Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Even if you aren’t a corporation or an LLC, your state government may have rules about what business name you can use. If your name is John Smith and you run a business called Smith House Painters , then you’re using a business alias (also known as a “trade name”). Why Have a Business Name? Why Must I Register?

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2016

An unrelated article by Morton Bennedsen and Nicolai Foss in the California Management Review attempts to draw links between family assets and firm innovation based on extensive historic examples from around the world. Brand extension and market growth can be aided by a family name in ways a non-family brand name cannot.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

The real definition of copycat marketing is in the name. Who would have thought that the entire empire on which Microsoft is built, the Windows operating system with current annual revenues of about 7 billion dollars, was not the brainchild of Harvard dropout, Bill Gates, or his high school buddy Paul Allen.“ Or did they?

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”). Stamps of Approval” and “Opportunity”.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2015

While the standard is that ownership is determined based on each owner’s contribution to the LLC, the Articles of Organization or the company’s Operating Agreement can change this, so the amount any owner invests does not necessarily determine the member’s share in profits (or losses) of the company. Verdict : It’s a tie! Verdict : LLC.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2024

military space port on the coast of California As a Titan IIID rocket blasted off, it carried a spacecraft on top that would change everything about how intelligence from space was gathered. The connections between the world of national security and commercial companies still has surprises.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. So I asked our COO, Stuart Lander (a Brit) to set up operations for us. He made some mistakes on his immigration paperwork so he was forced to leave the country for 8 months. Her response?

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

He opened the first of many PanIQ Escape Rooms in Hollywood, California, and today, they have locations in San Jose, Phoenix, Miami, NYC, Dallas, Nashville, Chicago and many more. In 3 years, they predict more than 50 operating units. How did you come up with your business name? We are building and operating escape rooms.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

The OEM Business Convergent’s business was selling desktop computers (with our own operating system and office applications) to other computer manufacturers – most of them long gone: Burroughs, Prime, Monroe Data Systems, ADP, Mohawk, Gould, NCR, 4-Phase, AT&T.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California! CEO Summit – Two people are invited from each company to attend an event with big name speaking guests. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

You name it. Using Air is the leading platform for marketing teams to manage and automate their creative operations. If I, if you've used my service before or have your IP address, I could say, Hey, welcome Paul from I'm in Loma Linda Paul from Loma Linda, California. And then go, what's your name? Uh, happy you're back.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

Founded it as a California LLC but your potential VC wants a Delaware C-Corp? I always try operate on the “Fixed Fee +&# arrangement. He mostly covers Southern California. of Stubbs Alderton, a firm that focused exclusively on early-stage tech, media and game companies in Southern California.

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Up and Running

JULY 18, 2014

My name is Zach and I will be hosting today’s event. First, let me start off by giving you some more background so again my name is Zach Olson and I’m the founder and CEO of TaxAlli.com. One of the easiest ways to start a business is to operate as a sole proprietorship, but easy doesn’t really mean the best.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

Benchmark Labs: San Diego, California. Comet Health: San Francisco, California . Everyone in the NextView partnership has deep operating experience as founders and operators scaling high-growth internet companies (e.g. Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts . Higher: Birmingham, Alabama .

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

They had interviewed telecom operators, handset manufacturers and corporate buyers. My boss told me to look at the growth rate average over the past 3 years an increase it by 2% because mobile penetration is increasing.&# There you go. As scientific as that. I called another agency. They were more scientific.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Get extremely familiar with your business’s operation days. For example, a 24 hour call center in New York that does brisk business from California around 7pm Pacific would be poorly served by a day-parting schedule that is set to lower bids at 10pm Eastern. Exercise: image source. What days are the sale staff present?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

The seeds planted by those who came in the 90′s have begun to blossom 15 years later literally into seed capital, blossoming new entrepreneurs and an ecosystem of experienced operators that powered LA 1.0 and are guiding LA 2.0. But Is This Really That Surprising? Isn’t the Overall Market Just Booming Now? .

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 29, 2023

Following the collapse of California-based bank , Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), in early March 2023, startups and organizations that were caught in the middle of the catastrophe showed many other entrepreneurs and new business owners the importance of partnering with the right financial institution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Frank Cowell is a speaker, best-selling author, and entrepreneur in the San Diego, California area. An energetic and entertaining speaker, Frank presents regularly to regional and national organizations on topics related to revenue operations, business strategy, and digital marketing. powered by

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 148

Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

When Terman said no, Sylvania, a tube company which built proximity fuse tubes in WWII, won the contract and set up its Electronic Defense Lab (EDL) in Mountain View California in the middle of an orchard. Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We have in our partnership a gent by the name of Barry Fidelman who puts us all to shame with his intensity. Many VC’s I know are simply not that hungry, they are the ones you should worry about most. You need relentless intent, focus, the willingness to challenge, the willingness to take measured risk.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

Digital Response (USDR) CalFresh Onward California Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA) "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1935-1944" SF New Deal donation/volunteer page Transcript for Out of the Crisis #15: SF New Deal Eric Ries : This is Out of the Crisis, I'm Eric Ries.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

00:00:06] DEREK: Tell us about growing up in Northern California, tell us about what your dad did, what your mom did, and your family a little bit. [00:00:52] I grew up in Northern California. You’re two guys in a garage, two guys across campus trying to make a name for yourself. In California. Where do you start?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

My parents and my brother live in Southern California. He was talking about what he thought needed to happen in California and the fact that every state was going to need the kind of expertise was able to muster and probably wouldn't have access to that. There was a guy in New Jersey government named Ross Dakin.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Based on a small sample of household names from Bill Gates to Mark Zuckerberg, he is an optimist. Six years later, he managed to land a contract with IBM to provide their IBM PC base operating system. He later changed the name to Facebook. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

Initial Public Offering 295

Initial Public Offering California .Net Business Plan 295

Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. This year, marketing need to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

But the team believed adding video as an integral part of an operating system and user experience (where there had only been text and still images) would be transformative. You may know it by its final name. At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

All the radar operator would see was noise, rather than airplanes. And 30 years later I was teaching in a building named after him and never knew a thing about him. My first business trip to the valley was to visit California Microwave. making nothing but jammers to put on our bombers. Play spooky music here.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2011

The 54 companies in the study operated product and service businesses, had been in business on average 9.6 The 54 companies in the study operated product and service businesses, had been in business on average 9.6 years, and had reached an average revenue level of $60 million with the range being from $5 million to $350 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 15, 2010

Having grown up in Northern California and living near a Japanese family when I was really young, I always had a fascination with Japan and wanted to live there. He told me that he was leading the project globally and gave me the name of the lead Japanese partner.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

One of Adam’s favorite vacation destinations: Big Sur, California. “ Since we operate as a remote team, anytime you are near a computer or phone, you can technically be in the office. My name is Jessica and I’m the founder of Pixelkeet and cofounder of CrowdMed. . In 2016, unplug.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Startups that are prepared to scale have significantly more leverage in their own growth since they’re able to grow their operations without needing to quickly increase operating costs. by Lena Requist, president of ONTRAPORT. Invest in the Right Tools.

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