Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 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. Back to work.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Let's face realities here: it's no doubt tempting and cool for many developers to work for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook or Twitter to name but a few. Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

For investors outside of Austin and LPs: Austin is a a vibrant startup market and this list of capital sources can help you identify firms to co-invest with and funds to invest in. We’ve compiled a definitive list of sources of startup capital in Austin.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Three years ago today, I grabbed the domain name BrooklynBridgeVentures.com. 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. Getting a domain name. So thanks for playing Inception, Henry.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Not only that but every startup always needs a few years to start turning profit. So as an entrepreneur, you must stay persistent and focused on your objective, especially during the initial startup phase. When my motivation lags, I think about sitting across the desk from my last boss ever in 1997. creating a startup.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2018

In 1997 I founded an internet company named Perficient, and it went public in 1999. Twice in a Lifetime was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. In the mid 1990s I knew that the internet was a game-changing technology.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Clayton Christensen’s book The Innovators Dilemma , originally published in 1997, changed my understanding of innovation, the evolution of value chains and gave me a theory of disruption that has served me very well over the years.

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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. Back to work.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Our mission stems from our passion in creating automotive technology disruption, our vision of a more sustainable future and our belief in astoundingly desirable designs that the Fisker name has been known for all around the world. My startup actually started in 2012 when I was creating another business – a mobile wine club app.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. I worked in Rome on a small team with a really smart young woman named Elisabetta. I was back to the startup CEO chicken-and-egg.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 1, 2017

An incorrect translation of a brand name or slogan could have wide reaching ramifications – an embarrassing or offensive translation could seriously endanger brand image. The post Why You Should Use Localisation in a Globalised World appeared first on The Startup Magazine. We love language.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

I spent the day yesterday doing Denver Startup Week stuff. The name kind of says it all. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. ” I thought about it for a second and responded that I wasn’t sure the assertion was correct.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Naming a Business. 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 Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Email address: Home. Tools & Research. Newsletters. Subscriptions. Franchises.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In 1997, RIM introduced the first packet-switched messaging device. The new device could hold names, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and incoming and outgoing messages. RIM, the Blackberry and its network had more inventions per square inch than most startups. RIM Interactive Pager 900.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 5, 2013

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. One marketing guru named William Crush came up with a killer idea: create a “temporary” city and the stage a train wreck for an audience of paying spectators. PR Destroyed It.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin! Today’s Normalization.

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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. Have a good name and logo.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

You might have heard of prominent unicorn companies, the billion-dollar ventures that are always trending and making a huge impact in the world of startups. The founder Robert Hull advice startup founders not to pay close attention to the rejections but focus on their business. Today, Hotmail would have been a unicorn company.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Hoque notes the company’s ongoing success with blockbuster medicines and vaccines with household names, such as Zithromax, Lipitor and Viagra. Netflix launched in 1997 and its service wasn’t appealing to most of Blockbuster’s customers, who rented movies on impulse. There are practical problems with neglecting either form.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And without missing a beat, he said Jeff Bezos, because Jay Bezos was not only a visionary, but he was also creative and invented so many mechanisms that startups and managers and leaders use today. No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. I hear that constantly in startups.

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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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Pascal's View

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

IPO market and simply dismiss the American equity markets for emerging growth companies today as “no longer engineered for brokers & bankers to make money via flipping over-valued startups to retail investors via institutional cronies” (from Paul Kedrosky’s blog). I strongly disagree with this point of view.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 7, 2015

Back in 1997, the Nielsen Norman Group conducted the first study to determine how users read on the web. My good friend Betsy – partner at the startup, Quadjobs – kindly agreed to let me use her home page as an example. There is meant to be one overriding call to action – namely, signing up for an account.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

business #entrepreneur #startup #story #why #ceo #ceoblognation #CEOs #hearpreneur. I started my business namely to help others and to improve upon the aloof customer service being presented in the IT industry. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. That’s it.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 4, 2015

StartUp, true to its name, is the story of one man’s journey from regular guy to businessman. Listen to StartUp here. TWIST, an acronym for “This Week In STartups,” is all about the world of web companies. Listen to The Bcast here. See Also 11 Angel Investor Blogs You Should Be Reading.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 27, 2021

Netflix began in 1997 as a video rental competitor to Blockbuster. From here, the user can customize their profile name, add child restrictions, and even add up to four additional profiles for family members or friends to watch across devices anywhere in the world. After registering, a user will be brought to a home screen. Conclusion.

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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.&# 03:30 PM: ‘Seed Combinators’: Startup Incubators 2.0 Enjoy the list and see you in Austin! Friday, March 12th.

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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. Such household names as Google, Intel and eBay were started by at least one immigrant founder. In truth, it’s not small business that represents the country’s job engine. It’s new businesses.

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