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. Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

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. In April, 1996, Yahoo! He later changed the name to Facebook. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

Entrepreneur 263

Entrepreneur Initial Public Offering California .Net 263

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. In April, 1996, Yahoo! He later changed the name to Facebook. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

Initial Public Offering 221

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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. ” (Ironic but possible.).

Silicon Valley 335

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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. 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

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

That wasn't my intention in 1996. So, well, ironically interesting , the pandemic shut down our adult sports leagues that had been operating for 25 years in a number of different cities shut us down for almost 18 months. Our Michigan operations weren't shut down quite as badly. That's just marketing assessment.co.

Retention 92

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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. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. In April, 1996, Yahoo! He later changed the name to Facebook. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

Initial Public Offering 148

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Independent contractors can change the way your business operates. Many professionals have stepped out of the workforce to facilitate e-learning or hybrid school schedules until schools resume normal operations. She began her work-at-home career in 1996 with the launch of her first website: Home-Based Working Moms.

Hiring 246

Hiring Non-disclosure Agreement Non-Compete NDA 246

Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2024

And now, finally after a decade of work by the CIA’s Science and Technology Division, the first digital photo reconnaissance satellite – the KH-11, code-named KENNEN – which could do all that, was heading to orbit. Polaroid’s first digital camera wouldn’t hit the market till 1996, by which time the battle had been lost.

United States 196

United States California Security Naming 196

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Testing whether major brand alterations (such as a name change) impact the number of localized website visitors. In 2013 Kohl’s was looking for ways to significantly cut operating costs. Comparing checkout times in stores with automated vs. non-automated checkout. Some business models use experimentation to great effect already.

Marketing 133

Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

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.). —————————————— [Name withheld]. . Copyright ©1996-2011 Palo Alto Software, Inc. Business Plan Help. |.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Party Pieces grew rapidly and the Middletons moved their operations to three converted farm buildings outside of London.

Southern California 162

Southern California Las Vegas Honolulu Massachusetts 162

YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2012

The last of the textile operations were shut down in 1985. By the 1930s, P&G had grown to become an international corporation with a wide variety of new products and brand names, many acquired by purchasing other businesses. Founded in 1902, 3M was once known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company.

Mississippi 209

Mississippi San Francisco Minnesota Bankruptcy 209

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

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

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ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! first name and last name, photo, twitter handle, etc.). Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology. It’s been around since the mid-1990s. Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999).

Lead Generation 91

Lead Generation Channel IP Conversion 91

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. 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.

Early Stage 22

Early Stage Revenue Naming Web 22

www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next to the name of each person with an MBA, youll learn something importantabout business school. We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell.

Startup 105

Startup Cofounder Software Stock 105

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. Second, for folks keeping score at home, this phenomenon appears to extend beyond high-technology companies.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 78

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. This is the story of the creation of that company.

Israel 129

Israel Denver IPO Cofounder 129

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

Caching 75

Caching Java .Net Networking 75

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

Caching 73

Caching Java .Net Networking 73

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.

South Dakota 96

South Dakota Operations Employee Community 96

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. 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.”

Naming 40

Naming Technical Review Product Product Name 40

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video). An obvious vector for me would be software for the media industry. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

Media 210

Media Los Angeles Russia Viral 210