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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

Om Malik is the founder of GigaOM. He is the founder of Desiparty.com. Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned. Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Are You Winning As a Founder? He is a venture partner at True Ventures.

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5 Steps To Strategy Tuning Through Machine Learning

Startup Professionals Musings

Ming is the former chief of staff and strategy advisor to co-founder Jack Ma for over a decade, and outlines five key steps for automating decisions today as follows: Log and use consumer behavior and product transaction data. The opposite of live data is static data that is sampled or profiled for analysis at a later date.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

abovethecrowd.com

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999.

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Nicolas Brusson discusses BlaBlaCar’s journey from French success story to global winner

Cracking the Code

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. How did you go from VC to founder? And that was the start of an interesting journey.

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