Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

I don't think that there's any company quite like Amazon. No company has even come close to the colossal number of orders it receives on a daily basis. No company has even come close to the colossal number of orders it receives on a daily basis. He is a serial entrepreneur and has started several successful companies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

When to get a lawyer - If you plan to be a venture or angel backed technology company (what I mostly write about) the best time to start meeting and getting to know lawyers is long before you ever start your company. Many people start companies arse backwards. When we want to sell or IPO companies they’re there again.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

At the launch of the company, the core email community (people with a lot of technical understanding) was our target audience. In addition to the name’s market fit, the simplicity found in “250ok” lent itself to a mantra we repeat across the organization: avoid unnecessary complication. 1- Based on our target audience.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2018

You’d probably go for one of the titans of technology who dominate the business media: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk, to name a few. Lately, we’ve seen startups able to reach a billion-dollar valuation, so-called “unicorn” companies, in the limelight. The VC game is one of portfolio management.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The ideal board member should have skills, knowledge, and a network that is mission-critical to the company, but that you cannot easily hire. For a company like my recent investment Nauto, which develops autonomous vehicle technology, it might seem like it made sense to target an industry titan. Here are a few of my reflections.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It can be difficult to charm these hopeful high-flyers when they are dreaming of industry titans like Google, Facebook, and SalesForce. Small companies often make the error of basing job offers on their budget rather than on market realities, thereby being slow out of the gate and less likely to compete in the race.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2019

The premise was that they could offer a different fitness experience to the one usually found in the big box titans—like Gold’s Gym and 24 Hour Fitness. For many lifestyle-oriented companies, social media ads can be crucial to getting you off the ground initially, and should always be part of your acquisition strategy.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In addition to these steps, you can also get a physical dongle/key like Yubikey or Google Titan. We will be able to share more about this company in the upcoming weeks and months but this attack has certainly confirmed our investment thesis.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

A Stanford study found speech recognition to be three-times faster than typing on a phone. And smaller organizations are often better positioned to test and integrate new technologies on the fly than enterprise-level companies that come with much longer approval, research and implementation processes. Alexa, help me adapt.

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Gust

JULY 12, 2012

Later that afternoon, we visited the phenomenal new Titanic Experience – Not to be missed! Topics of conversation included how to identify fundable companies, trends in funding, business plans, and pitching to investors. We found Tallinn to be both a delightful place to visit and the best preserved medieval city in Northern Europe.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 27, 2017

One of the huge titans of the tech world. The crucial difference is that staff working for an existing company are likely to slot into a pre-existing framework and be a useful cog in a very big wheel. Who understand that hard work is what’s going to secure their job and the company’s success. The Founding Members.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In today’s world, it can be difficult to find the right kind of visibility for your business, especially in a landscape dominated by titans such as Amazon or Walmart. And without getting word of your company and services out to potential customers, it’ll be hard to stay in business for very long. About the Author.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Below are just a few types of information gathered through marketing automation and likely found in your CRM that could help you build stronger email campaigns. John came to Swiftpage with a 30-year track record of building highly profitable and sustainable revenue growth for emerging companies and established global leaders.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2016

I found that if I shared a post at 5am PST it would get 300–400 clicks and then drop off a cliff. Twitter was “full fidelity” and Facebook was “curated” by an algo controlled by the company. Will the titans fight back and recapture share-of-mind and share-of-time? Twitter became ephemeral. I have no idea.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 23, 2013

Don’t tell me this is normal for growing enterprise SaaS companies. I wish the modern startup community would understand the mindset that gets a company to this point, and resist it. SaaS companies earn their revenue over time. The good news is, after that 18 months, the SaaS company still charges $5000/mo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

Starting a tech company requires youthful vigor, endurance, freedom from obligations like mortgages, imagination, and an intimate understanding of what’s trendy and hip. To be sure, a number of well-known tech titans started more-or-less this way: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 26, 2014

by Forbes magazine publisher Rich Karlgaard and author of “ The Soft Edge: Where Great Companies Find Lasting Success “. To really get ahead, and stay there, a company must also master its “soft edge” — a powerful competitive advantage that is made up of five pillars: PILLAR 1: Trust. It’s how companies become agile.

