Founder Story: John Nash, CEO Color Vision Store
A conversation with John Nash about a niche website he developed with his brother to offer tools and information for colorblind people.
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Founder Story: Mike Lanza’s Lessons Learned from Two Startups
Last week I had lunch with Mike Lanza, a serial entrepreneur, who I met at the SDForum Startup SIG in September ’07. He gave a thought provoking presentation on his entrepreneurial career, bootstrapping a company, and working with VC’s, which I blogged about here: Mike Lanza: Starting Companies Without Venture Capital. I thought a more
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HP’s Early Customers Came From Fred Terman’s Social Network
HP produced its first brochure and sent it to a list of about 25 potential customers provided by Fred Terman. Orders soon came in from early customers.
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Founder Story: Dave Stubenvoll of Wowza Media Systems
Francis Adanza interviews Dave Stubenvoll, a serial entrepreneur/intrapreneur who has founded or been an early employee in five successful startups. His most recent startup is Wowza Media Systems.
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Think You Have a Great Name, Think Again!
We have all heard of brands like Google, Cisco, Nike, Starbucks , and Lowe’s. Have you ever wondered how these companies got a great name? You probably haven’t heard of Ansearch , N-TRON, InSport International, Caribou Coffee, and Handy Andy. To me Ansearch sounds more like a search engine than Google, N-TRON seems more like
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Founder’s Story: Rick Munden of FMF & Epiphyte
An interview with Rick Munden exploring what he has learned bootstrapping the Free Model Foundry and Epiphyte.
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Bob “GoDaddy” Parson’s Rules for Business Success
Bob Parsons of GoDaddy blogged his “16 Rules for Success in Business (and Life in General)” in July of 2006. A question he received at a 2004 speaking event–“What advice do you have for someone who is just starting a business?”–kicked off an effort by the serial entrepreneur to codify the principles he was living
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By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09
Guy Kawasaki’s talk on the Truemors Origin Story: “By the Numbers: How I built a Web 2.0, User-Generated Content, Citizen Journalism, Long-Tail, Social Media Site for $12,107.09”
Founder’s Story: An EDA Acquisition During the DotCom Boom
Founder’s Story: An EDA Acquisition During the DotCom Boom This is another joint project we did with Ann Marcus because she is such an effective interviewer. Last month she sat down with Mike Bitzko, currently CEO of CadPlex, to get his founder’s point of view of getting acquired (when he was CEO of Concurrent CAE
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Founder Story: Acquisition Integration at 60 days
We have been doing some joint projects with Ann Marcus recently, who is a real pleasure to work with, and a very effective interviewer. She sat down last month with the CEO of a recently acquired software firm, who has asked to remain anonymous due to the candor of his remarks. There are some real lessons here for any startup
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Is DodgeBall Duo’s Departure A Harbinger For JotSpot Wunderkinder?
Barbara Darrow (Unblog) April 16 entry was by Stacy Cowley “Dodgeball Founders Defect From, Take Shots At, Google” Google’s habit of acquiring promising startups and then disappearing them into the Googleplex Vortex is no secret — it left Blogger to languish for years, and closed Web 2.0 wunderkinds JotSpot (wikis) and Measure Map (blog traffic
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June 2006 SDForum Interview
I was interviewed in June 2006 by Barbara Cass, Volunteer Director for the SDForum, the final text appeared in the July/August 2006 newsletter (see page 15 of the PDF version). I have updated it here to add links for many of the referenced works and the quotes. KV Rao and I did a one year
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