam (KFCV) currently operates 140 restaurants and employees 4,000 workers. [i].

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

I have never been a perfect long-term employee because I find that it limits my creativity and freedom. After co-founding talent hiring platform Hireology, my business partner Michael Krasman and I recognized that when it came to relocating talent, it was a struggle for both employers and their newly hired or transferring employees.

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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. .” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Support.com — On 2.5m

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Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

To be clear, the founders, early investors and many employees ended the day very rich indeed. Amazon IPO 1997 – 2 years after it was founded. It is also highly likely government regulation will further impact its business model as its drivers become legally recognised employees.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Mr. Fralic was also one of the early employees and VP of Business Development at Half.com starting in 1999, and after the eBay acquisition, spent six years with eBay in a variety of entertainment, business development, and media roles. In 1997, Mr. Yavonditte joined Juno Online Services, Inc. through the Yahoo! acquisition.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

And then there are the people you owe money to, the people who owe you money, strategic allies, and your own employees. It’s out of date now, but if you look for it, you can find the 1997 Dun & Bradstreet research on causes of business failure that listed “too much money&# as one of the causes. More money is better.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 My second employee signed the H1-B petition on behalf of the company so that I could be hired by my own company! I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

By 1992 Research in Motion (RIM) had been in business for eight years, had 16 employees, sales of about $500,000 a year, and three or four business lines. 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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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Certification began in 1997, as a concrete way to ensure that a fair trade certified (FTC) label on a product meant that a series of milestones had been met, and a socially conscious consumer could rest easy with their purchase. The Pros and Cons of Fair Trade Coffee. Pros: Keeps grievous violations at bay.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

Whether you’re an entrepreneur running a business or a superstar employee, negativity is unlikely to make your work life much better. Employees who score low in the “life satisfaction” metric tend to stay home 1.5 Negative environments make workers check out. more days a month more than their happier coworkers.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The geniuses aren’t the only part of the service experience that customers like, as most stores are heavily-staffed and employees can check out customers right from their iPhones — no waiting in line required. Happy employees very often make happy customers, which is no doubt why many shoppers keep returning to this store. Whole Foods.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 18, 2015

My wife Julia and I founded the company as Rainbow Academy in 1997. It started as a family-owned business with 10 employees, five of which were relatives. We spoke with Guy to learn more about his business, the future of his business, and advice for franchise owners.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1997: 23.3. First, if you did not understand how radically the fundraising environment might change, then there is no chance that your employees would have understood it. In fact, if you are like most companies, your managers probably implied to your employees that your stock price would only rise as long as you were private.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Hillary has been working to make government more accessible and available online for nearly two decades, starting as a web designer for Arkansas.gov in 1997. She came to the GSA as a Presidential Innovation Fellow in 2013, where she worked on the development of MyUSA.gov. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1 An unprecedented number of startups, over 100 at last count, are now valued above $1 billion, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

Back in 1997, Jeff Bezos was talking about frictionless shopping when most companies were just thinking about getting serious about being online. And to me the important thing is that businesses develop a friction aware culture so that their employees are sensitized to look forward in the customer experience.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

And for ones that do get sold often most of the employees don’t really make huge upside gains. I remember an employee asking me whether I’d fill out their paperwork to get a home loan when we only had 3 months of cash in the bank. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

3/31/1997: 23.3 First, if you did not understand how radically the fundraising environment might change, then there is no chance that your employees would have understood it. In fact, if you are like most companies, your managers probably implied to your employees that your stock price would only rise as long as you were private.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Amazon priced it''s IPO in 1997 at approximately $500M (the $18 IPO price was an increase from the $12-$14 range) and first trade was at $29.25 We should also remember that Amazon went public at a time (Q2 1997) when many companies were pulling IPO filings because the market was beating up Internet valuations. or a market cap of $800M.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2012

One of the most iconic brands of our time – Apple – was reborn after it launched, in 1997, an innovative campaign inviting people to “Think Different” Today, Apple products are perceived to be better designed, more fun, and more reliable than products from Apple’s competitors. Find your voice.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 6, 2018

In 1997, McKay co-founded junior mineral resource company, Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. To this day, I value my employees and want them to work as a team, whenever possible. I do believe that a single employee can make a difference to an organization, but generally, teamwork creates better results.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Avinu is a boutique firm dedicated to helping leaders and employees learn how to manage conflict, gain key soft skills and develop a stronger workplace culture. In 1997 at just 42 years old, I suffered a massive heart attack that landed me in the ICU. We spend so much time at work, building our craft and living on purpose.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

John Meriwether from Liar’s Poker fame assembled a stellar group from Wall Street and academia including Myron Scholes (one of the creators of the Black-Scholes option pricing model) and Robert Merton who together shared the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1997.

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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. Let your employees become experts in separate industries and move them into a niche. Jared shares with us how Fundera works! SPOILER ALERT!

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Ben's Blog

MAY 30, 2010

The CEO must set the context that every employee operates within. When a company clearly articulates its story, the context for everyone—employees, partners, customers, investors, and the press—becomes clear: When a company fails to tell its story, you hear phrases like: “These reporters don’t get it.”. The Strategy and the Story.

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Transformify

JULY 21, 2019

Marie, you were the last person to interview the late Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa, Saint Teresa of Calcutta, in her home in Calcutta, India in 1997. It is not gender, race, origin, medical condition, religious or sexual preferences that make someone a high-performing employee. About the author. About Transformify.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

That makes me sound like a genius today, But the point was 25 years ago that when you went to work for Hewlett, what's 25 years ago is 97, when you went to work for Hewlett Packard in 1997, you expected to be there for the next 40 years. It's a turn on for our own employees. And they've got turned on employees.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

For them — and anyone else who wants to increase their employees productivity and sanity — lets take a look at some of the assumptions management makes regarding hours, output, efficiency, and production costs; and see how a century of industrial research has conclusively, consistently proven those assumptions wrong. Its ironic.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

For example, in 1997, I had not realized that you need to invent and reinvent your go to market strategy together with your product idea. You have now created substantial value which makes the company important to its ecosystem (including your customers), while your employees are significantly motivated by that asset value.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

As an early employee I worked all hours of the day, never hesitated to jump on a “ red-eye ” plane to see a customer at the drop of a hat, and did what was necessary to make the company a winner. If you work 100-hour weeks, no one (investors, co-founders, employees) can blame you if things don’t work out, right? Life is good.

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