Word: startup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, despite the popularity of the straight-to-startup route, investment banks are still deluged with applications from eager college seniors. Analysts spend several hours a week interviewing and reading resumes, mostly from their own schools. Today Shemmer spends three hours in the late afternoon interviewing candidates--this week it's Yale...
...said Microsoft unfairly took advantage of the existing popularity of its product by forcing computer manufacturers to leave the startup sequence unchanged and load Microsoft Internet Explorer on their computers...
QUESTION 1: Congratulations! You've started an Internet startup. Which of the following markets will you tap into first? A) Urban yuppies in their mid-20s; B) Computer-savvy professionals in their mid-30s; C) Corporate board members in their mid-40s; D) Harvard kids...
QUESTION 3: The fate of any Internet startup is largely determined by its Web site. In what aspect of Web site development should you allocate most of the company's resources? A) Developing a user-friendly design; B) Creating innovative back-end code; C) Integrating corporate data with outside sources; D) Figuring out how to morally justify your decision to redirect traffic from porn sites...
QUESTION 8: These days, no one is in it for the long haul. A smart, enterprising, Harvard-educated Internet startup founder like yourself has a bright future. What is your exit strategy? A) Corporate buy-out. Earn a six-figure salary as CEO, hire a manager, dump your equity and spend the rest of your days playing Microsoft Golf 2000; B) IPO. Drum up hype, watch your stock price sky rocket, dump your equity and move to Vegas; C) Consolidate ownership. Convince your partners that the company is on the fast track to success, confess you are not the most...