Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

Shortly after that VC investment, the VCs hired a new “professional” CEO who lasted less than a year before being replaced by a CEO who then did a great job building the company. We never invested in anything together, but after I moved to Boulder, I got a call from Charley one day in early 1996. Suddenly I was a VC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2019

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

“…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2020

Of course, part of the change is that Gen Z (born after 1996) now outnumbers the Millennials (born after 1981). Although customers today are comfortable providing personal information in return for a better experience, they are also quick to write you off if you misuse the data, disclose it, or use it to push irrelevant products.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. Is a completed product necessary to get funding? But Howard comments wire frames or some progress toward a product should be achievable given how inexpensive it is to produce. Mark comments on the importance of being able to ship product. and Half.com.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2013

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high-quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information,” “long descriptions,” and “reviews and ratings”: ( Image source ). Joann Peck and Suzanne B.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 31, 2016

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut. We were the only folks with a product on the credit card space. That funded us. Among these was the realization that a formal onboarding process for new hires is critical. We had credibility.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2012

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2018

Don’t hire for industry experience. A far more important hiring criterion is what I call “DNA.”. A far more important hiring criterion is what I call “DNA.”. You want to hire people whose values, motivations, and personality correspond to — or better yet, expand — your culture. Old habits die hard.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 26, 2011

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. When selecting your company and product names, consider the following: Uniquely Familiar. Correspondingly, your products’ names contribute to, but do not dictate, their success.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

A recent discussion in the Micropreneur Academy surrounded the topic of starting an online business selling physical products as opposed to software. I’m asked pretty regularly about the best way to start a physical product e-commerce site, or whether that’s a good way to get started selling online.

Product 35

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information”, “long descriptions”, and “reviews & ratings”: Joann Peck & Suzanne B. image source.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 29, 2010

Even then, it struggled through the 80’s and 90’s, until the advent of the iMac and consumer products. In April, 1996, Yahoo! Google - Larry Page and Sergey Brin started working on Google in 1996 – but three years later in 1999, few people had even heard of it yet. had its initial public offering, raising $33.8

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. At the same time, I was also working on the product. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. In nearly every failed startup, the real problem was that customersdidnt want the product.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 7, 2019

While many people erroneously think that millennial entrepreneurs mean any young person, millennials are those born between 1981 and 1996. But, do run things by them, especially if you’re targeting people under the age of 40 for your product or service. Millennials are More Flexible as Entrepreneurs.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The conventional wisdom says a startup CEO should make way for a professional CEO once the company has achieved product-market fit. Salmon points out that “not a single one of the 12 [candidates] is a CEO who was hired to run a company by its board of directors.”. These innovations are product cycles.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. We come in after a product has landed and found product market fit and has some escape velocity. Can we squeeze out more from folks that we’ve hired, and are there things that maybe we have completely neglected? So there’s a product side and a business side. .

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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. Noah has been a key figure in the making of LivePlan, our own SaaS product. In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. They just need to persuade customers why their new product was better than the competition – and they did it brilliantly.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

So back in 1996 I wanted to start my own business and I asked my mom, “Hey, what businesses could I do from home?” I was just going to get hired somewhere. For our clients, they’re all what we call brainiac B2B clients, which basically means they have a complex product or service. Lance Cummins: Sure.

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Seeing Both Sides

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

To answer these questions, we built a database of 112 Israeli companies founded between 1996 and 2013 that have met or exceeded $20 million in revenue. Eighty-two percent have global offices, and yet 91% are still run by Israeli CEOs, as opposed to foreign executives hired from the outside. American VCs are critical.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Describing your product as “new and “never been done before” instead of “we’re just like those others guys, but better” could cost your company billions. That year the two founders decided to get serious about being a company, and hired a CEO. In a major strategy shift, they decided to sell a product directly to businesses.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2012

Before her humorous book on grammar became an out-of-left-field bestseller, Truss freelanced for several British dailies and magazines, winning Columnist of the Year in 1996 for her contributions to Woman’s Journal , and reviewing books for The Listener and the Sunday Times. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Horatio Alger.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. Include screenshots of your product , a video walk-through and one or two charts that display traction or revenue. Jobs by Simply Hired. Productivity Lists. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share.

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help.bplans.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

I am hiring a consultant for assistance in piecing my business plan together. Products and Services. Copyright ©1996-2011 Palo Alto Software, Inc. More Business Software. Tim Berrys Blog. Up and Running Blog. Affiliate Program. Contact Us. Compensating a consultant at start-up phase. by Tim Berry. Del.ic.ious. Site Map. |.

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BeyondVC

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. We will always work side-by-side with our founders and be with them every step of the way as they build their first product, hire their first employee, close their first customer, and realize their full potential.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Languages like Tcl -- which powered Vignette s CMS products in the dotcom heyday -- are now rather unusual in web development. However, Java is not a particularly productive language to work with, and many elements of functionality can be delivered more rapidly in the other languages. framework was built.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Instead, I wanted to focus on what I knew best — product and editorial strategy. Product team gets a dozen new features and an equal number of tweaks every second day. None of them were hired by me, and instead they were picked up through a peer-review-hire process. And we evolved. I smiled to myself. They may [.].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 13, 2010

We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. Everybody was doing marketing blitzes, over-paying to steal the best staff, pimping out urban offices to the nines , and hiring in a frenzy. He always was. But his favorite line was, “can you please slow down and explain this again?

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Back in 2006 I spent nearly 8 months with 100 analysts to figure out why HP was seeing so many products being returned. Fortunately, I’ve found my niche that’s afforded plenty of travel and great times while also paying the bills and letting me hire several full time people. I’d rather be poor and free than trade my time for money.

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North Dakota Entrepreneur Seattle United States 48

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

In this scheme, all of the data related to a specific feature of a product are stored on the same machines. I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. Two of my favorites are from Flixster and LiveJournal. January 7, 2009 9:28 PM Raph said.

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