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  4. About Jeff Bezos

    Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964 in Albuquerque, New Mexico) is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. before founding Amazon in 1994. He was named Time magazine's Person of the Year in 1999.

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    2. Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits

      Explore Google FeedBurner (Apr 24 2012)

      Founder's Dilemmas: Equity Splits ...s. For example, most entrepreneurs know that the most successful entrepreneurs - from Bill Gates to Jeff Bezos - kept tight control over their companies. We therefore seek to emulate their approach, to our own ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Noam Wasserman   Microsoft

    3. Five Startup Tips From Bill Gates

      Explore stevejobsvision.tk (Feb 21 2012)

      Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. Other installments include: Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban, Richard Branson, Walt Disney, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell and Larry Elli... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Larry Ellison   Bill Gates

    4. Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

      Explore Business Insider (Jan 30 2012)

      Note: This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. Other installments include: Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, Richard Branson,Walt Disney and Mark Zuckerberg. 1. Degree? We Don't Need No Stinkin' ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Hollywood   Dell

    5. Eleven Startup Tips From Mark Cuban

      Explore infoChachkie (Dec 5 2011)

      Eleven Startup Tips From Mark Cuban This is an installment in the Iconic Advice series. Other installments include: Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs and Richard Branson. Mark Cuban Mark Cuban is a lifelong serial entrepreneur, launching... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Steve Jobs   Texas

    6. Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos

      Explore infoChachkie (Dec 1 2011)

      Ten Startup Tips From Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos ...repreneur Angry Boss In August 2004, FastCompany published an article titled, Inside The Mind Of Jeff Bezos, written by Alan Deutschman. Although the article is informative, it is the accompanying sidebar th... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Amazon   UC Santa Barbara

    7. How To Beat A Well-Funded Competitor

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 7 2011)

      How To Beat A Well-Funded Competitor ...absolutely hell bent on execution. We knew, and there was another interview I remember reading with Jeff Bezos at the time who said, ‘work fast and fix small mistakes later. The greatest mistake you can make on... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Australia   San Francisco

    8. How To Kick Innovation Up a Notch to Nanovation

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Sep 26 2011)

      How To Kick Innovation Up a Notch to Nanovation ...volution? The first step is to meditate on the examples set by others, like Steve Jobs of Apple, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, or Thomas Edison with the electric light. There are many others, like the one I just fin... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   India   Thomas Edison

    9. Guess How Long Overnight Success Really Takes

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Mar 26 2011)

      Guess How Long Overnight Success Really Takes ...s it became an overnight success, and now has about 400 million users worldwide. Amazon.com - Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 and took it public three years later, making him a multibillionaire. Ama... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   IBM   Apple

    10. The visionary’s lament

      Explore Lessons Learned (Sep 20 2010)

      ...e close with a specific story of a visionary at work. I’ve heard from several sources a story about Jeff Bezos and the invention of one-click shopping. It may be apocryphal, but it’s illustrative anyway. Amazon... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Amazon   Steve Jobs

    11. Lessons Learned From Startup Bootcamp 2010

      Explore VentureFizz (Sep 16 2010) Marketing

      Lessons Learned From Startup Bootcamp 2010 ...Bill brought up the fact whether or not you would regret doing the startup 50 years in the future. Jeff Bezos says the same thing with his regret minimization framework. I also noticed an underlying desire to... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Alexis Ohanian   General Catalyst

    12. Lessons Learned From StartupBootcamp 2010

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Sep 14 2010) Marketing

      Lessons Learned From StartupBootcamp 2010 ...Bill brought up the fact whether or not you would regret doing the startup 50 years in the future. Jeff Bezos says the same thing with his regret minimization framework. I also noticed an underlying desire to... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Boston   IBM

    13. How Line2′s Founder Recovered From A Big Setback And Launched A String Of Hits – with Peter Sisson

      Explore mixergy.com (Aug 9 2010)

      How Line2′s Founder Recovered From A Big Setback And Launched A String Of Hits – with Peter Sisson ...s. I met between Christmas and New Year’s, and they said, “Don’t sign it.” We’ll get John Doerr and Jeff Bezos . . . Andrew: We’ll get who? I’m sorry. The connection was breaking up again. Peter: It was unbelie... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Kleiner   Jeff Bezos   Oracle

    14. How SEOMoz’s Founder Went From Deep Debt To $4+ Mil Per Year – with Rand Fishkin

      Explore mixergy.com (Jun 30 2010)

      How SEOMoz’s Founder Went From Deep Debt To $4+ Mil Per Year – with Rand Fishkin ... experience and deep technology understanding. We hired a woman named Kate Matsudaira who worked on Jeff Bezos’ team at Amazon, was the VP of engineering for Delve Networks, which powers video for services like... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Boston   Newsweek

    15. How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

      Explore ben's blog (May 30 2010)

      ... without a story is a usually a company without a strategy. Want to see a great company story? Read Jeff Bezos’ 3-page letter he wrote to shareholders in 1997. In telling Amazon’s story in this extended from—no... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Harvard Business School   Andreessen Horowitz

    16. The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Software Patents

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (May 29 2010)

      The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Software Patents ... global solution. One of the first software patents was the notorious Amazon one-click patent by Jeff Bezos. The problem with Amazon's patent is not that it's a software patent, but that it's obvious. Any on... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   IBM   USA

    17. How to Start a Startup

      Explore Paul Graham (May 21 2010)

      ...re a lot of people with technical backgrounds. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Gordon Moore. The rulers of the technology business tend to come from technology, not business. So... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Henry Ford   Jeff Bezos   Lycos

    18. Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

      Explore ben's blog (Apr 28 2010)

      ... majority of them for a very long time, including: * Acer—Stan Shih * Adobe—John Warnock * Amazon – Jeff Bezos * AMD—Jerry Sanders III * Apple – Steve Jobs * DEC—Ken Olsen * Dell—Michael Dell * EA—Trip Hawkins ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Oracle   Larry Ellison

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