Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Let’s set up a framework. In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In addition, there are the managing directors as executive bodies. In the VC sector, it is common to introduce a third body in addition to the shareholders’ meeting and the management. In 2022, just as in 2009, there was only one IPO; typically, there are between three and 16 per year.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. But the rest of the management team really skeptical. Reply justingibbs , on May 11, 2009 at 11:29 am Said: Speaking of novelty, do you think Twitter could be the same?

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Wooga was founded 2009 with a vision that by 2020, everyone will be playing games. Normally as a company grows this changes as management layers are added, and work simply becomes less efficient. This ensures a fast decision is always possible and the company can scale without top management becoming a bottleneck. Conclusion.

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s an age-old scenario: You’re building a company, you have a product idea, and you’ve got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next steps. Launch Date: April 16, 2009. Since 2009 the Founder Institute has helped. Crunchbase. FOUNDER INSTITUTE.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

rise in 2009, while investment in fixed assets is estimated to grow 6.2% drop in 2009. Upon closing the deal, Essilor will fully consolidate Shamir Optical while keeping the Israeli management team of Shamir Optical in place. Exports, which comprise more than 40% of Israel’s economic activity, had dropped 12.5%

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Instead of these dead-ends, use the problem and solution team framework and then: pivot, dont jump.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 1, 2009 The Steve Jobs method Image via CrunchBase Its been a long time since I did a post that was primarily a link to another blog with commentary, but I came across something today that I really want to share. In the meantime, I hope some of you will find the lean startup a helpful framework.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Honeywell CEO Dave Cote also cautions against shortsightedness during economic downturns: I’ve been a leader during three recessions and I’ve never heard a management team talk about how the choices they make during a downturn will affect performance during a recovery. Frameworks for businesses during a crisis. recession in 2009.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

A good general manager is expected to use all the tools at their disposal — market research, competitive analysis, customer focus groups — to figure out a plan that will work. Safely because it is clear that the manager in question didnt do his homework. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

. “Juniper is excited to acquire one of the industry’s leading virtualization security vendors and the extremely talented team that built it,&# – Mark Bauhaus, executive vice president and general manager, Juniper Networks. From 1999 to 2009, Teva’s revenue grew to about $14 billion from $1.3

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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? March 13, 2009 1:50 PM dan simard said. March 13, 2009 2:14 PM Alan Pinstein said. Alan March 13, 2009 2:18 PM alon said. We didnt manage todo that yet.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

By 2020, the production of data will be 44 times what we produced in 2009 15 out of 17 sectors in the United States have more data stored per company than the US Library of Congress Big Data is indeed…big! And getting bigger and bigger. The 4 V’s of Big Data Big Data is different from "large amount" of data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. February 14, 2009 11:12 PM Eric said. May 15, 2009 1:17 AM neocoder said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

When creating a new market, expect to spend as long as two years before you manage to get traction with early customers, but enjoy the utter lack of competition. March 14, 2009 8:34 AM Can Sar said. April 11, 2009 1:22 AM CeeTee said. Thanks I get a copy for myself for xmas December 10, 2009 7:28 PM Jamie Flinchbaugh said.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Small and medium size business owners can set up online customer support platforms that combine the backend help desk system used by agents (ticketing, knowledge management) with an online customer portal (self service, forums, idea management, voting, etc) on the front end. To learn more, you can check out some of the videos here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. This includes the designers as well as the engineers and product managers. August 8, 2009 6:08 AM Phil Winkler said.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

We started getting feedback on the idea starting March 2009 (second semester) and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. But it was great experience to put yourself in an uncomfortable place to manage 90 Type A personalities. Poort: The Entrepreneurial Manager. And then we used the same list to find the first customers.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. March 25, 2009 4:44 PM Dan McGrady said. March 25, 2009 5:04 PM j pimmel said. Registered.

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

A 59% increase in bobs since January 2009? The good vm, memory management and thread support is way ahead of most other languages and with multi-core cpu’s and huge amounts of memory becoming the norm it’s perfectly positioned to move from the server to the cient. Not bad for a dead technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 5, 2009 The curse of prevention Beware! Managing these situations is hard for any company, but potentially lethal for a startup. The theory is that there is some truth in both camps, and the right way to manage the disagreement is to sprinkle a little bit of both into our plans.

San Francisco 133

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www.redmonk.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

A 59% increase in bobs since January 2009? The good vm, memory management and thread support is way ahead of most other languages and with multi-core cpu’s and huge amounts of memory becoming the norm it’s perfectly positioned to move from the server to the cient. Not bad for a dead technology.

Java 43

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

And they can figure out how to get new ideas adopted within their organization’s culture and framework. In 2009, Don and Sean won a Service to America Medal. Both of us were very highly respected, we were both managers, we both had really large networks of people that we knew. … . I know what a program manager is.”

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Klout Puts Metrics Into Social Media Management - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , May 21, 2010 I really like klout.com for three good reasons: 1.) You could just outspend.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) First of all,NET is a “framework”, not a “language” as you have said in your post. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

For the non-expert businessperson, this means advice about “what software to use&# but also guidance through the arcane arts of software development, including advice about programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, software architecture, revision control systems, and other hacker black magic.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2013

. “People and machines are producing valuable information that could enrich our lives in so many ways, from pinpoint accuracy in predicting severe weather to developing customized treatments for terminal diseases, says Boyd Davis, vice president and general manager of Intel ‘s Datacenter Software Division.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Lastly, once you have this framework in place, make sure to benchmark your salary, bonus and equity for each position in your company using CompStudy data which allows you to narrowly focus on companies that meet your profile and the executive position in question.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The last thing you need is a manager telling you how to do your job. If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 Product owners and technical managers also need to interpret this scenario properly. Using the framework Should these principles be a driving framework for self organizing teams, or should there be formal process or governance around it? it management. (27).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Yet we used the product development model not only to manage product development, but as a road map for finding customers and to time our marketing launch and sales revenue plan. Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-08-27 , on August 27, 2009 at 6:04 pm Said: [.] The irony is that few startups fit these criteria.

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