The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2012

But what you may not know is that Nguyen actually designed the first user interface for the Color app. If true, and our sources are very well placed, the acquisition helps end a tumultuous period of Color’s existence. Pham left the startup in June 2011 over unknown reasons and went to work at Los Angeles incubator Science.

Los Angeles 161

Los Angeles Silicon Valley Media Startup 161

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Acquisition, technology, and logistics. You won’t find that written down in any acquisition document.

Technology 388

Technology China Agile Acquisition 388

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

First up, Manik Kinra from Bangalore, India, pitched Jade Magnet , a crowd sourcing platform for creative services like logo design, website development, animation, video production, etc. The bulk of our discussion today was around scaling and customer acquisition strategies. CustomerDiscovery. About Sramana Mitra.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Ireland India Entrepreneur 124

ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Then Kristen Becker presented Kir Devries , an e-commerce site that offers a well-edited collection of unique goods for practical everyday living that have been sourced due to their impeccable craftsmanship, unique design and style, and their "good factor" in the moderate price range. Recordings of previous roundtables are all available here.

Cloud 115

Cloud Silicon Valley Incubator Finance 115

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market. The metrics were good but we wondered how much better they would be when we expanded our product.

Startup 150

Startup Seed Money DC Software Review 150

ReadWriteStart

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I recently wrote a blog post that I believe is worth pointing out in the context of the strategy roundtables: VCs, Angels, Incubators, Accelerators - What Are You Doing With Your Rejects? I'd like to hear from venture capitalists, angel investors, incubators, and accelerators on this topic. His firm invests in four.

Incubator 116

Incubator Silicon Valley Idaho Entrepreneur 116

Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

For most companies it feels like innovation can only happen by exception and heroic efforts, not by design. The Enterprise: Business Model Execution We know that a startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model. By design not by exception. The question is – why?

IRR 335

IRR Startup Business Model Agile 335

ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2011

and SEO as two of the most effective and affordable customer acquisition strategies. and an affiliate program would also help with customer acquisition. Then Danny Wong from Shanghai, China, presented GemKitty , a custom jewelry design site that is having difficulty finding its core customer base. Guerrilla p.r.

Acquisition 115

Acquisition SEO San Francisco India 115

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” My contribution has been, “Why don’t we design classes more closely modeled to what innovators and entrepreneurs actually do.” A third is incubators and makers’ spaces. They can come from inside the company, outside as acquisitions, universities, etc.

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Incubator Lean Programming Government 331

ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

So we designed a new sign-up bar with a more prominent call to action, encouraging users to sign up with the line: “Join more than 60,000 growth professionals from Twitter, Facebook, Google, Uber, and more who get our best content each week.”.

Technical Review 127

Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If I wanted to be a product design person, just doing biz dev at a startup isn't going to help me get a product design job in the future, even though I've "proven" that I can work at a startup. That's one of the reasons why I do events and talks around building up "bench talent"--the marketing folks, design leads, etc.,

Non-Compete 115

Non-Compete Design Hiring Incubator 115

The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

New-style marketing group Crowdify, which has been designed to deliver the marketing needs of 21 st century brands and fast-growth companies, recently launched in the UK with an impressive roster of clients, including Tottenham Hotspur, NHS, ViaVan, HiyaCar, Modball and PureGym.

Marketing 76

Marketing Agile Social Network Valuation 76

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

By utilizing economies of scale, location, and common design, you may be able to provide a better solution faster for a lower cost. They know you and your brand, so this should minimize your customer acquisition cost for the new product. New products or services to existing customers. Merge with or acquire another business.

Bandwidth 246

Bandwidth Incubator .Net Global 246

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

By utilizing economies of scale, location, and common design, you may be able to provide a better solution faster for a lower cost. They know you and your brand, so this should minimize your customer acquisition cost for the new product. New products or services to existing customers. Merge with or acquire another business.

Entrepreneur 250

Entrepreneur Bandwidth Incubator .Net 250

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Sales (and/or customer acquisition in a multi-sided market) becomes achievable by a sales force (or network effect or virality) without heroic efforts from the founders. Customer acquisition and activation are understood and Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) and Life Time Value (LTV) can be estimated for the next 18 months.

Startup 120

Startup Lean Venture Capital Advisory Board 120

David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

We never seek any rights to give Amex preferential treatment at the time of a potential acquisition. There is a possibility that Amex may explore acquisitions within the Amex Ventures portfolio, but those discussions will be on market terms similar to those with other potential acquirers.”.

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Venture Capital Balance Sheet Technical Review Portfolio 60

The Equity Kicker

MAY 22, 2015

Note: I haven’t included accelerator programmes or incubators. Google Ventures: has teams that help portfolio companies with design, engineering, recruiting, marketing and partnerships. Forward Partners has a team of eight to help our partners with product, design, development, customer acquisition and recruitment.

Portfolio 60

Portfolio PR Incubator Early Stage 60

VC Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2021

Amazon Corporate Development – Notable acquisitions include Whole Foods ($13.7B), smart doorbell system Ring ($1.2B, 2018) and autonomous mobility technology Zoox ($1.2bn). Digital courses are generally 10-20 minutes long and are designed to help you build foundational knowledge for more than 70+ AWS services and solutions.

