Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

The company is also known for being a great employer, making Fortune magazine’s “Best Places to Work” list every year since 1998. While there used to be several large locations of this toy retailer worldwide, today only the most famous is left: the brand’s flagship store in downtown New York. Whole Foods.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

Selling more than 17 million bags since 1998, eBags knew they had huge retargeting potential, but what they did with their data was pretty creative. SteelHouse, a New York based retargeting SaaS/service hybrid, helped the nation’s leading online healthcare marketplace (take a break and breathe) achieve some high tempo growth.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? A: There are a number of top cities when it comes to mobile sofware and applications: Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle and Austin to name a few. Details on Innotech can be found here. After the dot-com bubble, it slowed down dramatically.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In 1984 New York State mandated seat belt use ( now required in 49 of the 50 states.). These began to appear in cars in the late 1980’s/1990’s and were required in 1998. During that time former buggy drivers had to learn a completely new set of rules to control their cars. began to decline.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

I hope that you can join us Monday night, April 4, midtown NYC, at a panel on “Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO” The program is sponsored by the HBS Club of New York and the HBS Angels of NY.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Quinn once again brings out the city government's party line on startups: "Unfortunately, when it comes to new technology startups, New York City lags behind other parts of the country.". The new proposal of the week: "In San Diego they have a great organization to do that -- it's called CONNECT. What does that even mean?

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

This is another joint event between HBS Angels of NY and the HBS Club of New York. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. Previously Mr. Reilly helped to start a single family office and foundation in New York where he was an investment manager for six years.

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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.), My alma mater, and the #1 ranked business school — according to BusinessWeek — continues to strengthen its entrepreneurship offerings. but I don’t recall courses on internet strategy.

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Professor VC

MAY 7, 2013

My Original Mobile Email Device My love affair with RIM started with my first blackberry I purchased in 1998 - the fat pager pictured above. At the time, it''s only purpose was email and the occasional lighter substitution at a rock concert to beg for another encore.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 4, 2019

As Harvard Business School professor Susan Fournier noted in 1998 , “A brand has no objective existence at all: it is simply a collection of perceptions held in the mind of the consumer.”. New York City—the “Big Apple” and a desirable city—is in the very first shot. But you don’t control its interpretation.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

Kathryn Garcia wants to be Mayor of New York City. If they can’t figure it out in Minneapolis, I’m not quite sure how they’re ever going to figure it out in New York. That would be like being an intern at Google in the summer of 1998 and saying you’re responsible for 139,000 new jobs since you started.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2020

What you see from the above is that median floats were pretty consistent from 1980-1998, but dropped significantly during the dot-com bubble. From the founding of the New York Stock Exchange in 1792 until 1975, trading commissions were fixed at 0.25% of the trade amount.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

And one of the cooler new products that will emerge in 2011 is called LocalResponse and is being created by Nihal Mehta , who has pivoted from his previous company Buzzd, but I’m sworn to secrecy on what he’s up to until he releases it publicly. I saw the product recently in New York and loved it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

He's also a New York times bestselling author, taking people with you the only way to make big things happen. And I think it was 1998 and I saw him of 2016 once a year in Omaha. It's dedicated to developing leaders at every stage of life from ages five to 65. Love that David is also the host of the top ranked business podcast.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. Surely 1998 was a little late to arrive at the party. Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did. We were a company whose wholem.o. was to win through better technology. This was also one reason we didnt go public.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

A study by two University of Pennsylvania professors found that the most shared content on the New York Times website also had strong emotional undertones – in particular Anxiety, Awe, and Anger. 1998) – 120,000+ customers. 1998) – 500,000 customers . As it turns out, yes. image source.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Simon Lack reports in The Hedge Fund Mirage that from 1998 to 2010, hedge fund managers earned $379 billion in fees, while their investors earned only $70 billion in investing gains. Would you pay a $379 tip for a $70 meal? Asset managers can earn far more money at less risk than in any other industry.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Thanks to Joe Silverman, New York Computer Help ! #3) I felt there is no reason why a service provider couldn’t be friendly, compassionate, and provide solid customer service while perform the computer repairs. That’s what spawned the idea that I can do better and namely how computer users deserved much better. 3) Love Solving Puzzles.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole. Boyarski, D.,

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon. 1990-1998 13.3% Time Period % Below IFR % Within IFR % Above IFR 1980-1989 30% 52% 13% 1990-1998 27% 49% 24% 1999-2000 18% 38% 44% 2001-2019 33% 45% 22% [ source ] When we combine the data from the two charts, we can discern some conclusions. 1990-1998 10% 6.3%

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

Bryan: Yeah you know and you know I started in this industry 1998, Jeffrey and I start the first agency for conversion rate optimization and this is why — part of the reason why we had to do this book as a [00:17:18] for 20 years, we had tried to get people to understand hey, you need to optimize, you need to take care of your customers right.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. Ditto for Apple.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

Back on the Right Coast, New York Times Bits blogger Nick Bilton (24 November 2013) points to the NASDAQ composite index, which has soared above its highest point since the first tech boom ended, and notes that Twitter is losing money: “A price-to-earnings ratio?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Bates: Josh, it reminds me of when I was doing web sites back in the day in 2000 and 1998 and instead of going and being able to buy a shopping cart you had to code the shopping cart from scratch. We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. Bates: You know Josh—.

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