Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

If your startup is looking for an angel investor, it makes sense to present your plan to flocks of angels, and assume that at least one will swoop down and scoop you up. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Or does it? Actually numbers and locations are just the beginning. Keiretsu Forum.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 2, 2010

It’s also meaningless if they had four $200 million funds and the last one they closed was in 2000. Unfortunately over the period of 2000-2010 the VC industry hasn’t performed well and therefore the number of funds going forward is likely to reduce greatly. GRP’s last fund was in 2000. What is a VC fund?

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

However, due to a variety of reasons —> the 5-star system does a terrible job at identifying the highest quality good or service. There are millions of chess players in the world, and I believe the vast majority of serious players know their ELO ranking and also know exactly what it means to be 1000, 1500, or 2000.

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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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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups. .&# I’ll list other consultants I know about, as well.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. 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. Salesforce.com is a startup with 76,000 subscribers (over 2.1M How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. May 26, 2011.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Lyft requires you to be at least 23 years old and have your own four-door car (2000 or newer) in good working condition. Requirements: You must have access to a web cam and a reliable Internet connection. Pabla Ayala is the cofounder of pFunk Media , a communications strategy company focused on tech startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons. We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. We were unprepared.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. Maybe you’re thinking about startups to invest in, or making decisions about where to place resources in your company. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Big Data meets travel…in 2000. Really hard.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post).

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. July 11, 2012. And Why 20%?

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 30, 2013

That said, only three of these companies are software technology companies - TripAdvisor ($12.5B), athenahealth ($5.0B) and Starent ($2.8B) - and they were founded in 2000, 1997 and 2000, respectively. Apparently, successful Boston-based startups have an even greater concentration of immigrant influence.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

Prior to joining Andreessen Horowitz, I held several executive positions in a publicly-traded software company and was previous to that an investment banker. Before offering some suggestions about how we might improve capital formation, I’d like to review the current state of the IPO market. 1999-2000 51.6% 1990-1998 13.3%

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 14, 2022

She has spent twelve years in startups and built three successful companies without venture capital backing. Her previous startup, a real estate tech company, was acquired in 2019. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So I spent over 12 years in, in startups. It was like an open house sign in software.

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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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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. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. With the goal of increasing the conversion rate I read piles of books on internet marketing , web analytics , and copywriting. As a software developer I want things in neat little boxes. But the problem is that marketing isn’t like coding.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Memorable Postcard from a New Mechanic My Report on StackOverflow DevDays → Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I love startups. Here’s my high-level approach for startups. No, I have many ideas.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Marc Andreesen gave a great interview about a year agi about “The Future of the Enterprise” and where the next startups will be playing – Hadoop, Big Data, BYOD, etc. Some of these next big startups are in L.A., Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 17, 2023

Louis is a fractional CMO for B2B companies, and mentors startups at MIT. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! He is a fractional CMO for B2B companies and mentors, startups at MIT. These are big enterprise expensive software system. Like this show? There's no better time to get organized.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Our guest and COO of Palo Alto Software, Noah Parsons, shares his favorite online tools to get your business up and running. Online Tools for Startups (with Noah Parsons) – (13:17). Noah: Startup (podcast). Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Peter: This is good.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 15, 2017

I have been working with my Partners since November 2000. My entire staff had been laid off due to an acquisition by an aggressive v.c. I started my PR and marketing firm since I love startups and want to give them a chance to grow. It was in year 2000 and my friend and I were young and ambitious. 17- To help start-ups.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 7, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. I ruffled a few feathers with my recent post The Software Product Myth. The unrest surrounded my statement that making $2500/month from your software product wouldn’t allow you to quit your day job. Yeah, those are going to hurt.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. Internet and Online Business. Business Software. Last spring, Dave Graham , founder of software consulting firm Arizona Bay, learned that a major client, Jumpstart Automotive Media, had been acquired for more than $80 million. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Email address: Home.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And without missing a beat, he said Jeff Bezos, because Jay Bezos was not only a visionary, but he was also creative and invented so many mechanisms that startups and managers and leaders use today. I reviewed 50,000 words that Bezos wrote in a shareholder letters over time.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. Even fewer can be installed in five minutes or less, even by an experienced software developer. But I don’t buy it. Market Hard.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Even though I’ve coded more than a dozen custom credit card integrations, have accepted payments online for 10+ years, and sell invoicing software that supports half a dozen credit card gateways, I had never been through the application process myself. But the story ends well…the PayPal WPP code went live yesterday.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Bootstrap – Online bookkeeping software that lets you track sales and expenses, organize your records for tax time, and more. Invoice Place – Online billing software that lets you track invoices, quotes, receipts and more. Gliffy gliffy – Online diagramming and charting software.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. No manager in their right mind would fire the technical lead of a big software project. Show Up Early, Leave Late I’ve talked about how crunch time should be the exception in software projects. Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.

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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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