YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

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. Financial concerns get the focus while management figures, incorrectly, that culture will just work itself out.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 19, 2014

There are plenty of cases where a small startup has managed to grow into a billion-dollar company. GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., The technology age has brought with it a long list of business related success stories.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2019

It took a big advance in technology combined with rising gasoline prices to prepare consumers to finally accept hybrid power, and they did so with the 1997 arrival of the Toyota Prius — more than 100 years after the first electric car. The world was ready for gasoline power at that time, not electric. The Rise of Green Technology.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

William Olsen, CPA, Co-Founder and Director of Deductr been in the tax industry for 20 years and a licensed CPA since 1997. Professionalisms accounting expense tracking finance management taxation William Olsen' He started his career specializing in IRS problems resolution and has been an expert tax practitioner ever since.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

When you are a big company executive/manager, people pay attention to you but most of the time it isn’t very genuine and you start to believe their b t. To retain stars you have to teach them how to manage up, not just down or across. More women in management is generally indicative of more of a merit-based corporate culture?—?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 6, 2018

In a sense, artful thinkers adopt an anthropological perspective focused on real behavior, whether it’s how people eat an ice cream cone or how to manage an ER. They believe the preconceived and micro-managed as the surest way to produce “boring.” He goes on to say, “Good inventors and designers deeply understand their customers.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

It has stood behind its paywall since 1997, trusting that customers interested in its content would pay upwards of $200 a year for it. As Karl Wells, WSJ’s general manager for membership, told an interviewer: “If you think about paywalls broadly, there have been metered, freemium, and hard paywalls.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Back in 1997, when I was a high school junior and my brother Evan was a freshman, we launched a local moving service called Meathead Movers. I worked the corporate world for a few years as I earned my MBA, I was in a management position, I had to lay people off, with no notice, at one point and that changed me.

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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. Mr. John Mcfarlane, Chairman of the Board, University of Virginia Investment Management Company (UVIMCO). My Partner John Frankel and I are both speaking.

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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. His management style was closer to that of a marine drill sergeant than a Cub Scouts pack leader. Great management is like The Beatles. That trauma? By all accounts Jobs never stopped being a jerk.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Henry told me that I should start a fund--me, a 27 year old former VC analyst turned product manager with no MBA at a startup that wasn''t really headed in any particular direction. I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997. So thanks for playing Inception, Henry.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Even in 1997, during the dot-com boom, Bezos’s anti-pitch was stark and to the point: “You can work long, hard, or smart, but at Amazon.com you can’t choose two out of three.”. Bezos’s anti-pitch certainly made it tough to hire in Amazon’s early days, and it frustrated his management team who were desperate to staff up.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The theory is that with the advent of the cloud in the digital age, small businesses can leverage a suite of services from a technology vendor to manage all aspects of their work – from payments to record-keeping to marketing to customer communications. The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.)

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Managing Creativity. 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 Technology | Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Looking more closely at the pacing of the funds Austin Ventures raised in the table below, it also got caught up in the Dot Com frenzy, raising new, much larger funds almost every year from 1997–2001. at Oklahoma State University and his MBA at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Corsa Ventures fits this criteria.

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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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 24, 2017

I managed several forums during my day and I gotta say, I really enjoyed it. I can remember being quoted in USA Today in 1997 on becoming a virtual assistant. There are still some around, but social media pretty much replaced them. Social media. I’ve always considered this one of my biggest fails. Virtual Assistants.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

If you’re not in the mood for a personal essay as an example of personal brand management you might want to wait for my next post. Literally every project I started I had to sit down with the manager and explain that I wanted to be on the technical track. In my next post I will take on the topic of how to control your brand.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

The globalist McDonalds managed to beef up its falling profits in 2015 by adopting a localisation strategy. 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

JUNE 22, 2014

As we walked through the Levensohn Vineyard last week with our viticulturist, Zach Berkowitz , and our vineyard manager, Stan Zervas , of Silverado Farming , Zach cut into a green berry from one of our vines. Today, 1997 is the leader. Finally, 2014 is has the fourth highest GDD accumulation, trailing only 2013, 1997, and 1996.

