Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Having lived through this, I wholeheartedly agree that if we had not had enough runway, adopted an agile/lean approach or had patience from our investors it would have failed miserably. May 14, 2009 5:23 AM David said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Struggling to explain the successes and failures of those companies, I discussed principles like continuous deployment, customer development, and a hyper-accelerated form of agile.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

This is my 2nd time trying this, first time was in 1999. Do you recall how much seed funding Reid provided in the beginning (or how much total capital was invested before the VCs came in)? Btw, here’s our startup [link] We are bringing yield management to the restaurant industry. A lot has changed. link] leehower.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

My first startup job was as an early employee at PayPal, where I took a job at the end of ‘1999 and started a few months later in 2000. Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Lee’s personal blog, Agile VC. But I think it’s important to discuss, particularly given today’s heady environment for startups.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. There's been two fundamental changes here that have been overlooked by a lot of people, and this is why it's fundamentally different than it was in 1999: One change is this Era of Cheap and the lean finance model.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2010

Founded in Austin in 1999, Coremetrics is known as one of the high-end providers of web analytics, competing with Omniture and Webtrends. Marketers increasingly need the ability to see across their organizations and the agility to make split-second decisions based on real-time data,” said Joe Davis, CEO, Coremetrics.

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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. Other companies in the 1999 PDA market were Palm, the original innovator, as well Microsoft and Hewlett Packard.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically. But there’s a reasonable probability the next time I do buy a refrigerator, it may connect to the internet for the purpose of the OEM to analyze its use or troubleshoot repairs.

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Agile VC

JULY 15, 2015

I’m still waiting for the internet-connected refrigerator I was promised in 1999 that would order milk automatically. But there’s a reasonable probability the next time I do buy a refrigerator, it may connect to the internet for the purpose of the OEM to analyze its use or troubleshoot repairs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

I founded Volusion in 1999 out of my childhood bedroom, and stayed on as CEO until 2011, when I left for a few years to focus on my family. And while not more important than the other lines of our credo, I love when we put our minds to “be lean, be agile, and small teams kick ass. We make things better, then make them better again.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Customer Development, Business Model Design and Agile Development could have changed the outcome. The size of a cell phone handset had shrunk so it could fit in your pocket. In contrast, when Iridium’s service became available its satellite phone was bigger than a brick and weighed about the same.

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Agile VC

MAY 7, 2014

Alibaba’s Genesis Alibaba was founded in 1999 by Jack Ma and 17 other colleagues, and like most startups they began as a small group working out of Ma’s apartment in Hangzhou. I’ll first start with a brief background on the genesis of Alibaba and a top level sizing of the company and its underlying businesses. ==.

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