YoungUpstarts
APRIL 21, 2014
Oh, and Northwestern Mutual has been in business for over 157 years and is worth $25 billion in sales. And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 19, 2014
Oh, and Northwestern Mutual has been in business for over 157 years and is worth $25 billion in sales. And that’s fine — embrace innovation to your heart’s content in areas like product development and marketing campaigns. He has been a regular panelist on television’s Forbes on FOX since the show’s inception in 2001.
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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. I learned how to better run a product management process. I never built Google.
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 17, 2011
A year ago I blogged about one of my most common mantras that applies to sales, biz dev & fund raising alike: “ Time is the Enemy of all Deals.&#. As anyone raising money in April 2000, September 2001 or September 2008 can tell you that. When times are really good for fund raising many teams delay to maximize their valuation.
Seeing Both Sides
AUGUST 3, 2012
Later joined by Jonathan Seelig, an MIT Sloan MBA student, the Akamai team raised an $8 million Series A based on the lab prototype in order to commercialize the product. They didn’t raise their Series B until they proved some of the initial hypotheses around market adoption and were ready to scale the sales efforts, as described below.
37signals.com
DECEMBER 5, 2011
The lowercase “i” comes from the iMac, where it originally stood for “internet” (now it just stands for “oh, an Apple product!”), ”), but the original 2001 iPod itself had nothing to do with the internet. Doesn’t seem to have hurt sales though! This is what I follow: a.)
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 14, 2014
Not too long ago, German software giant SAP blew up the management framework for its 20,000-person development department and replaced it with “mini-teams” of roughly 10 people. As a result, product development time was cut nearly in half in a three-year period.
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