Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2019

Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 Google developed the most profitable form of advertising anyone had ever seen, ads selected real-time based on search terms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. Amazon''s initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2019

MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

While there are several factors that contribute to a startup’s success, getting an education in business management is among the most important. According to a study done by Troy State University in 2003, nine out of ten businesses that failed in the U.S. The good news is, lack of business skills can be remedied.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2016

Ted Rheingold: In 2003 I owned and ran a web service business called OneMatchFire , and made a number of image sharing products for customers (or as side projects). TR: Pet businesses can easily get early traction, but have great challenge finding sustained, high-volume growth. How did the site come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 Google developed the most profitable form of advertising anyone had ever seen, ads selected real-time based on search terms. Survived phenomenal growth.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. We were putting the plan before the planning.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2017

Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 Google developed the most profitable form of advertising anyone had ever seen, ads selected real-time based on search terms. Survived phenomenal growth.

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.Net Advertising Search Internet 120

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Myspace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime. When their deep pockets went empty, Google stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. Myspace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon crashed.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

At Calxeda, Freund will lead strategic market planning, market requirements, positioning, launches and market development efforts to support Calxeda’s business plans. Beatty, as Vice President of Manufacturing, brings 18 years manufacturing and business operations experience to Calxeda. Naval Nuclear Power Program.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

MySpace, for example, launched in 2003 and boomed for five years without a revenue model. Build a business plan for profitability in your lifetime. When their deep pockets went empty, Facebook stepped in, but demanded revenue from ads. MySpace wasn’t ready for this, and it soon faded.

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Widget Angel Investor Early Stage Revenue 137

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 Google developed the most profitable form of advertising anyone had ever seen, ads selected real-time based on search terms. Survived phenomenal growth.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

In 2003, the journey of the podcast began, and by 2007, “The Ricky Gervais Show” made headlines with a record-breaking audience 260,000 listeners. It starts slowly at first—everything from printed type to television began small—but eventually, it becomes the gold standard for information sharing and entertainment.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Facebook - Mark Zuckerberg, while attending Harvard as a sophomore, concocted “Facemash” in 2003 to get a lost girlfriend off his mind. Amazon's initial business plan was unusual: the company did not expect a profit for four to five years; the strategy was actually more effective than his business plan predicted.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2011

Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 Google developed the most profitable form of advertising anyone had ever seen, ads selected real-time based on search terms. Survived phenomenal growth.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I found myself pushed into entrepreneurship after being laid off from a Marketing Director position with a San Diego based high tech company in 2003. Hera Hub grew out of my personal need for flexible work, meeting, and event space. Yet, after a couple years I found working from home to be, at times, distracting and isolating.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. It dawned on me that the plans were a symptom of a larger problem: we were executing business plans when we should first be searching for business models. We were putting the plan before the planning.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2018

Moody established Stella & Chewy’s in 2003 in a tiny New York City apartment, but the impetus for the business came years earlier when Chewy, who had been rescued from an animal shelter, developed severe health problems. How did you come up with your business name? Tell us about your products and services.

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Growthink Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Last week , I wrote about the strong ambition across the globe to have a "Silicon Valley of One''s Own," and to replicate the otherworldly innovation of a region that has produced more than 75% of the World’s Unicorns - technology companies started since 2003 that now have valuations of more than $1 billion. trillion in cash held by big tech.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 23, 2010

Since every business is built by unique individuals, I’m totally convinced that exceptional people are the key to an exceptional company. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5 Google developed the most profitable form of advertising anyone had ever seen, ads selected real-time based on search terms. Survived phenomenal growth.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 20, 2014

At the time (around 2003), many venture capital firms were licking their wounds. If the entrepreneur accomplished the milestones set forth in their business plan, than they were deemed worthy and would receive funding. Years ago I served on a funding panel with Tom Clancy. This led Clancy to make an important decision.

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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. Steve Blank: When I first starting teaching, the capstone entrepreneurship class was how to write a business plan. But years ago, we had no alternative – how to write a business plan was it.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I won’t bore you with the rest now, but there are fun stories of launching an online startup in NYC in 1997, learning to code (which indulged both my creative and analytical sides), parties (OK, one party) with Mick Jagger in London in 1995, a summer without plumbing traveling around Tanzania training women entrepreneurs (the opposite of said (..)

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 14, 2011

Enloop – Automatically creates customized business plans are prepared, on-the-fly, complete with all text and financial forecasts. Image kase3k via Flickr Good stuff I found this week: Olark – Very full featured real time chat tool for your web site.

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Up and Running

APRIL 17, 2013

Catch up on Part 1 of his “Playing with Glass” series, this is Part 2… It was 2003, 10 years ago, but I remember meeting Larry Page like it was yesterday. Entrepreneur Zack Price was selected to be a Project Glass Explorer for Google. He said this. Tech-Nation turns it’s lonely eyes to you.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Moneyball,” of course, refers of to the 2003 book by Michael Lewis (and the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) about the Oakland A’s baseball team—and how general manager Billy Beane began using obscure baseball statistics and a new kind of computer-generated analysis to find under-appreciated talent and build a winning team on a shoestring budget.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 14, 2021

This point was explained at the Texas technology Showcase of the year 2003. It can further support the management in the systematic use of resources that minimize wastage of resources while increasing your organizational processes’ productivity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years. His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years. His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 12, 2017

Tesla's brand, even after just a few short years in business, ranks alongside Porsche, Mercedes, and BMW as one of the most valuable in the world, and its Model S was famously rated as “the best car Consumer Reports had ever tested,” with a perfect 100 score. And yes Tesla is young (founded 2003) and General Motors is old (founded 1908).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 9, 2019

She is the founder and CEO of Ruby Receptionists , a company she started back in 2003 and has seen double digit growth every year since it’s inception. Went searching for an off-the-shelf software solution and hodge-podged a phone system together that worked with it and in 2003 launched. Jill, thanks for joining me.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. Sometimes we draft business plans and coach the entrepreneurs on their pitch, and sometimes we even help develop a business model. Tell me a bit about your background. Los Angeles is a great place for startups.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Michael Baum : You remember what happened in 2003 in Silicon Valley, right? And I asked him if Peter Thiel had it wrong with his 20 Under 20 program that pays students $100,00 to drop out of college… ReadWrite : You co-founded Splunk as the CEO more than a decade ago in the wake of the dotcom implosion. Were you insane?

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Jeff Hilimire

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

I incorporated BrightWave in February 2003, so we just celebrated our 11 th birthday which is kind of hard to believe. I don’t have the classic story of having an amazing business plan or even an entrepreneurial itch to scratch.

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