Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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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. But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut. … (They were operating like) there’s an opportunity and there’s a market need. (So) Among these was the realization that a formal onboarding process for new hires is critical.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Salmon points out that “not a single one of the 12 [candidates] is a CEO who was hired to run a company by its board of directors.”. At the time Jobs regained control of Apple, the conventional wisdom said that Apple was getting killed by “PC Economics” and had to separate the operating system from the hardware. If you do, hire him!

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Tactical Draw-up and control complete IT operational and capital expenditure budgets for IT. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team. I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. You need to store two kinds of information. The second is the mapping itself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. 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. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

For example, in 1996 a relatively large supermarket chain “Dominick’s Finer Foods” discovered through experimentation that framing discounts in a bundle (“2 for $1”) instead of as single unit discounts (“1 for 50 cents”) significantly increased the number of units purchased.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. Like PHP, when hiring Microsoft programmers there’s much to be wary of.NET powers sites of all sizes (though relatively few massive ones) and is very common.NET has some CMS frameworks such as dotnetnuke and Community Server which often distract startups.

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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 business model.

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help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I am hiring a consultant for assistance in piecing my business plan together. It might be helpful to tell you that the business will probably be valued in excess of $200 million when fully operational (about 1 yr.). Copyright ©1996-2011 Palo Alto Software, Inc. Sample Business Plans. |. Business Plan Help. |. Site Map. |.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2019

While many people erroneously think that millennial entrepreneurs mean any young person, millennials are those born between 1981 and 1996. Millennials want a sense of purpose, and this is reflected in the way they operate their businesses. It isn’t enough to just want to make money so you and your family can feel secure.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2015

If you’re ready to hire your first employee, you might be feeling a little overwhelmed. Before you hire your first employee, you’ll need to set up your EIN, or Employer Identification Number. See Also: Is It Time to Hire an Employee? Prepare to hire: Okay, there’s the boring part out of the way. Let’s get started.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 29, 2021

Work side-by-side with me for two years running all aspects of Capital Factory’s operating businesses and investment funds. After one year you will take their spot and hire your replacement. Please do not apply if you are uncomfortable with rocket-powered shopping carts. See everything I see. Meet everyone I meet.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Fortunately, I’ve found my niche that’s afforded plenty of travel and great times while also paying the bills and letting me hire several full time people. But when I embarked into entrepreneurship in 1996 it was because I wanted more time with my daughter. I’d rather be poor and free than trade my time for money.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 14, 2021

Work side-by-side with me for two years running all aspects of Capital Factory’s operating businesses and investment funds. After one year you will take their spot and hire your replacement. See everything I see. Meet everyone I meet. You will start as the Assistant Chief of Staff reporting to the current Chief of Staff.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. Eighty-two percent have global offices, and yet 91% are still run by Israeli CEOs, as opposed to foreign executives hired from the outside. American VCs are critical.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. Good CEOs will look inside and say: “Hey, maybe we’ve been hiring a little bit too much during the sugar rush phase of the pandemic, and what does that mean for performance management? Here is the full YouTube — Please enjoy this episode: How to Scale Unicorns.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

The founder of early internet startup Freeloader (acquired for $38 million in 1996) and anti-spam company Brightmail (acquired for $370 million in 2004), Paul went on to pioneer the ride-hailing space. The second is a lack of operational scalability. Blitzscaling requires building a substantial organization at an abnormally rapid pace.

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OnlyOnce

OCTOBER 10, 2019

About 8 years ago, I wrote a blog post that talked about the story from my MovieFone days when I went from managing 1 person to 20 overnight and had to completely rejigger my Operating System to the new environment. It was a case of required revolution over evolution for me. Trial by fire. I feel like I am living in an analogous world now.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

None of them ran big businesses, mostly small retail operations, but they were almost all entrepreneurs. Most good sales people are coin operated. Disclaimer: I would not recommend operating a business on the UT Austin’s school network. This was 1996 and let’s just say that these best practices were not established yet.

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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. million in investment and 18 months of operation. We’re hiring.) I’m paraphrasing a Clinton/Carville line “It’s The Economy, Stupid” in the title above. Sound familiar? Incredible but not.

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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. Or I'm the security guard, or excuse me, the janitor and my wife's mother is dying of cancer, but now she can live because she can get the operation. I'd like to see more people operate with greater values.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As noted in Beware The Consultant , such pay-for-hire charlatans barter their time for your money – the more time they trade with you, the more of your money they take. Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” infoChachkie.

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