Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
He just hired Meg Whitman. Startups wrote business plans, generated expansive 5-year forecasts and executed (hired, spent and built) to the plan. First Movers” didn’t understand customer problems or the product features that solved those problems (what we now call product-market fit).
The Startup Magazine
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
They provide an excellent way for startups to train their employees without incurring the cost of a physical location or hiring more staff members. Gmail has also changed a lot since it was first introduced in 2004, with the most significant change being that now emails are automatically archived and deleted after 30 days.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 1, 2010
Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Palantir’s products are used for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing multiple large datasets. Competitors: Gowalla.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery. To motivate you to give this a try, let me tell you a story from the early days of IMVU.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2010
My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. a guide for hackers) You buy virtual goods The free software hiring advantage Continuous deployment and continuous learning The lean startup @ Web 2.0 I especially enjoyed the discussion of the power of fact-based decision making.
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