Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2019

There are many others, like the classic book about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. Some people create brilliant solutions to non-existent problems, like maybe Segway and satellite phones. We all agree that innovation is an adventure into the unknown. Lead the revolution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. July 13, 2009 7:38 AM George said. July 13, 2009 10:32 AM Anonymoussaid.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

In the case of Freshdesk, their main competitor, Zendesk, is operating with a San Francisco - Copenhagen cost-structure and will find it harder to compete with this strategy. They charge $9, $29 and $59 per agent per month and I am eager to see bootstrapped, scrappy Freshdesk morph their pricing structure to aggressively compete with them.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2014

First, he’s proposing to ban non-competition agreements. Even though I often say that was 11 years and 364 days too many for my “non-big city, non-east coast” personality, Boston still has a sweet spot in my heart. The Massachusetts non-competition situation has always been stupid.

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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 30, 2019

A winning archer since the age of 13, Paige travels the world competing and just returned from various tournaments in France, Iowa, Montana, and Rome. In 2009, at the age of 14, she won her first gold medal as an individual on the team. I like to meet new people and share my love of the outdoors when I’m not competing.

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Rembrandt Communications

JANUARY 30, 2019

A winning archer since the age of 13, Paige travels the world competing and just returned from various tournaments in France, Iowa, Montana, and Rome. In 2009, at the age of 14, she won her first gold medal as an individual on the team. I like to meet new people and share my love of the outdoors when I’m not competing.

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Non-Compete Montana Iowa France 100

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.

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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? This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. April 14, 2009 4:03 PM Dave McClure said. April 15, 2009 4:06 PM Eric said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2017

There are many others, like the classic book about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. Some people create brilliant solutions to non-existent problems, like maybe Segway and satellite phones. The book is titled “ Nanovation ,” by Kevin & Jackie Freiberg. Lead the revolution.

Entrepreneur 157

Entrepreneur Non-Compete India Customer 157

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. September 11, 2009 7:32 AM Sean Murphy said. September 11, 2009 2:28 PM Jeff said.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 5, 2014

There are many others, like the book I read a while back about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. Some people create brilliant solutions to non-existent problems, like maybe Segway and satellite phones. The book is titled “ Nanovation ,” by Kevin & Jackie Freiberg. Lead the revolution.

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Non-Compete Startup India Entrepreneur 258

Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The strongest foundations in business are those whose cornerstones are based on non-negotiable core values. Quality of work also improves because people who become virtual assistants have previous experience working as full-time employees and have decided to focus on offering services that fall under their core competencies.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

You can find more ideas here: Product Pricing Strategies and Techniques Pricing Experiments You Might Not Know, But Can Learn From Should I Lower My Prices To Compete? recession in 2009.”. If you have the resources, competing may be less expensive during a downturn. And clinging steadfast to your brand is non-negotiable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage.

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

In 2009, Google allowed publishers to cap FCF views at five articles per day ; in 2015, the cap tightened to three articles. As such, Google continued to get stopped at our paywall during crawls, and we became virtually non-existent in its search engine results pages. For publishers, the policy didn’t work. Flexible Sampling (2017).

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

I couldn’t believe how inefficient and non-transparent the rental industry was and I knew then that I’d one day come back to take it on. We started getting feedback on the idea starting March 2009 (second semester) and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive. Clark: Competing through Social Networks.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

There are many others, like the book I read a while back about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. Some people create brilliant solutions to non-existent problems, like maybe Segway and satellite phones. The book is titled “ Nanovation ,” by Kevin & Jackie Freiberg. Lead the revolution.

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Entrepreneur Non-Compete India Customer 245

www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Posted on November 14, 2009 by Travis Biziorek. Our application tool will be free and will immediately compete with Peterson’s, Kaplan, Princeton Review, and other smaller players. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising. We are a startup and this is essential (and non-negotiable).

