rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. 9 Responses to Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO Startup Advice: Developer Stockholm Syndrome « Web Startup Help says: November 10, 2008 at 5:10 pm [.]

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users. In normal times, every company operates against some hypothetical growth model—a data-driven framework that describes how your product grows and how you acquire new users.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? If youre still very early stage, then you need to know what a true early adopter looks like. But all things are never equal.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 31, 2016

They constantly evaluate their systems, frameworks, and processes to determine whether they’re operating in the most effective manner for where they are now. This was an obstacle I encountered while at Roozt.com, the Etsy-style platform for social entrepreneurs we launched in 2008.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. million and you’re an early stage business this is probably a fair deal. As anyone raising money in April 2000, September 2001 or September 2008 can tell you that. So how should you decide what to do?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 21, 2011

Today, Andrew Rachmell from Boca Raton, Florida, discussed peerbackers , a crowdsourced fund raising platform to help very early stage entrepreneurs raise small denomination funding ($50, $100) from friends, family, and peers to help finance the prototype development phase with about $25,000 in seed financing. peerbackers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. But in the early stages of a startup you are still trying to hone in on what exactly the problem is. August 9, 2009 2:54 AM Eric said.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

Rather, it was his framework for the “history of the web” which did. He says “’do’ is where the web is headed in 2008,” citing social networks and other social services (e.g. He outlined a transition among three distinct phases of consumers’ primary activity online from receiving , to hunting , and now doing.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 3, 2008

Rather, it was his framework for the “history of the web” which did. He says “’do’ is where the web is headed in 2008,” citing social networks and other social services (e.g. He outlined a transition among three distinct phases of consumers’ primary activity online from receiving , to hunting , and now doing.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

While many entrepreneurs find it difficult to answer all the questions in the CYS framework, I strongly recommend that you address the following items in your roundtable pitch at the minimum: A validated customer value proposition. I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008.

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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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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Theres nothing inherently wrong with Flash or Silverlight, but most often their use should be considered only for incremental interface enhancements to a system built on an establish web framework. One can, however, make these arguments about different frameworks. 37signals repopularised Ruby this way, and last.fm

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Lean Planning started with Tim Berry ‘s 2008 “ Plan-As-You-Go Business Plan ” which was a new way for entrepreneurs to think about planning. Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved towards a more agile planning process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. My answer is almost always the same: dont.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

In fact, Saul Singer, author of Start-up Nation had also helped us promote the event, resulting in a massive turnout that offered us a very interesting view into the early-stage Israeli start-up scene. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. New Global Markets.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Combating the Innovators Dilemma – HubSpot’s Experiments Framework (3 weeks ago). Lots of startups in the early stages face this identity crisis and don’t really know what they want to do just yet. posted on Thursday, July 17, 2008 at 4:07 PM by anon. posted on Friday, November 14, 2008 at 8:44 AM by Ryan Graves.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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VC Cafe

JULY 7, 2010

Out of nearly 300 new projects initiated by Eureka in 2008, 40 involved Israeli companies. Eureka was set up in 1985 as a legal framework allowing European companies to collaborate and receive government funding. In addition, the company will focus on the development of commercial drugs from molecules in early stages of development.

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Life Beyond Code

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

SM: In September 2008, when the first Entrepreneur Journeys book was released, D.D. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0, a distributed, democratic model of capitalism. RS: What makes 1M/1M unique?

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. And today, we have a group of early adopter premium members who are making good use of the program. In over 100 roundtables, I have personally coached more than 400 early-stage entrepreneurs. And finally, we have defined 1M/1M as a framework for capitalism 2.0,

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