Both Sides of the Table

JULY 12, 2011

He’s thoughtful about markets, investors, products and is always very well reasoned in his arguments. He added that current Internet trends favor NYC, given the reliance on creativity, design, and the importance of consumers – all areas in which NYC excels. I’ve also found him to not be dogmatic either.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 12, 2010

A disruptive product causes such a large market shift that entire companies collapse (the ones who don't "get it") and new markets appear. It's hard to think of disruptive technologies or products that didn't take many millions of dollars to implement. Here an innovation in design alone was enough to win the market.

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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. Smart companies are always looking to make their current products better – and there are many ways to do this. Thank you for the kind introduction. Now look around.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet. It preceded the WWW but then become the onramp to the Internet for newbies. When Time Warner & AOL merged it was widely feared that this would be a monopoly that would control the Internet. For a nanosecond Rupert Murdoch seemed like the smartest guy on the Internet.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

After I looked like a slob on the biggest day of my life I scoured the internet to find the solution I was looking for. All of our cards are designed by independent U.S.-based After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials.

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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. You go onto the Internet and can control what people hear on terrestrial radio. uh, hello!

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

I like doing anything and everything I can over the internet. Some might say this is because I am a college-aged millennial whose social skills have been stunted by technology, but I think it has more to do with the ease, convenience and immediacy the internet provides. The internet will prevail. Internet’s got your back.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. The fact that today’s Internet bubble does not represent all companies does not disprove its existence. Ah, but today’s Internet companies have real revenue!

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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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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO. Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004).

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Internet commerce technology has unleashed the capabilities of ordinary Americans to take matters into their own hands and craft—often literally—their own livelihoods. Got a cool product idea? This is all thanks to websites designed to bring sellers and buyers together in new ways. by Bill Clerico, CEO of WePay.

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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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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. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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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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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

From my personal experience, Latin Americans often see Internet and the tech scene as the magical potion that’ll make us more like our idealized image of North Americans. 254 million internet users (18mm ’00). 273 million internet users (108mm ’00). In 2000, there was a total of 18 million Internet users in Latin America.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 5, 2014

In a 2000 study found 68% of customers stop doing business with a company due to feeling like the company was indifferent towards them. As much as it opens you up to negative feedback, including the exit survey can provide you with extra insight as to how you can improve your product, your service, or overall offer. image source.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 18, 2010

How did you become interested in design? After almost picking industrial design, I instead ventured into land planning and landscape architecture with a later specialization in golf course design. Leaving that unnamed site behind led me to CrowdSpring: a better place in the design universe. Indefinitely. Just in case.

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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.

Software Review 144

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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 can be depicted as such: Mainframe-Terminals –> LAN/Internet Client/Server –> Mobile Broadband, Big Data/Analytics, Social Business, Cloud Analytics, Mobile Devices & Apps (3rd Platform).

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

These new entrants will also likely provide services that we don’t foresee today, similar to the Amazon example [which expanded from online book selling into AWS, content production and domination of ecommerce].” Along those lines, I have been spending time thinking of the the continued digitization of the financial services sector.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 15, 2016

I started my business because I was sick and tired of web designers charging thousands of dollars and then not responding to calls/emails, taking forever to update things, and eventually disappearing never to be heard from again. It’s a huge problem in the web design industry and it happens all too often. Or so I thought.

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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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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. Any discussion of Internet marketplaces begins with the first quintessential marketplace, ebay (*). Exchange of Goods Marketplaces.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Soon every other VC was using the phrase to justify the reckless “get big fast” strategies of dot-com startups during the Internet Bubble. 3] In their analysis Golder and Tellis found almost half of the market pioneers (First Movers) in their sample of 500 brands in 50 product categories failed. Product Pioneer. First Mover.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Products Home. But the ventures launched in recent years with gobs of venture-capital funding and targeting niche markets have accelerated the movement with user-friendly designs and a tight knit to social networks Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Game Hunters. Science Fair. |.

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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. ” And that turned into, at its culmination, the $2000 course kind of paradigm.

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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. Amazon saw that the internet would change retail. Nowhere in our book do we recommend that all entrepreneurs blitzscale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 30, 2019

Like if you go to Walmart, buy a product, it’s probably in one of these plastic blister packs. But you see the product and they look nice, they prevent theft because they’re hard to put in your pocket and walk away with, but they’re difficult to open. On my Internet provider, I can only go back six months.

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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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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Minted.com is both a global design community and stationery retailer. Independent graphic designers from all over the world submit designs to our ongoing design competitions, and Minteds community votes to tell us what to sell. Product Passion - to many engineers, they have to be stoked about the idea to work there.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am also in a few select boutiques and Hotel Gift shops including the famous Mohonk Mountain House and a design collective in Australia) My collection features unexpected combinations of raw and polished gemstones, opulent pearls, precious metals, custom clasps, and exotic minerals from the world’s treasure troves. (I

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

A consulting CTO can help you find and qualify a permanent technology partner, a lead developer, a user experience expert or interaction designer, a graphic designer, or a VP of engineering. Though after the dotcom collapse of 2000-2001, there are many more than there were! Why are consulting CTOs so scarce? Try Google.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 17, 2015

Transparency provided by the internet makes this true at all stages, but it’s especially true at the earliest stages where capital requirements have declined precipitously. In the 1990s when companies needed £2-5m to get a product to market they had money to hire a team of people to help them.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. It is also intriguing to see that the market bottom was reached only two years after the start of the decline for the 1929, 1973 and 2000 crises, so we might need another year before the market reaches it lowest point.

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