Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2018

David Meyer founded Adopt-a-Pet.com (formerly 1-800-Save-A-Pet.com) in 2000 as a way of ending pet overpopulation. Instead of running a non-profit that happened to be a web site, they reconceived Adopt-a-Pet as a technology company that happened to be a non-profit. The result was a reframing of how they understood their mission.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Server Response Time (SRT) is the amount of time between when a web client makes a request (e.g., More recently, Google Search Console rolled out a Core Web Vitals section, which tracks a set of website performance metrics that focus on user experience. In this article, I show you how to reduce your server response time.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Requirements: You must be a safe driver, not afraid to put miles on your ride and an iPhone or Android in order to use the Lyft mobile app. Lyft requires you to be at least 23 years old and have your own four-door car (2000 or newer) in good working condition. Task Rabbit.

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blogs.computerworlduk.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Contact Author Email : Simon The End Of The Road For Web Services A decade of corporate politics by the big software companies is finally over as WS-I shuts up shop and gets folded in to OASIS. Flawed Web services as a strategy was fundamentally flawed in my view because it was so un-web.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Many merchants are finding that fan pages eliminate the need for web sites, and that clicking like is very much a replacement for filling out a form to get on a mailing list. Web sites already offer the option of logging in with Facebook or creating an account with an email address and password.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Anonymity is the new black: You may remember in the early commercial web era – post 1993, we all had alias names and emails before we felt comfortable enough to convert to our actual human self on line. As privacy gets eroded through government activity we can expect a lot more anonymous forums to emerge as powerful web platforms.

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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. Which brings me back to your mobile phones. Ask Sony about Samsung, ask any retailer about Amazon, any car company about Tesla, and any newspaper company about the web.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences – [link]. 7 Incredible Web Design, Branding, Digital Marketing Experiences – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 18, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Startups Die | The Next Web - [link]. Thanks To Facebook, Strongest Year For IPOs Since 2000 With $21.5 10 Best Photoshop Web Layout Design Tutorials 2012 – [link].

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Up until late August, Lightning Labs had capped the channel capacity and payment size for users of their popular implementation of the network to ~$2000 USD and ~$500 respectively to better protect user funds with experimental software. . Use Case II: Decentralized Data Network (Web 3) . account-based identity model to the Web 3.0

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. I continue to be excited about the Mobile Web (as distinct from the Mobile App).

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Back when we were all trying to figure out the real value of traffic on the web, investors – and acquiring companies – got a bit crazy with metrics used to value acquisitions and investments. Remembering the insanity before 2000. But, when the bubble burst in 2000, most of us quickly grew up. Remember when?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

link] [link] Posted byTony Karrer at 5:33 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. I understand his frustration.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

There's material on things like page speed and core web vitals or three different metrics and core web vitals. They fell off the core web core vitals threshold and just immediately started seeing results tank when you fix 'em and they come back. So there's a lot on that. That's a Google innovation that's coming out of Google.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

In 1998 there were around 850 VC funds and by 2000 there were 2,300. By 2000 the total LP commitments had mushroomed to more than $100 billion. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. In 1998 it was 150 million, 1999 250 million and by 2000 it had crossed 350 million.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ Read More ».

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

For long-term growth, Infosys was going to slowly pull away from the large outsourcing contracts that had been its bread and butter in the growth phase and launch into new products and solutions riding on the emerging tech trends of cloud computing, big data, analytics, mobility, etc. All the way from 1993 to 2000. Enter outsourcing.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

Bill Gross is the man responsible for the overwhelming amount of monetization on the web. I don’t believe that search is the only answer in 2010 as it was in 2000. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. High Profile Deal of the Week: 1.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Institutional venture capital dispensed thus far in 2014 has been up significantly over the last few years, but is still less than half of the peak hit way back in the year 2000 (over $100 billion). Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2013

With their lives perpetually tethered to the mobile web, the rise of these generations of tomorrow’s customers, managers and workers will change how we develop and consume technology. 1990s to 2000: Infrastructure, Security, Management, etc. 2000 to 2005: CRM, SFA, ERP, Payroll, Analytics, etc. billion) in 2005.

