Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

team is to improve upon the existing product and scale the tool across additional government agencies so that fewer taxpayer dollars are spent getting the technology that government needs to do its work for the American people. design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service). The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Golden rule of branding for me: 1) name your company or product your URL and 2) don’t paint yourself into a corner. &# Tweet&# = corner. They bought distribution and engineering talent. Zazzle] and c) artisan products [etsy, foodzie].

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Jeff Bezos’s private space technology company Blue Origin was founded back in 2000. You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Customer segmentation is essential , not just to identify where buyers pull back but also to “reveal products primarily purchased by people still willing to pay full price.

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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. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. In AI implications on Marketing and Analytics , I placed my considerations explaining how and why Artificial Intelligence (AI) will shape the next generation of Analytics and Marketing SaaS products.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

One Jackson is a new online children’s clothing retailer which is surprisingly fresh – all of its designs were created by independent designers and then curated with love from its community of parents. Product – Lastly, what makes One Jackson unique is the source of the original clothing designs – a community of independent artisans.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

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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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. Another new firm that is growing non-investment resources is Google Ventures , which has specialized in several areas including design and data analysis.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Are you selling the wrong product? The most important thing to consider when launching an E-commerce business is the product, and it’s the biggest reasons startups fail. If you are selling products that are outdated or years ahead of their time, who do you think will purchase them? How should I add value to my product?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Email/Calling productivity: Help improve first contact efficiency typically while prospecting. Create interest about your product/service. Help them decide if your product is right for them at this stage. Help them decide if your product is right for them at this stage. Landing page optimization, Lead nurturing.

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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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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. These people sit around thinking "lofty thoughts about markets, products, the competition, and the like.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. a "jungle" stage company would have a lower quota than a "highway" company).

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. He arrived at the project site as a young optometrist to find 2000 people waiting to have their eyes checked.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

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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. Platform cloud players like Salesforce.com provide compute resources so that third parties can build applications that integrate with its core product. These are very different.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

John Jantsch: So Teach and Grow Rich, for those that are not familiar with it, really was the kind of the idea of introducing courses, and teaching, and educating, and info products, I guess, which have been with us for years really. It eliminates my cost of distribution. John Jantsch: So what’s changed, Danny? All really good.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

And I think you're right, you touched on the advent of technology surrounding publishing, as well as all the different things you can do now as a self-published author, as it relates to, you know, distribution channels. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution. John Jantsch (10:45): Yeah.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Even the major brands are offering products online. Tip 3: Consider Taking Advantage of New Trends & Products | Jonathan Weinert. One growing product category in North America the past few years is electric bikes. that have been successful.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). In the last 15 years, the cost of production has gone down, distribution has gone mainstream. I’ve tested pricing models and conversion rates.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Even the major brands are offering products online. Tip 3: Consider Taking Advantage of New Trends & Products | Jonathan Weinert. One growing product category in North America the past few years is electric bikes. that have been successful.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2000, the number of IBD shops has almost been cut in half. Even the major brands are offering products online. Tip 3: Consider Taking Advantage of New Trends & Products | Jonathan Weinert. One growing product category in North America the past few years is electric bikes. that have been successful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

But I especially admire the way that you have thrown yourselves into relief efforts very different from the product that you were building just a few months ago. So would you talk a little bit about the history of the company and what the product was pre-crisis. We had just started expanding into some senior meal programs.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The key learning here was that the techniques that work for mass-market products don’t work for luxury goods or services. I’ve often seen luxury brands trying to go all out with innovative user experiences to “somehow” convey the value of their brand and product. Product image size can matter as well. What do they want to touch?

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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. But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. In Chris Dixon’s words, it wasn’t designed for normals. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

But, an illness takes the velocity of the product or quality of support from heroic to zero. So, no project can have fewer than, say, three people dedicated to it, plus people management and possibly some form of Product or Project Management. If Google launches a new product that generates $10,000,000/year in revenue, is that good?

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

There are modern algorithms to optimize how much buffer you need at every point (read up on Toyota’s lean production system and the Theory of Constraints to get started). The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. Think of product ideas as the raw material. Feature backlogs.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2018

At first, I was obsessed with distributed 3D printing. Each of MakerBot, Formlabs, and Glowforge took expensive industrial products that cost $50,000 to $500,000 and put them on a desktop for $2,000 to $5,000. As a result, MakerBot (and FDM in general) is primarily a hobbyist and DIY product. On the desktop. For professionals.

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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. Now I don’t get any.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to IBM , companies have captured more data in the last two years than in the previous 2000 years. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Every day, we create 2.5 Every day, we create 2.5

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

recently and was pleasantly surprised that they are taking a big step forward in a feedback system that’s really designed to separate the proverbial wheat from the chaff. Just need to graph out the distribution curve of feedback and grade people according to a standard deviation. Pretty damn good designers at the top.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

The most successful brands in the world spend a substantial amount of time planning future products and services. Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000. Few Brands have the ability to single-handedly create groundbreaking products or services. Millennials.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 31, 2011

They fell into a magical collaboration and found that their product was distributed all over the world. Instead of creating new innovative products, they were simply following what their competitors were doing. They added style and flair to their products to effect mass appeal. Their name spread far and wide.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Smith identified that when men and women specialize their skills, and also importantly “trade” with one another, the end result is a rise in productivity and standard of living for everyone. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace. billion of GSV (gross services revenue) across 2.0

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