The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2013

These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. She co-founded an aircraft scheduling software company in 1998 that ended in a profitable exit. Blake has long been involved in the Dallas startup scene, having helped organize the first BarCamp Dallas in 2005.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. When Bill Hewlett and David Packard founded HP in 1947, it made logistical and fiscal sense to have all their workers housed under one roof. Ditto for Apple.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Prabhdeep Singh: We were founded in 1998 to serve top professionals — then it was investors — who weren’t really learning from the dry, one-dimensional, one-size-fits-all industry reports and conferences available to them. David Teten: As you know, almost every VC fund operates as effectively a mini expert network.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Board Effect

MARCH 15, 2022

The C-suite, along with the frontline clinical and operational staff are the responsible parties for healthcare governance. Liam Donaldson was the first one to come up with the idea of clinical governance around 1998. That’s still a worthy goal for today’s healthcare providers. What Does Good Governance for Hospitals Look Like?

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of serif fonts on the web. Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). 1998 , Bernard et al., 1998 , Tullis et al., Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole. Definitions. Regli, S.H.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Amdocs is an Israeli founded provider of software and services for billing, customer relationship management (CRM) and operations support systems (OSS). and was founded in 1998. WARREN BUFFET’S BERKSHIRE HATHWAY UNIT TTI BUYS ISRAEL’S NET AYE. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s why we have operations alerts trigger a page, but it can also work for other customer events. This is true for split-testing features, but it’s also true for marketing programs or even operations changes. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi.

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Start Up Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2018

And even though this time the displacement will involve intellectual labour, the pattern will remain unchanged, and it goes like this… Company replaces workers and reduces operating costs. Company must then decide where to distribute cost savings – options include; Increase profit margins. Reduce prices and sell more.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2014

You also may remember that the main narrative of the ’90s was that Michael Jordan, arguably the NBA’s greatest player ever, took the Chicago Bulls to six championship titles between 1991 and 1998. Culture Operations Strategy Success Stories Uncategorized business business lessons mistakes'

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

There was no repeatable methodology, startups and their VC’s still operated like startups were simply a smaller version of a large company. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. The Business Plan (Concept- Alpha-Beta - FCS ) became the playbook for startups. The New Exits.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009). Or maybe valuation depends on growth rates or operating margins. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

The Harvard Business School’s business plan competition has been running since 1998; the only competition winner that has achieved any sustained success is Cloudflare (2009). Or maybe valuation depends on growth rates or operating margins. The problem is that these competitions seldom produce massively successful businesses.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

in 1998 and eventually became Yahoo!Store. In fact, the company has done so well that it now operates in 13 countries. Here’s a tiny slice of the pie to give you an idea of what those problems are or were: Viaweb – Paul’s own company which allowed users to make their own online stores. Sold to Yahoo!

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

There are many companies that are competing to be the “operating system” for small businesses. The scorecard includes five major components: stability, operational performance, client satisfaction, financial performance and growth. Scaling Lesson #1: get close to customers early, really close, to help inform your pivots.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It’s always been important to have a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) plan in place to make sure your company can continue operating in the event of a hurricane, flood, earthquake, fire or – most commonly – human error. By Travis Nisbett, Senior Project Manager at Hostway Services, Inc.

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The Equity Kicker

APRIL 22, 2014

Operator - then as the business achieves scale the role of the CEO shifts to being an operator (careful not to lose the innovation though.). We hope they will go on to become great operators and enablers but it doesn’t make sense to think too much about that when the companies are still tiny.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

” Here’s the summary of his track record (excerpted from the Fast Company article): Forefront — IPO’ed in 1995 by CBT — CBT stock fell 85% in 1998 and prompted class-action lawsuits. Except I disagree with that definition of “success.” Support.com — On 2.5m

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2015

While Microsoft introduced MSN Search in 1998, the site purely used an existing search engine, Inktomi, to gather results. Avoid making the same mistakes by carrying out focus groups, speaking with your customer base, and keeping communication open to see how your customers would react to big changes in the way you operate. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

You know, for example, I did mention Warren buffet a little bit earlier when I became CEO at young brands, I was a marketing and advertising per operations had never really worked with wall street. And I think it was 1998 and I saw him of 2016 once a year in Omaha. And I said, who could I learn from? And I said, who could I learn from?

