Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. My company name is 3 Leaf Tea. The name is from when tea leaves get picked there’s often one two or three leaves and a bud.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

For many years preceding 1999, the 1982 vintage was known as the industry’s worst vintage year. However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. He was a former Wall Street analyst with no operating or investment experience, who became a VC by teaming up with operator LJ Sevin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 million.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

First, you need to be certified with the Health Insurance Marketplaces in the states where you want to operate. It’s overpriced, unreliable — you can lose your coverage if you’re sick and unable to work — and limits you to a certain group of medical providers and facilities, just to name a few.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And then I was mortified – Valleywag figured out which firm had treated me the worst and published their names.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 million.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

All manual operations. His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Back in 1986 when digital marketing was just taking off, a company called ACT! launched a contact management software.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

In 1999 I was working in the London offices of Andersen Consulting. He told me that he was leading the project globally and gave me the name of the lead Japanese partner. They also knew that I was from NorCal, which in 1999 was a huge bonus to foreign companies thinking about Internet strategies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 1, 2011

If you take a snapshot during an extraordinary surge in valuations, M&A activity, IPOs and thus wealth creation you’d echo John Doerr’s famous quote from 1999 that, “The Internet is the greatest legal creation of wealth in history.&# Building a blog & name recognition is only one small, small part of my job.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes. But couldn’t they just do the same thing on some high-performance computer?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. In 2005, Facebook still showed a yearly net loss of $3.63 million.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

If you recognize David Cohen’s name, but not David Brown’s, you have a new David in your world. Like many other startups, it had many ups and downs but the David’s created a very successful, profitable business that was acquired by ZOLL (a Boston-based public company) in 1999.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. In addition to market concerns, I had the unique experience of working with Dan Nordstrom and the team at Nordstrom.com in August of 1999.

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

There are folks who dont like me, or who are annoyed by me, but if Id broken somebodys trust in regard to their work, I guarantee itd be just about the first thing youd find when you Google my name. I would love to be plagiarized and embroiled in a lawsuit--the curiosity factor alone would boost my sales and name recognition exponentially.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2012

Beginning in 1999, in order to make ends meet while pursuing my artistic passions, I looked for odd jobs. If you have computer and Internet skills, you can work as a VA doing general secretarial work, or processing orders for large-name corporations at home. At one point, I was even Ronald McDonald’s bodyguard! Merchandising.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. I started my business when my first book (on telecommuting) was published in 1999 (in the dark ages of virtual work!). Photo Credit: Debra A.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Office and Operations. Before Roving Software could receive its first round of financing from professional investors, in early 1999, he had to put all the stock arrangements in writing. Subscriptions. Advisor. ); STARTUP. Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. How to Incorporate. Franchises.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

At the same time it seemed that whenever I would have a conversation with a friend, family member, colleague, manager, executive–you name it!–about I have encountered numerous companies with bad customer service, or bad financial management, or unprofessional stuff, you name it. Image Credit: Erryn Cobb.

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The Next Web

JUNE 20, 2013

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. The city’s definitely on the rise as a startup hub, and Cornerstone’s size and duration make its name an accurate description of its role in the scene. Weather’s certainly a big draw to LA, but it’s not the only.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

The last of the textile operations were shut down in 1985. By the 1930s, P&G had grown to become an international corporation with a wide variety of new products and brand names, many acquired by purchasing other businesses. In 1999, Goodrich became the No. 1 supplier of landing gear and other aircraft parts.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 24, 2011

The name was shortened to “Airbnb” and they launched their website in 2009. I joined eBay in 1999, early in its life, and had the privilege of witnessing and contributing to the development of one of the most iconic e-commerce businesses. And they have been ably managing the operations amidst simply explosive growth.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 9, 2018

I feel fortunate that, since 1999, KeepCool has been able to be a conduit for the growing number of people who are making such conscious choices. How did you come up with your business name? But I like to think that it’s our core operating principals that set us apart, particularly our pillar of honesty. What makes you unique?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million. There are 20x more consumers online.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). We were all at each other’s weddings, brit milah / baby namings and unfortunately a funeral.

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Up and Running

JUNE 3, 2014

This would ultimately be the advantage Keith had, and still has, in running a smaller operation: relationships mean more to the owner and the customer. In 1999, he and a business partner launched Sunshine Recycling Inc. , His new customers were ready for the change. “Most of them said, ‘Hey, we’re glad you did.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 14, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 2- A name to push back against antiquated industry practices. 3- Used my name as part of it. Thanks to Nicole T. Photo Credit: Tony Palazzo.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 24, 2019

The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett: The key to investing is [.] Intangible assets constitute patents and trademarks,” writes Alex Graham , “but also hard-earned competitive advantages, such as brand names and culture.”. Some “intangible” assets are more defined than others.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 11, 2013

But, the name of the game is your target audience. Is the sponsor’s name, address, phone number and web address listed prominently in the official rules and on all advertisements pertaining to the sweepstakes? Then again, you have to be careful and make sure you know the rules and regulations of the country you are operating in.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

In 1999, record valuations coexisted with record IPOs and shareholder liquidity. If 1999 was a wet (read liquid) bubble, 2015 was a particularly dry one. Back in 1999, if a company raised $30mm before an IPO, that was considered a large historic raise. 2015 was the exact opposite. Take as much market share as you can.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

First Name. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. In just a year of operations, Fab has signed up nearly 5 million members, sold 1.8 Your question to the Journal Community Your comments on articles will show your real name and not a username. Why use your real name?

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Uber recently named Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” Others are simply thieves.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Several years prior to this my wife started a newborn photography business, over time I became more involved in the back end operations of the business and within several years had helped her grow her business into a full-time professional position. She now photographs thirty newborns a month! My parents were also small business owners.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 4, 2013

I’ll get your name included in a contest to give away an IdeaKeg Single. “Now that our operations have scaled, we can offer IdeaKeg editions on a one-off basis. ” For USA purchasers, IdeaKeg Single is priced at US $1999 including shipping. KILN launches IdeaKeg(tm) Single. .

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 19, 2010

In fact, my first website I can’t show you, because I don’t think we have internet access, but I had a Geocities website in 1999 for a card game I used to play called Magic the Gathering. All of you people who haven’t seen my blog, please remember my name or that website address. I changed the name, by the way, to MTGParadise.com.

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