1999 Cofounder Conversion Employee 
ConversionXL
MARCH 19, 2020
It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. These companies tend to over rely on reducing the number of employees. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.
Ben's Blog
JANUARY 31, 2012
After raising our first round of funding for Loudcloud in 1999, we went to visit our new venture capital firm and meet their full team. That excitement took a sharp downhill turn when one of the top partners said to me, in front of my co-founders, “When are you going to get a real CEO?”. Marc and I discussed this often.
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Hearpreneur
JANUARY 7, 2017
The conversations usually go down the same path, ending with a you’re how old? I was driven by my desire for freedom and that’s what I got; along with an amazing opportunity to help transform my employees’ and my client’s lives through homeownership and real estate. 5 – Old Man Strength.
ReadWriteStart
AUGUST 26, 2022
We’ll have a fun conversation over the next 40-45 minutes. So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. And this is one of the pillars we talk about internally, but also to our founders. We think of it much more in terms of how many employees does the company have? Jonathan Siddharth .
Hearpreneur
OCTOBER 1, 2016
Curiously, over the last fifteen years I’ve had the same conversation over and over with other people who felt a similar blankness as to their calling in life. We built some early ecommerce sites around 1999 and back office order processing systems using visual basic for applications (VBA). 8 – Almost By Mistake.
ReadWriteStart
MAY 9, 2013
In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. Allowing customers to pay in a variety of ways can bolster conversions. This is no longer the case. only operations.”
Ben's Blog
OCTOBER 8, 2013
But this particular nugget is so fundamentally important that I will attempt to represent the old guys in this imaginary conversation. I was a founder/CEO during the period when cash seemed more like a serf than a king in 1999 and 2000. It was the era of “go big or go home.” I grew my company and I grew it fast.
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