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AI, Blockchain, Web 2.0, and Self Driving Cars

View from Seed

Currently, it feels like every sharp technologist is pouring their effort into generative AI models or embedding them into their products—a movement too significant to overlook. The first time you try to do anything with a generative AI product, it feels like magic. Are these features, products, or actual companies?

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Product Launches: 5 Unexpected Lessons from the Real World

ConversionXL

But, increasingly, the Apple hype-fests are a marketing—not a product—showcase. For product launches, long-term success relies on cornerstones of marketing research and execution, like a strong value proposition and full-funnel campaign. Yet while product launches are a risk, they’re not as risky as you think. Image source ).

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The Lindy Effect on startup potential

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Will you ever get 2000? I hope so, but most companies that do get 100 never get 2000. At the low end, maybe there really isn’t a market, or the market really doesn’t want that product, at a profitable price, so you can squeeze out some early sales but it can’t get substantially bigger.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. And it may work.

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I Graduated Into The 2000 DotCom Crash, And It Was The Best Thing To Ever Happen To My Career

Hunter Walker

But by my graduation in June of 2000, the party had ended. companies; and the Class of 2000 was just plain unemployed. Came out of Stanford with a mission: to work on products which mattered to me , with people I could learn from, and to feel like I was making a real difference to the outcome. tldr IT WORKED!

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Solutions For A Productive & Efficient Business

Women Entrepreneurs Can

We will today look at a few solutions that can increase productivity and efficiency. You only have to look at production factories to see that this is not the case. Passing these tasks to an automated system and allowing staff to be put to better use elsewhere not only saves money, but it also increases productivity.

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Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been working with Matt since 2000. Matt Blumberg has a new book out titled Startup CXO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Company’s Critical Functions and Teams. It’s a follow-up to his previous book, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business. That year, we merged two companies: Return Path and Veripost.