Technical Review 174

Technical Review Startup Venture Capital Incubator 174

Hippoland

APRIL 3, 2013

It wasn’t going to help you get a $1B acquisition for a photo-sharing app. Sales education isn’t taught at startup incubators (though I think they should teach this — hint hint, Dave). So, incubators are NOT the new MBA. An MBA was never supposed to help you turn cute birds into a hit game.

Incubator 89

Incubator Startup Cofounder Sales 89

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. Very cool concept, designed by an energy scientist, upon which J.J.

Vertical 115

Vertical Web San Francisco Entrepreneur 115

Hippoland

APRIL 3, 2013

It wasn’t going to help you get a $1B acquisition for a photo-sharing app. Sales education isn’t taught at startup incubators (though I think they should teach this — hint hint, Dave). So, incubators are NOT the new MBA. An MBA was never supposed to help you turn cute birds into a hit game.

Incubator 48

Incubator Startup Cofounder Sales 48

VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

If you’re a startup founder, you’re probably looking at Google in some way, maybe in terms of partnership or acquisition, but maybe some level of suspicion and fear. M&A – Acquisitions. In this category there is a range of programs design to support founders and startups. Will they compete with me?

Technical Review 131

Technical Review Startup Early Stage Cloud 131

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning.

NPV 337

NPV Chicago Balance Sheet Database 337

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

IdeaLab has created 75 companies, leading to 8 IPOs, 35 or so acquisitions and more than 5 companies worth in excess of $1 billion. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups. I think this makes no sense.

Product 350

Product Tuvalu Dilution Incubator 350

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Design smart deals. People who’ve already shopped at your store may be following you on Facebook or Twitter, but engaging with them isn’t going to drive new customer acquisitions. Matt is also responsible for its internet Yellow Pages (iYP) products and Consumer, Payments, Incubator and Latin initiatives.

PR 229

PR Social Network Web Development Incubator 229

Steve Blank

AUGUST 25, 2021

And then she fought with the acquisition folks to buy the trivial amount of additional hardware needed to connect it. I realized that innovation in this organization was going to continue to happen by heroics and exception rather than by design. An Organizational Design Problem. see this HBR article.)

Non-Compete 436

Non-Compete Government Incubator Design 436

venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. Acquisition. After playing coy and dropping hints for weeks, Microsoft has finally announced its newest incubator, the Bing Fund. 4 days ago. From $1.5B to half a trillion dollars: PayPal celebrates a 10th anniversary. Cloud services.

Detroit 69

Detroit Incubator Technical Review Venture Capital 69

www.thestartup.eu

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Let’s break down their costs: Logo design: a simple contest on 99designs with a $300 prize. Iphone icon: a dutch designer made a professional icon for $350 Internationalization: translations in german, french and spanish. tags: app budget cheap design development iphone startup startups bootstrap) [.] How did they do it?

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Bootstrapping Italy Sweat Equity Europe 49

www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Its thesame with acquisitions. Till now, nearly all seed firms have been so-called "incubators,"so Y Combinator gets calledone too, though the only thing we have in common is that we investin the earliest phase. According to the National Association of Business Incubators, thereare about 800 incubators in the US.

Technical Review 76

Technical Review Startup Software Review Angel Investor 76

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

So, we chose a business concept, established the pain point, discussed the solution, identified monetization and customer acquisition strategies, and assessed market opportunity. Acquisition. This talk is targeted at current or aspiring product owners, product designers, product architects and engineers. Angel Investors.

Cofounder 47

Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

The company’s vice president of engineering posted a terrific blog about how the engineering culture has scaled and shared something with respect to the role of engineers that I thought particularly interesting: “We do not have ‘architects’ - at TripAdvisor, if you design something, your code it, and if you code it you test it.

Part-Time VPE 54

Part-Time VPE Software Review Costa Rica Technical Review 54

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Lock in customers with loyalty and high cost of change.

Silicon Valley 136

Silicon Valley Differentiation Angel Investor Incubator 136

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup. For example, Google’s acquisition of Nest (which had customers, revenue and a distribution channel) allowed it to enter the connected home market immediately.

Silicon Valley 120

Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

Its goal is to take the original idea and search for a repeatable and scalable business model - first by finding product/market fit, then by testing all the parts of the business model (pricing, channel, acquisition/activation, partners, costs, etc.). but instead jumped into bed to start a company. Everyone has ideas.

Cofounder 335

Cofounder Advisory Board Customer Development Leadership 335

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. I’m studying design. Will developers and designers provide services for a piece of the company? To what extent could I trust web design companies? Product, product, product! Use Joomla.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

He chose to build an engine with the entire eight cylinders cast in one block, and instructed his engineers to produce a design for the engine. The design was put on paper, but the engineers agreed, every one of them, that it was simply impossible to cast an eight-cylinder gas engine block in one piece. Ford said, “Produce it anyway.”

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Innovation in an existing company is not just the sum of great technology, key acquisitions, or smart people. Or if a CEO proudly boast about their corporate incubator, but the incubator’s parking lot is empty at 5:15 pm. For innovation to happen by design not by exception, companies need to hack their corporate culture.

Startup 120

Startup Silicon Valley Incubator Matching 120