Version One Ventures

MAY 17, 2016

Amazon ’s magic is that it’s a behemoth of a company that still operates like a founder-driven start-up in several key areas. But, he also developed some unique tools to institutionalize his core values in the company. For example, Mike George joined Amazon in 1998 through Junglee’s acquisition. For example…. Customer Focus.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2015

The production cost of a scarf should be similar to that of a pair of shorts. Because the manufacturing process, operational and organizational demands are similar to those involved with producing and selling the cold remedies line there isn’t much in the way of additional overhead. billion 7 years later.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

One, which is described in great detail in the Mythical Man-Month (in finding that link, I discovered that today is coincidentally the exact 11th anniversary of my first purchasing that book: Jan 19, 1998), is that as you add people to a team or project, there is an increase in communications overhead that makes everyone slightly less productive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

We stand on the shoulders of giants: customer development, the theory of disruptive innovation, the technology life-cycle adoption theory, and agile development. There's even a classic Wizard of Oz minimum viable product that dates back to 1998! Lean Startup has gone mainstream.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. This is the magic of what Akamai and other multi-product companies achieve as they scale.

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