Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There were startups and a software industry but barely. They wanted to build new products, solve problems that were unfilled by the last generation of software companies and grow revenue year-over-year while holding costs in check. There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2015

But even worse than the cost of recruiting someone new to fill the vacancy when a key employee leaves, there’s one big, looming worry that’s sure to ratchet your anxiety up to critical levels: “She knows everything!” Like it or not, employee mobility has just become a fact of life.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 31, 2017

Filing taxes seems straightforward initially: There’s online software to keep founders from misplacing a figure. If your startup is eyeing international expansion early on, your tax compliance and planning needs, both home and abroad, immediately ratchet up. Growth Leads to Complexity. Take sales tax, for instance.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

The e-commerce space in Singapore has been ratcheted up by another notch as online shopping platform Shopify partners telecommunications provider SingTel to make available its services to businesses in the country. Gradually, people started asking if they could use our software to help them build online stores – and Shopify was born.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

My deliverable is not software per se (though sometimes there is that too), but alternative models for operating and engaging, a different way for DOE employees to view and go about their own work. So we sold our software the only way we knew how—by not telling the clients about it. Further, my products are actually processes.

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Up and Running

JUNE 2, 2015

When team members experience heartfelt emotion, their creative ability ratchets up a notch. Our customer service team at Palo Alto Software does just this. That’s why primal team leaders try to deepen team emotion.”. Have you ever worked for someone who exhibited such heartfelt emotions?

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

On Friday Silicon Valley Bank released a survey of 375 executives at startup technology companies in the 4 core venture capital investment sectors – Software/Internet, Hardware, Life Science, and Cleantech. Here is what they found: Tech. Are Bullish. Our outlook is solely dependent on the FDA.

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