Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He believes the structures originally developed in the U.S. The boom years of 1998 (79 IPOs), 1999 (175 IPOs), and 2000 (142 IPOs) are long gone. In 2022, just as in 2009, there was only one IPO; typically, there are between three and 16 per year. have become the international standard and are a great role model for Germany.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

rise in 2009, while investment in fixed assets is estimated to grow 6.2% drop in 2009. Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas. The CBS further expects consumer spending to grow 4.6% in 2010 following a smaller 1.7%

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Reporting in the Harvard Business Review on a major study of growth stalls they conducted, Olson and his colleagues cite the case of the iconic brand Levi Strauss, which hit a historic high mark of sales in 1995, reaching revenue of $7 billion, but then, starting in 1996, saw a decline in sales so precipitous that by 2000, revenue was down to $4.6

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? September 8, 2009 6:12 PM Geoff Hsaid. September 8, 2009 6:25 PM dbsaid. September 9, 2009 12:36 AM Richard Tibbetts said. Agree with all your points. Current rules are good enough now.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Size of the online gambling market from 2009 to 2020 (in billion U.S. Some might feel that they will reduce the cost by developing their own site. The startup websites are now fully developed, and they are functioning properly. They went ahead to develop a leading casino. Source: Statista. It made £1.5bn in 2015.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

If you haven’t noticed from my web site or blog, I work as a web applications developer and a consulting CTO. Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. Why are consulting CTOs so scarce?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate during focused 6-12 month “tours of duty” to develop solutions that can save lives, save taxpayer money, and fuel job creation. USDataGov on Twitter.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. And so, I wanted to develop a company that could solve this problem head-on. Sales can be really hard and frustrating at times — so, any way that we could effectively help them find the most targeted leads was something we wanted to develop. 17- To help start-ups.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. In the past ten years there have been several dramatic changes in venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2014

In our case, we’ve evolved from a company that developed the first software to graphically represent business processes in the 1990s, to a collaborative enterprise architecture tool in the 2000’s, and finally, to a social, web-based communication platform that includes integrated social media tools today.

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Pascal's View

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

The cover story of the September 7 issue of Business Week reports on the “ Radical Future of R&D “, focusing on the internationalization of research and development led by global corporations such as IBM and Hewlett Packard. But from 2000 to the end of 2007, the rate plunged to 900,000 a year. ” Mr. We need 6.7

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

As the executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, she helped more than 1,500 companies make their market debut. Anybody in the team — it’s not just the developers but from the business, to marketing, to content — can propose an idea. We do something called “pitching demo day” every three months.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Is there a development step that you must take to fulfill demand for a particular use case, and, if so, how does that cost get absorbed? I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. Are the logistics manageable?

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

I developed the idea for Goalposte during my time as an attorney working on a case defending Major League Baseball. Throughout the course of the lawsuit I was expected to interact with high-level baseball executives and attend sports business development events. I started my company in 2009 out of pure necessity.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

It was priced at $22,000 – equivalent to about $140,000 in 2009 dollars. Reply Vincent Chan @Power of Scale , on June 22, 2009 at 9:35 am Said: Thanks for showing this letter. That year HP introduced its first computer, the HP 2116A , as an instrument controller for HP’s test and measurement products.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). Costs range from $300-$1000 per year.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

invested, IPO’ed in 2000 for $32/share — stock price now $2. After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. Support.com — On 2.5m

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

These two trends had a major impact on the computing industry from 2000-2005 but the effects weren’t yet felt by the VC industry. Amazon allowed 22-year-old tech developers to launch companies without even raising capital. The Emergence of “Open Cloud&# Infrastructure. Spawning of Micro VCs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Online social game network; make their own games (FarmVille, Mafia Wars, FrontierVille) in addition to allowing third-party developers to access network. Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Founded in 2000 in New Brunswick, NJ. OTHER DEALS: 1. 406 Ventures.

