Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Alibaba, today the counterpart in China to Amazon, Ebay, and Google here, has demonstrated leadership in this area, and provides guidance for all of us to learn from in a new book, “ Smart Business ,” by Ming Zeng. Only smart software can plow through the volume of live data, recognizing trends, customers, and match offerings to reality.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. Flexibility is essential for decision making and leadership, too. Crisis leadership is, the authors conclude, “an improvisational and experimental art” to “distinguish the essential from the expendable.”. “If What the big studies have shown.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Maybe they were in their 20s in 2002 when being a startup CEO wasn’t really available to most? HR Leadership Startup Lessons' But I also have advice for the 15% that really do want to be a startup CEO. These people wished they had done it in their 20s but didn’t make that choice. It could be a stepping stone.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

Boris is currently based in Vancouver, Canada and has been since 2002, after his own company, JustBooks, was acquired by AbeBooks. His almost imperceptible German accent my only indicator of his personal background. This is not a man that blows his own trumpet. One approach isnt superior to another. The founder drives the culture.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2015

I recently developed a new educational platform called Gutsball Leadership to help leaders meet this special challenge. Advice For The Young At Heart Irv Rothman leadership' billion in annual revenue.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Yes, there are a few self-taught naturals, like Bubba Watson, and, uh…Sam Snead (1912–2002). As a founder you ultimately have to learn the skills to play your leadership role, and having a seasoned booster early on just moves you faster along that path.

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Board Effect

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Nonprofits need strong leadership and that comes with a price. Nonprofit boards need to find ways to offer competitive executive salaries because effective leadership is necessary to reach their goals and serve their communities. Leadership for large nonprofits isn’t very much different from leading corporations.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Leadership & Managing | Tuesdays. LEADERSHIP & MANAGING. Leadership. Leadership and Managing >. In 2002, he stepped gingerly into the work-for-equity arena, with a modest investment in one start-up. Sign-up for our Leadership and Managing Newsletter. Start-up | Mondays. Technology | Thursdays. Bookkeeping.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2015

From 2002 to 2011, she worked for ACS, a Xerox company, and rose from General Manager to the Vice President of Sales and Integration. of Dallas, an organization that provides girls in underserved parts of the community with access to research-based education programs, on everything from math and science to leadership training. “I

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

But a personal tragedy would result in a total turnaround of his life; Steinfeld lost his wife to breast cancer in 2002. That road to transformation was long and definitely did not come easy, but Steinfeld has come away with some hard-earned lessons on leadership, management and life. Transformation. Here’re some of those gems.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

And – since their birth in 2002, Rally has had 17 babies (well – people that work for Rally have had the babies, but you probably figured that out.) Recently, Rally’s leadership team decided to do something about this. Nicely done Tim, Ryan, and everyone else at Rally.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 31, 2017

Outcomes from a national study conducted by the Center for an Urban Future that reported a dramatic 52 percent growth in woman-owned business formation from 2002 to 2012.( This implies a lack fundamental skills, including leadership and confidence to grow a business and hire multiple employees. Race/Ethnicity. # Avg # of Employees.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Keys of Leadership Culture. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. Entrepreneurs.

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Mike Michalowicz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

million in 2002. Culture Entrepreneurship Leadership Mindset Motivation Personal Life business female mindset network' Women entrepreneurs are making their way in the business world in a big way. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 7.8 million businesses in America in 2007, which were owned by women. That is up from 6.5

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2017

Fortunately we proved skeptics wrong and every one of these strategic investors made a tidy 2.5 – 3x return once PayPal IPO’d in 2002 and then was acquired by eBay later that year.

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Jeff Hilimire

JANUARY 21, 2013

It’s embarrassing, really, that it took me being a part of Leadership Atlanta to finally start to see the reality that is all around me - that there is still a massive crater in this country between the Haves and the Have-Nots. cents in 2005, down 2 cents from 2002. Census Bureau, Statistical Abstract and Net Worth Report, 2002.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2016

Between 1996 and 2002 I was co-chairman of Interliant, a company I co-founded with three other people. While I learned a ton of finance lessons from the experience, I also learned a lot a leadership lessons. Your wall is dingy is one of them.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. But this type of innovation requires leadership who understands that is their goal. Corporate leadership needs to make their internal commitment to innovation a beacon to the talent they desire.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2014

The organization builds awareness through events and outreach – historically their most popular fundraising effort has been their annual Walk to Defeat ALS , which since 2002 has raised almost $200 million in donations. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition. Small Business and Social Marketing: Time for an Audit?

