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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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. 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

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2011

If you’ve taken the roller coaster ride that is a startup – you know what I’m talking about. The truth is that in my experience very, very few people really enjoy the “pure&# startup environment: months with no salary, months with no live product and lots of trial, error & rejection. It’s addicting. 8 beers that night.

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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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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

More recently, Eric Ries and Dave McClure added fuel to the fire (See Eric Ries’ blog post: Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet) and helped kick off a campaign on @ 2Gov. I graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 1997 and decided to use my OPT to give the company a proper shot. In a startup cash is king.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Witness, for example, this terrific Fast Company article on Bill Nguyen , serial entrepreneur who’s seventh startup “Color” famously raised $41m for a new mobile app before it even launched. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. The launch, by the way, was a failure.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Since the recession, and at least partially sparked by it, I’m seeing a real resurgence of entrepreneurial spirit, and more startup activity than ever before. The rate of new entrepreneurs increased about 10 percent, from 280 out of 100,000 adults in the 2014 Startup Activity Index, to 310 out of 100,000 adults in the 2015 Index.

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Up and Running

MAY 11, 2011

Tweet Having just completed my spring business plan season — three big business plan contests and our angel group investment — I think it’s a good time to poke some holes in several damaging and far-too-common myths about startups. If you’re going to build a business, you’re going to have lots of bosses.

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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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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, the Blackberry and its network had more inventions per square inch than most startups.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. 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.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

If you run a startup and are currently raising money, you probably planned for a somewhat different fundraising environment than the one you find yourself in today. 3/31/1997: 23.3. If we took too much dilution, we will work with our new investor to make sure that every employee is still highly financially motivated.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

True, many boards are dysfunctional, but when you build a great startup board, it will be a powerful tool that can help the CEO make the company successful. This essay, which is based on Part 1 of a two-part episode of the Greymatter Podcast, will cover the fundamentals of building great startup boards.

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Professor VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

I doubt Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures believed that a horse with a horn existed when she wrote Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups in late 2013, but she probably had no idea that it would become a hot buzzword in Silicon Valley and hit the cover of mainstream business press, Fortune Magazine.

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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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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

If you run a startup and are currently raising money, you probably planned for a somewhat different fundraising environment than the one you find yourself in today. 3/31/1997: 23.3 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

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. I had thrown myself into a startup because work was an exciting technical challenge with a fixed set of end points and rewards.

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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. I guess that is what happens when you get your ass whooped by a newcomer.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. ” “Mark has a vested interest in talking down valuations of startups.” What is the True Sentiment of VCs? All of these are false.

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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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Agile VC

OCTOBER 5, 2012

I’m always thrilled to speak with undergraduates who are interested in startups. <3 years) company that began as a startup. Joining Microsoft in 1987 or Yahoo in 1997 or Google in 2005 or Facebook today still gives someone new to the professional world a lot of the exposure to the “startup” world.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. I sent notes to my clients, thanking them for their business, notes to my employees for all of their support over the years, and notes to HelloWorld directors, for their trust in purchasing my company. Tell Your Business Story! Accepting submissions.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 21, 2016

In order to be a successful leader, one has to fully maximize the potential of their employees. Maximizing your employee’s potential means being wise, sincere, humane and, when necessary, strict. “A startup is more likely to die from indigestion than starvation” – Bill Gurley. Photo Credit: John Kelley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Ross and I will be speaking at South by Southwest again this year and hope that you’ll join us there for our talk titled “ Third Coast: How to Be a Startup Outside of Silicon Valley.&# 12:30 PM: Kicking Recession Ass With A Killer Company Culture Courtyard Brazos 2/3 o your employees know how much you love them?

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