Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

WHEN OUR INDUSTRY CHANGED — THE ERA OF THE UNICORN Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures first coined the term Unicorn in 2013, ironically to signal that very few companies ever achieved a $1 billion valuation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Tech nerds and mainstream consumers alike swooned when Samsung announced the Galaxy Gear smartwatch in 2013. They allow product managers and marketers to move ahead with projects before the proper research is complete. Thinking Aloud dealing with failure failure Malcolm Stewart product development product management'

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 8, 2014

Ability to manage and prioritize large amounts of tasks since you’ll get many things thrown at you from various directions. In 2013 we launched many firsts to reinvent our firm. But Jordan was the owner and he managed the process as I imagine somebody inside of Apple would manage the quality release of one of their products.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

According to the 2013 OfficeMax Small Business Efficiency Index , small business owners lose four billion hours each year managing time-consuming tasks. Wasted time and money can mean the difference between a business becoming successful and profitable, and one that fails. This got us thinking.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2013

No matter how talented you are, it doesn’t matter unless managers can see those talents and think of you as an invaluable employee, or a game-changing manager, or the person whose name is synonymous with success. Manage your whole image, rather than ignore it. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/10/2013.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 31, 2014

There are several free and paid services, such as LinkedIn and Naymz , that allow you to manage your professional profile and measure your social reputation. This is especially useful in providing links to other positive and neutral content. Profile sites. Other user-created content sites.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

That was a 65% drop from the year-earlier quarter and the lowest fourth-quarter amount since 2013 Fundraising slowdown: LPs invested in 226 VC funds in Q4. Support emerging managers. Maybe surprisingly, but emerging managers in particular, outperformed ‘blue chip’ funds from 2004 to 2020.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Ron is a managing partner of Schaffer Consulting , and is currently serving as an Executive-in-Residence at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. My friend Ron Ashkenas interviewed me for his blog on the Harvard Business Review. He is a co-author of The GE Work-Out and The Boundaryless Organization.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2021, from 280 to 360 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Set milestones and manage to those targets. In my view, starting a new business has never been easier, and according to reports from the Kauffman Foundation , the numbers are here to show it.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 25, 2012

Today we depend on the Internet to reach customers, manage suppliers, and conduct our business in general. < ARIN is one of the five Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) that collectively manage IP addresses for the global Internet. In ARIN’s region, we expect to run out of IPv4 addresses for new Internet growth in mid-2013.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via PayPal or credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2013 , or fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. Open an account with PayPal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Conglomerates, which were the engines of growth and vitality in the twentieth century, have proven themselves unable to innovate, and have a tarnished public image due to financial woes and poor management. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2013

Activists are good at lifting the spirits of team members and managers, and are usually optimistic and confident. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 04/29/2013. This trait can be strengthened by accepting accountability, reducing reaction to stress, and cutting ties to authority. That’s intelligent leadership.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 29, 2018

This feature was finally required in 2013. If these technical challenges weren’t enough for drivers to manage, these autonomous driving features are appearing at the same time that car dashboards are becoming computer displays. auto-throttle – to manage engine power in order to maintain a selected speed.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2013

Chip Bell and Ron Zemke, who are experts in this area, provide some of the best specific insights I’ve seen, in their book “ Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service.” Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 06/13/2013. It’s a tough job, and inexperienced entrepreneurs just don’t know where to start, and how to do it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 4, 2018

We’ve come a long way from switching this blog to WordPress in 2009, my systematic vetting of the business idea in 2009 (after needing it myself due to the success of this blog crashing my dedicated server every time I got on Hackernews), the “ coming soon ” pre-launch in April 2010, our Series A 3-minute pitch in 2011, our incredible CEO Heather Brunner (..)

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

Thrilled to be working within the university system, he became immersed in the back-end of education, managing and streamlining the ways student and curriculum data got integrated into the existing applications. In 2013, ITU funded Kranthi’s proposal for what is now known as the Education Management System (EMS).