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Microsoft’s market share of operating systems is 35%, down from 96% in 1998-2005. Mobile apps are used nearly five times as much as mobile websites. 26-35% of people using their tablets as a second screen are engaging in activity related to what they’re watching – that’s much higher than I’ve seen reported in other surveys.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

I just read the following story about how their low price ethos played out when they entered the DVD market in 1998. We had planned to match their 30% discount, and now we were being out-priced by the market leader on our first day of operation, and just before the heart of the holiday sales season to boot (it was November, 1998).

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

.   In the EU, for instance, it’s virtually impossible to dismiss anyone – for non-performance or anything short of outright theft – caught on video tape by a government certified camera operator.   In it to aspiring entrepreneurs bought an aviation operator at a small airport.    Risk taking is discouraged. .

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 31, 2018

First, win our category of Entertainment Tech (yes, we are very competitive), then establish contacts with clients in the media industry with broadcasters, OTT platforms and cable operators. I started my first business back in 1998 when I was 17; Skipworth was my first digital record label. Sceenic is based in London.

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Life Beyond Code

APRIL 22, 2011

You are left to operate in your own shell. It’s hard to come up with “out of the box&# ideas if you are forced to operate from within a box. This was 1998. Let’s look at what happens IF your Boss shuts you off from seeing the big picture. Create situations that stretch you. The problem?

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Hearpreneur

MAY 29, 2016

These texts help to form the banks of the river for how we operate as a business. Launched in 1998, Care2 is the world’s largest community for good, with over 35 million members taking daily actions to make a difference in the world. Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? Thanks to Randy Paynter, Care2.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2016

Amazon ’s magic is that it’s a behemoth of a company that still operates like a founder-driven start-up in several key areas. For example, Mike George joined Amazon in 1998 through Junglee’s acquisition. We’ve all seen these things happen to good start-ups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Complementary lines of thinking, such as that of user experience professionals, design thinking practitioners and the functional disciplines of sales, marketing, operations and even accounting, come together to share practices that lift us all. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998!

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2019

With an adorably cute mascot and witty advertisement and marketing, the company has been keeping simple and straightforward since 1998. Plus, FatCow is eco-friendly and environmentally conscious as it operates entirely on wind energy! FatCow is dedicated to offering hosting services to small businesses, startups, and individuals.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Take the time to develop a strategic roadmap so you may better understand the ways in which you’ll achieve your operational goals. Serial entrepreneur Donovan Janus started his first company NTN Publishing in 1998, and started Exposure Manager in 2004. Janus launched 17hats in October 2014 after a short 4 months in development.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

There are currently over 120 industries that have franchised companies, with the franchisee normally receiving help with their site selection and development support, operating manuals, brand standards , quality control, training and business advisory support from the franchiser.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

There are literally thousands of examples this: a new entrant in a market establishes a brand presence, executes a powerful marketing strategy, and achieves operational efficiency and is able to capture a significant piece of that market, often becoming the market leader in the process.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2019

Dorian Barak , a China-Israel tech investment expert, said that ‘infrastructure like the new train not only make it faster to reach mainland cities like Dongguan, but also serves as a guidepost for companies seeking to enter or expand their operations in China. Following 1998, the economy was completely restructured.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 14, 2016

Similar to the Vienna virus which shocked computers in 1998, this virus comes into action after you have executed the file. Depending upon the operating system of your computer or the files that exist on your computer, it might use any of the two methods to spread. Direct Action Virus. However, this virus has a limitation. Macro Virus.

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