Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 18, 2020

Difficulty in securing and protecting funding. You need to maintain explicit C-suite and Board buy-in for constant transformation through effective communication, highlighting the struggles of peer businesses, and establishing the right metrics. They grew sales by 28% in 2009, while most companies were hunkered down and losing share.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (in constant 2009 $’s) We’ll Do Great in the Next War Early in 1950, just months before the outbreak of the Korean War the Office of Naval Research asked Fred Terman to build an Applied electronics program for electronic warfare. on August 18, 2009 at 4:39 am Said: [.]

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

For example: "How is interest in the computer security category (All Categories -> Computers & Electronics -> Computer Security) and what are the top 100 search terms and the fastest rising brand names / products / searches in that category?" " In April 2009!! Use it to time your campaigns. "When

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

Normal advisors are also assembled by naive entrepreneurs who think the mere presence of an advisory board will create social proof and help them raise money. But investors don’t take these mock advisory boards seriously. Reply # Suzie Dingwall Williams · Mar 21, 2008 Men: it’s an advisory RELATIONSHIP.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

RT @StephanieTilton: Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups by @aprildunford [link] Unisys Security Reply 15. RT @StephanieTilton: Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups by @aprildunford [link] Anderson Almeida Reply 15. Oct, 2010 at 6:01 pm RT @B2BOnlineMktg: Great slide and description of metrics!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich I have a new guest post on GigaOm today, called Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich. A more rational career path for money-making is one that rewards effort, in the form of promotions, increased security, salary and status.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, October 23, 2009 Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum viable product How much work should you do on a new product before involving customers? Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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