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. In 2000, I was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, where the price for a customer running a redundant version of a basic internet application was approximately $150,000 per month. Currently, the S&P is trading at 22x. The internet is working.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Be inspired by the tech world’s latest web, mobile and social breakthroughs to create simple, life-improving technologies and viable businesses among a rich and diverse community of cutting edge developers. VentureBeat Mobile Summit. Small Business Web Summit. Google I/O. Social Media Marketing World.

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We rode the bubble wave to a successful outcome in 2000 , and after moving away for a few years which included a stint at business school , I returned back to Boston in 2004, and it felt like the web entrepreneurial community had almost entirely scattered after the crash.

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socialmatchbox.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How To Calculate Whether A Freelance Web Application Programmer Is Asking For Too Much Step 1: Use the Indeed.com Salary Tool to Search for Their Job Title By Salary Level. In a search done today, a web developer in Washington, DC should make anywhere from $70,000 to $120,000 per year. at this stage. Now you have your burden: $7.15/hr.

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gigaom.com

JULY 10, 2012

The contexts are Web Search, Business Search, Voicemail-to-Text transcription, SMS speech transcription, Question and Answer, TV and a category called Generic used for general dictation purposes. Developers that exceed that amount will be charged $20 for each 2000-point increment, which works out to about 1 cent per transaction.

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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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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. Skip to Main Content. Tech: Blogs. Technology Live. Game Hunters.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2014

This is the first of a two-part series on mobile conversion and how to improve it. It’s based on thousands of user tests conducted by UserTesting , the leading usability testing service for mobile apps and websites. Why Doesn’t Mobile Convert? But according to Forrester , up to 30% of traffic to major websites comes from mobile.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2016

It’s long past the year 2000 now and you really should be using the internet to further your business goals. There are also web apps like WePay and Paypal that can help you collect cash from your customers. What tools do you use for your business on a daily basis? The record books? The phone? A smart phone? Microsoft Excel?

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Arizona Bay, after all, had built the IT infrastructure and Web applications that Jumpstart needed to hit it big. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2011

This week they were testing one of the most confusing sections of a company’s business model – Customer Relationships - the activities used to “Get, Keep and Grow” customers in a physical or virtual (web or mobile) channel. If their team was a web or mobile app they actually had to buy Google or Facebook ads and create demand.).

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

According to a recent Cisco report, last year’s mobile data traffic was nearly 12x the size of the ENTIRE global Internet in 2000. Mobile devices are now acting as sensors – which means by default most humans (who are carrying these devices almost 24/7) are living, breathing sensors.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 18, 2013

If you’re after mobile traffic (everyone is), site speed becomes even more important. According to Strangeloop , who tested the load times of the top 2,000 retail websites, web pages keep getting bigger, the average site takes 10 seconds to load. Only 25% of the Alexa 2000 uses a CDN. Are you thinking about mobile users?

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thebarefootvc

JANUARY 15, 2020

I talked about the mobile-first millenials, the rising middle (and unbanked) class in emerging markets and the inevitable opening up of financial data – referencing Plaid as an example of a key tech enabler. .” In 2016 I gave the closing keynote, entitled Fintech 2020, at a fintech summit in Bogota.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 17, 2011

Ben offers that as Apple, Google and Amazon survived the dot.com crash, we can ignore the fate of the thousands of failed public and private dot.com companies when the bubble burst in March of 2000. Do the new wave of social/web/mobile/cloud companies going public have valuations which exceeds their fundamental value by a large margin?

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2013

Foursquare is a free mobile app that enables you to “check in” at various places and share your experiences there. Nike+ is a fitness-oriented service that enables you to log your physical activity using a mobile app or other Nike gear. As you probably know if you’re an eBay user yourself, these are key game mechanics. billion by 2016!

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Reportedly, Softbank and Zynga have discussed jointly distributing games through Softbank’s mobile-phone service in Japan and other countries. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites.

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