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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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Behind Every Great Product

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Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Cornell Tech Company: Agronomic Technology Corp (Part 1), Guest Post by Deb Eichten

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For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues. The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to better run a product management process. I never built Google. I’ve acknowledged that many times.

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Why Content Personalization Is Not Web Personalization (and What to Do About It)

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In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” increase in product views.

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