The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Traditional business models have changed as globalization takes hold on a global scale, and technology changes our lives day by day. The term “startup” often refers to companies in high-tech industries such as information technology, biotech, social media, robotics, hardware manufacturing, etc. Employee-Owned Startups.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Failing at that business, terminating my employees, and shutting the doors was the most challenging thing I had done. I admire Howard Schultz for using his thinking skills in taking over a company name where he previously worked as an employee. Photo Credit: Ryan Niddel. This included health insurance and making them domestic partners.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

I first blogged about this in 2004—14 years ago!— We know that he reached out to dozens of former employees via LinkedIn, for example, many of whom haven’t worked here in years. (This post is running concurrently on the Return Path blog.). It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. online experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2015

Key employees will join us as soon as we get funded." When investors contact these key employees who are supposedly set to join a company, the response is often, "I vaguely remember meeting the CEO at a cocktail party." If you''re going to tell this lie, make sure that these potential employees are locked and loaded and ready to join.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

One when scale started to kick in, when we hit the, you know, 200 employees at the head office, 2000 employees system wide, it started to get complex and a little bit outside of my sandbox. I started to appear where we started to leverage or talk about technology and automations and optimization. And then secondly was the text.

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OnlyOnce

JULY 2, 2018

I first blogged about this in 2004—14 years ago!— We know that he reached out to dozens of former employees via LinkedIn, for example, many of whom haven’t worked here in years. (This post is running concurrently on the Return Path blog.). It is now widely understood that the Internet runs on data. online experience.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

Additionally, while we are in a very bullish funding market, this will eventually change (having invested through the boom and bust 1999-2003 in Silicon Valley and the run up and financial crash of 2004-2009 in NYC, I can virtually guarantee that cycles will continue).

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

That’s what you’re supposed to be doing and what your partners and employees are supposed to help with. In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. Are they involved in similar projects that share the same market/technologies as you? They’re the PR and the security. They’re the step ladder.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

As technology advances, customers are becoming less tolerant of downtime. The right combination of analysis, technology, and planning can help organizations avoid costly downtime when a natural disaster occurs. How will the business’s employees access data to resume working after a disaster? by Patrick Wiley, CEO of Aldridge.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

As the founder of On Line Support , Eric has a wealth of technology, service and business expertise garnered from more than 30 years in the technology/telecom industry. My wife Mirta, a professional chef from Paraguay, and I started the business in 2004. Now we have 70 employees and serve 5000 children every day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2010

If you don’t know Montgomery & Co it is one of the premier technology & media focused investment banks in the country (and as Michael corrected me they also have a strong Healthcare / Med tech practice). The Montgomery Conference : one of the top technology events of the annual calendar in the United States and held every March.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

He was an early employee at Email Publishing (which became MessageMedia), my very first Boulder-based angel investment. NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) has long been a hidden gem of Boulder. I’ve known Scott since shortly after I moved to Boulder in 1995.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

But in today’s world, speed-to-scale entrepreneurship is what we need to improve society, transform industries, and create massive value for customers, employees, and investors. When the market conditions are right, you should blitzscale for the benefit of all stakeholders: customers, employees, investors, and society.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

But I do think this IPO is very instructive from a technology business strategy and investment perspective, so I thought I’d lay it out in clear terms why I don’t think Uber has a bright future as a publicly traded stock. To be clear, the founders, early investors and many employees ended the day very rich indeed.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. He was an interesting guy and I watched him throughout a bunch of interesting projects, like a complete open source business where all the employees got to make the decisions. Venture Capital & Technology' That was the year Twitter took off.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

