Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers. In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. At no time did IMVU ever employ more than three full-time 3D artists. Great post!

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. but the food was awesome, & the PR wasn’t bad either).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

This is the same issue we see with vanity metrics : companies are giving the appearance of sharing information while actually engaging in spin or outright deception. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 19, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. David Meerman Scott David is the author of 7 books, Real-Time Marketing & PR , is his newest addition to the collection. His blog – Web Ink Now – is ranked by AdAge Power 150 as a top worldwide marketing blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. Their stories would not have been possible without access to sympathetic adults with the necessary equipment and knowledge to get started.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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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. Brian, Paglo www.paglo.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. When wed go into a product planning meeting, often an engineer or product person would have already run a small scale A/B experiment , and so already have some data to go on. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

At least, not in the traditional sense of trying to squeeze every tenth of a point out of a conversion metric or landing page. When people (ok, engineers) who have been trained in this model enter most startups, they quickly get confused. Even if it shows improvement in some micro metric, does that invalidate the overall design?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. Customer Development Engineering : techniques for accelerating your product development. Some aspects of the vision remain, but often in a significantly modified form.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Fast forward to almost 2008 and those days are gone. Tracking results is useful for metrics, which, in turn, help measure growth and success of the company. December 27, 2007 at 9:31 pm 36 Startup Tips: From Software Engineering to PR and More! : Without tracking, it is difficult to determine what is going on. Startups!!!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. Google was not the first search engine, but it's the one that succeeded. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 13, 2010 The Superbowl ad test I am a firm believer in the danger of vanity metrics , numbers that give the illusion of progress but often mask the true relationship between cause and effect. Vanity metrics are generally bigger. Vanity metrics. The solution? Is that really news?

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Monday, March 10, 2008. a new entrant trying to gain awareness in the marketplace investing in various mktg programs and sales to get the lead-gen engine flywheel started)? 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. ▼ 2008. (11). Cracking The Code. at 8:58 PM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Engagement loops: beyond viral Theres a great and growing corpus of writing about viral loops, the step-by-step optimizations you can use to encourage maximum growth of online products by having customers invite each other to join. December 17, 2008 2:04 PM Alex Horovitz said.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Not every leader has to write code but you do have to understand how it is built, what the engineering process is all about, and how the technology works.?. My rule is that conferences are to be avoided unless it’s purely for PR purposes or if you’re in sales. . Jason is also an investor in and Board Member at RJ Metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. After years of engineering effort, changing these assumptions was incredibly hard. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. Departments were built and were even metrics-driven.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The big things to consider is how easy your name is to spell and how unique it looks to search engines. And for the LOVE OF GOD, keep the engineers our of the decision loop. About Rocket Watcher Rocket Watcher is my personal blog covering marketing for startups including messaging, market strategy, lead generation and metrics.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I am the VP of Engineering at a cutting-edge startup that sells software built on the.NET platform. You whine about how hard it is to find good engineers, then go on and on about how you intentionally avoid at least half of the market for skilled people? It’s also missing the point of engineering anything. Elaine Kenny.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

4) Sales model: From seasoned sales people to a tiered sales engine To buy, people needs to be comfortable with the product. Successful companies have developed specific teams focused on developing and monitoring key usage metrics. What metrics drive the value of this new generation of software service providers? ► 2008.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? When new changes roll out that aren't anticipated or expected - like the whole PR deal that became a PR mess - people PANIC. PR is even worse - last week I did 200 or so and found 10 UFI and AP items available to minors.

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