Startup Lessons Learned
JULY 6, 2020
Eric Ries : So, it's an unbelievably complicated and large search base. Alpha Lee : It's an unbelievably complicated search base. We would literally be talking about a chemist at the whiteboard or using their imagination trying to cut down on this search base somehow, and that's why it was so time consuming. Eric Ries : Yeah.
Steve Blank
JUNE 3, 2010
They start with an innovation, search for a repeatable business model, build the infrastructure for a company, then grow by efficiently executing the model. The Quest for Resilience, Gary Hamel / Liisa Valikangas : Sept 2003. - Charles Darwin. Companies have a fairly predictable life cycle.
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Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 1, 2022
To check out the Google founders, and because I still see so many business plans that are modeled after Google (more search engines, and more billion dollar growth models), I had to take a look at the classic book about them a while back, called “ Inside Larry & Sergey’s Brain ,” by Richard L. In 2003, just four years old, sales hit $1.5
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 2, 2018
The first project of this kind was GIMPS , a large-scale program launched in 1996 for the purpose of searching for Mersenne prime numbers , that is prime numbers of the form 2 p — 1 where P is a random integer. It analyzes radio signals from the outer space searching for extraterrestrial civilizations.
Agile VC
MAY 26, 2011
A lot of people ask me what it was like raising the Series A round for LinkedIn back in 2003. I thought I’d revisit it and share the story… First, you have to rewind mentally to early 2003. Ok, now you have the context for early 2003. He provided our initial seed funding to launch the website publicly on May 5, 2003.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 15, 2012
In the world of online search engines, most people stop with the Big Three. Search are indisputably the most widely used. For those who like to run off the beaten path or march to the beat of their own search engine, here are ten alternatives to consider the next time you need to find information online. Google, Bing and Yahoo!
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 1, 2011
Mike believes the reason AltaVista didn’t become Google ( despite their market leadership position ) was because they didn’t focus on search. Instead, they tried to use their search position to offer a portal like Excite and Yahoo! Of course, monetization of search became one of the best business models in the history of business.
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