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. AppFog creating "high-hurdle" experiments to surface authentic early adopters with real pain. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category.

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andrewchen.co

AUGUST 20, 2012

My theory is, we’re currently in a golden age for early stage startups, and the early stage market will stay hot for at least the next 3-5 years. The downside protection is driven by acquihires from companies like Twitter, Facebook, Groupon, and others which are paying $1M-$3M per engineer. Like this post?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2009

When you’re an early-stage startup that hasn’t raised any institutional money you end up doing almost every job function of the company yourself. I hired a senior exec from the building materials industry (we were a document collaboration company for the engineering & construction industry) who was also ex McKinsey.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. There are close to 100 specialized incubators for companies founded by returned overseas Chinese scientists and engineers. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. There are close to 100 specialized incubators for companies founded by returned overseas Chinese scientists and engineers. Set up in 1999, Innofund offers grants ($150 – $250K), loan interest subsidies and equity investment. Lessons Learned.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Meet early. I’ve raised seed rounds and A-D rounds. Not so much.

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Reid Hoffman

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Piracy became so associated with startups that when, in 1999, the cable network TNT released a movie about the heated rivalry between Steve Jobs and Apple, and Bill Gates and Microsoft, it was titled, “Pirates of Silicon Valley.” This adaptability is critical in the early stages of building a great company.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 18, 2011

He worked on his MBA at MIT’s Sloan School of Management (leaving in the middle for a job at Microsoft in Israel) and received his computer engineering degree from the Technion in Haifa, Israel. His ability to lead large teams of engineers had made him one of the most influential executives at Microsoft and the world.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Opportunity cost is very real for any stage company, but it is critical for an early-stage one. At Coremetrics, I built more of an engineering-driven culture. The engineer assumes that the product “will sell itself”, and this mindset couldn’t be more wrong. Omniture, by contrast, built a sales-driven culture.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

Mine started this way … I started my first company in the “go-go years&# of the Internet: 1999. We raised a seed round of capital in 1999 and our first venture capital round was the first week of March 2000 (e.g. We were based in London. a few days before the wheels came off of the market). I thought that, too.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

On the other hand, sometimes you get the entrepreneurs who say, “I know I am doing the 36th workforce collaboration system in the consumer side; Google was the 36th search engine, and I know it’s 1999, and I know the whole sector is overfunded, but I have a better idea. I know how to do it better, I know how to do it different.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Guidewire Group is a global market intelligence and advisory firm focused on technology entrepreneurship in early-stage companies and emerging technology markets. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3 TWO ISRAELI COMPANIES WIN GE CLEANTECH CHALLENGE. billion in 2010.

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