2000, Cost, Distribution and Security

Out of the Crisis #19: Revolution Foods co-founders on feeding kids and families, being parent-entrepreneurs, and scaling food security innovations

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. So here we are today designing, producing, distributing close to three million meals per week across 400 cities. What is our super power?

Cofounder

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service).

Fractional CTO

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m honored to be at a university noted for knowledge, and in a city with 2000 years of history – home of Gaudí one of the 20 th century’s greatest innovators. Disruptive innovation leads to the creative destruction of businesses that once seemed pre-eminent and secure. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

Private Equity

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

If we under-estimate, our support folks get overwhelmed with too much work, their quality of life suffers, and service to each customer suffers; if we over-estimate, we have too many people which is a cost penalty. Of course, the latter is a better failure mode than the former, but both are sub-optimal, and the solution is predictability.

Government

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. They therefore have large cost bases and have to pass on those costs to you. - Your data is trapped on a client device (a PC), leading to security risks and replication problems. - Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

Flash

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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Even a one-second delay can cost an ecommerce site $25,000–$125,000 per year …or more! A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a group of geographically distributed servers that work together to deliver online content faster. Google has started to recommend a format called JPEG 2000. Anything over 1 second is a problem.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. The financial crisis of the late 2000s reinforced, countered, or updated many lessons gleaned from previous turmoils. A focus on cost cutting—every decision is viewed through a loss-minimization lens. Promotion.

Marketing

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean

Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Another plus: It costs almost nothing to produce. Securing pre-orders is another way to validate your product and ensure a strong start. Image source ).

Product

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Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?

Steve Blank

JULY 15, 2013

——— For those of you who haven’t kept up, the National Security Agency (NSA’s) Prism program has been in the news. After a particularly embarrassing math bug in 1994 that cost Intel $475 million, the company decided to fix the problem by allowing it’s microprocessors to load fixes automatically when your computer starts.

Silicon Valley

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

I then made the decision to quit the stability and security of my full-time job and launched myself into my own (first) business: an online baby store! One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. I always loved languages. 18- Freedom.

Entrepreneur

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation.

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

s form of no-holds-barred capitalism, our financial markets were slow to adopt the idea, with the trend really only taking hold during the heady securitization period of the mid-2000’ s. Investors seek returns of ~10-15% that are predictable, secure, uncorrelated to other asset classes, and inflation adjusted. Public Good Concerns.

Private Equity

Private Equity New York City Chicago Investment Bankers

Gaurav Dhillon 2.0 and His All New Integration Company

Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

With these costs radically reduced, companies today deploy 10X as many applications as they did just 10 years ago. The challenge is building, maintaining, and distributing integrations for every pair-wise set of every version of every application in the world. This explosion of applications creates a strong need for better integration.

Technical Review

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

In order to have a secure, decentralized means of transferring money between individuals you need a way of providing services that a modern centralized financial system would offer. For example, distribution to find new apps in a mobile Internet is tightly locked down by the oligopoly of Apple and Google.

Government

Government Distribution Stock United States

Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Computer Security. That cost him accounting fees, legal fees, and time because the financing round couldnt close until the arrangements were formalized. Admittedly, there are situations in which equity can secure critical professional services that a start-up might not otherwise be able to afford. "If Copyright © 2000 inc.com.

Fractional CTO

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder

What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Friendster was DOA.

Social Network

Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review

Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Computer Security. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Theres a huge opportunity cost in not taking equity," he says. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. Employee Benefits. Advertising.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital

E-Commerce Failures and Mistakes: Why do so Many Startups Fail?

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Below are the mistakes that have cost aspiring entrepreneurs a huge amount of money. Does the photo look like something taken on a mobile phone from 2000? Hire checkout trust signals to make it a secure gateway and partner with known payment facilitators because users are always skeptical about new companies.

Startup

Startup eCommerce Audience Widget

How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

The funny thing about “hard numbers” is that they can give a false sense of security. Because of the magical ordering system and the ability to efficiently organize a distributed set of drivers, Uber can operate effectively in markets where it simply didn’t make sense to have a dense supply of taxis. New Use Cases.

San Francisco

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review

How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The DIY mentality can really bog you down and become a burden eventually, plus it can really cost you more time and money in the grand scheme of things. I just wanted to break down those two pieces real quick the time side and the cost side. Then the second one here which I eluded to is really all about cost. Bates: Fantastic.

Small Business

Small Business Finance Forecast Metrics

11 Low-Hanging Fruits for Increasing Website Speed (and Conversions)

ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. look at the Distributions tab to see page load speed distributions). What will a 1-second delay cost you? Part CDN, part security tool. Inscapsula – similar to Cloudflare, but has shown to offer a much better level of security / protection according to research.

Conversion

Conversion Caching Hosting Analytics

Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Our solutions provide peace of mind, improve quality of life and save costs to users and service providers. Free roaming technology – unique roaming solution which eliminates roaming costs in more than 150 countries. Allot Communications. 4G/LTE and WiMax networks and provide full cell awareness. . BoomeRing Communication.

Mobile

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP

6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

David Teten

JUNE 7, 2011

Our session looks at the rise of socially enabled platforms that blend commerce with community, where reputations trump credit ratings, and where hyper-distributed service businesses outgrow traditional monolithic suppliers. KeyWifi is the world first peer-to-peer wifi exchange platform; it launched in May this year at TEDxEast in New York.

Darfur

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Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

Brown & Sons, Montgomery Securities. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us. With that great decrease in cost to launch something, you have the emergence of all these new funds. The question is why? Two orders of magnitude. "Two

IPO

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean

270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Planzone – Secure and private collaborative project workspace to share files, manage tasks, and communicate with others. Tactile CRM – A cost-effective CRM that tracks sales, deals, emails and customer contacts. Rejose – Applicant tracking system that’s simple, efficient and cost effective.

Software Review

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software

The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

Pascal's View

MAY 13, 2011

ii. Bubble period 1996-2000 totals $243.6 This is a good example of technology driven market change being accelerated by new securities regulations). Amount of venture capital raised has exploded. i. Pre bubble period 1991-1996 totals $28 billion. iii. Post bubble period 2001-2009 totals $218.2 80% of IPO’s <$50MM.

Equity

Equity Securities and Exchange Commission IPO Marketing

The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt.

Software Review

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. There is opportunity cost that should always be considered. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur?

Technical Review

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review

StartUpRoar

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Presidential Innovation Fellows, round two

Trending Sources

ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

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App is Crap (why Apple is bad for your health)

Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?

21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation.

Gaurav Dhillon 2.0 and His All New Integration Company

The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

E-Commerce Failures and Mistakes: Why do so Many Startups Fail?

How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size

How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

11 Low-Hanging Fruits for Increasing Website Speed (and Conversions)

Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

6/16: What's Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption

Bullpen Capital's Duncan Davidson on VC Funding and "The Era of Cheap"

270+ Tools for Running a Business Online

The Rise of the Secondary Market for Emerging Growth Equities– Necessary But Insufficient

The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

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