Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I started with some basic theory: that a startup is an institution designed to thrive in the soil of extreme uncertainty; that traditional management techniques rooted in forecasting and planning would not work well in the face of that uncertainty. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998!

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Q1: What caused you to want to get into working with mobile telephone platforms in 1998? It is a term that I defined years ago to highlight the importance of putting the user and his/her mobile-context at the center of the mobile sofware design. Tags: Digital Government innotech Mobile. Details on Innotech can be found here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. "Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. Yet it had one huge advantage.

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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. It wasn’t that they didn’t want to pay, but for anything above a certain dollar amount, it had to be a committee decision, and Universities are a notoriously bad market to crack (probably second to the government). The product worked.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re much better off going to work for a phenomenal company, which does a great job of recruiting not just engineers, but also product managers, designers, go-to-market specialists, and many more, all of whom have a strong bias towards action, and all of whom are interested in the challenge of building a great technology company.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

You’re much better off going to work for a phenomenal company, which does a great job of recruiting not just engineers, but also product managers, designers, go-to-market specialists, and many more, all of whom have a strong bias towards action, and all of whom are interested in the challenge of building a great technology company.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

The Nissan Leaf battery pack alone costs about $18,000 (though government incentives bring down the overall vehicle cost to the customer). More efficient use of roads will save governments money in reduced infrastructure costs. The barrier to flying cars is not in the design or building of a viable airframe.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Professor Daniel Shechtman of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has been designated the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2011 for his discovery of quasicrystals – a new form of matter that has become a major subject field for physicists, materials scientists, mathematicians, and crystallographers.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

Using our iPhone or Android apps or visiting Handwrytten.com, it is easy to select a card from our inventory of over 80 designs, tap out your message and select a handwriting style. I couldn’t sew or draw so becoming a fashion designer was out. The robots then write out the note, stamp the envelope and send it on its way.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Some believe only businesspeople can do this-- that hackers can implement software, but not design it. Back in 1998 our CFOtried to talk me into it. Surely 1998 was a little late to arrive at the party. More generally,design your product to please users first, and then think about howto make money from it. Thats nonsense.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 9, 2013

It’s also long been recognized that Atmospheric Marketing - or ”the effort to design buying environments to produce specific emotional effects in the buyer that enhance purchase probability” – has been an effective way of increase purchases for physical retail locations. Emotional Design Influences Sales.

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Up and Running

MARCH 19, 2018

Social entrepreneurs want to improve social and/or environmental conditions, but unlike nonprofits, they are not registered 501(c)3 organizations, and their structure is designed to generate profits, but to do it ethically. Social entrepreneurship sits somewhere in between those two. to ban animal testing for cosmetics.

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