Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. For example, I quickly learned that when I twittered about the event, more often than not I would make a sale.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. According to MarketWatch, GTA has generated over $6 Billion in total sales since its release in 2013, which makes it the top grossing entertainment title in history.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 4, 2017

You’re likely going to need to set up hosting services, code repositories, analytics, CRMs, CMSs, VPNs, CDNs and a host of other three letter acronyms. In 1998, five percent of shoes were sold through mail-order catalogues and Swinmurn believed that he could beat those numbers with an online version.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

We really were doing the i-thing before Apple came out with its first iMac in 1998. So the departments either didn’t have the capacity to pay or it would be an endless sales-cycle, where we would spend lots of time on the sales, but it still wouldn’t close. Our products were iClass, then iMeet, iServe and iShow.).

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

An analytical mindset that might be somewhat jaded from past ventures is going to take a hard look at your idea, and their reaction is likely to be sobering. As engineers we naturally have an analytical mindset, and like to break things down into black and white, absolutes and positives so we can make quick judgements. Thoughts on.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. I have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Founding Akamai.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The focus of Moneyball is the team’s analytical, evidence-based approach to fielding a competitive baseball team despite not being able to pay high dollar for star players like the Yankees and Red Sox can. Romer analyzed every fourth down that occurred in every quarter of every NFL game from 1998 to 2000. It’s not just baseball.

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