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 24, 2013

For instance, I remembered in 2002 when we “invented” wireframes. Entrepreneurship Inspiration Leadership' .” Everything was in my control and if I didn’t figure out a way to make it happen, it wouldn’t happen. I’d love to be proven wrong on this.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

On the other hand, bosses who lack strong leadership skills are often ineffective leaders. A 2012 study by the International Journal of Leadership Studies explored the effects that toxic and cooperative behaviors in the workplace had on companies and their employees. A 2002 study explored whether good leaders must have empathy.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

Each of the SBIC funds were raised in the 2000 – 2002 time period. But it has to approach things very different and based on my experience with the SBA over the past decade, I don’t see it happening unless there is real leadership somewhere in coordination with leaders in the VC industry.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and immigrated to Austin, Texas, in 2002 at the age of 15. Department of State.

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Ben's Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

It is often the case that conflicting time horizons among shareholders lead to sharp disagreements about the right leadership for a company. Similarly, when I was CEO, I radically changed the direction of my publicly held company in 2002. Certainly no board member or shareholder had the answer.

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I started in my guest room in Q4, 2002 which was a brutal time in our economy following the dot com busts. How would you describe your leadership style and why has it been so successful in building a great company? in case you care, growth, client success and culture/people are our 3 buckets for our leadership meetings.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

From Kevin Kiley of Inside Higher Ed : In inflation-adjusted dollars, total state support for the top 101 public universities declined by 10 percent between 2002 and 2010, with nearly 75 percent receiving cuts. . — sound like its time for the Lean University.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

So much so that after I started teaching I’d ask, “Can anybody recognize this model of startups?&# And when everyone raised their hands I used to joke, “Even the waiters in San Francisco could draw this model.&# But in 2002 a student with a pained look on his face raised his hand and said, “Well, we’re now waiters in San (..)

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Ben's Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

It is often the case that conflicting time horizons among shareholders lead to sharp disagreements about the right leadership for a company. Similarly, when I was CEO, I radically changed the direction of my publicly held company in 2002. Certainly no board member or shareholder had the answer.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Starting about four years ago, for the first time, I felt like we had a great business to match our great company.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

And, in 2002, when Richard Florida published “Rise of the Creative Class,” Austin was a city that outperformed similar sized cities in large part due to droves of creative professionals wanting to live here. and not the startup kind but the Facebook/Google/Apple/Big Tech Co kind?—?which

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. AOL seems to be doing great things to reinvent itself under the leadership of Tim Armstrong, but monopoly? What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? The Present Era.

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Mike Michalowicz

JUNE 8, 2016

Since its inception in 1991, Aquascape has experienced incredible growth, appearing on Inc Magazine’s list of 500 Fastest-Growing, Privately-Held Companies in North America 4 years in a row (1999-2002). Greg himself appeared on the cover of Inc Magazine, along with a feature article about his leadership and entrepreneurial spirit.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It was very educational for a lot of us to go through the dot-com crash, because you remember, in 2002, like there were a number of universal truths asserted in 2002; the Internet didn’t matter, consumer Internet business was dead.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Kathy Meyer is well-touted for her team-building and leadership skills with strong work ethics. This was a chance that she took in 2002, when she merged her realtors with two successful real estate companies in order to establish this company. Kathy Meyer. Website: slideshare.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Omer : I have been online since 2002. VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview. VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys. Can you give me some background about yourselves?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Omer : I have been online since 2002. VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview. VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys. Can you give me some background about yourselves?

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Omer : I have been online since 2002. VC Cafe virtually met the founders Omer Kaplan (CEO) and Liron Rose to chat about the progress of AfterDownload to date. Below is the transcript of our exclusive interview. VC Cafe: nice to meet you guys. Can you give me some background about yourselves?

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