Up and Running

APRIL 9, 2019

It was also in a SWOT session that we realized we needed to make our product downloadable on the web (back in 1998, when we were among the first). I can’t cite research on that, but I can say that I’ve seen that happen dozens of times in my career, first hand, first as a consultant and then later as founder growing my business with a team.

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. 1] Matthijs Kalmijn, “INTERMARRIAGE AND HOMOGAMY: Causes, Patterns, Trends,” Annual Review of Sociology 24 (Aug 1998), 395-421. [2] 2] Peter V.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

by Donovan Janus, founder of 17hats. Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004. When food and shelter are a freelancer’s two heaviest expenses, a conversation about “costs” sounds absurd, no?

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David Teten

JULY 9, 2012

Often, when startup founders first assemble teams, they hire familiar people – either people they know, or people like them. 1] Matthijs Kalmijn, “INTERMARRIAGE AND HOMOGAMY: Causes, Patterns, Trends,” Annual Review of Sociology 24 (Aug 1998), 395-421. [2] 2] Peter V.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 22, 2014

It’s well understood now that at many of the best startups the founder remains at the helm until the company is very large – Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Oracle are four great examples. It’s also pretty well understood that founders have to be incredibly adaptive to stay effective as their companies scale.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Shawn Burcham , author of “ Keeping Score With GRITT : Straight Talk Strategies For Success ” is the founder & CEO of PFSbrands, which he and his wife, Julie, started out of their home in 1998. After all, a successful company’s growth is dependent on the capabilities of its employees.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

By comparison, Brian Morgan, who founded Adventure Life , from Missoula, Montana, started in 1998 with 16 employees and a decade later was earning $11 million after an initial investment capital of $3,000 spent on a laptop and two brochures. His startup focused on providing travel to exotic destinations around the world.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

by Shawn Burcham , founder and CEO of PFSbrands and author of “ Keeping Score With GRITT : Straight Talk Strategies For Success “ Ambitious entrepreneurs often are determined to grow their businesses by expanding into new areas, adding new products, and increasing the size of their workforce.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Prabhdeep Singh: We were founded in 1998 to serve top professionals — then it was investors — who weren’t really learning from the dry, one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all industry reports and conferences available to them. Two: the founders – are they curious, do they love to learn, and ask lots of questions?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

by Shawn Burcham , founder and CEO of PFSbrands and author of “ Keeping Score With GRITT : Straight Talk Strategies For Success “ Bosses might want to take notice if employees view their jobs as “the daily grind.”. Engaged employees are fun to work with and they will go the extra mile for their customers as well as their peers.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Gabriella Draney, Tech Wildcatters.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

In the mid-1990s, a good friend of mine, Gene Kim (founder of Tripwire and author of When IT Fails: A Business Novel ) and I were in graduate school together in the Computer Science program at the University of Arizona. In the bandwidth example, picking a point in 1986 and a point in 1998 exactly predicts the bandwidth I have in 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2019

by Shawn Burcham , founder and CEO of PFSbrands and author of “ Keeping Score With GRITT : Straight Talk Strategies For Success “ In business, it’s the major leaps that people notice and remember. Apple introduced the iPhone and the methods in which we communicate and gather information were changed forever.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 30, 2018

Guideposts For Tech Founders Going To Market When No Market Exists which is full of great tips for what they call ‘pre-chasm’ enterprise startups. I just read ‘Need More Time’? Getting sales going in those early years is terrifically challenging and requires great product and great sales.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 26, 2019

I began my volunteer work on the burn unit in early 1998 and within months of my volunteering I co-founded Moonlight Fund, a nonprofit for burn survivors. Celia Belt , a burn survivor, is the founder of the award-winning Moonlight Fund Inc., Some, sadly, resort to suicide.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

This is finally happening because the boom of 1998-01 means that many funds are reaching the maturity of their 10-year funds [strangely, 10-year funds usually last about 13 years!]. [side note: our last fund at GRP Partners is currently ranked as the 5th best performing fund of the year 2000. Our current fund was raised in 2008/09.]

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 16, 2023

As became clear quickly: the Stanford Business School Class of 1998 had founded the good Internet 1.0 There were absolutely founders and teams who selected areas that meant a lot to them personally, but the rose colored glasses were structural. But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. Absolutely!

