Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

In 2001, I moved from Citibank to become the CMO of Morgan Stanley’s brokerage business, where I was tasked with modernizing and reviving the brokerage business there. Two weeks later, I was named the executive director of global marketing for GE at the corporate level, working for Beth Comstock.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. Scaling Up & Out: The Valley is Flat (and Global).

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Mike Michalowicz

OCTOBER 5, 2015

He began at Gundersen Partners, LLC, then moved to Heidrick and Struggles, where he became a principal in the Global Consumer Practice. Despite those lean times, the new firm thrived from the start. He began at Gundersen Partners, LLC, then moved to Heidrick and Struggles, where he became a principal in the Global Consumer Practice.

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LLC Cofounder Search Lean 60

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

stock market: The change led by NASDAQ in early 2001 to valuing stocks in increments from one-eighth of a dollar down to one cent. Once you put a lot of money in, you're no longer lean and flexible and kinkin' and jivin' and trying to figure it out," he says. Everything's better with the lean model.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

— sound like its time for the Lean University. State funding declined as a share of these universities’ budgets from 28 percent in 2001 to 19 percent in 2009. global competitiveness.”. Because institutions’ enrollments grew significantly during this period, the per-student decline was about twice as steep.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica ran things as lean as she could for the next few months while figuring out what to do. Peggy Burke is a 30+-year design executive with expertise in creating global brands. Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. If you can’t hear the clip, click here.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Cofounder Customer Development 120

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. Despite the Internet bubble bursting, the company was able to generate over $160 million in revenue in 2001.

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Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

As many of your listeners may know, there was an incredible piece published by a gentleman from Founders Fund, discussing Tiger [Global Management] and how they’re focused on the speed and scale business. On Deciens’ Lean Operation. Dan Kimerling: I love 2001: a Space Odyssey. On Sushi and VC. On Dan’s Favorite Books.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Cofounder Africa 88

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

And mutual disdain and squabbling prevent the collaboration needed to thrive in a tough global economy. Collaboration and innovation are musts for survival in the global economy and that means great teamwork is vital. Story can create legends that an entire workplace culture can build upon, grow with, and lean on. Actually, yes.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002.

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