Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Telepathic, a new technology startup, is bringing A/B testing to the world of mass-market fiction and storytelling. With positive feedback from his peers, Hoover decided to transform his email list into a website.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

You'll be responsible for the successful management of the sales organization in order to meet the objectives of the Company. You will hire (over time) and manage a field and inside team of Sales Directors and Market Developers, including for each direct report creating and managing goals directly tied to Company goals.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Many small businesses are turning to customer relationship management systems(CRM) to better understand customer wants and needs. Customer Relationship Management is a technology designed to help your business manage customer relationships and interactions in an organized way. What is CRM? Who is using CRM?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As David Sacks from All in put it: On aggregate, a lot of funding was also deployed to startups in the application layer – investing in founders leveraging generative AI to either solve narrow tasks, or bring automation to tasks to reduce costs, increase accuracy, speed etc.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

Consumers can take turns in placing the order, and Marcial would need to provide the infrastructure to manage the flow of funds, as well as the distribution of merchandise locally. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Discuss.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

What is the risk-benefit calculus for developing and protecting proprietary technologies vs. buying or licensing them (“ build vs. buy ”)? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? If you do manage to threaten them, they’re more likely to buy you than sue you. Easier said than done!)

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2013

HRS CEO Tobias Ragge was recently in Singapore for the official announcement, where he shared his plans to drive adoption of his company’s online hotel booking and travel management solutions, which allows users to make direct reservations free of charge, offering immediate confirmation and cost savings of up to 30% on hotel bookings.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Large companies were acquiring technology startups just to get in the game at the same absurd prices.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I recently had the privilege of assembling an all-star group of media executives in Beverly Hills to discuss the challenges they face in distributing, monetizing and delivering their video content. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content.

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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. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. What accounts for the difference?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Richard’s email address is public but it is hard to manage all the inbound cold emails. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. They had a great team and interesting technologies.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

But DailyMotion’s geographic distribution of users doesn’t mirror YouTube, especially within the United States. In fact, JW Player was the technology that ran the earliest version of YouTube. Of course, with Wisita, you must create the audience for your videos—there’s no inherent distribution network (unlike YouTube).

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 13, 2018

A week and a half later, we’re in a good rhythm and things are pretty manageable. Crypto is a bubble, and while I understand the value in a decentralized and distributed ledger, I believe the near-term economic impact of the actual blockchain technology is <10% of the current aggregate crypto market cap.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It’s hard to keep it up to date as there is a constant flow of new technology. content management system. digital repository management. RSS aggregator. collections management system. video distribution platform. www.dimdim.com. etherpad.org. ProjectPier. www.projectpier.org. Google Docs. drupal.org.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It’s hard to keep it up to date as there is a constant flow of new technology. content management system. digital repository management. RSS aggregator. collections management system. video distribution platform. www.dimdim.com. etherpad.org. ProjectPier. www.projectpier.org. Google Docs. drupal.org.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It’s hard to keep it up to date as there is a constant flow of new technology. content management system. digital repository management. RSS aggregator. collections management system. video distribution platform. www.dimdim.com. etherpad.org. ProjectPier. www.projectpier.org. Google Docs. drupal.org.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

It’s hard to keep it up to date as there is a constant flow of new technology. content management system. digital repository management. RSS aggregator. collections management system. video distribution platform. www.dimdim.com. etherpad.org. ProjectPier. www.projectpier.org. Google Docs. drupal.org.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Our publisher distribution network reaches in the tens of millions of unique users and is comprised of “head end&# stars as well as many “mid tier&# and “long tail&# publishers. They already had a completed product and a distribution deal with the largest affiliate network company, Commission Junction.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Management Team. In that case, you can dispense with details about the management team, funding requirements, and traction, and instead treat the executive summary as an overview of the strategic direction of the company, to ensure that all team members are on the same page. This chapter will also define how you measure success.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 3, 2013

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! Two-time entrepreneur Jordan Eisenberg, founder of UrgentRX warns that, “Few things in a start up are more important than carefully managing cash. Because the platform lets curators distribute digests in their own names.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn. Thus, you must manage your available finances wisely. Draw up a budget.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Do you know have they distribute their product? weeks ago, positioning it as a tool designed to help small businesses effectively manage their social media efforts. Me – “Have you used Company x’s product? Do you know how they create demand? Do you know how many units they are selling? Do you know the archetype of their customers?

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 8, 2019

But it’s not just that the Foundation has been effective at aggregating and analyzing the “whos,” “whats,” “wheres,” “whens,” and “hows” of huge global challenges like childhood mortality. This key principle is one that many would-be change-makers – be they product managers or philanthropists – overlook. What about my shot?”

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. I'm married to Mike Freehling , M&A and financial management consultant. I've known Farida for quite a while.

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Rob Go

JANUARY 29, 2012

Facebook’s success is largely based on its ability to aggregate the biggest audience on the internet and understand and monetize that audience. There were certain management practices that were core to Google that made it an exciting place to work. Here are the major vulnerabilities that I see: 1. Network fragmentation.

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aweissman.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Needless to say, my post, and this business I founded in general, are about utilizing technology in new ways to enhance learning, connections, and learning connections. Thus, I regularly read the work of Clarence Fisher, a teacher who writes wonderfully interesting materials on his site called Remote Access , about technology and learning.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 6, 2010

The foundation technology combines listening/responding with an analytics capability aimed at measuring the influence of an individual user and using that information to target small segments of highly desirable individuals who influenced broader segments of the market. Hollywood celebrities) is not always a measure of influence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 20, 2015

We do this through the use of great tools and by implementing technology that helps us handle a very heavy load. Four times per year, Bianca (our Customer Service Manager) downloads reports from each of these services and aggregates them into one supersize Excel spreadsheet, allowing us to perform fairly sophisticated analyses of the results.

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View from Seed

JUNE 22, 2016

The most prolific type of drone company right now are these consultancy-type businesses that range all the way from two guys who are ex-fighter pilots who love to fly drones and get commissioned to do various things with them up to a large-scale aggregation of drone service providers. And then there’s the potential for autonomy.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

In Part 1 of this Markets overview for the live music industry , we covered issues related to live music recording, promotion, and sales and the role of mobile technology. Management Still Matters. (Cross-posted from The Appconomy ). And if done correctly, they can lead to tour dates, licensing deals, and TV appearances.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

For my beloved www.nytimes.com it might be World, US, Politics, Business, DealBook, Technology, Sports, Science, Health, Arts and Style. Management does not get it, they have no online products so why care, they are doing Facebook ads and really what else does anyone else need, yada, yada, yada. There are many reasons for this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. So why is demographic diversity important?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. I had my model in hand.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2016

If the risk is low and traffic overlap between the tests is manageable, two tests can absolutely be allowed to run in parallel, so that one and the same user can be in multiple tests. The left graphic shows a perfect (theoretical) normal distribution. Here are some different scenarios and what to do: 1. Low risk of interdependencies.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Most frequently people use this phrase in association with personal technology devices (heart-monitors, exercise accessories, sleep monitors, etc) that allow consumers to take direct control of their health information. Technology to the Rescue? The subject of the “consumerization of healthcare” has been around for many years.

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