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Back In The Filtering Game: Entrepreneur Drawn by The Siren Call Of The Startup

YoungUpstarts

In 1999, my brother Aaron and I started InternetSafety.com. We hired a CEO to help us build the business. In 1999, he started InternetSafety.com with his brother. Admittedly, they have not all been successful. Some have been spectacular failures. Despite this, I have been drawn by the siren call of the startup once again.

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Hiring A Web Developer: 11 Questions You Must Ask Ahead Of Time

YoungUpstarts

A serial entrepreneur, Uri incorporated his first company, CGI for Me, in April 1999 when he was 14 years old. Important systems like database clustering, memcache, query optimizaition, and others shouldn’t be foreign concepts. Uri Foox is the founder of Pixafy , a NYC-based web development and technology firm.

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Finding Developers is Tough Again

SoCal CTO

One recruiter tells me it’s “like 1999? I wouldn’t say it’s 1999 or even 2007, but it certainly has turned around. I don’t have specific suggestions for people you can hire. in terms of the activity, with not only jobs aplenty, but offers and counter-offers hitting good talent. My methods are pretty vanilla.

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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

Both Sides of the Table

Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). Ryan was the most talented technologist we had hired at BuildOnline. We hired Ryan at a really young age and without a tremendous amount of prior experience. This is part of my Startup Advice series.

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Factual Data On Popular New Venture Success Timelines

Startup Professionals Musings

Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. If you don’t have realistic expectations, you can quickly get into the wrong state of mind.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

Exactly three months after its $48 Million funding announcement, Smooth-Stone today detailed its company momentum, including significant new executive hires, new office space and renaming the company. The new name, Calxeda , pronounced “Cal-zeh-dah,” is a derivative of the Latin for “Smooth-Stone.”

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The Difference Between a CEO Coach and a CEO Mentor and Why Every CEO Needs Both

OnlyOnce

Even as a 20-something first-time CEO years ago, I was deeply skeptical of the value of a Coach, but that was in 1999 or 2000 when coaches weren’t so commonplace. In later posts, I’ll talk about how to hire and best leverage both Coaches and Mentors. Do yourself and your company a favor and invest in a CEO Coach and Mentor(s).