Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? Dividing economic pies and handing leadership off between different cohorts of individuals is rarely easy, but the nature of the VC business makes it particularly tricky.

Silicon Valley 240

Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Steve Blank

JANUARY 4, 2012

1940’s – movie studios had to divest their distribution channel – they owned over 50% of the movie theaters in the U.S. With a new channel of distribution, home movie rentals surpassed movie theater tickets. It was 75 years until studios had to deal with technology changing their platform and distribution channel.

Silicon Valley 336

Silicon Valley Distribution Washington Channel 336

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. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. Flexibility is essential for decision making and leadership, too.

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Such lapses in strategic vision and product innovation often lead to a company experiencing what is called a growth stall, a phrase coined by Matthew Olson, Derek van Bever, and Seth Verry of CEB , a leadership advisory network. billion, a 35 percent drop. billion, a 35 percent drop.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Leadership and Managing >. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000.

Arizona 40

Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2013

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations. Technology moves to the realms of knowledge, insight, and judgment.

Merger 239

Merger Entrepreneur Analytics Open Source 239

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

I mean, I think that's one thing that people miss often is that leadership is a philosophy, it's a set of principles. We were literally short of N-95 masks, and I just discussed with our clinical leadership and we made the decision to just be on the front lines of this pandemic and offer testing as soon as possible. ER : Really smart.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Turkey Los Angeles California 60

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations. Technology moves to the realms of knowledge, insight, and judgment.

Merger 120

Merger Analytics Open Source America 120

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

Social Network 318

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2012

One of the biggest in this decade was the merger of America Online (AOL) with Time Warner, engineered in the early 2000’s by Time Warner CEO Jerry Leven and AOL CEO Steve Case for a whopping $164 billion. New models for “collaborative leadership” in organizations. Technology moves to the realms of knowledge, insight, and judgment.

Merger 235

Merger Analytics Open Source America 235

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Copyright © 2000 inc.com. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays. Small Business Success | Mondays and Thursdays. The Goods: Your Business Toolbox | Thursdays. Bookkeeping.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. Yet despite literally patenting ride-hailing in 2000, his own venture, Sidecar, lost out to the more aggressive scaling of Uber and Lyft.

Cofounder 28

Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The year was 2000, and the hardest part about the AdWords project was simply getting agreement that they could work on it. Legal wasn't used to distribution via IP enabled devices. It takes strong product leadership, in the best sense of the word, including providing a compelling product vision and strategy.

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. ” So, while Apple, Costco, and FedEx benefited, the PR would be more credible if the SBIC was trumpeting iconic companies created after 1990 or even 2000, especially where the lead investors (rather than follow on investors) had SBIC capital.

SBIC 142

SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

I also plan to price it low so it has the potential for broad distribution. Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). Keys of Leadership Culture. Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. What’s A Leader?

Community 142

Community Silicon Valley Incubator Colorado 142

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

So about, this was like around 2000 ish, I think, or something like that. And we spend a lot of time with them getting their feedback and, you know, and putting them in front of our product leadership to make sure that we can build all the tools that they want. How can we support you in your leadership journey?

Community 69

Community New York Small Business New York City 69

www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. Have you been wondering about Distributed Version Control? © 2000-2010 Joel Spolsky. Want to know more?

Software Review 48

Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

declined Microsoft’s offer (summer 2000) to be the first enterprise software company with a.NET product (a Microsoft employee came back from a follow-up meeting with Allen and said “He reminds me of a lot of CEOs of companies that we’ve worked with… that have gone bankrupt.”). surrendered market leadership and thought leadership. #12

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Future Leadership Program. Personal Technology.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Peter: Yeah, I love his idea here of pulling leadership away from identifying new opportunities and building relationships. Our last sign, sign number 12 is when your time distribution is uneven. It’s free for up to your first 2000 subscribers. ” Yeah, what do you think about that Peter? Now, that’s key.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Management Startup Hiring 60

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

Texas 90

Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

It is the only way to ensure your leadership is not trapped in the let’s solve for 2% of our business success thinking. Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like? Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews.

Metrics 141

Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Now I train people in communications and leadership. 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. This is really an exciting panel to be a part of. Bates: Fantastic.

Small Business 95

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics 95

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. So that’s the big, big, big change that’s happened.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22