The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

However, you could still build an Instagram-like product inexpensively, in the $100,000 to $300,000 range over a three-to-six-month period,” says Werdelin. Founder Kevin Systrom launched Instagram with 25,000 beta users on October 6, 2010; two years later, the app continues to see massive growth, recently reporting 150 million active users.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 9, 2016

Most begin by doing the product development, marketing and sales alone, but struggle making the transition to hiring and coaching others, defining repeatable processes and focusing on future strategy. When you build a great solution or product, all you can think about is shipping more volume of your product to a larger audience.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 6, 2011

This week, we present Sean Parker, a brilliant entrepreneur and visionary; the co-founder of Napster and Plaxo ; and the former President of Facebook. What you want is people using your product because it’s part of their life and they can’t stop using it. ” (at 19:40) “Where did Myspace go wrong?

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Ill help with product development ideas, offer feedback, make intros to investors (if I would myself invest.)--anything Facebook wasnt the first to social networking, Google wasnt the first to search, YouTube wasnt the first to video, yada yada. I love talking to all them--its so much fun to help someone that is on mile.3

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. It became very hard to get businesses to adopt new stuff.

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