Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Once this new service became popular then the media companies could control the rules of distribution & advertising. The goal of any cartel is to control production, distribution & marketing of a set of goods with the goal of maintaining high prices. This narrative has been confirmed to me by several senior studio executives.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. So what’s left?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, January 2, 2010 Towards a new entrepreneurship When I started writing about the lean startup , my aspiration was to do more than just share a handful of tips and tricks that work for consumer internet startups. So far, 2010 is shaping up to be an even more amazing year; read on to find out why.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 7, 2012

He had been at it for 6 months and had no sales or distribution lined up yet. They are seeking $40k for a 33% stake and want investors who can provide introductions for distribution and licensing on their behalf. The entrepreneur launched Zomm in late 2010 and did $700k in sales that year. Provides an emergency one touch dialer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 27, 2010 Good enough never is (or is it?) And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. After all, how would Craig Newmark’s life (and the rest of ours, too) be different today if he had waited to build something with a high-quality design before starting his famous list?

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, over the last decade, the rest of the world doesn’t need to read these blogs to see what’s going on. Pitchbook also published interesting historical data going back to 2010 for the Top 20 cities (not including the Bay Area) to receive venture dollars and how those numbers change year over year. Global and Local.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. state to adopt this structure in 2010.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. What accounts for the difference?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

That’s a bit of a cautionary tale to VC investors today who might think it’s inevitable that the private value they are enjoying in their portfolios will certainly translate to distributions in the near future. One thing that jumps out quickly is that TVPI between 2004-2010 (avg 2.6x) has underperformed 2011-2017 (avg 3.0x).

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Kik Music raised a $1 million seed funding round in January 2010, roughly a year after Livingston had first embarked on the project. The Kik Chat app launched in April 2010 for iOS and BlackBerry initially. So in October 2010, Kik launched the second version of its messaging app — and the company’s future changed almost instantly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

Eren Bali arrived in Silicon Valley from Turkey in 2010 hoping to relaunch Udemy , his online education company. But yes, I migrated from Turkey to Silicon Valley in 2010 and started Udemy. What was that, 2009, 2010? We had to move to Silicon valley. So, it was a really long story. ER : I remember Speed Date. EB : Yeah.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

My two cents is that a business plan is the single place to collect your thinking about about your: business model, distribution channel, demand creation plan, financial assumptions, and customer and product development plan. And the rest of the advice on this blog is irrelevant. I now think that was a mistake.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

SuperMac sold our graphic boards for the Macintosh through multiple distribution channels: direct sales to major accounts, national chains, independent rep firms, etc. But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. demand creation strategy). Keep ‘em coming.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2020

Depending on the data source, the unsubsidized Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE) of solar in 2010 was between 30-40 cents / kWh. So in 2010, the cost of solar energy was > 5x the cost of fossil fuel based electricity. The rest of the world is doing the same. cents / kwh in Abu Dhabi and 1.5 cents / kwh in New Mexico ). .

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Save the rest for later. Then carry on with the rest. JamesM (2010-06-19) # great post Derek!

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes. The 1M/1M program aims to help a million entrepreneurs globally reach $1 million in revenue (and beyond), thereby building the foundation of a robust, distributed and sustainable economic value creation that would add up to $1 trillion dollars in global GDP. What makes 1M/1M unique?

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

Tired of working for someone else, in 2010 they opened a Northwest-style-meets-Southern-cuisine food cart in downtown Eugene, Oregon. Then Ninkasi Brewing, in about 2010, started having food carts at their tasting room. It seemed simple: How could we get free beer for the rest of our lives? Do you set goals?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

In blue is how much time we spent in 2010 and in blue the time spent in 2014. was the dramatic shift between 2010 to 2014 to mobile content consumption. They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. Got any tips to share with the rest of us on how we can do it faster? Thank you.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

