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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. at exit due to dilution. This was in 2011, and I still remember that warning. You can’t just start chasing the shiny new thing every moment something new arises.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. at exit due to dilution. This was in 2011, and I still remember that warning. You can’t just start chasing the shiny new thing every moment something new arises.

IRR 156
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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

You’ll never have the staying power to commit when things get tough or to get really good and build real differentiation if you just keep jumping to the next new thing. at exit due to dilution. This was in 2011, and I still remember that warning. You can’t just start chasing the shiny new thing every moment something new arises.

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7 Competition Crushing Value Propositions

Duct Tape Marketing

This is tough for any organization, but can be next to impossible for a small business just getting started. One very powerful way to create a point of differentiation is to carve out a narrow segment of a market and explain through every communication that you are the experts in serving that market.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0 So the team got to work.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). Dave McClure • Jan 9, 2011 Home run Saul. Dave Morin • Jan 9, 2011 Very well written Saul! Can't agree with you more.

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90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

As the questions came in, I realized that my 2010 list was great for what I had learned as of 2 years ago, but it also was in desperate need of an update to include what I’ve learned more recently, especially as we’ve pivoted from fabulis to Fab in 2011 and then scaled Fab to more than 7.5 We do twice-yearly reviews of all Fab team members.