Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2011

With the advent of social networking sites like LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook, Internet usage has totally morphed, from a serious business medium, to a social and fun medium that still means business. Regular people now build business applications with “mashup” technology, rather than hiring programmers.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California! They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. plus it's faster and costs half as much ), it ranks first in the world for number of blogs per Internet user, and has a formidable market of Internet consumers who spent €5.5 billion online in the first quarter of this year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Frank Cowell is a speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur in the San Diego, California area. Frank (01:06): I think for me, the play on the Revenue Ranch aspects, so Boss is a common term on a ranch, and then revenue tying into the company name. Hundreds of dollars of stuff that's in our house now that you have to go and sell.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Yet amidst all the partisan cheerleading and name-calling, there has been some discussion of substance. In San Francisco alone, according to Mayor Ed Lee, the technology industry added 13,000 out of the 25,000 new jobs created in the past two years, bringing the city’s unemployment rate to the third-lowest in California.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

If the formalities are skipped, the owners of the company could become personally liable for the debts of the company, or even be personally named in a lawsuit against the company. M&R is a national law firm with offices in California and New York. LLCs do not have these required formalities unless they want them.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Forget the Hypertext idea and come on back to California. Later he would leave for a few years to start the Computing Directorate at the National Science Foundation , help spec what became the Internet and then come back and run Ardent’s engineering.) I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. Welcome to the Internet bubble.) Never Get Even, Get Ahead With a set of orders from brand name customers, we had growing confidence that we had achieved product/market fit.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks. In 1999 I was in Japan doing a strategy project for the board of directors of Sony. I was the only one whose Japanese was limited to just a sushi menu.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

In the kelp beds off the coast of Southern California, one can find thousands of species of fish, but two of the most sought after by commercial fishermen are the California Halibut and the White Seabass. A good way to think about market segment is by thinking about fishing. The Lean Entrepreneur will be published by Wiley this Fall.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

There is an enormous difference, for example, between a high-growth internet-related company looking for second-round venture funding and a local retail store looking to finance a second location. If you are looking for names and addresses of venture capitalists , start with the internet.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. We have in our partnership a gent by the name of Barry Fidelman who puts us all to shame with his intensity.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

Benchmark Labs: San Diego, California. Comet Health: San Francisco, California . Everyone in the NextView partnership has deep operating experience as founders and operators scaling high-growth internet companies (e.g. Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts . Higher: Birmingham, Alabama .

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Life is filled with stress and the average work day can provide a host of new triggers that add to stress, whether it’s a demanding supervisor, a difficult client or uncooperative co-workers, just to name a few. Stressful situations are going to happen. So the question becomes how well you can handle the stress. Meditation can assist in that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

00:00:06] DEREK: Tell us about growing up in Northern California, tell us about what your dad did, what your mom did, and your family a little bit. [00:00:52] I grew up in Northern California. By the way, this was still pre-Netscape, pre-Internet. 00:00:52] MARK: Sure. I was like, “Hang on a second. ” No, no.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

Having grown up in Northern California and living near a Japanese family when I was really young, I always had a fascination with Japan and wanted to live there. I had been working on marketing & strategy initiatives for European telcos for the past several years helping them to think through and design Internet offerings.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 14, 2012

Putting An End To The Biggest Lie On The Internet. It’s long been said that “I agree to the terms of service” is the biggest lie on the internet. Google Tightens Up App Policy, Gets Stricter On Naming/Icon,… 7.25.12. San Francisco, California. Disrupt SF. Klint Finley. posted yesterday.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad wrote up his answer here – you should read it because it’s very instructive for how I believe communities ought to think about naming conventions. Home to the Internet’s first true “accelerator,” Idealab led by Bill Gross. Still, I kind like the name, well, um, … Santa Monica.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. You may know it by its final name. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 24, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Get your Internet domain name and website.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

My parents and my brother live in Southern California. He was talking about what he thought needed to happen in California and the fact that every state was going to need the kind of expertise was able to muster and probably wouldn't have access to that. There was a guy in New Jersey government named Ross Dakin.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

so I feel I have an unbiased appreciation for BOTH Californias. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

Perhaps my favorite and why the great probability is that all of our children will live in a world far, far richer and more plentiful than ours – namely that best practices worldwide are visible and replicable to and for all. And the corollary, the really screwed-up and ineffective ways of doing things are also blatantly transparent.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 10, 2011

Although the Internet gives you pervasive reach, it hasn’t reduced the world to one locale for your business. Watch your product naming. Product naming is always a major effort and mistakes can result in costly failures. Pundits in Latino countries quickly picked up on the name, ‘no va’ means ‘does not go’ in Spanish.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 19, 2019

The New York Times’ John Herrman recently asked “ Is there anything the rest of the internet can learn from LinkedIn? ,” in relation to how people there are relatively civil there compared to purely social media platforms. How do you decide what to promote and what happens to that content once you feature it?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Perhaps the first big pioneer of this was Apple who started opening stores in 2001 , just when it appeared that the Internet was going to implode and when they went physical the industry trade magazines and press openly mocked them. Parachute even took the “physical concept” one step further by letting you truly live the brand.

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Scalable Startup

APRIL 6, 2015

The frenzy at these higher levels, and the continuous stories of first time entrepreneurs in their early 20s who magically start these amazing companies is creating a demand at the bottom of the funding market, like the pyramid schemes in Southern California in 980 (see below). Look out for this trend, put your wallet away.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg, or at least Hollywood’s version of it, should be familiar to anyone who’s seen The Social Network or spends more than five minutes each week surfing the Internet. The first name they came up with for the new magazine was Facts.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Naming a Business. Internet and Online Business. During the first Internet boom, companies that provided services to tech start-ups were all too happy to work for stock. Kyle retained the right to name the third board member. Tools & Research. Newsletters. Subscriptions. Advisor. ); STARTUP. Writing A Business Plan.

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Gust

DECEMBER 16, 2012

But many entrepreneurs don’t realize that Angels are also extremely discerning in the projects that they will invest in, rejecting approximately 97% of the proposals submitted to them, according to the California Investment Network. Get your Internet domain name and website.

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Scalable Startup

JULY 19, 2011

Most of my 25 year career has been in California; about half of those in Silicon Valley. I’ve been involved with several amazing companies throughout Northern and Southern Cal; I have expanded, launched, M&A’d, relaunched, liquidated, succeeded and failed, you name it. Just say the word and people take notice.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 15, 2010

I’ve met Sam several times and each time I’ve been at an event with him I’ve heard his opening line, “My name is Sam Jones. We think that the magazine industry is going through incredible change but that the Internet website experience doesn’t yet fulfill our magazine needs. My name is Sam Jones. I buy dead magazines.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These names aren’t the end of the story?—?they I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Are they drawn to Texas or moving away from California? Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Who’s next? they are just the beginning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I personally bought the citibank.com URL and introduced the first internet-based online banking. This was during the internet explosion, so I’d say it was called the digital revolution 1.0. Two weeks later, I was named the executive director of global marketing for GE at the corporate level, working for Beth Comstock.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 28, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. The first internet wave managed to solve pretty well the "Where to buy" problem, with sites like Kelkoo , Shopzilla , NextTag , PriceGrabber, or Shopping.com. internet. (6). Cracking The Code. Happy New Year 2008!

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We love the internet, but a 50-state-drop-down menu is not the way to select the best state for your new company. 2) Where should I form my company? , (3) How do I select a corporate name? , (3) How do I select a corporate name? HOW DO I SELECT A CORPORATE NAME? SHOULD I FORM A LLC or CORPORATION?

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