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. In this case study on Moz.com by Conversion Rate Experts , the first phase of their conversion strategy was to interview paying, non-paying, and former customers about how they felt about the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? September 8, 2009 6:12 PM Geoff Hsaid. September 8, 2009 6:25 PM dbsaid. September 9, 2009 12:36 AM Richard Tibbetts said. September 9, 2009 5:05 AM Roger Toennis said. Agree with all your points.

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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. August 8, 2009 6:08 AM Phil Winkler said. August 8, 2009 5:04 PM PetrolHead said. it is very helpful for me.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

When Austin Ventures got its start in 1979, the venture capital industry was nascent nationally and almost non-existent in Texas. With the sting of losses so fresh, much of the angel activity dried up in the early 2000s, but it restarted with the launch of Central Texas Angel Network in 2006 and Capital Factory opening its doors in 2009.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

How to Compete Against Open Source As a commercial software vendor you have to focus on your key advantages over open source software: Save Your Users Time. August 11th, 2009 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob [.] #2 The vast majority do not.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

There are many others, like the one I just finished about Ratan Tata bringing out the Nano car in 2009 in India for less than $2,500. Some people create brilliant solutions to non-existent problems, like maybe Segway and satellite phones. The book is called “ Nanovation ,” by Kevin & Jackie Freiberg. Lead the revolution.

Non-Compete 235

Non-Compete India Entrepreneur Customer 235

ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

According to a relatively old study (2009) by Harris Interactive, the most common methods of gathering information prior to making a purchase are. There are huge incentives in consumer markets even for competing companies to make everything the same. Ever wondered why so many products on the store shelves are so similar?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Competes with Seesmic , HootSuite , Brizzly. More importantly, if you think you want to go down the non-VC route Ryan would be a great resource to contact. __. Founded in 2009 in Los Angeles by Michelle Crames. Founded in 2009 in San Francisco by David Soloff (ex-Lead Architect of Rapt, which was sold to MSFT in 2008).

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. When you attend an event to find a programmer, you are competing against many others in the same boat, and you are competing against companies offering very high salaries.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 3, 2012

Since 2002, the United States dropped from 18th in the world in math on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) to 31st place in 2009, with a similar drop in science and no change in reading. • Our employers are no longer competing with cheaper labor; they’re up against smarter labor worldwide.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

I loved to compete against these companies. Filed under: Customer Development | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Tips for Startups « Customer Development Talk Startup2Startup Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know » 16 Responses Twitted by sharemefg , on May 4, 2009 at 7:21 am Said: [.]

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. While non bank business financing is currently miniscule by comparison, the numbers from kickstarter.com tell us something is brewing. This might just change.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Self-reported 60mm daily unique as of Dec 2009, games played by 250mm people a month (AppData). Competes with McAfee , Thawte. Apple TOS update restricts non-independent ad networks from serving ads to iPhone or iPad. Non-independents: AdMob/Google , Quattro/Apple , ThirdScreenMedia/AOL. DST invested $180mm last fall.

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semanticuniverse.com

MARCH 9, 2010

Web technologies need to be accessible to non-technical people as well as technical people. happens when they realize that they dont have to think in columns and rows, and so they can manage non-tabular data just as easily. But that means that it will be necessarily unlike whatever was available in their technological experience.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

And, there are potential tax traps as well, especially when Non Qualified options are traded for services. Your investors, the smart ones at least, are certainly making decisions the other way among competing deals. Many of us suffered in the 2000–2002 dotcom crash and/or the 2007–2009 Great Recession; others hardly noticed a blip.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

I just have a hard time evaluating competence of business co-founders. I'll need damn good evidence of your competence (e.g. If your idea is bad you have nothing to bring to the table because you have no other skills to offer as a non technical co-founder. ► 2009. (78). Raising cash is an easy test. startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. Or the alternate model of letting third party currency resellers handle that (but then having to deal with competing in selling credits with those sites)? Appreciate your insights.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Cautionary note: No competent VC is actually fooled when you show up after raising $6M in seed financing and say you’re now raising an A! Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. This is something I think entrepreneurs don’t totally understand and it’s worthwhile they do. It’s hard building a startup.

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