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

Back in 2013, my own company was offshore outsourcing to four different countries: the Dominican Republic, Honduras, the Philippines, and India. After a while, it began to place an immense strain on our internal resources to manage all of the centers efficiently, effectively negating the cost-savings we were benefiting from.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 22, 2020

The focus of her business has been to develop working solutions regarding social media management and WordPress website development. In 2013 & 2014 , Kim was a Social Media Correspondent and participated in Regional Emmy Award winning videos that were created by newscaster Michelle Li.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 16, 2018

In its Global Phishing Survey 2H2013 , the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) said there were a minimum of 115,565 unique phishing attacks worldwide between July 1 and December 31, 2013: “This is nearly a 60% increase over the 72,758 seen (in) the first half of 2013.”. But employees aren’t helping matters, either. And now you know why.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

In 2013 the funding landscape changed with the JOBS act. Or at least learn to manage those fears. Melissa Thompson is the founder and CEO of TalkSession ( www.talksession.com ), an online counseling company which launched in April 2013. Now, how do we become successful founders? Don’t fear Goliath.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 17, 2019

With over a decade of management experience, Kevin is a strategic thinker with a proactive, creative and collaborative approach. Kevin Hobbs: Vanbex Group was established in 2013 as a strategic communications organization to better tell the story of the companies in the blockchain industry.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2013

Professionalisms change management Christine Comaford employee management leadership leading change management managing employees' She is best known for helping CEOs, boards, and investors create predictable revenue, deeply engaged and passionate teams, and highly profitable growth.

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Gust

MARCH 23, 2014

There are several free and paid services, such as LinkedIn and Naymz , that allow you to manage your professional profile and measure your social reputation. This is especially useful in providing links to other positive and neutral content. Profile sites. Other user-created content sites.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 11, 2020

Thanks to the digitization of government systems spurred when former President Barack Obama established data.gov in 2013 ; there’s a strong mandate to collect and organize government-owned data. Geospiza , which launched in 2017, uses climate data analytics to help emergency managers and elected officials save lives in disaster situations.

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Haystack

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

As a little tradition on this blog, I’ve singled out companies starting in 2013 with Stripe ; there was Snap back in 2014; Slack in 2015; took a break in 2016, as I wasn’t inspired to select one then; and last year, 2017, was Coinbase. 5/ The Enduring Allure Of Platform Potential: Revenue is important.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

In 2013, a Pew Research Center study revealed some sobering insights into the reasons why 34 percent of millennial women weren’t interested in becoming a boss or top manager. She invented recipes, mastered the art of crafting a dish that stands out, and managed an underground restaurant that faced tons of criticism for a time.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Consider this stark statistic: In 2013, as a group, Fortune 500 companies spent more on health insurance than they earned in profits. That’s because every hour you spend managing your employer-provided health insurance is another hour you are not spending managing and improving your product or service. We said it.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2014

Portraying yourself in the best light is a must, particular as, according to a CareerBuilder survey, 48% of hiring managers use Google or other search engines to research candidate s. The information found on Google may only be a snapshot of what you’re actually like, but it could be all a recruiter needs to cross you off their list.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

A 2013 study published by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne of the University of Oxford shows 66 percent of the nation’s workforce has a medium to high risk of being displaced due to technology advances in coming decades. Leaders with a humanistic management style will be in high demand.

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Gust

OCTOBER 29, 2014

As the primary international platform for angel investing, Gust is also used by over 200,000 startups to manage their investor relations, making the industry increasingly efficient.

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Up and Running

JUNE 7, 2021

In 2013, India became the first country in the world to require corporate social responsibility. A manufacturer of toilets and other plumbing-related products, which launched the campaign Flush for Good in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2013. Companies are waking up to the value of doing more. .

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

(It may be the first one built into the watch, but it’s not the first Apple Watch ECG app cleared by the FDA – AliveCor , got over-the-counter-clearance in 2014 and Cardiac Designs in 2013.) Critics said that the De Novo process should only be used where there is no predicate (substantial equivalence to an already cleared device.)

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Investors will ask management what their “AI strategy” is before investing and will be wary of companies that don’t have one (Fred Wilson, USV). Chen Zamir is the company’s CTO and former Intelligence officer in the IDF as well as Paypal risk manager. Some examples: AI will be the new mobile. series A in November of 2016.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Every LP I speak with these days tells me, “We need to have coverage in Los Angeles — we know that” and it’s no coincidence that we’ve seen the explosion in emerging managers covering the Seed and A-round investment scene in LA. They always ask whether I see this as threatening as Upfront Ventures. Are you kidding me?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

If you keep up with the news on project management and business strategy, you’ve probably come across the buzzword “agile” more than a few times. It’s clear that the IT world loves agile: over 75 percent of software developers are using, or plan to use agile project management software. Defining Agile. Connect with him on LinkedIn.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%).

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