Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For example, most e-commerce platforms today offer millions of products, with a changing mix daily and a changing market, such that it’s virtually impossible to manually predict a strategy for mapping customer demographics to products displayed online. Apply machine-learning for real-time software decisions.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Got a cool product idea? Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. The key to WePay’s ability to support platforms is our patent-pending risk engine technology, Veda, that lets us underwrite merchants of any size and shape. Enter the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

You want to see your product or service performing in the hands of real users. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. Some products are very simple to message.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

While I am extremely proud of that team’s accomplishments (the parent company recombined Nordstrom.com in 2002 and the direct division now has revenue of over $1.25B and is the fastest growing unit inside of Nordstrom ), I built a healthy respect for the complexities and difficulties of managing women’s fashion inventory.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I took a Visual Basic class in high school, enjoyed it, graduated in 2002 and entered college on track to get a Computer Science degree. or "All the most successful startups were founded by engineers." I wanted to be closer to the product. What kind of nonsense is that? Find a technical co-founder. Change it on the spot.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 20, 2013

Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Evernote, Dropbox).

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. At Stanford, Tom Byers , who runs the innovation and entrepreneurship program inside the engineering school, has made that a big deal and it’s now part of the curriculum. Innovators are not entrepreneurs.

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Mucker Lab

MAY 21, 2013

Consumer products and services are hit driven, it’s really hard to build a scalable consumer company”. 1998 – “There is no room for personal productivity software startups – Microsoft will eat your lunch when you get big enough and Symantec will take the crumbs”. 1999 – “The search engine game is over”. Evernote, Dropbox).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). Like many companies, TPGTEX rolls out new products several times a year.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Preparing your small business for growth requires following some basic product positioning and brand building guidelines: 1. Have a great product/service (which takes time to develop). Implement a consistent demand generation engine. Understand how to differentiate your brand in a crowded marketplace.

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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. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of each business is as unique as the products they created. Soon after, University of California alum offered the trio a $200,000 to develop their product, and the Inogenone One became a reality. They later renamed their search engine research project “Google,” and the rest is history.

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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. This workshop presents a new methodology that will allow you to bring new products -- and companies -- to life.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 27, 2010

The first instinct of a potential customer who is thinking about your product is to find out who else does what you do to be sure they’re not about to purchase a Betamax. We don’t want to be the person who invested in your company only to find out later there was a much better team and/or product in the market.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

Technology companies now build Levittown-style products that are appropriate for a wide range of industries. The base product is quickly deployed, cost-effective and customizable. The mass production of quality houses also made home ownership available to millions of additional Americans.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

When Elon Musk received $200 million from the proceeds of the PayPal acquisition in 2002, he re-invested everything to build the next big thing: $100 million in SpaceX and $100 million in Tesla. You can read the full story here ) #8 Engine Developing a scalable sales and marketing engine is a key element of success for SaaS companies.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

Good piece covering NSF’s new “ Science and Engineering Indicators ” and its data on the funding of research universities in the U.S. According to the report, Colorado’s research universities saw the sharpest decline in per-student funding, dropping from $6,617 in 2002 to $3,148 in 2010. global competitiveness.”.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Product Design via Evolutionary Algorithms. Back in 2002, The Seattle Times wrote an article about a young company called Affinova that “has figured out how to harness the power of natural selection,” for product evolution. It already drives our search engines , social media , and recommendation algorithms. Conclusion.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

If you’re an eCommerce site, your category page or your product page is much more likely entrance into your site than them just typing in your domain name. The search engines have done a wonderful job of really serving that up. That’s how we react and give them the best product that we can. Jonathan: Now why is that?

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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. Is the purpose of the article to deliver unbiased information or to sell you a product or convince you of something? Is it a sales pitch or an opinion?

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

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. What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? The Present Era.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I wanted to be able to provide pet information along with cannabis and hemp products to help their pets live better lives, so in 2015 I started VETCBD. 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.

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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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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

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. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

And, as a result, they lost almost 90% of their market value in a little over three years, dropping from around $7 billion in value as of Q2–2002 (only one quarter prior to Netflix going public) to their current value of $0.73 I think this is brilliant, and our slant on this question today is, “Would you buy this product again?”

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

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. If the product page performance sucks (e.g. less than 2% add product to cart), completely re-think it. product page, category, cart etc). Remember Digg.com?

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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. And those sort of come before anything, before customer service and before product.

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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. What allowed them to do it? What are the challenges they face now? Let’s fast forward to now.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Here’s a review from Judah Phillips ,, an analytics expert, consultant, and author who wrote Building a Digital Analytics Organization , Digital Analytics Primer , and Ecommerce Analytics : Judah Phillips : “Adobe offers a selection of analytics products named “Adobe Analytics” as part of the “Adobe Marketing Cloud.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

When it was spun out as a a separate company, Iridium’s 1990 business plan had assumptions about potential customers, their problems and the product needed to solve that problem. Second, since it knew the solution, it went into a 8 -year Waterfall engineering development process. Motorola Dynatac 8000x ~1987. It All Came Crashing Down.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

Walking the show floor revealed a lot of SAP people in every area demo’ing and talking about SAP products and technologies, and as @pgreenbe noted there wasn’t a lot of chaos and noise. Sapphire is huge, the main pavilion is easily 3-4x the size of Dreamforce and the energy is studious and focused. SAP knows databases.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I remember calling up my best friend to tell her I was starting a company but refused to tell her how the product would work. Ill help with product development ideas, offer feedback, make intros to investors (if I would myself invest.)--anything The likelihood that you build a product that missed the mark, is an almost certainty.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

We built 4 products simultaneously to compete with the perceived need to offer end-to-end solutions like our US counterparts. I stayed up late every night after a day of meetings doing email until 3am so that I didn’t feel out of touch with our product and sales pipelines. By the time of my wedding in July 2002 I was super fit.

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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. The name consists of 3 most popular keywords that are searched in Google and other search engines as well. Photo Credit: Jayaram Thapaliya.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Takadu’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product enables utility companies to detect leaks, bursts and equipment failures as well as alerting personnel of any problems through email and SMS. Procter & Gamble and ConTIPI, which was founded in 2002 and is based in Caesarea, have had a distribution agreement since 2007 based on royalties.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Hand reared, growing into a cheeky, unique little character, full of personality and attitude… what better name for our product than ‘Oska. The name for my independent film production company, Corner Piece Productions, was inspired by a motif of puzzle pieces in our first feature, West of Her.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

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. All those sites used up our meager resources — monetary, design, engineering and intellectual. And so we built our company.

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