We started with three employees building up an e-commerce platform in Nigeria. Now, we have more than 500 employees and we deliver the widest range of products in the country,” said Raphael Afaedor, co-founder of JUMIA, at the time of funding. “We Here come the drones.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2004 to $6.5 In response, the company initiated a new training program for employees that focused on retaining customers and overcoming easy objectives. Smith covers the latest topics in the business, golf, tourism, technology and entertainment industries. communication. and customer expectations.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Dreamforce, in my opinion, is by far the best event of the year in enterprise technology. By attending, you can learn about new technologies coming out from Salesforce.com, innovations from the partner ecosystem, and the location of every Moscone outlet to charge your dying iPhone. But you get the idea.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2004 to $6.5 In response, the company initiated a new training program for employees that focused on retaining customers and overcoming easy objectives. Smith covers the latest topics in the business, golf, tourism, technology and entertainment industries. communication. and customer expectations.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2004 to $6.5 In response, the company initiated a new training program for employees that focused on retaining customers and overcoming easy objectives. Smith covers the latest topics in the business, golf, tourism, technology and entertainment industries. communication. and customer expectations.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

million in 2004 to $6.5 In response, the company initiated a new training program for employees that focused on retaining customers and overcoming easy objectives. Smith covers the latest topics in the business, golf, tourism, technology and entertainment industries. communication. and customer expectations.

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SiliconHills

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The Austin-based company, founded in 2004, designs, manufactures and installs batteries and power management systems for utility companies. It has 100 employees, according to the Austin Business Journal. Xtreme Power has raised $5.7 Since launching, Xtreme Power has [.] The post Xtreme Power Raises $5.7

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 24, 2018

They don’t believe they have the time, the people, the budgets, or the technology to make it easy and fortunately, that is no longer true. 6- Employee volunteering. Now, our employees get one day off, paid, to volunteer in the community. What sets this fund apart is that Datron’s 100+ employees decide where the money goes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Danish VOIP technology company founded in 2006 by entrepreneur Tanveer Sharif. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Based in San Francisco with 13 employees, CEO Zach Coelius. -A Current round: $7.0mm Series-B led by MK Capital, withClearstone Venture Partners and Shasta Ventures. Total raised: $10.5mm.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 13, 2012

Throughout our evolution, from privately held start-up to large, publicly listed company, we have managed Google for the long term — enjoying tremendous success as a result, especially since our IPO in 2004. I wanted to quote all that because these were the clear, well-publicized expectations we established for investors in 2004.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Ari Gesher is a senior engineer at Palantir Technologies, creating data-mining software for government and financial clients. Palantir, founded in 2004, had 15 employees when Ari started there; it now has 1,000 employees and $1B in contracts. So what goes into acquiring and supporting the best employees?

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. SecondMarket was recently honored by the World Economic Forum as a 2011 Technology Pioneer.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. No employees wanted to join startups – they were all looking for stable jobs. It’s a subjective topic.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Chris Brogan Chris Brogan consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and 500 companies like PepsiCo, General Motors, Microsoft, and more, on the future of business communications, and social software technologies. He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents , and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

You imagine yourself winning the employee of the year award; your colleagues will leave the best parking spot open for you just out of sheer gratitude for all you’ve done for the business! Citrix sells technology, but its content creates a resource and shares ideas with people who work in their jammies. Not the technology itself.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I re-ignited Anvil as consultancy, but I wasn’t quite ready to hire employees yet. After taking another year to build a second email marketing startup (with Anvil running in the background), I finally decided it was time for me to commit to building my own team and Anvil grew in earnest in 2004. Image Credit : Frederique Murphy.

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BeyondVC

AUGUST 27, 2007

It was John who also first introduced me to the company in July of 2004 when I decided to participate in their angel round. At that time the company had around 300k or 400k members and did not have the backend technology to scale further.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 13, 2020

When I help other people through skills in digital marketing, I’m able to give more to clients, employees, my family and the community. In 2004 I was a part-time flight attendant with a 10-year-old son living in Los Angeles. But another reason was I defined my mission in business. That is not a joke. 12- I needed to pay my rent!

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. Technology to the Rescue? The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We have a long history and so new employees have to spend a long time getting up to speed on the why, what, and how of everything that we do. We''ve had to design and implement training programs to help on-board people to our culture and technology. The webcast is free with registration and will include a live Q&A with attendees.

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BeyondVC

APRIL 12, 2006

It seems that the open source business model has been top of mind for many in the technology industry as of late. First Red Hat may end up competing with many of its partners like IBM who have helped validate Red Hat by offering the muscle and handholding of the IBM brand and employees.

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