Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2013

Jim has founded six companies, including Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies, which went public in 1997 and subsequently merged to create Travelocity.com as an independent company. Today he is the co-founder and Chairman of Triporati, LaunchPad Central. Jim co-taught classes with me at U.C.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

The company was originally founded in 1997 by Jonathan Bush (1st cousin of George W.) Scaling lesson #2: Once you find product-market fit with a customer segment, scale up by offering other products that solve other hard problems to that customer segment. Founding Story: A Pivot. Athenahealth version 1.0 Visionary CEO.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

When I reread the plan several years ago for amusement, it motivated me to go dig up plans for other successful companies that I was a co-founder of or early investor in, including NetGenesis and Harmonix. By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. Related articles.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 22, 2013

Editors Note: This is syndicated guest post by Walter Chen , co-founder of iDoneThis, an easy way for your team to sync up on its daily progress. It’s counterintuitive, but Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos takes a totally different approach to hiring: he gives prospects a hiring anti-pitch.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But, I found that I was far more productive at work, even though I was dealing with all of the issues that come with pregnancy. I have a designated place to work: my home office, a co-working space, or a coffee shop. What motivates me the most is productivity. In this way, I mentally get 2 days of productivity in 1 day.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 25, 2012

Steve Jobs, co-founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of a little company called Apple Inc., Getting fired from the very company he founded in 1985 before returning to it in 1997 to save it from financial ruin. But the now ubiquitous Apple products came out of that period of technological and marketing missteps.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Chip Morse , cofounder and partner with Morse, Barnes-Brown & Pendleton P.C., Be Connected & Productive Anywhere, Any Time. based in Waltham, Mass.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. He also co-founded three companies: a broadcasting network, Air America Media, a solar energy company, Atenergy and a branding agency, Brand Maestro.

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Kodorra

DECEMBER 2, 2018

What you are not aware of is how much struggle the founders had to go through to get to that pinnacle of success. The founder Robert Hull advice startup founders not to pay close attention to the rejections but focus on their business. The founders went through a lot of criticism some of which were posted online.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

@jack : Twitter founder Jack Dorsey is on Twitter as well, sharing updates from his work as the CEO of Square. dens : Co-founder and CEO of Foursquare Dennis Crowley gets personal on his Twitter account, sharing his interests in soccer and hidden urban art. MichaelDell : Follow Michael Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 8, 2022

He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. He is the co-author of In Search of Excellence, the book that changed the way the world does business and is often tagged as the best business book ever, 20 books. John Jantsch (09:59): Products?

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David Teten

JUNE 12, 2011

" Since 1997, Corporate University Xchange (CorpU) has armed senior executives with cutting edge talent improvement research and benchmarking. Co-Founders Jeff Fernandez, Surag Mungekar, and Nick Narodny are CEO, CTO, and Chief Content Officer, respectively. Click here to buy tickets. Corporate University Xchange.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

The founders coming out of the DEC ( Digital Equipment Corporation ) and Intel culture of the 1960’s and ‘70’s. I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company. Two of my role models for my career were in this company. (And

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

And a lot of experts and a lot of CEOs and company founders tell me that those shareholder letters were models of simplicity, which kinda led me in that direction. Very few people break their presentations up into a three act structure, introduce products as a three act structure. Act two is the challenge or confrontation.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 19, 2021

That’s because the making of the company relies on the founders, the CEO, the executives, the team members–in other words, the people who are putting in 80 to 100 hours per week, rather than the board members who are putting in one to two hours per week. Right now, our whole bet is on the CEO and the founders and making them successful.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you can proudly use your product or service and find the value in it on a daily basis, you know you’re on to something. I am founder on an unconventional online gallery, The Art and Craft Gallery. Ajay Prasad, the founder of GMR Web Team < [link] > #15) Take Advantage of an Opportunity. 5) Market Downturn.

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 13, 2015

When Christine started Balance Your Books in 1997, her vision was to create an accounting advisory firm that focused on the growth of entrepreneurs, their business, and their financial health. Jared shares with us how Fundera works! SPOILER ALERT! We talk about the Jurassic World movie. Our Guests. Christine Gray (left). SPOILER ALERT!

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. The principle of microeconomics is that at a market-clearing price for any product the right amount of sellers and buyers will emerge and a price will be set.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

We’re so enthralled with finally getting to touch our products. Adobe product managers and evangelists will be sharing the latest on mobile development with Flash and more from Adobe Labs. The 26-year-old CEO and co-founder of the innovative online music service Spotify, Ek has been characterized as a serial entrepreneur.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Warren Buffet, 1997. Not to be outdone, on May 20, Robinhood announced , “Today, we’re starting to roll out IPO Access, a new product that will give you the opportunity to buy shares of companies at their IPO price, before trading on public exchanges.” Marketing 101: Customers love free stuff. NPS would soar. I don’t think so.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Michael Ovitz , the co-founder of CAA will be the keynote speaker. Given how Apple’s products are normally delivered to near perfection it is likely to be a huge holiday hit this year. And meanwhile I’ve seen several LA startups focus on creating low-cost video production & distribution houses.

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