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Neil Patel Review: Learning Marketing Entrepreneurship From The Master

YoungUpstarts

In 2005, Neil began his first marketing blog, which grew to become the leading source of marketing insights that it is today. Neil carried on running an internet marketing consulting business so that he could pay for Crazy Egg’s software development. He even invited readers to choose the field for his new startup.

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Neil Patel: Learning Marketing Entrepreneurship From The Master

YoungUpstarts

In 2005, Neil began his first marketing blog, which grew to become the leading source of marketing insights that it is today. Neil carried on running an internet marketing consulting business so that he could pay for Crazy Egg’s software development. He even invited readers to choose the field for his new startup.

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Lessons Learned: Hugh Molotsi

Startup Lessons Learned

Innovation within large corporations has more in common with startups than you’d think, but also comes with its own set of challenges. I’ve been very blessed to have had a 22-year career at Intuit where I held various product roles from software developer on QuickBooks for DOS to offering leader on QuickBooks Connected Services.

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4 Founders & Harvard MBAs on Finding Startup Traction & MBAs-as-Entrepreneurs

View from Seed

million raised, per CrunchBase): It came from my deep frustration renting as an undegrad at Oxford for the first time back in 2005. Georgiades (Zumper): I started working on Zumper seriously in the summer between my first and second years at HBS (2011), supported by generous HBS startup grants.

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Rally Software Acquired By CA Technologies for $480 Million

Feld Thoughts

I remember my friend Ryan Martens sitting down with me and Chris Wand around 2001 and walking us through his idea for changing the how he approached managing the software development process. Over the fast dozen years, Rally has gone from a raw startup to a 500 person public company. Rally started out life as F4 Technologies.

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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

” Kraus was talking about the economics of startups—the cheapness of servers, networks, and other raw ingredients of computing. Software was expensive. As Kraus noticed in 2005, however, things were starting to change. ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper. Hardware was expensive. Storage was expensive.

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Accelerating Technology Change and Continuous Learning

Feld Thoughts

Though the notion of a “lean startup” that uses both Agile and Customer Development approaches is ostensibly strongly customer focused, the purpose of these methodologies is for the company to find an maximize its market, not specifically to optimize the user experience. The essay follows. I think he totally nails it.