crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

I am talking about the nitty-gritty reality of operating a business, paying the bills, washing the dishes, and managing employees. On these sites an employer can post openings and search for a good match with relative ease and at a low cost. In the meantime there are also several private exchanges that operate in much the same way.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They don’t realize that this option would likely be their worst nightmare, since it costs millions for the road show, usually dilutes your equity to a tiny fraction, and takes away all your entrepreneurial control. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). After a record low of 39 U.S.

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IPO Founder Exit Strategy Investment Bankers 224

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts. You’d be invisible to all rootkit detection techniques that checks the operating system. ” (Ironic but possible.).

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

At the time Jobs regained control of Apple, the conventional wisdom said that Apple was getting killed by “PC Economics” and had to separate the operating system from the hardware. In addition to the basic hardware and operating system, he added applications (iLife, iWork) and peripherals (like the iPod). He even added retail stores.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. In other words, they’re back to seeking product/market fit, and only an immense market (and excellent fit) will counterbalance their crushing costs and pay back past investments. Support.com — On 2.5m

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IPO Flash Bootstrapping Private Equity 240

YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

A Berkshire Hathaway Chairman’s Letter from 1996 underlines that point. You can have the best operations. If you cut 1 percent in cost or time, that’s not much. He knows the stock will rise eventually because he buys only stocks of companies built for enduring success. But if you have a bad strategy, it’s all for naught.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

page, can -- despite the occasional new release from Adobe -- be considered a dead language, with all that this entails (difficulty finding and retaining good developers, vendor lock-in, horrendous cost, poor support, porting nightmares, infrastructure constraints). © 1996 - 2010 Reincubate Limited. XML sitemap.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. The implication is that blitzscaling ignores things like “business model innovations that were rooted in a future that the competition didn’t yet understand” in favor of “spending to acquire customers below cost.”.

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Cofounder Business Model IPO Non-Compete 28

Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. The software was sold based on installation cost running on local servers for enterprises—which was very, very expensive. Estimating Realistic Startup Costs.

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Software Review Software Delaware Forecast 74

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

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Caching Java .Net Networking 75

ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. When you put those two things together, you get high-quality customers, high LTV, and acquisition at super low costs. And you know, a cost goes out with an acquisition, so whether it’s hiring a salesperson, commissions, or paying Google. David Zhang. David Zhang.

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Partner Cofounder Retention Acquisition 132

K9 Ventures

AUGUST 12, 2011

Fifteen years ago, in 1996, while I was still a student at Carnegie Mellon University , I wrote an article (blog post in today’s parlance) about the future of computing. After a little bit of digging through old backups, I found a folder with drafts of a couple of my old articles/paper from 1996. Sunday, May 05, 1996.

Caching 73

Caching Java .Net Networking 73

Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

None of them ran big businesses, mostly small retail operations, but they were almost all entrepreneurs. But software and music both still cost money back then. Most good sales people are coin operated. I had no costs! Disclaimer: I would not recommend operating a business on the UT Austin’s school network.

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Austin Non-disclosure Agreement Artificial Inteligence Software 54

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

This has two major drawbacks: the central directory can become a single point of failure, and there is a performance cost for having to consult the directory ever time you want to access data anywhere in the cluster. Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. This information is normally maintained by your operations team.

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San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” Kiss of Death – Contract Provisions Entrepreneurs Should Avoid at All Costs 21 comment(s). infoChachkie. Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. The Tribe 18 comment(s).

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 30, 2023

That wasn't my intention in 1996. So, well, ironically interesting , the pandemic shut down our adult sports leagues that had been operating for 25 years in a number of different cities shut us down for almost 18 months. Our Michigan operations weren't shut down quite as badly. It's playful and positive. We do every single day.

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Retention Canada Channel Pay to Play 75

ConversionXL

MAY 16, 2018

Better examples of a falsifiable hypothesis might be: I believe my shoe business is losing money because our sneakers are priced too high and by reducing the cost we will increase sales by at least 50%. By reducing the cost of our sneakers, sales will not increase by at least 50%. Check out some examples of null hypotheses below.

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Marketing Metrics Programming Design 133

ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2016

And we know that because of the principles of Commitment and Sunk Costs , if someone expends energy or puts time into something, they’re more likely to complete said task. Interactive direct mail, in the flashy way like the examples above, probably isn’t as common, if only because of the costs associated with the scale of direct mail.

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Conversion Software Review Technical Review Advertising 74

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Jeffery Hayzlett (01:49): A guy like me is going to cost you a couple mill in terms of cost for full-time if I wanted to do that full-time, plus stock benefits and everything else that you get. No, I'm just trying to give you the full range of that's indeed exactly what it costs at that level. John Jantsch (02:18): Yeah.

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South Dakota Operations Employee Community 76

ConversionXL

MAY 31, 2017

The first wave of messaging software arrived with ICQ (launched in 1996), followed by AIM (1997), Yahoo! After all, lead generation is just one side of the equations – operationally, sales and support have costs and time investments as well, which is why lead capture forms scale well. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.

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Lead Generation Channel IP Conversion 91