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Gust

APRIL 11, 2014

Thanks in particular to the reader who reminded me that Part II of “Bored” of Directors Can Become Clash of Titans is still in the queue. As a young law firm associate learning the ropes , one approach I found helpful was to learn and contrast the concepts of mathematical vs. economic dilution of equity.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 5, 2014

Another case in point, Spark Capital just hired Kate Bolin --someone that had been interviewed at a portfolio company of theirs that had made a good enough impression that they labeled her as someone to stay in touch with. And no, analyzing startups is not a portfolio company benefit. That''s a benefit to the VC firm.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Dries Buytaert is the co-founder and CTO and Acquia , a venture-backed software company that offers products and services for open source content management system Drupal. If Steve Jobs was adopted by a Belgian family rather than an American family, it’s extremely possible he may have ended up working in a bank instead of co-founding Apple.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 20, 2023

#4- Fulfill a personal dream Photo Credit: Meredith Bell After facing the harsh reality of redundancy, I found an unexpected silver lining – a golden opportunity to embark on a personal business venture that had been a dream of mine for years. Thanks to Nick Brose, Titan Media Collective ! #12-

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2013

And what of the enormous amounts of trash generated by non-salable products and dead companies? While Rockefeller attained monolithic status as a titan of industry, he did so by working with other business owners rather than against them. Another lesson that somewhat belies the criticism that big companies limit consumer choices.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Your company is an idea that exists in your head and nowhere else unless you’re willing to do anything possible to make it pervade a consciousness beyond your own. My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Your company is an idea that exists in your head and nowhere else unless you’re willing to do anything possible to make it pervade a consciousness beyond your own. My colleague Rob recently wrote about sprinting at the brick wall as a strong pace and at times necessary strategy for a startup at founding or seed stage.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

In fact, interest was so high in Madrona’s latest fund that the backer of companies such as Farecast, Isilon and Amazon.com had to place a limit on how much money it wanted to raise. Selling your tech company? Selling your company is the most important transaction of your life—are you ready? Save money, time, and energy.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 1, 2012

The mix of companies was fun, although like most business history I was amazed at the missing info and the rewriting of important moments around the founding of the company. I found this one to be really good – it drew me and and ended up being a very practical guide to how to hire great people.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2020

And the worst iceberg that sunk my heart like the Titanic breached from a very important decision-maker at one of the world’s largest aerospace companies: “You had my interest at first. Skylift started as a company that produced heavy lifting drones for any industry. I’ll go through our journey sort of like a case study.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The companies that really blow the doors off the competition, such as Rovio and King.com, are making millions a day off of their titles. I’d guess most of you reading this have found yourself addicted to that game at one point in time as I know I have. The mobile gaming space is a different beast altogether.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2018

Founding a start-up is hard work, and sometimes feels like a solitary pursuit. The Growth Edition (April 29th-May 1st) is for companies whose founders are already making a full-time living from their software products. It gathers over 10,000 CIOs, CTOs, buyers, sellers, experts, investors, startups and established companies.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2010

The Agena sat on top of a booster rocket (first the Thor , then the Altas and finally the Titan ) and had its own rocket engine that would help haul the secret satellites into space. This was the Lab founded by Fred Terman from his WWII work in Electronic Warfare. Stanford and Ferrets.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

Trial with TimeSvr Recently, a new company generated some buzz online, TimeSvr. I found that it is hard to find things another person you don’t know could do. More than half of them are actually companies specialized in outsourced development. Head into the the Titan Options menu and check out the footer section.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 24, 2021

The culture is driven by the 20-something irreverent founder with huge technical chops who in a “David vs. Goliath” mythology take on the titans of industry and wins. All four companies were in Los Angeles (or adjacent … Santa Barbara) and our community has now matured and regularly produces billion dollar+ outcomes.

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Jeff Hilimire

APRIL 18, 2016

(Stan Rapp over video announcing the acquisition of my first company to the staff). First, and how I initially came to meet him, is because he bought my first company (along with my friends at Halyard Capital) in 2008! Metaphorically it’s the kind of inseparable relationship any company would love to have with customers.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 4, 2020

She is the Managing Partner and CEO of Sputnik ATX , an accelerator that funds and mentors early-stage startup companies. We see phenomenal companies, great founders and lots or room to grow. If their startup fails, they’ll get hired by the tech company next door. I was very worried about them personally, and their companies.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 15, 2013

But for most women (and men) trying to work their way up in today’s companies that just isn’t a realistic choice. Find a successful company similar to the one you envision owning, study how it started and how it grew, and learn as much as possible about the entrepreneur behind it. Look at what other businesses are doing.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio form a massive startup Megalopolis that is attracting top talent, impact-focused investors, and the most innovative companies in the world. I expect to see more announcements of big name people and companies moving to Texas every month in 2021. Charles Schwab. Hewlett Packard. Who’s next?

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

The company was founded to build games with embedded video to bring Hollywood stories, characters, and narratives to a market where “shoot and die” twitch games were in vogue. But underlying the company’s existence was a fundamental hypothesis we refused to see or test - customers would care if we did.

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