Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

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. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

While working as chairman and managing editor respectively of the Yale Daily News , Briton Hadden and Henry Luce conceived of publishing a weekly news magazine. Since 2002, Insomnia Cookies has grown into a large corporation, with its headquarters located in New York City and 20 branches in college communities across the country.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2016

In 2002, I decided not to own any public company stocks except for companies that I directly invested in as private companies. In 1998, when I started ending up with lots of shares in public Internet companies, I came up with a formulaic approach for any public equities that are distributed to me (either from our funds or other VC funds).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

In a major break from the past, where the military designed all its own weapons, 10,000 scientists and engineers from academia worked in civilian-run weapons labs (most headquartered in universities) in an organization called the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). In Afghanistan in 2002 U.S. After the war the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Here’s some thoughts on how to manage the tricky frenemy relationships. Siebel was something you installed: it was expensive, hard to implement, bloated, complex and hard to manage. But many startups take this too far and I would actually encourage a dose of enemy & friend. You know, frenemies. When Enemies are Good.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

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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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

The base model takes care of heavy coding the way a Levittown house simplifies building, and then improvements and customization don’t require a software engineering army. since 2002 and its Chief Executive Officer since February 8, 2006. This is the model we see at software companies that are doing exceptionally well.

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finance.fortune.cnn.com

AUGUST 21, 2012

Now Fortune has obtained more granular data, including returns for dotcom-era funds managed by such firms as Accel Partners, Benchmark Capital, General Catalyst Partners and Lightspeed Venture Partners. We agreed to withhold the name of the fund-of-funds manager and to not post the source documents, as a condition of receiving the materials.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you find a resource on bank loans dated 2002, for example, you’ll probably want to verify that the information is still correct by comparing it to other pages in your search results. The first search engine result that is not an ad appears promising: EnergyLab. Is it up to date ? Is it a sales pitch or an opinion?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. We do not develop a product until we get a paying customer," says Orit Pennington , who co-founded the six-employee company with her husband in 2002.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I founded Wings Air Helicopters in 2002, which started out as a flight school with just one training helicopter and has since grown into a premier helicopter company. My manager, a female partner in the firm pulled me to the side and said, I want you to know that you have options and that. My manager began to bully me in the workplace.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The search engines have done a wonderful job of really serving that up. Also think about, Jonathan, you manage our social media presence among other things and so you understand more than ever it’s really about getting those specific posts out to people through those channels, through email and that’s very much the same thing.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. The Past (1985-2002). They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Department of Defense along with the European Space Agency (ESA) all have adopted the TRL to manage their complex projects. Air Force , then the Army and then the entire U.S. Startup success is all about the team.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

As the ‘non-engineer,’ I did a little of a lot, and a lot of a little: consistently some product management work, but also tasks as diverse as writing our first community standards, negotiating the software license for a physics engine and trying to forecast when a $400 out-of-the-box Dell tower PC would be able to meet our minimum hardware spec.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Website redesigns only work if they are carefully managed and data-driven. User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. Even if you manage the redesign project well, it might have a slow start. It depends.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Now that's, it's a little bit misleading in the sense that the investment, I could write the software myself because I got a software engineering degree from mit. So I started in 2002 and in 2006 we took financing in. Build, manage, and measure campaigns —across all channels — faster and easier. Get Semrush.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 23, 2004

There were a number of attendees who were here during the past few years and their businesses raised a fair amount of capital and somehow they managed to survive the nuclear winter during the 2001-2002 period. So what did we talk about? What allowed them to do it? What are the challenges they face now?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

And they rolled all of this up into a set of financial forecasts with a “size of market” forecast from brand name management consulting firms that said they’d have 42 million customers by 2002. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. It All Came Crashing Down.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Account managers can tier customers. Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. Over the last 5 years or so it has lost value at every stage due to poor product management and positioning in the Adobe Marketing Suite. ChangeAgain.me

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

I had very little cash in the bank yet the stories were still coming out about how we were going to change the world of online engineering and construction. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit. We hired a new executive management team that had to be stormed, normed and performed. It’s still acid reflux.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Build a true, peer-to-peer management culture. It also helps weed out the weak links without much management interference. In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

Kirei was started in 2002 to bring beauty to the idea of sustainability in construction by selecting beautiful, functional sustainable materials for designers to use in commercial interiors. Thanks to Michael Garry, Yardley Wealth Management, LLC ! #20- 20- Changed the name from CityMapper. Photo Credit: Jacob Wedderburn-Day.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. That’s a really big deal, because that category of software, line managers and businesses have never actually used that software themselves. Actually — we have another one actually that is — well, it sounds esoteric, but it actually is very relevant.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

When we started our company in 2002 we decided that Sonjara would make a great name for our company or product; meaningful and unusual, as well as easy to pronounce and spell. I’m a big KISS fan, so in the 1980s when I was also in a local rock band in Cleveland, we needed an entertainment agency to manage the band.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2019

I have been self-employed since 2002. The best way I stay motivated is to manage my stress levels with the Japanese practice of forest bathing called Shinrin-yoku. Here’s the various ways entrepreneurs and business owners stay motivated in business. #1- 1- Regular vacation and self-care. Photo Credit: Andrea Travillian.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? Like what?!

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

The quote first surfaced in 2002. Iridion – Optimization Workflow Management for free. Use free test software to minimize the cost of A/B testing ( A/B Testing with Google Tag Manager ). Chris Mercer – How Top Marketers Are Using Google Tag Manager To Improve their Sales & Leads. Implement Tag Management.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Homebrew, an early stage venture firm focused on this same revolution has illustrated the following: An engineer or designer gets work by offering his skills via vertical marketplaces. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over one million employees.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

We put all of this infrastructure in an Exodus web hosting facility and had to pay for rack space, bandwidth and some management services if a disk failed, for example. I had been selling large content management systems and storing documents for industrial-scale customers. Management. We raised $16.5 million in our A round.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. In your first M&A, it’s easy to believe you can manage two brands and two platforms. A platform will become more complex as it grows over time and will need to be re-engineered. The company managed to make it happen in just a few weeks. Shifting gears.

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