Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

But a realistic understanding of the potential timeline for autonomous vehicle adoption is vital to decision making as a startup entrepreneur or investor in this area. . ==. The first one took place in 2004 and was conducted in the Mojave Desert. Rome wasn’t built in a day. DARPA’s Robotic Cars to Today.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. “My startup business was acquired and I worked for the company that bought us; which was a public company called Ameridata that bought about 40 companies in about three years. So I think the hardest role to fill in a startup is a Product Management role.

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David Cohen

MARCH 30, 2020

You are the engine of our future, after all. One in 2004 and one in 2006. Founded in 2006, Techstars ran our first startup accelerator in 2007. Other startups will fail, and you can acquire their talent, their IP, their customer bases for cheap. Now is the time for you to adapt, to show your strength. Use your advantages.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I have been involved in many of these innovations, mainly through my last startup venture, a company that became the world’s leading provider of credit card loyalty solutions with bank customers in 30 countries. My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. In that time, I've discovered that the startup scene is infused with passion, energy and a strong spirit of collaboration. Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Back in 2004, Jerry Engel the head of the Entreprenuership program at Haas Business School at U.C. While the Customer Development class was cutting edge theory in 2004, by 2009 the class was getting stale. Four Steps. are unknown.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 1, 2021

I never heard about giraffes after Google’s IPO, although reportedly one early engineer did buy a carnival-size ferris wheel. But that was back in 2004 and the trillions of dollars of wealth created since in startups, big tech companies and crypto makes earlier questions of extravagance seem quaint.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

While you dialed AOL to get on the Internet, the goal of AOL was to keep you locked into their proprietary content and thus earned the classification of “walled garden.&# They had a proprietary browser, their own search engine, their own content, chat rooms, email system, etc. MySpace later bought Photobucket for $250 million.

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Scott Edward Walker

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd If I wind up selling, I’ve failed in some way.” xs2La5.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2019

” The Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series by adopting the same strategy. Adopting a “getting on base” strategy engineers greater success in entrepreneurship — a field with high rates of failure. Data suggests the few startups that do succeed rarely reach a sustainable level. You don’t run out of cash.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2013

Our findings went into a book that we published in 2004 called The Visible Ops Handbook , which described how these organizations made their “good to great” transformation. As I said, this happens both in large enterprises and growing startups alike. Since then, this journey has taken me straight into the heart of the DevOps movement.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Later, when the company was much larger, we had everyone on our engineering team agree to sit in on one usability test every month. The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. It was one of those brilliant startup brainstorms that comes to the team in a flash, with a giant thunderclap. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Ten years ago I started thinking about why startups are different from existing companies. I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. Finally we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. Next Tuesday, October 22 at 10a PT, we’ll take a look at this advanced entrepreneurship question.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 16, 2018

The head of Google Boulder (I think his official title in Googlespeak is “Engineering Site Director”) is Scott Green. While Scott and I don’t spend a lot of time together, we’ve both been part of the evolution of the Boulder startup community going back to the late 1990s.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota. One of my favorite case studies in the book involves a tool I use everyday – Dropbox.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

Ten years ago I started thinking about why startups are different from existing companies. I wondered if business plans and 5-year forecasts were the right way to plan a startup. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. Finally we had a definition of what it was startups were searching for.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 18, 2014

Most people never get to launch a successful startup, much less six. Michael Baum ( @michaelbaum ), whom I first met at LinuxWorld at in 2004, has a charismatic personality and an extraordinary track record, largely unheralded. Instead of launching another startup, however, he’s launching entrepreneurs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the female startup club, hosted by Doone Roisin and brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. Listen to the female startup club, wherever you get your podcasts. This is John Jantsch. My guest today is Cameron Herald.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 4, 2024

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Now, 150 days after October 7th, the Israeli startup ecosystem is once again in a tough spot. Creating companies, raising funding, completing multi million M&A deals.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. A former engineer, Rob was a great writer and a thoughtful student of management. We stayed in touch and I got to know a bunch of the Louisville startup and creative crew, like Todd Earwood, Matt Winn, and Ashley Cecil. None of that will happen here.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. In short, we were a lot more geeky than the previous generation of fund managers , and we started blogging a lot about tech startups and best practices.

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Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 1, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Do The Work with Steven Pressfield Accelerate Your Startup Posted by : John Jantsch on Jul 01, 2011 | 9:14 am Category : Podcast Tags : Anything You Want , CDBaby , Derek SIvers , The Domino Project Popular Posts Adding the Facebook Like.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Creating Customer Bliss Accelerate Your Startup The Trend Towards Lean Startups Are You Making Evil Plans? iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Search RSS Social Media Engineer 54

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. The Trend Towards Lean Startups How to Get an MBA for Less Than $20 Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Creating Customer Bliss Do You Run a 24 Hour Business? 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 27, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. Accelerate Your Startup Understanding the Most Fundamental Shift in Marketing Posted by : John Jantsch on May 27, 2011 | 9:46 am Categories : Mobile , Podcast Tags : Chuck Martin , mobile , The Third Screen Popular Posts Adding the Facebook Like.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 5, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. iTunes link – Cost is $2.99) or Related Posts: Accelerate Your Startup Ideas Are Free, Execution Is Priceless Are You Making Evil Plans? Anything You Want Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Small Business RSS Marketing Social Media 56

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

Establishing a brand in a competitive environment can be challenging for any business, particularly small businesses and startups. In the Google example, the company first had to show that its search engine could provide fast response time to a user’s query, as well as meaningful and accurate search results.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. He can be found blogging at his main blog Planning Startups Stories. His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan. Her blog, Escape from Cubicle Nation , is one of the top career and marketing blogs on the web. .

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. He can be found blogging at his main blog Planning Startups Stories. His latest book is The Plan-As-You-Go-Business-Plan. I prefer the Ms: market, message, medium, measurement, management. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Last week, we hosted a webcast conversation, Lean Startup for Growing Companies , with Eric Ries, Wyatt Jenkins of Shutterstock, and Ari Gesher of Palantir. Wyatt and Ari will both be speaking at The Lean Startup Conference in December.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 24, 2009 The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Image by Jessica_Mah via Flickr Last week I had the opportunity to lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at Haas, which is always a great learning experience - for me at least! Eric takes a different approach.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Founded in 2004, it has grown in leaps and bounds along with NYC’s tech sector. NYC 1.0: During the late ‘90s, the first generation of Silicon Alley emerged, establishing a base of serial entrepreneurs who would go on to found multiple startups and provide mentorship for today’s entrepreneurs. the list goes on and on.

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Growthink Blog

AUGUST 30, 2012

Open any book on do-it-yourself publicity written after 2004 and you'll see blogs mentioned as a key source of publicity right alongside more traditional sources such as TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines. If you're also going for search engine optimization benefits, you might take the Page Rank of the different blogs into account.

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Growthink Blog

APRIL 27, 2010

The backdrop again: In 1998 when Larry Page's and Sergey Brin's Google offices were a Menlo Park, California garage - Bezos invested $250,000 of personal funds into the fledgling search engine. When Google went public in 2004, that $250,000 investment translated into 3.3 million shares of Google stock. Invest in People. Alta Vista.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 26, 2011

2004 gave us widespread blogging and Meetups, and 2008 showed how the web could be a community organizing and fundraising tool. Hopefully this becomes the year that most of the startup teams you see have not only a business person and a tech person, but also a designer--and you start to see people looking for "design co-founders".

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