Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

When you look through the list , you’ll see big names that we’re very pleased we landed, epic companies we really want to hear from, and people we’re particularly excited to present because they have incredible stories to share--and you won’t hear them anyplace else. He’ll talk with Eric Ries about how companies successfully scale.

Lean 165

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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.

Customer 334

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. and Half.com.

Pre-Money Valuation 284

Pre-Money Valuation Technical Review Cofounder Cram Down 284

Hearpreneur

JUNE 16, 2018

How did you come up with your business name? We took a little while to come up with the right name! I worked on one of the first internet banking platforms in 1996 and it is now part of a major banking institution in the Midwest. What have been some of your achievements that you are most proud of?

Technical Review 58

Technical Review Naming PR Social Media 58

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

Initial Public Offering 297

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 297

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2020

Ask specifically for the boss’ name. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. What were some low points during that job? Or what part of the job did you not like? In what way were peers stronger than you? Who were the people you worked with?

Hiring 228

Hiring Matching Retention Naming 228

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

Initial Public Offering 148

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Ask specifically for the boss’ name. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. What were some low points during that job? Or what part of the job did you not like? In what way were peers stronger than you? Who were the people you worked with?

Hiring 227

Hiring Retention Small Business Naming 227

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

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

The first step we took was to choose a brand name that we felt represented our shared values and that we felt helped force us to live our values. But as LA as a tech community grew massively the percentage of our LA deals went from 15% to 50% from 1996 to 2010 and it has remained solid since then. Branding & Shared Values.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Jordan Los Angeles Technical Review 150

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

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Ben's Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

Still, since 1996, the only major change to the browser’s user experience has been the addition of tabs. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. I am naming your car ‘La Bamba.’”

CTO 74

CTO Internet Illinois Cofounder 74

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many Fortune 500 companies, training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders in over 35 countries. Top 20, since 1996, ASLAN has worked with many fortune 500 companies training more than 100,000 sellers and leaders all over in 35 countries. I've got my email and I just gotta write it on changing names.

Cofounder 91

Cofounder Sales Email Marketing 91

Board Effect

MAY 1, 2019

HIPAA is a federal act that Congress passed in 1996 to help patients protect their personal and sensitive information. PHI refers to such information as name, address, Social Security number, photo, ZIP code, treatment date, employer, family information, health conditions or other notable characteristics.

Software Review 40

Software Review Technical Review Due Diligence Differentiation 40

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms. Pyle was named one of “50 Women Entrepreneurs Who Inspire Us” by Self-Made magazine and has been featured in numerous publications including Forbes, Entrepreneur, Wall Street Journal, USA Today and many others.

Hiring 246

Hiring Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete NDA 246

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

After all, while you want consistency in some of your marketing – you want a strong business name , a great logo design , and consistent branding – you also want to be sure that your messages are tailored differently to different groups of customers. Need email ? Accounting software? A customer service system ? Less Annoying CRM.

Small Business 61

Small Business Social Media Software Review California 61

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

Initial Public Offering 221

Initial Public Offering Startup California .Net 221

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Generation Z, which are those born between 1996 and 2010, strive to solve problems instantly and are maturing in a stranger-trusting community that utilizes daily on-demand services for food delivery like Favor, transportation solutions like Uber, and instant current event influence with news sent directly to their smart phones.

Demand 172

Demand Mobile Security Founder 172

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.

SEC 164

SEC Cofounder Boston New York 164

SiliconHills

JULY 11, 2014

Baer founded the Austin-based company under the name of Skylist in 1996 and later sold it. Joshua Baer, serial entrepreneur and cofounder of Capital Factory, has joined the board of directors of PostUp, formerly known as PulseConnect, an email marketing software company.

Email 82

Email Cofounder Marketing Austin 82

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?” John Jantsch: So I got to know, what’s in the name? So, in full disclosure, you mentioned about your name, Duct Tape Marketing, when you and I were offline a second ago. Lance Cummins: All right.