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I first met and worked with Bobby in the mid-2000s at the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), where he was a co-founder and on the board with me. Bobby is awesome and I’m really psyched he’s back in Boulder at CU.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Enrique Ortiz, the founder of MobileMonday Austin and a panelist for InnoTech Austin’s Mobile Application Marketplace session. Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? Matt Scherer, a contributing blogger, had the opportunity to interview C. Details on Innotech can be found here.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. In 1998, Google founders were ready to sell it to Yahoo for USD one million — but Yahoo refused the opportunity. Blinded by its advertising revenue , Yahoo let customer experience take a backseat.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2016

When you’re small, founders are close to the action and can make sure all the important things happen. But as a start-up scales, founders can’t have their hands in everything: many companies lose focus on the customer; decisions get bogged down; and there are hiring mistakes. We’ve all seen these things happen to good start-ups.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

The founders of wildly successful companies - with their world-changing impacts and their awe-inspiring wealth creation - receive much well-earned praise and financial rewards for turning their great entrepreneurial visions into reality. But what about those with 1-2 degrees of separation who also benefit immensely? billion in Yahoo stock.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2022

Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s founder and CEO. For example, in 1998, Prof. As a founder told me this week: winter is the best time to build and Meta still has a lot of cash and is determined to be a major player in this space in the coming years. The updated Horizon Worlds graphics – much better graphics, but is it enough?

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. Sold to Yahoo!

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Jeff Hilimire

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

As I embark on founding a new company , I have become very aware that technically I haven’t done this since 1998 when I started Spunlogic with Raj. And while I certainly helped lead Engauge and felt like I was able to help steer the ship, I wasn’t a founder of Engauge (though I was part of the founding acquisitions).

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Our first interviewee – this coming Monday night – is Andre Durand, the founder and CEO of Ping Identity. Andre Durand brings 18 years of software industry executive leadership experience to his role as founder and CEO at Ping Identity. Prior to Jabber, Inc.,

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

Our third co-founder, Aron Yechezkel, joined us at the end of 2015 and we have been working together since then, and now as Sceenic. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. How long has the Sceenic team been together? What other startups have team members been involved with?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 2, 2011

Its founder and CEO Debbie Milner has seen the company expand nationally with franchise centers over the last six of those 22 years, and will see its 12th franchise launch this July, in addition to 2 corporate centers. Families, more transitory than in years past, were less likely to have relatives living nearby to help out.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

by Donovan Janus, founder of 17hats. Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004. The hard part is over! You’ve already decided that your side business or after work hobby is going to become your new primary source of income.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Stephanie is the founder of Grow Disrupt , a company that designs & produces educational, application-focused events that re-invigorate & inspire entrepreneurs. As the founder of On Line Support , Eric has a wealth of technology, service and business expertise garnered from more than 30 years in the technology/telecom industry.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The founding pair realized that they needed to pivot into becoming a software company, and in late 1998, completely shifted their focus to delivering athenaNet, their Web-based medical billing platform, as a cloud-based software service for all doctors. As anyone who has met him can tell you, Jonathan Bush is a unique founder/CEO.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a little company called Apple Inc., However, Jobs became less of a jerk after three children by his second wife came into his life between the years of 1991 and 1998. who passed away from cancer in October 2011, was a jerk. Don’t let money ruin your life.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Plus, on top of it all, with accelerator programs we’re net importing kick-ass founders from all over the world.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 23, 2010

When I attended between 1998-2001, there were a few course on entrepreneurship (entrepreneurial finance, entrepreneurial strategy, etc.), Booth has announced a course called Building Interet Strartups: Risk, Reward, and Failure and it is being taught by two of Groupon’s co-founders.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 18, 2013

As the founder of one of the earliest online marketing companies, creator of Squidoo , and author of multiple best-selling books , American entrepreneur Seth Godin needs little introduction. Yoyodyne was acquired by Yahoo in 1998.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 13, 2012

In 1998, before they even incorporated, Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were trying to present their concept to early-stage, or "angel" investors, with limited success. Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim was one such angel.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. While the industry is fragmented, few large companies control the top of the charts: Tencent has the top two spots, followed by SuperCell, King and Roblox.

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