Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million, by selling 2.6

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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. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million, by selling 2.6

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. When we got real funding nearthe end of 1996, we hired a great CFO, who fixed everything retroactively.

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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. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million, by selling 2.6

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. Give each entity a name. For example, consider this simple scheme.

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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. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million, by selling 2.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981). Too many businesses tolerate old systems, which may be slow or require extensive typing, rather than upgrade to devices that can move around the store, or identify a customer by name and interest, rather than a customer number.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Felix Salmon, for instance, points out that Fortune’s editorial staff considered twelve other candidates including Warren Buffett, Carlos Slim, and Martha Stewart before naming Steve Jobs the best CEO of the decade in November 2009. If you do, hire him! Let’s just say he didn’t have the benefit of the doubt.

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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. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million, by selling 2.6

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. If you can name drop big customers, do that too — you want your profile to look impressive. Jobs by Simply Hired. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. The importance of a domain name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

16:53] As a consultancy with a few clients how does one determine their first hire in order to scale? [18:22] No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. What's my first hire? But beyond that, you need to hire a money person, C-O-C-A-O, whether it's part-time or full-time. Phil (01:40): Well, when I started, I had no clue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So back in 1996 I wanted to start my own business and I asked my mom, “Hey, what businesses could I do from home?” I was just going to get hired somewhere. John Jantsch: So I got to know, what’s in the name? My daughter helped me name it. Lance Cummins: You’re going to love this. ” All right.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 22, 2009

I still kick myself for not moving here in 1996, when I started my first company. Things like choosing a law firm, finding an accountant, hiring people, finding an office, figuring out equity structures, raising money. I had all of $5,000 to my name when I started my first company. There wasn’t much to lose.

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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. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. He later changed the name to Facebook. million, by selling 2.6

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

With that implicit assumption, startups hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies while marketing creates a brand and buzz to create demand and drive it into the sales channel (web, direct salesforce, etc.) In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

It doesn’t matter when, but eventually as companies grow, a founder cannot make every decision, read every email, follow every thread of conversation and interview every new hire. None of them were hired by me, and instead they were picked up through a peer-review-hire process. Name (required). I smiled to myself.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. In 1996 RIM was still in the hardware business selling packet-switched wireless radio modems to OEMs. The new device could hold names, email addresses, phone and fax numbers and incoming and outgoing messages. Wireless Communications.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2012

Before her humorous book on grammar became an out-of-left-field bestseller, Truss freelanced for several British dailies and magazines, winning Columnist of the Year in 1996 for her contributions to Woman’s Journal , and reviewing books for The Listener and the Sunday Times. Lynne Truss. Isaac Asimov. Nathaniel Hawthorne.

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help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I am hiring a consultant for assistance in piecing my business plan together. —————————————— [Name withheld]. Copyright ©1996-2011 Palo Alto Software, Inc. More Business Software. Tim Berrys Blog. Up and Running Blog. Affiliate Program.

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Testing whether major brand alterations (such as a name change) impact the number of localized website visitors. Imagine a CMO is hired specifically for their experience building a powerful loyalty program at a different company. Comparing checkout times in stores with automated vs. non-automated checkout.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

As a developer you have the ability to build/hire out/buy applications and websites, where the margin is huge and you have something unique. Whereas we got some big names interested in Pay4bugs very early, just with SEO. #9 Which is great, except at that point your margins are slim…think 20-40% gross profit. 9 Jeremy on 08.11.09

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

My name is John Bates. I have been involved in startups since I graduated from college in 1996. I can hire a development team. The most obvious place that businesses and or accountants turn to for their small business clients is generally banks, big banks, community banks, you name it.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

To illustrate this and the lack of improvement in forms, take a look at IBM’s contact form in 1996 and their form in 2016. Instead of asking three questions (name, email, phone) all at once, Advanced Grass tested asking seven questions across two steps. Multi-Step Forms: How Asking More Questions Can Increase Conversions.

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

I first came across Bill when he was a Wall Street analyst and covered my company Open Market (IPO 1996). Name Media ($50-60m). Today, I'll cover Massachusetts; tomorrow, New York. I always admired his perspicacity, even if he didn’t like our stock all the time! Glasshouse ($90m) – registered for IPO . Hubspot ($25-30m).

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Scalable Startup

MAY 24, 2012

They used this to win the 1996 election by rallying people who were tired of such a weak, debt ridden economy. We’re hiring.) I could name another 20 startup in L.A. I won’t names names, but I see their ads on the web. Sound familiar? The Bubble Begins To Pop.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” I would think that with a name like Smucker’s it has to be a vile disease or possibly a large, poisonous, South American leech. LinkedIn.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Jeffery Hayzlett (02:26): It goes back to the time in which a guy named Rob Ryan started the hero group back in 1996. John Jantsch (15:07): Hey, have you ever tried to hire freelancers and found that the quality of work was lacking? Let's dive into the book and let's begin with the beginning. What is the hero factor?

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