Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

There is a place for the wide open faucet of information that Twitter can supply, and there are times when the traditional outlets can not compete, For instance, in the case of breaking, fast-evolving events such as the Arab Spring uprisings the best place to get instant factoids is via the person-on-the-street accounts aggregated via hashtag.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Because of the incredible array of information available, we have a desperate need for filtering mechanisms. Does anyone really watch the full NBC lineup anymore?

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 26, 2017

In a recent New York Times column, Farhad Manjoo celebrated the fact that more consumers seem to be paying for content , which A Good Thing. This new generation is more concerned with social impact. It feels very different than paying $100 to News Corp. This is another reason why brand and authenticity matter so much.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

They had previously all worked together at a very successful company in the “telecoms meets Internet&# space, CallWave, which IPO’d 5 years ago or so. There will be new opportunities in this value chain. Internet consumption is obviously growing massively on mobile devices. But this will obviously change over time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Examples of things I monitor are the numbers of user activations, active users, and aggregate page hits to user galleries. Application level diagnostics Despite the best testing, defects still happen.

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David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

It was created before the Internet age to protect investors by promoting full disclosure of information. For small businesses, registering a company is timely and costly in management fees, accounting fees, and legal fees.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

Earlier this month, the New York Times published an opinion piece titled “ It’s Time To Break Up Facebook “ The title itself is not necessarily provocative — voices have been calling for the disbandment of the social media conglomerate in greater and greater numbers — but the by-line is.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Designed for large businesses, the channels let a company share several types of documents, brand the channel with their own design elements, and then include display advertising, contest promotions, blog aggregation, social media integration and metrics reporting. The idea seemed to SlideShare to be a natural direction.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2010

Square allows merchants anywhere there is internet access to accept payments from credit cards via any mobile device that has a headphone input jack. Shopping and Auctions and Rakuten, an online shopping site Aggregator which generates 25% of its total sales via mobile. · The dominant players in this category are Yahoo!

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions. So why is demographic diversity important? So why is demographic diversity important?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Today, many of these businesses are suffering because the ecosystem no longer balances thanks to the Internet. If you’re starting a new media company, does it make sense to charge from day one?

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2013

This week, I spoke to one of the longest running and most active angel groups in the country, the New York Angels. Luckily for all of us, including the New York Angels themselves, the ecosystem has bloomed. The Internet is making finding co-investors easier--and I don't mean just on AngelList.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

” Users tend to aggregate around platforms and content they identify with (organized around demographics, topics like movies or restaurants, shopping, etc.) rather than aggregating on one common platform and hoping to wade through a morass of content to catch a piece that might be relevant to their own personal interests, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Let me briefly summarize the part of the book I find most helpful (leaving a few out, which arent germane to todays topic). Not all crowds are wise.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

But, since Yipit, an aggregator of all these services, involves more user interface / user experience challenges, it made more sense for us to teach ourselves so that we could iterate on the concept till we got it right. Just get something out there and recruit a great technical team later. Many thanks and looking forward to the next post.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

Bonus: If you want another example of a great top-tier store that does digital really well, check out Barneys New York. by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators! Everyone on the Internet loves speed. You want a premium price?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

20:32) On believing in the internet as an immune system, then learning it's not and taking responsibility.(22:55) I'm from New York, upstate New York. But you go to New York City and people just kind of. No longer even in the era of internet, a product customers actually liked.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

I wont go into the details of the bill, but at a high level, it allows entrepreneurs to raise funds over the Internet up to a maximum of $1M annually (or $2M with audited financials). My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. Steve Bennet. 7.5 - 10.5%

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Cell Buddy has developed the only seamless, carrier grade solution, for low cost Voice calls, SMS and Internet, while abroad. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. So is the internet. FanGager is a US company, based in New York. CellBuddy - Company Website.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. The mappings never change (unless you build a data migration tool, in which case they change rarely) and so are easy to cache.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The team over at Overto felt the lack of at least one full-time resource was the primary reason for their failure writing : We thought we’d able to run internet service after hours. We were working on new features when we had enough free time. To some point that was true.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Thin line between life and death of internet service is a number of users. Company: Wolff New Media. Company : Wesabe.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 7, 2010

It’s hard to establish that a decrease in funding in the aggregate level is an indicator for future trends in the market, as the graphs below clearly show the strong cyclicality of VC investments, at least in some of the tech segments. Overall, 343 US companies raised $1.8 The number of companies funded has also declined by 6%.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This option-based valuation methodology can also be used to explain the early 2000 internet/telecom bubble in the public markets. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. And what happens if you don’t get into the one VC that gets into Cornerstone On Demand (ffVC company, now the 10th largest SaaS company in the world)?

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David Teten

JULY 21, 2011

Our first event is free and is Sunday, July 31, 10am-1pm, at the Sakura Park Playground , off Riverside Drive, between Claremont Ave and West 122nd St, New York. ”, which in aggregate is quite a large company. . - Meeting at a playground in Central Park. Craft projects.

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aweissman.com

AUGUST 31, 2012

What if the power of connected networks such as the Internet is that they unbundle all that came before them? They disintermediate incumbent industries but also do the same to any new attempts at re-aggregation? Google's turned out to be right - how fast can we get you away from our service into the messiness of the Internet.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 30, 2012

On top of the report you'll see the scorecard, or aggregate performance of the page via metrics like Pageviews, Unique Pageviews, Time on Page, Page Load Time (!) IF you're New York Times or Amazon, you want to know if people scroll! and Bounce Rate. This is so important if you are responsible for merchandizing.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2011

That's the internet for you. … From the deep detail reported by your web analytics tool you can choose to aggregate into buckets you most care about (like mine above). If you are the New York Times and you update the website 24 times a day then should the average person be visiting the site at least 90 times per month?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? BA : Yeah, well, the first time I saw the Bitcoin white paper, I saw it on Hacker News, which is a website that YCombinator runs. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And I guess as I'm talking about that, it really is a lot like the early days of the internet.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

And while DataSift is a provider of multiple real-time data feeds, I would like to be clear that Twitter is by far the most important and dominant of the real-time publicly available data that exists on the Internet today, which is why today’s bet for me is on the Twitter ecosystem. has now made these analytics available to the public.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 9, 2014

We’re building a True SaaS company in Boise, Idaho, not in Silicon Valley or not in New York. Bates: Good morning and welcome to our CEO panel, “How to Fine-Tune Your Small Business Finances From Funding to Growth” which I think is the direction that we would all like to be going. My name is John Bates.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. And noted New York angel Chris Dixon recently made the leap to the venture world. November 29, 2012.

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