In 2010, Dr. Anne Aula, a Senior User Experience Researcher at Google, presented some disappointing findings about mouse tracking: Only 6% of people showed some vertical correlation between mouse movement and eye tracking. User viewing time was distributed as follows: Above the fold: 80.3% Maybe it’s accurate, maybe it’s not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Even if SJ has some unique "process" that enables him to come up with killer products (I suspect he is just wired differently from most people and probably has no real idea of how he does it to a point where it is teachable), that doesn't mean that the Lean Startup/Steve Blank's ideas etc have less of a value for the rest of us.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

VC’s start investing in technology-enabled “offline” businesses (distribution, services etc) – most of whom would never have gotten venture money 3 years ago. Google finally fixes the problem with mobile (discovery, search, distribution, tracking, monetization, a/b testing) and races ahead while Apple waxes nostalgically for 2010.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

I use Mailchimp for the distribution of weekly newsletters, and for list growth via opt-ins for multiple types of campaigns. Set up a test, and MailChimp will automatically send to a designated split portion of the list, choose the winner, and then send the winning email to the rest of the list. Advanced stats.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Mucker Lab

JANUARY 1, 2014

VC’s accelerate investments in “internet of things” except sometime in Q4, wake up and realize it’s no different than “consumer electronics” – and that we still need to innovate around the manufacturing infrastructure, distribution economics, and consumer liability of the consumer goods business to really make this a venture fundable category.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

August 2010 Two years ago I wrote about what I called " a huge, unexploitedopportunity in startup funding :" the growing disconnect betweenVCs, whose current business model requires them to invest largeamounts, and a large class of startups that need less than theyused to. Then the startup and the lead wouldcooperate to find the rest.

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techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

The rest of the time was taken to boot Linux, start the Apache Tomcat JVM that runs our automation tooling, start the Cassandra JVM and join the "ring" that makes up the Cassandra data store. distribution plus Netflix specific tooling and instrumentation. ► 2010. (8). running in our test account. ► January. (3).

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

(Company) a good place to find good technical co-founders? Where can I find co-founders who understand distributed systems and databases? How have non-technical founders found technical co-founders? Finding Co-Founders: What are some good ways to find technical co-founders in India? Yishan Wong • Nov 8, 2010 lol.if

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

And it’s more important than ever to communicate to their customers, prospective customers, and the rest of their industry.”. But there were others, too: In 2010, Okta had only ten customers on board. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. recession in 2009.”.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Developers dont usually think much about how element should sit on a screen together, so you see a lot of items crammed together or unevenly distributed. Developers dont usually think much about how element should sit on a screen together, so you see a lot of items crammed together or unevenly distributed. Just my two cents.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

As in all things startup-related, the distributions are not even. The companies most successful at fundraising have raised orders of magnitude more than the rest. But 22% of the startups founded by HBS alums are outside North America, with some ending up very dominant in their home markets. billion to date.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.) Gary Hoover Reply Michael F.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Afterdownload : We’ve laucnhed in Feb 2010. Omer : In addition, we’re in the field of software distribution so you could say we compete with OpenCandy , etc. On the AfterDownload we have a very high in CTR (4-5 to 10%) but if the page is designed in a way we know is optimized we get much higher than the rest of the market.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Afterdownload : We’ve laucnhed in Feb 2010. Omer : In addition, we’re in the field of software distribution so you could say we compete with OpenCandy , etc. On the AfterDownload we have a very high in CTR (4-5 to 10%) but if the page is designed in a way we know is optimized we get much higher than the rest of the market.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Afterdownload : We’ve laucnhed in Feb 2010. Omer : In addition, we’re in the field of software distribution so you could say we compete with OpenCandy , etc. On the AfterDownload we have a very high in CTR (4-5 to 10%) but if the page is designed in a way we know is optimized we get much higher than the rest of the market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention. ER : And the rest, as they say, is history. I'm curious.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 21, 2014

Tell them explicitly that you believe rest, relaxation, and outside adventures make them better workers. Let them know that you want them to get an adequate amount of rest, which is seven to nine hours a night for adults. And, of course, some people are workaholics or simply forget to plan. for every $1 spent on wellness.

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