Audio 66

Audio Boston HTML Video 66

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. Scroll back to top Sign up to receive email updates Enter your name and email address below and I'll send you periodic updates about the podcast. Phil (01:40): Well, when I started, I had no clue. I remember back in 19 what? When I got started, I was like, well, what the heck is here? powered by

ChatGPT 83

ChatGPT Email Sales Campaign 83

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. The importance of a domain name. For Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin, finding a good domain name was a key part of his branding strategy. Step 5: Get financed.

Software Review 74

Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

www.rhymer.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

FREE Naming. Rhymer Home > Naming > 10 Questions When Naming. Ten crucial questions when naming your business, product, or Web site: Who are my consumers? What am I naming? What type of a name do I want? How long should the name be? Do the sounds in the name have the right appeal?

Naming 40

Naming Web Product Kentucky 40

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

If you don’t recognize the name Danny Lewin there are two big things to know before you dive into this book. Akamai’s original name was Cachet Technologies. As a judge for the MIT $50k until 1996, there were always a lot of VCs hanging around. He longed to be at MIT.

Israel 129

Israel Denver IPO Cofounder 129

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. Prime time. These so-called volunteer computing projects dealt with scientific research.

Search 179

Search Aggregator Distribution Framework 179

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

Starting in 1996 with the Intel P6 (Pentium Pro) to today’s P7 chips (Core i7) these processors contain instructions that are reprogrammable in what is called microcode. Yet the one company’s name that hasn’t come up as part of the surveillance network is Intel. The Dog That Never Barked.

Silicon Valley 335

Silicon Valley Russia Security Customer Development 335

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 15, 2024

He's the creator of the Product Launch Formula, revolutionized online marketing with a step-by-step process that generated over a billion dollars in launches since pioneering the concept in 1996. So when I started, I started publishing a newsletter in 1996, and it was about the stock market. Would just kind it. It just didn't exist.

Product 87

Product Audience Email Sales 87

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2010

To be sure, a number of well-known tech titans started more-or-less this way: Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard, to name a few. The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate.

Silicon Valley 233

Silicon Valley Investment Bankers Affiliate Vertical 233

Brandanew

APRIL 23, 2018

After all, there are more CEOs named John in the US than women. This report about unpaid housework gets to the point easily: Statistics from the 1996 Census of Population confirm that women continue to do the vast majority of unpaid housework and care-giving, whether or not they work for pay.

Community 113

Community Framework Equity Analytics 113

help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

—————————————— [Name withheld]. Consulting rates go all over the place, but you’re going to pay more than that in many cities for a first-rate name-brand management consultant. Copyright ©1996-2011 Palo Alto Software, Inc. Site Map. |.

Software Review 41

Software Review Equity RSS Business Plan 41

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996. In 1996 no potential customer had even heard of a Personal Digital Assistant. In 1996 Palm was selling a product that allowed users to do something they couldn’t do before. It was a new product.

Customer Development 221

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 221

Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

By the time I was providing them with the name and home address of my paternal ancestors I realized I might be making a mistake. “Yes sir, it appears you don’t have the correct company name at the bottom of your website.&# (the old owner’s company name was still there). Well, that’s not entirely true. .

Software Review 56

Software Review Naming Email Internet 56

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.

New York 248

New York Los Angeles Sacramento Iraq 248

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. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. Include numbers.

Social Media 80

Social Media Startup Angel Investor RSS 80

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

My name is Jeff Quigley and I live in a small coastal community called Musquodoboit Harbour (pronounced musk-o-dob-it) in Nova Scotia Canada. Is there an interesting business name? I finally was able to buy my first Mac in 1996 and I never turned back. Jeff lives and works in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Canada 65

Canada Design Software Review Community 65

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

My name is Jeff Quigley and I live in a small coastal community called Musquodoboit Harbour (pronounced musk-o-dob-it) in Nova Scotia Canada. Is there an interesting business name? I finally was able to buy my first Mac in 1996 and I never turned back. Jeff lives and works in Musquodoboit Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Canada 65

Canada Design Software Review Community 65