YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2016

Before the advent of cloud technology and the Internet, company files had to be stored away in physical data rooms (PDRs). A 2012 study done by IBISWorld revealed that VDRs experienced a steady growth of about 17 percent annually as a result of technological advancements as well as the growth of global demand for these storage services.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

This funding is big news, particularly since 2016 was a weak year for Ed Tech funding. Generally speaking, Ed Tech has proven to be a tough vertical, primarily due to the fact that it’s hard to charge consumers (students) directly. They took an innovative approach to distribution. They focused on revenue early on.

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Gust

AUGUST 22, 2012

How spoiled we are, taking for granted a system of government with relatively stable, transparent laws and regulations, consistently applied (at least in theory), and subject to judicial oversight with appellate review. Distributed teams can work across multiple countries in ways that make the most efficient use of human capital.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

When I went through their financials as part of my due diligence I realized that if they ditched their low margin disk drive products, it wouldn’t take much to make them a profitable company. They had an existing distribution channel and their dealers and customers thought they knew who the company was and what it stood for.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 4) help nurture and grow the companies they invest in.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Minor Technical Difficulties. We are currently experiencing some minor technical difficulties: Normal service will be resumed shortly… Home Privacy Notice About Login Lexicon. Tutorial Day At #RailsConf » Why Trying To Find A Technical Co-Founder Will Almost Always Fail. « A Quandry With LinkedIn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Notice that none of those five reasons deals with TDD or automated testing, which have changed the game. This is the approach of test-driven-development (TDD). February 14, 2009 11:12 PM Eric said. Thanks for stopping by, Eric February 27, 2009 9:07 PM dan said. May 15, 2009 1:17 AM neocoder said.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 25, 2012

The Asia-Pacific RIR and our colleagues serving Europe and the Middle East have already reached the last bit of IPv4 addresses to distribute to organizations in their respective regions. After ARIN runs out of available IPv4 addresses, we will only be distributing addresses from the next version of the Internet Protocol, IP version 6 (IPv6).

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

It’s always fun debating companies with Dana because she’s always so knowledgeable on deals – particularly those in the digital media, ad-tech and eCommerce spaces. Closing a VC fund in 2009/10 is a major achievement in and of itself. Total raised: $83mm; Series B round (July 2009 for $43mm) valued company at $400mm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Most engineers know that in this kind of a case, the best practice is NOT to rewrite your code, but rather refactor it continually and take down the so-called “Technical debt&# so that it’s always under control. Anyway, let’s dive into this topic more, starting with technical debt. @AndrewChen New here?

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

due to inflation, salary increases) to maintain margin in an environment of downward pressure on prices. In 2009 the organization moved to a run-rate methodology, which monitors spending quarter-over-quarter. Successful agile budgeting requires modern technology. Managers look at numbers at a higher level than before.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. ProjectMyUSA on Twitter. The objective of the RFP-EZ 2.0

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

But when it comes to learning a new technology, this tendency can also be a handicap. A new technology is only interesting if it does something different from existing technologies. Viewing everything as an old trick in new clothing conceals exactly the interesting aspects of a new technology. These "aha!"

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Revenue growth: 51% YoY (2010), 1% YoY (2009), 131% YoY (2008). Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. .

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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. March 26, 2009 6:15 PM Will said.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. See Five Things Meme as an example.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

To my surprise, the ideas and technology behind that startups were not superior to the ones we have in Finland. The last thing you want when you launch is to tailor to several languages, cultural differences, distribution channels and small blogs and other media. The incubators and co-working spaces are on par with what we have.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Medical tech startups are regulated by the FDA and must abide by strict regulations at all times. Whether your medical tech startup produces low-risk or high-risk devices, compliance is a crucial and complex necessity. The same can happen in the medical tech world. For example, all medical devices must be approved by the FDA.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). I don’t think very many people put young kids into taxis (due to trust), but they are quite comfortable doing this in an Uber. New Use Cases.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 5, 2010

This is important because unlike previous waves in the Valley which relied only upon access to capital and technology innovations, the clean technology movement likes at the intersection of 3 forces: access to capital, tech and hard science innovation, and regulatory forces. What does it all mean?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. From a technical point of view, its amazing. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. recession in 2009.”. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. The added challenges, Kerrest argues, provided long-term benefits.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Think about your own behavior: if you are like me, you hate having to deal with sales people, and greatly prefer to do your own research starting with search engines, and leveraging free trials, on-line videos, blogs, reviews, and your social network. Tech support is not cheap. Then you can go back into their customers and upsell them.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2009

As Peter began to speak extemporaneously our mouths slowly fell open as he described the video game market, its size, its demographics, the state of the technology, and the state of games. He took us through a day (and a night) of a hardcore gamer and told us about the new class of CD-ROM based game machines about to hit the market.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

Published on: July 13, 2011 Posted By Angie Tags: Elizabeth Knopf , Finding A Co-Founder , FounderDating , Sorced , Technical Co-Founder , Tips & Tricks. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product. Thus, I embarked on the journey to find a technical co-founder.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Finding a Technical Partner for Your Startup Today I received an inquiry from a student at an Ivy League university who wants to launch a web startup. One partner takes on a business role and the other takes responsibility for technology. Again, go where the geeks are.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 26, 2019

The contract company would handle the other business aspects such as distribution, marketing, and sales. Alcohol production, distribution, and sales are all heavily shaped by laws. The current laws governing alcohol production, distribution, and sales evolved in the wake of the Prohibition era. Get to know the legal stuff.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2019

While the following advice is more focused on innovative technology companies, the idea can be transferred to any sort of marketing writing , including product descriptions. This is useful if, like most startups, you rely heavily on word-of-mouth distribution for customer acquisition. It’s also simplified. Features aren’t all bad.

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 17, 2013

This way no one leaves the network due to excessive fees, yet you end up with a higher average rake over time due to the competitive dynamic. And when prices go up due to bidding and competition, the suppliers blame their competition not the platform (part of the genius of the Google AdWords business model).

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Steve Blank

JULY 16, 2009

Meanwhile our company was pouring an enormous amount of dollars into building tools and video compression technology, while also hiring a lot of high-priced Hollywood talent like art directors, and script and story editors. Go spend some time outside the building talking to potential distribution partners. I said, “That can’t be true!

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built. At Andreessen Horowitz, our primary goal is to invest in the great technology franchises. VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Oracle—Larry Ellison. Peoplesoft—Dave Duffield.

Technical Review 78

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Continuous deployment and continuous learning At long last, some of the actual implementers of the advanced systems we built at IMVU for rapid deployment and rapid response are starting to write about it. Our tests suite takes nine minutes to run (distributed across 30-40 machines).

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