Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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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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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Michael Parekh , a Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former Partner at Goldman Sachs, and Founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994, Michael has been living online since the early days of CompuServe in the 80s and AOL in the ’90s. Michael was the lead research analyst for the IPOs of Internet companies like UUNET, Yahoo!

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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. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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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. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

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.” He was a former Wall Street analyst with no operating or investment experience, who became a VC by teaming up with operator LJ Sevin.

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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. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. This company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994. He later changed the name to Facebook.

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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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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 15, 2012

In operation since 1995, AltaVista is one of the web’s search trailblazers, and is still in operation today. 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. MetaCrawler.

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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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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

There are currently over 120 industries that have franchised companies, with the franchisee normally receiving help with their site selection and development support, operating manuals, brand standards , quality control, training and business advisory support from the franchiser. The company’s chains initially only expanded in North London.

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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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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

Joe Zhu is a quick study with a natural desire to offer assistance anytime, anywhere startups face marketing, operational, and financing challenges. So read on and be inspired… At 30 Years of Age, Tianyi Joe Zhu, Chicago Entrepreneur, Named Amongst the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

in it and that flimsy name-dropping “Blockchain Revolution” book was being published [fyi, that book is garbage], the African-American community has already been quietly working on blockchain/DLT technology and here is where this wonderful article begins. Stuff CNBC and other media outlets don’t want to acknowledge.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2010

FedEx is company operating all over the world, but if by any chance you haven’t heard about them before, here’s the quick run-down from Wikipedia : “FedEx is a logistics services company, based in the US.&# However, after a while Federal Express outgrew its name and headed towards a more global approach.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 6, 2010

FedEx is company operating all over the world, but if by any chance you haven’t heard about them before, here’s the quick run-down from Wikipedia : “FedEx is a logistics services company, based in the US.&# However, after a while Federal Express outgrew its name and headed towards a more global approach.

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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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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2014

For example, in 1994 Jeff Bezos founded Amazon from his garage in Washington, and Harley-Davidson started out of a home—and a shed—in Wisconsin. Last night’s dishes are calling your name, sitcoms are waiting for you on your DVR, and the beautiful weather is luring you outside for a nice long walk. Register your business name.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

With my third business, I didn’t even try to be original—I purchased a custom framing franchise and piggybacked to success on someone else’s name. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. Today, Check Maid operates in most major U.S.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

Comsys was founded in 1994 when it initially produced a PC modem and then gradually changed its focus to develop processors for 3G mobile devices, which it sold to its strategic partner, Texas Instruments Inc. EUROPEAN DRUG GIANT MERCK SERONO TO EXPAND ISRAELI OPERATIONS. 8 ISRAELI START-UPS NAMED RED HERRING 100 WINNERS.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Legibility is concerned with the very fine details of typeface design, and in an operational context this usually means the ability to recognise individual letters or words. Required fields are marked * Name *. Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. Definitions. Lansdale, M.W.,

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Hi there, my name is Angus and I’m 30 … Although the name might imply, I actually don’t have much connection to Scotland. We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Please tell us about yourself.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

Hi there, my name is Angus and I’m 30 … Although the name might imply, I actually don’t have much connection to Scotland. We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Please tell us about yourself.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Formed in the name of "preventing lock-in" mainly as a competitive action by IBM and Microsoft in the midst of unseemly political knife-play with Sun, they went on to create massively complex layered specifications for conducting transactions across the Internet.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

BHAGs were established by management guru Jim Collins in his 1994 book “ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Good to Great) “ , co-authored with Stanford professor Jerry Porras. Microsoft worked to become a household name in the world of desktop and laptop computers. What’s a BHAG?

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