Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Traditional banks have helped fuel business and economic growth by providing small business owners with startup loans, general business loans, lines of credit and refinancing programs, to name a few.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

However, none were based in the Silicon Valley and are probably unfamiliar names to today’s practitioners. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” I knew them all, because we all knew each other in this era. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.”

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Millennials are those born between 1980 and 1994. The most recently named generation, Gen Z, are those born from 1996 to 2015. Also, Gen X is populated by lots of mid-life families. To reach this generation, try beefing up your marketing strategy with family nights and value menus. Millennials.

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Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts. Yet the one company’s name that hasn’t come up as part of the surveillance network is Intel. The Dog That Never Barked.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2017

I remember back in 1994 when a friend asked if I’d like to buy a domain name. I have to believe that Google’s search results will always value high-quality domain names because someone like me who’s investing a lot in the domain name itself, is also likely to invest in developing a high-quality website that will be relevant to users.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

It can be as simple as writing the name of the person you treated to lunch and what you discussed on the lunch receipt to substantiate a meal deduction; or a note in your calendar to document the business purpose of a meeting for which you claimed deductible business miles. Record Business purpose. He is a licensed CPA in the State of Utah.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 21, 2020

As the name suggests, the report will help to determine how practical it is for you to launch a startup company based on various factors. In 1994 it formed the Joint Commission International (JCI), which works with medical tourism businesses and healthcare organizations in over 100 countries today. Joint Commission International.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

No name for a company transforms the idea into one of the world's most admired brands. Remember, Bezos did not have a name for his company, and he didn't have a company. If you can remember a good Italian name like Carmine Gallo. Carmine Gallo (25:49): Yes, you, you, John Jantsch (25:50): Speaking of great Italian names.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

When I think, of a “disruptor,” the first name that comes to mind is Elon Musk. It is truly a wonder when you start thinking about the massive scale that Amazon works at and how far the company has come along since 1994. Photo Credit: Fletcher Wimbush. Thanks to Adam Crossling, Zenzero ! #7- 7- Netflix. Photo Credit: Carl Panepinto.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

Generation or “Greatest Generation,” as Tom Brokaw coined them in his book of the same name, grew up during the Great Depression and went on to fight in World War II. Adjusted for inflation, that’s close to double the amount of debt students graduated with in 1994. It’s not—it’s dead—and now it needs to be buried for good.”

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 3, 2012

Lopez and his family were living in a plastic tent in Barrio Nelson Mandela, Colombia, with $300 to his name. Joyce Wafukho used her small savings to open a hardware store in 1994. He’s using the money to buy more nutritious food for his family and pay for his sons’ schooling. Marcelino Lopez, Colombia. Joyce Wafukho, Kenya.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. Customers are first asked to fill out an in depth profile to help identify their size, style, and preferences.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

When I started investing in 1994, I was involved with a few large companies. That we’d do all kinds of vague and unspecified things together in the name of innovation. My first company (Feld Technologies) was one of the first Microsoft Solution Providers ( Dwayne Walker , are you still out there somewhere?)

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

For those of us who were around in the wild days of the internet’s infancy, the fact that the familiar name is still an existing entity might come as a surprise. Though they retained the name and url, AltaVista search was acquired by Yahoo! WebCrawler. Once known as AskJeeves, Ask.com is another longtime player in the online world.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. We asked entrepreneurs and business owners how they came up with their business name. #1- 1- Suggestive and evocative name.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 8, 2013

Rather, I’m making an observation about something I’ve experienced – both as an entrepreneur and investor – since my first angel investment in 1994. How would you feel if your name – and your firm’s name – just went out via email to 60 CEOs attached to this story?

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The Next Web

JANUARY 28, 2018

On August 11, 1994, the first ever ecommerce transaction occurred when a 21-year-old in New Hampshire named Dan Kohn sold a copy of Sting’s Ten Summoner’s Tales to a friend in Philadelphia who paid $12.48 An eleven-time Grammy winner, Sting revived the soul of rock and roll by infusing reggae just when the genre was growing stale.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

Your work schedule, your pay and benefits, prices in big box stores, cell phone contracts, day care arrangements — you name it, it’s negotiable. Blum has been teaching in the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania since 1994.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

I’ve been investing in and around email since my first email-related investment in 1994 in a company very creatively named “Email Publishing” which was the very first email service provider. Since then I’ve had a number of investments in email companies including Critical Path, Postini, and SendGrid.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2017

In 1994 the American Society of Civil Engineers convened with business people in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to discuss the technical and financial feasibility of space tourism, then still a hypothetical concept. Named after Alan B. In 2000, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos established Blue Origin.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 1, 2009

This was about the time Christies and Sotheby’s were starting to auction Soviet space program artifacts , and I was thinking that perhaps a spacesuit in the lobby would be appropriate given our name.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

I still have the Brooks Brothers striped shirt that Len and his partner Jerry Poch gave me when we signed the documents for Feld Technologies to be bought by Sage Alerting Systems (which changed its name to Sage Technologies and then changed it to AmeriData). Under the terms, he signed his name.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 20, 2023

But as you build your empire, it’s important not to neglect other areas of your finances – namely your pension and savings. In 1994, William Bengen, a financial adviser in the US, embarked on an extensive study of historical market returns, focusing on turbulent periods like the 1930s and early 1970s.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. He belongs to that Mount Rushmore of American CEOs, along with names like Carnegie, Ford, and Jobs. When you’re that great, you only need one name).

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2010

BACKGROUND ON THE NAME ‘FEDEX’: When the company began operations in 1973 they were initially named Federal Express. However, after a while Federal Express outgrew its name and headed towards a more global approach. The FedEx logo achieves all of this and remains very simple.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2010

BACKGROUND ON THE NAME ‘FEDEX’: When the company began operations in 1973 they were initially named Federal Express. However, after a while Federal Express outgrew its name and headed towards a more global approach. The FedEx logo achieves all of this and remains very simple.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

So I've been on boards, you know, going back to 1994 was my first board shortly after I sold my first company. Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. Brad Feld (04:47): Yeah. Although I would say most of my research has been living it. Yeah, yeah. Scroll back to top. powered by.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Here’s one example I’m sure you can relate to: How many times have you forgotten (or maybe not even known) a person’s name in a meeting? Cory Treffiletti is a successful marketer, author, entrepreneur and student of popular culture with a deep background in digital dating back to 1994. Now, we are finding out how to use that data.

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abovethecrowd.com

JANUARY 30, 2015

In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” As we turn the page to 2015, Uber has a new BHAG, and it’s name is UberPool. “Can you take me Higher?

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

An invention with great commercial potential; a catchy business name; artworks and innovative designs. Representations of a brand including the name, slogans, jingles and logos can be protected under the Trademarks Act 1994. Intellectual property is the most important asset of many start-ups.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 26, 2015

The good thing about the Apple logo is that it tells the brand name without having to spell it. Walter Issacson’s autobiography of Steve Jobs reveals why Steve choose the name Apple. As shared by the Cult of Mac , On the naming of Apple, he said he was “on one of my fruitarian diets.” It is probably just that, a myth.

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