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David Teten

MAY 16, 2011

Kupietzky has served as CEO and Director of Oversee.net since 2009. Mr. Geleerd has been a member of YPO since 2000. Earlier in his tenure at IV, Mr. Barhydt successfully designed and implemented the targeted patent acquisition program and developed processes and metrics to improve licensing operations.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The masses have grown weary of the blog “fad” just as they grew weary of the “email” fad in the late 90s, the “internet” fad in 2000, MySpace and Friendster in 2007/2008, and how they’ll grow tired of the Facebook and Twitter fads in 2010 and move on to something else. October 15th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup?

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Dont be afraid of developing a contrarian viewpoint on what type of person is perfect for your company as CTO, and how youre going to find that person. Hiring the best developers is essential because a great developer is easily 3 times as productive as an average developer, yet their salaries are usually similar.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. Invidi is based in New York and founded in 2000. Rumored to be appox.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

I’ve been a web developer for 10 years and I cringe when I see that I need a module that’s not included…there goes two hours of my day searching, configuring and installing dependencies. As a developer I’ve probably had contact with 300 open source projects, components, and applications. at 11:23 am [.]

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2015

The system is used by over 2000 companies in 30 countries, helping them to achieve better results in almost every digital marketing and sales field. I figured since I had so much experience in starting businesses, why can’t I develop a model to help startups get all of the information they need in one location!

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

As a software developer I want things in neat little boxes. Just as I go to my friend who’s a brilliant SQL developer to help me with my HAVING clause, I want to go to a marketing genius and have him/her tell me the exact steps I need to take to begin converting visitors to paying customers. I want solid answers.

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David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

He also developed economically and environmentally sustainable housing projects in the UK, Australia, and most recently in upstate NY. In 2009 he founded KeyWifi a web company that enables redistribution of Internet bandwidth through a web-based platform. Jeff Stewart, Founder of Lenddo. 500 twice in the last three years.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

What was that, 2009, 2010? I think it was 2009 and 10. So, I was really interested in programming, design development, but I didn't realize the kind of business aspect for a very, very long time. I think that's actually an incredible positive development. So, that's how I came to Silicon Valley in the first place.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Facebook and Google would be obvious choices for this, but so much has been written about each of them and they represent such special business models, I worried that it would be both hard for entrepreneurs to relate and hard for me to develop new insights. But the second year (2000) was simply astounding: nearly $90 million!

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Years ago, Six Apart invited me to be a part of some kind of developers program without telling me what it is. The developer program for which I signed the NDA never came to fruition, and no information was actually disclosed in all that time. But moreover, thats just not how things work. Ideas are cheap. Execution is hard.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

gave up 70% of the company to American Research & Development Corp. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Andreessen Horowitz has muscled its way into the top ranks of VC firms since its 2009 debut in part by being generous on both fronts. "We Technology & IT Jobs.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 31, 2010

It’s also financially rewarding, with up to $2000 in rewards for a great idea. BountyStorms launched in early 2009. We had a wonderful opportunity to launch GuruStorms as an AlphaPitch company at DEMOFall 2009. For gurus, this is a great way for them to further extend their brand and monetize their expertise.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Started in 2009, Enigmai built and deployed a simplified workforce management SasS tool that enables SMBs and large companies to better manage their human resources. We continued to develop, and after a year it became a beta product. Adir: The shift management market is a new and developing market. It was fine but not great.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Started in 2009, Enigmai built and deployed a simplified workforce management SasS tool that enables SMBs and large companies to better manage their human resources. We continued to develop, and after a year it became a beta product. Adir: The shift management market is a new and developing market. It was fine but not great.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dec 26, 2009). Productive Programming - Gabriel Weinberg , August 31, 2010 BIG disclaimer: I'm not formally trained in computer science (aside from two classes at MIT in 2000) and I haven't worked closely with that many programmers or teams (maybe 10 or so). Develop your business plan. Why do startups? via Urban Dictionary ).

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Problems started when we faced some issues with our infrastructure. You can guess how it influenced user experience.

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