Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Bplans and Palo Alto Software are strong supporters of entrepreneurs and small business owners. A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. There are metrics to review.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Are Twitter and Facebook Killing Blogs? The highlight of the day was that I finally had the pleasure of meeting Jeff Atwood of Coding Horror and Stack Overflow. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

It could be studying entrepreneurship in school or it could have been working with a government contractor or maybe someone had a sales job. 1 – Medical Device Sales. As a sales representative I noticed that the promotional efforts for Plastic Surgeons were held by a few large firms that overcharged. Sales Account Manager.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

billion for a company with less than $50 million in sales. For instance, I’ve been warned when being introduced by other entrepreneurs not to trust certain older VCs due to their disposition towards using young startups to do their friends favors, prove a point, gain some insight, etc.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The first article that we wanted to talk about is one written by the founder of Palo Alto Software, Tim Berry. Your accounting software, you’re entering those numbers. Cody, the VP of Sales wants this lead form on the front page. We get to read articles on Bplans all day and pretty much comment on them.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

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. Right now companies are cutting costs and letting go of their $125/hour development shop. Keep your feelers out for contract work.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2019

The Best Practice Institute is a think tank and solutions incubator founded in 2001. Our mission is to transform ourselves and our organizations by implementing the best and next practices in organization development and change. At 2 am, finally done, I realized I was locked in without a key or code to get out.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 19, 2017

We can talk about that, but Sony came after GoPro once it started seeing this five years of 90% annual sales growth between 2010 and 2015. They commissioned a team to develop a better product. They commissioned a team to develop a better product. Sony listened to the customer. That was the terms of competition in their industry.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Over 1 million people use 37signals simple web-based software to collaborate on projects, track contacts, and organize their business with an intranet. I was initially unfamiliar with project management software, and the name helped me understand why exactly I should give basecamp a shot. Doesn’t seem to have hurt sales though!

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

First I should mention that we’re trying to shake up real estate commissions in NYC which have remained stubbornly high despite an average Manhattan sale price of about $2 million. I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. Photo Credit: James McGrath. The name and domain were born then.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

Here’s how they explained it : “Leaving shoppers’ questions unanswered can derail a sale or even worse, make shoppers abandon not just the purchase, but the site as well. This input-output pair matches our intuition about how software works. It’s also the core of developing winning test hypotheses. Buyer Personas.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

After I left academia (too slow moving) and the consultancy company I worked for (lack of vision), four friends and I applied that puzzle-solving passion to creating software for solving supply chain puzzles. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 Lesson Learned : Build a peer review mentoring culture. The niche audiences were slower to develop, and advertising support never really showed up. Here is the TL:DR version in case you are pressed for time.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

by Gareth Wilson, Head of Marketing at Fog Creek Software. We then created private offices for each developer and provided them with catered lunches. We also established a rule: there would be no cap on employee spending on furniture, software and hardware, nor would we have any process to go through to get those things.

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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. Time Period IPO Pop* 1980-1989 6.1%

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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