Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 5, 2017

There’s a lot you can say about the cohort born between 1982 and 2000. While chatting about a new product with a friend in person can carry some weight, sharing that same feedback with one’s social networks or online reviews can have much more significant impact for a brand. Millennials are cost conscious. They share constantly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness. (The alcohol, not the bagpiper.) Addieu, Get-A-Game, Kozmo.com.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. it seems that Twitter should have the same Google-like cost advantage. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. This is a CDN (Content Delivery Network). Enter TweetUp.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Check it out here. John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast is brought to you by the Gain Grow, Retain podcast, hosted by Jeff Brunsbach and Jay Nathan brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network. You know, the cost of labor, but also consumption.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

That may be OK for Twitter — today — but what about the 100 other social-networking-slash-link-sharing networks that didn't survive? "It's hard to explain" should not be a standard part of your sales pitch. You just need to try it" and "trust me" don't cut it. Ask them about selling intangible benefits.

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP. Much better.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’m a child of the 1970s, who was routinely promised flying cars in the future, and wrote school essays about what life would be like in the year 2000. Two factors: cost and range (and charging infrastructure, to a lesser extent, but that will be remedied when there is more demand). The real barrier to adoption is cost.

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Transformify

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The recruitment platform leverages advanced technology to attract active applicants to each job, match them based on their skills and salary expectations, manage the recruitment process and transfer payment to them all in one, thus saving 60% on average on recruitment costs. About Forge Foundation.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness. (The alcohol, not the bagpiper.) Addieu, Get-A-Game, Kozmo.com.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. They chose the name First Round Capital because they thought capital would be deployed most efficiently at smaller seed stage rounds considering the cost to build an internet business had come down drastically. and Half.com. Investing Strategy.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Even a one-second delay can cost an ecommerce site $25,000–$125,000 per year …or more! Use a CDN (Content Delivery Network). 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.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 19, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast was brought to you by the MarTech Podcast, hosted by my friend Ben Shapiro, is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with episodes you can listen to in under 30 minutes.

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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. - But the trade-off in terms of flexibility and costs were enormous. Why does iPhone only come on the AT&T network?

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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).

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Nic Brisbourne explains how the falling cost of doing business in tech is making space for thriving regional ecosystems, calling for better local funds in these new emerging hubs. When the cost to start a company fell dramatically things started to change. It was published last Thursday.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

I was a poor college student (in computer networking field), while working part-time in food delivery (restaurant food/pizza). As I was finishing college, I just imagined being a network admin, and having my boss YELL at me all the time, while I’m laying network cables in some dusty basement or in suspended ceilings.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Common resources provided by most of the incubators and accelerators today include the following: Access to shared office facilities for multiple startup teams at a very low cost. Peer-to-peer networking with other startups and founders in the same stage. Mentoring and technical assistance from volunteer or paid experts.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 29, 2010

The A round was done in February 2000 (end of the bull market) and my B round was done in April 2001 (bear market). I talked also about 409a valuations and why common stock purchases cost less than preferred stock purchases. I explain in the video what happened in my first company (e.g. I eventually needed more money. Do it early.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Unfortunately, either information asymmetry or physical distances and the resulting distribution costs can both cut against the economic advantages that would otherwise arise for all. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 4, 2012

The dead startups honored were mobile social-networking company Addieu, mobile game and activity locator Get-a-Game and the late, seldom-lamented but often-derided Kozmo.com, which failed way back in 2001 but to this day is held up as the embodiment of dotcom-era foolhardiness. (The alcohol, not the bagpiper.) Addieu, Get-A-Game, Kozmo.com.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 28, 2015

First, your average human today is inundated with over 2000 outbound marketing interruptions per day. Second, it has become far more convenient and cost-effective to learn about something new (or to shop) using the internet, versus attending a day-long seminar at the Marriott or flying to a trade show in Las Vegas.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Last week, I wrote about Akamai , a company with strong network effects that successfully transitioned from a single product to build a platform that garners over a billion dollars in revenue and is now a core part of the Internet’s fabric. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Magical, really. TripAdvisor’s History: Two Big Pivots.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2020

It is currently powering some of the most complex and large-scale transit operations worldwide, improving quality of service and efficiency and reducing costs and emissions. Below are the ‘winners’, who were recognised this past week: World Economic Forum Technology Pioneers 2020. Founded in 2011 by Amos Haggiag.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2019

Buzzfeed sees their quizzes shared an average of nearly 2000 times each, helping them to reach more than 580 million people in 2017. Their compelling format encourages users stay until the end of the content, and their results encourage shareability on social networks. Again, this cuts down on costs and saves time. Why it works.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Keeping inventory costs money. Inventory may have other costs too, like spoilage. Because there are costs associated with running out of things, too. The “cost” of code inventory is huge. A lot of markets have network effects, and being first has winner-take-all implications. © 2000-2012 Joel Spolsky.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

It was this same high-minded collective action that created a network of publicly owned hospitals – controlled by cities, counties, districts, boroughs (in Alaska), parishes (in Louisiana), etc. to lease the meter network for 75 years in exchange for a one-time upfront payment $1 billion. [5] Photo by Daan Stevens on Unsplash.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Dubbed "collaborative consumption" — or "the sharing economy" — this movement represents the newly cemented intersection of online social networking, mobile technology, the minimalist movement and heightened penny-pinching brought on by lingering economic uncertainties. Thats real money." Only 3% were online when I started AOL.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

And we’ve even got a spot in the extremely exclusive (and extremely cool) Lean User Experience Residency (LUXr) program, which normally costs $15,000. Every package is worth, in some cases, up to SEVENTEEN times the cost of the books! I asked some of the top Lean Startup super-mentors to volunteer to be prizes, and they are here.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. This will result in stronger networks of interaction and relationships from employees to suppliers to customers. 2005 to Today: Retail, Manufacturing, Finance, Government Specific, etc.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble. This next wave of web startups; Social Networks and Mobile Applications, now reached 100’s of millions of customers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

iridium satellite network. When Iridium was first conceived inside Motorola in 1987, worldwide cell phone coverage was sparse, calls were unreliable and per minute costs were expensive. Cell phone handsets were the size of a lunch box and cost thousand of dollars. It was a technical tour de force. Motorola Dynatac 8000x ~1987.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

According to Ferenstein, “AAA estimates that the average cost of car ownership per year is about $9,000.” The fixed costs of this marginal car are very high (DMV registration, insurance, depreciation), yet the usage of that car is much lower. AAA estimates that the average annual cost of owning a car is $9,000.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Even more interesting is that at GRP Partners (the VC firm where I’m a partner) our two most successful returns from our previous fund [which is ranked as the top performing fund in the country for its 2000 vintage according to Prequin] were both run by women! AWS helped lower the cost of starting a company by 90%.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you have a friend who is a recruiter then ask them to tell you what they recommend that will not cost anything. This means considering what the opportunity cost for working on a high risk venture is relative to other things they can spend their time on. If they own a Mac Book Pro that may cost around $1,800 bucks (new).

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