Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

But even during the macroeconomic boom of 2004 to early 2008 (inflated by various credit bubbles – housing, sovereign debt, LBOs) tech IPOs were extremely rare and then the global economic crisis of late 2008 – 2010 only further dampened hopes for a recovery. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

According to a report just out, a record 156 operating companies went public in the U.S. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Almost 20% of young women now aspire to run their own business today as entrepreneurs (15% in 2008), according to a recent poll by The Telegraph.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. Expo (and a call for he.

Programming 143

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Arnie Gullov-Singh (ex-EVP of product, technology and operations for MySpace) also joined as CEO, as Sean Rad will assume the role of President. Sellers can lower transaction fees by aggregating purchases into fewer transactions, while also providing buyers with an attractive alternative payment method.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Let me describe a different company, one with only $30,000 in revenue (again, pure fiction). How does that stack up?

Customer 167

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received. ▼ 2008. (11).

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. The key to your startup’s success is your sales, editorial or marketing operations most of which will be mainly happening offline. This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers. I graduated college during the 2008 financial crisis and took a career ‘gap year’ to head to South Korea and teach English. We kept doing that until we grew into what we are now.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. The key to your startup’s success is your sales, editorial or marketing operations most of which will be mainly happening offline. Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? Sales / Marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I’ve seen many times what happens when a single department get’s holed-up in its own space, like the terrifying “ operations cave.&# Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. The world is experiencing a global economic crisis of a proportion most living people have never witnessed.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

At Fab, our virtual product is our website & apps, our physical products are the merchandise we sell, and our experience product is our operations and service. If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. All the rest is noise. Fab Culture.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion, 7 percent below 2008 levels ($2.74 The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008. In 2008, Teva acquired American company Barr Pharmaceuticals, a maker of generic birth control pills, for about $7.5 billion in 2009, compared with $10.8

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! ADT believes that its operators are best equipped to oversell me. The data is for 2008, but works like a charm in driving conversions. Now they can acquire me (I'm pre-convinced!)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. This information is normally maintained by your operations team.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Like Edison and the lightbulb, like Gates and the pc operating system, I would launch a revolution that would transform society while bringing me wealth and fame. Look carefully at most hyper-local sites and see just how much posting is really being done, especially by members of the community as opposed to be the sites’ operators.

Software Review 79

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. And that hadn't happened since 2009 and we launched in late 2008. You can't really operate. It was that week.

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Business Plan Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Since 2008, The Startup Garage Team has helped entrepreneurs achieve the milestones that investors evaluate by thoroughly preparing the business and investor documents. From their experiences, we aggregated the amount of preparation time it takes for a founder to have the best chance at successfully raising startup funding. Operations.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2020

I acquired my first large-company clients right before the financial crisis in 2008. The winners would be the large technology platforms that aggregated and empowered these entrepreneurs — the losers would be the big, slow-moving brands. The dinosaurs? They might not see the end of the decade.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. TenantWIZ – A property management program for vacation homes that works whether you own a single property or a large hotel or condo operation.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Way back in 2008, an obscure SaaS company called Zuora started talking—loudly and endlessly—about the “ subscription economy. It’s been the industry’s go-to resource for 15 years, covering every imaginable nuance of call-center operations in a staggering level of detail. Create movement-first content to build credibility.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

"  The beauty of having the option to select from "standard" options is that WSGR has included some market data , e.g. what percent of term sheets in up rounds in 2008 included this term.  Obviously, WSGR has a much larger sample size and the fact that they make it public (in aggregate) is impressive.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

After a somewhat disappointing congress in 2009, in which companies showcased products from previous years, this year is expected to be faster, greener and ‘cloudier’ Looking at the conference agenda , it’s not hard to spot the trends for 2010: Mobile Clouds – additional storage and new revenue streams to operators.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty.

Mobile 103

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

He is focused on delivering real business value by educating clients about the latest proven technologies, strategies that deliver improved profits and operational efficiencies, and using technology to improve life. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list. Customer Care Today.

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