Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2015

I saw this in 2001-2003 and in 2008-2010. And it’s what I believe sets apart the tech startup culture more than any other sector out there. I haven’t seen it much lately so I’m imagining a whole generation doesn’t quite have the muscle memory and will need to develop it during the next down turn.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Don’t get me wrong, I do think an important sign from startups is their ability to keep a startup culture going for as long as possible and one sign of this in the early days is scrappiness. It was probably true, but I created the wrong mindset – the wrong culture. I love this saying and what it implies and I use it often.

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David Teten VC

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Between 2001 and 2005, I worked on a pioneering mobile banking platform for a young bank, that became the de-facto best-in-class standard among banks in Central and Eastern Europe, well before the iPhone era. Additionally, our expertise extends to the nuances of tech teams and startup culture. David Teten: What’s your background?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2018

Jeff Carruthers founded Resonate in 2001, and has steered the business with a focus on what makes organizations relevant to contemporary customers as well as a keen eye for technical innovation. He joined EO in 2015.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

In a study conducted by Cambridge Associates, researchers found that the real failure rate hasn’t gone above 60% since 2001. While recruiting employees who will mix well with your culture is certainly important, be careful not to stack the deck too far on one side or the other.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

make sure you have a strong company culture for them to enter into. . What we want to do is we want to build a team around the culture. All you need to do now is . fill out the right business forms, . draft role descriptions, . create a job application, . find great candidates, . Preparing to Hire.

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StartupNation

JUNE 29, 2021

But it also ignored opportunities to partner with the early pioneers of the DVD rental kiosk business, beginning with Greg Meyer, who installed the nation’s first machines in 2001, and later Redbox, which would come to dominate the business with over 40,000 kiosks across the U.S. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.”

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OkDork

DECEMBER 9, 2022

It’s a romanticized trope that startup culture loves to spread far and wide: Look at Amazon! In the last quarter of 2001, Amazon finally turned its first profit. Join 157,000+ subscribers getting my FREE weekly business tips. Jeff Bezos Net Worth: How He Built the Amazon Empire. The BILLION-dollar company started in a garage!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2022

Whether we will see as dramatic a correction in the next few years as we did in 2001 to 2003, however, is anyone’s guess.”. “If Lerner said this point in time feels like the period between March and December 2000, “when public technology stock prices dropped dramatically and there was little apparent impact on venture capital fundraising.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 6, 2020

This growth, rapid brand recognition, and the quality of the products caught the eye of The Walt Disney Company, which acquired the business for an undisclosed amount the following year in 2001. While this is just one example, there are countless other mom (and dad!)

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2014

Google had grown from $220k in revenue in 19aw99, to $19M in 2000, to $86M in 2001, to $347M in 2002, to $961M in 2003, and would record $3.2B Digging past the business revealed a wonderful culture. But that feeling was more than just a product of the rocket ship growth of the ads business. in 2004, the year of their IPO.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Amid the remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this past weekend, much was made of the voluminous 9/11 Commission report, which described in excruciating detail countless ways in which the United States homeland security and emergency response infrastructure failed to respond adequately to a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

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Unvalidated Learnings

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Such is the company’s current scale and standing in popular culture that it’s hard to imagine it once was nothing more than a scrappy upstart with chronic cash shortages. Their growth naturally slowed down with scale but maintained a remarkable consistency over time: $3bn of revenues in 91, $9.5bn in 2001, $21bn in 2010 and $32bn in 2015.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 29, 2021

In my experience, many founders have a hard time delegating, which can quickly create cultural and operational problems. On January 15, 2001, then-college student Dries Buytaert released Drupal 1.0.0, As someone who’s worked closely with founders at several startups, each of the points he raised resonated deeply with me.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Really, it’s finally fulfilled the vision we’ve all had of it becoming a leading city around innovation, tech, and culture,” Whurley said. In 2001, for six months, Whurley left Austin to follow a girl to Las Vegas and to break into casinos as a hired hacker. Whurley’s success has tracked with Austin’s success.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 15, 2019

I saw the power of a good, positive culture: the value of an inclusive, supportive culture within the organization, and even within the Global Board. Culture truly trumps strategy every day. As you look back on your time as Global Chair, what stands out as a primary lesson?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

While that happens sometimes, it was a challenge for Google because it frequently had trouble adapting from an engineering driven culture. Lesson: Joel had been building a community of readers since 2001. The technologists would say “tell the customer we won’t ship on time&#.

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