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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. Culture Managing a Business News Non Profit Organizations fair trade fair trade certified fair trade coffee'

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

” Mr. Slywotzky is an “author of several books on profitability and growth” and currently a partner at the management consulting firm Oliver Wyman. The quarter, which saw double digit declines in every major industry sector, marks the lowest venture investment level since 1997.”

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

In order to survive, a business needs to have somebody to make the product, to deliver the service, to manage the money, to manage the brand, the social media and so on. Maybe you have to work your way up to managing a restaurant before an investor will consider you. All of this changed in about 1997 when U.S.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 24, 2017

This includes favorite books, morning routines, exercise habits, time-management tricks, and much more.” Founded in 1997, the organization presents a wide range of theme-based storytelling events across the United States and abroad. to extract the tactics, tools, and routines you can use.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

Prior to his public service, Javier spent 20+ years in investing, management, entrepreneurial and public policy, starting as a strategy consultant at McKinsey and Booz, Allen and at Abbott Laboratories. Small Business Administration ’s Associate Administrator and chief of its investment and innovation programs.

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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 1, 2008

 We had an engaging and candid conversation, which included fielding questions from audience members including  Laurie Yoler, Managing Director of GrowthPoint Technology Partners. working with outside consultants to address team and other management issues. -.38in;text-align:left;direction:ltr;unicode-bidi:embed;vertical-align:baseline;

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Growthink Blog

MAY 3, 2012

Examples are Charles Schwab allowing people to trade stocks online by themselves in 1997, and Craigslist making life difficult for print classifieds salespeople. This is where your project planning and management skills will come in handy, to see your dreams through to completion. How's your implementation?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

With this in mind, we developed Relocation Management Software to enable companies to better support their new employees throughout the entire relocation process, beginning with creating the right relocation policy all the way to preparing them for their first day in the new office. In 1997 we were IT consultants.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2012

My 1997 recruitment visit met with tepid response, with the student body largely interested in multinational placements at the time. For the uninitiated, IIT KGP is considered one of the top technology schools in India, and it is located in the Eastern part of the country, not far from the city of Kolkata.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 17, 2013

While there are always bright days when everything in your professional life goes according to plan, somehow we always manage to remember the rainy days where everything goes wrong instead. When Gary McPherson studied musicians in 1997, he discovered there was one major factor that contributed to success years down the line.

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aweissman.com

APRIL 14, 2010

All of it made me think back to my youth, the days of AOL, around 1995-1997. Back then, one of AOLs innovations was a publishing platform ( Rainman - Remote Automated Information Manager) which allowed thousands of content producers - of all sizes and skills - to publish into AOL. AOL (as an ISP ) soon followed suit, as it had to do.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Its popularity made Microsoft make a move and agreed to purchase Hotmail in 1997 for a whopping $400 million. Seeing how passionate Soichiro was about cars, the auto shop manager decided to give him a try. They finally finished the project, and Hotmail became one of the most widely used mailing platforms across the world.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 16, 2013

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. If your managers intentionally or accidentally lied, then you will need to address that too. One would be wrong: 3/31/1995: 21.0. 3/29/1996: 22.3.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 5, 2013

Perhaps some manager or marketing team thinks to themselves, “If we can only get some free press, we could be huge!” Not surprisingly, Snapple declined to make a second attempt to break the official record, which had been set in Holland in 1997 by a 21-foot ice pop. We Built This City. PR Destroyed It.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2011

The management team wasn’t strong enough. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. In my experience many in the industry still think about “my CEO’s&# or “my companies&# as though they are pawns on a chessboard. They were envious. Let me explain.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

Conglomerates, which were the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have proven themselves unable to innovate, and have a tarnished public image due to financial woes and poor management. According to Fox Business , women-owned businesses have increased 68% since 1997, running more than 9.1

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