Eric Friedman

JANUARY 1, 2023

We are still in the middle of the streaming wars, but its clear that casting to screens is becoming normal in our house 5/ the US power grid becomes a focus point for conversation from a major disruption due to an attack. Thats it for now – join me on Twitter for the conversation to continue. -.75: 1: Failed it. all the time.

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Eric Friedman

DECEMBER 10, 2022

We are still in the middle of the streaming wars, but its clear that casting to screens is becoming normal in our house 5/ the US power grid becomes a focus point for conversation from a major disruption due to an attack. Thats it for now – join me on Twitter for the conversation to continue. -.75: 1: Failed it. all the time.

Balance Sheet 60

Balance Sheet ChatGPT Technical Review Software Review 60

Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

See Also: How Traveling Helped Me Prepare for Startup Life. Neither of us had ever lived in a big city, and in 2008 we felt ready to cash in and try something new. We also wanted to get our Spanish speaking skills from conversational to fluent. From backpackers to business owners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Measure conversion rates. November 7, 2008 7:36 PM nitesh said.

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VC Adventure

JULY 1, 2021

Sweet Grace was born in 2008, as the Great Recession ripped through the United States, particularly affecting working-class communities like Lawrence, Massachusetts where Danaris lives. Based on our research and the conversations we had in the course of writing our book , we believe there are countless potential Denarises out there.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. It’s possible that betting on the phone as the platform for conversational AI may not be the winning hand. This may work in stable markets and technologies.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

And is moving the company into augmented reality and conversational AI. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. It’s possible that betting on the phone as the platform for conversational AI may not be the winning hand. This may work in stable markets and technologies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review) I continue my series for Harvard Business Review with the Lean Startup technique called Five Whys. Techniques from lean manufacturing can be part of a startups innovation culture. Speed up or slow down?

Technical Review 132

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

And so it happened that between 2000-2008 I was the biggest buzz kill at dinner parties. It is the new cocktail party conversation. It costs less money to start companies so the world should have way more startups.&# I’ve heard the “world is different&# argument in every bubble I’ve ever seen. Same with VCs.

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Eric Friedman

APRIL 30, 2024

In April 2024 ChatGPT has this to say: Persistent Memory : When you tell me something you’d like me to remember, I can store this information and recall it in future conversations. Dynamic Updating : As our conversations evolve, I can update or modify the memory based on new information you provide.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

The more data I collected and the more conversation I had with GPs and LPs the more I realized that there was another major factor at play in the concentration of capital in larger funds – many traditional VC firms were now setting up “opportunity funds” or “growth funds.” more than 5 years ago?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Adi Bittan, co-founder of a startup that failed due to a bad partnership. They were just about to launch their product when the financial collapse happened in 2008. At some point along the way, Bittan says her partners didn’t trust her anymore and that started to poison every business conversation they had.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2016

At the Upfront Summit in early February, we had a chance to have many off-the-record conversations with Limited Partners (LPs) who fund Venture Capital (VC) funds about their views of the market. That’s money that fuels our startup ecosystems. …But LPs Have Been Putting Out More Money Than They Are Getting Back.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

15:11] Where does employer branding fit into the conversation of employee experience? [17:18] Over the past two decades, she has led large revenue producing divisions at businesses ranging from startups to Fortune 500. So how does that fit into the conversation of employee experience? You lose that happenstance conversation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2013

An all-too-common question I get from startups and small businesses is “Which is the right social media platform for my business?” It highlights the story of how United Airlines in 2008 paid no attention to social media as Dave’s story of his crushed guitar and poor customer service went viral around the world. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. Great post Eric!

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Along these lines, we are starting to hear serverless more and more from the Fortune 500 and see this trend reflected in the sales pipeline at iopipe which has gone from mostly startups to larger companies. Watch for startups solving this problem with a focus on observability, reliability, security and automation.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

A few weeks ago, I had my first-ever opportunity to visit the Miami startup ecosystem. Miami is one of the fastest growing new startup hubs in the US. We also are a significant investor in a Florida startup, UniKey , which allows you to unlock your house with your smartphone. (from my guest column in the Miami Herald ).

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 30, 2020

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that during economic downturns like the Dot Com crash and the financial crisis of 2008, more than 100% of net job growth comes from companies that are less than five years old. The series D insured that Linkedin had the capabilities to play both offense and defense in the 2008 crisis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free Im honored to announce that my Lean Startup session at the Web 2.0 Everyone else can register to come to both sessions for free, including the Lean Startup talk in the main conference. What does this mean for you?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

In that time, I’ve been consistently delighted by the support and enthusiasm of the Austin startup community. In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. It’s like that warm belly feeling after a full bowl of ramen. especially in STEM?—?as

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

I was excited to see that GLG (formerly Gerson Lehrman Group), the industry leader, is now offering a professional network service geared to the needs of the startup community: GLG Share. Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy.

New York 114

New York Technical Review Networking Advisory Board 114

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff. Its part workbook, part war story compendium, part theoretical treatise, and part manifesto.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 7, 2018

Next wave of startups trying to use your phone’s camera and sensors to calculate emotional response. As Jack Dorsey said, defining what is a Healthy Conversation. A user eating snacks engineered to take advantage of our sweet, salty urges. Diabetes and weight gain be damned. How did our product make you feel? I’m hopeful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2021

Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Through comment conversations with many of you I tried to emphasize that it isn’t enough to just have one attribute. A caller dialed in to ask us questions about his startup. He was from South America but living in Switzerland and had launched a startup while holding down a day job at a consulting firm (McKinsey if memory serves).

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David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

But this forced a good conversation about not taking money that was on the table. Our conversation broke out into two threads. However, the goal of the conversation and the context was to figure out how to own the market and create the biggest pie for everyone. Here’s the data: 2007: 10%. Real money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. Unfortunately, most decisions that confront startups lack a definitive right answer. But this is wrong, too.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Up and Running

AUGUST 14, 2017

The startup boom has disrupted and challenged many traditional ways of doing business, but perhaps none more so than company culture. Flexible time off, frequent remote work, and inspiring office spaces—once only a pipe dream for starched-collared stiffs chained to their cubicles—is now becoming a reality for many in the startup space.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

(for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

Software Review 141

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The Startup Success Podcast – After the demise of The Micro-ISV Show, Bob Walsh is back discussing issues affecting software startups. Open Source, For-Profit Startups – “FairSoftware is the place to start and grow your online business.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? .

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. You are in for a rude awakening if you expect that type of treatment from anyone at a startup.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. We tend to equate startup success with making money, but that is a poor choice.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. Transcript: Hi, and welcome to the a16z podcast. I’m Lauren Murrow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Id be honored to have you join the conversation. The Conversation - Harvard Business Review For most of us, the phrase management science conjures up a decidedly non-entrepreneurial image, and for good reason. As an entrepreneur, I often saw the best practices of general management fail startups. Without further ado.

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