Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2023

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. Every business leader knows how difficult it is to keep up with a changing market. Customer data integrity and security.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 2, 2022

The required minimum for any company now is a website and accounts in social networks. To implement such a transformation, you need to carry out serious work, which can be based on Big data analysis, cloud and mobile services, and agile development.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 15, 2020

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. Every business leader knows how difficult it is to keep up with a changing market. Customer data integrity and security.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

All you old software development types will recognize the analogy to the traditional two year “waterfall model” of software development, which has been totally replaced with the Agile iterative methodology. Agile assumes and plans for iterative development, where requirements and solutions evolve as more is known and markets change.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Your business may not be directly linked to health and wellness, but being agile is critical for survival, and it could also open doors. Take advantage of social networks and use feedback and reviews to identify potential weaknesses and make improvements. If you sell clothes, you could consider branching out into activewear.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2024

Utilize Social Media Platforms to Widen Campaign Reach In this day and age, neglecting to use social media platforms as a channel for promoting your limited-time offers and flash sales can be considered a serious oversight.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites.

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Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

Facebook (social networking following in the footsteps of Friendster, MySpace, etc). I think this has less to do with network effects which are distinct from first mover (though the two are complementary) and more to do with locking up preferential access to supply. Dropbox (cloud storage). Netflix (video streaming).

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

16- Become more agile and flexible. In my opinion, one of the changes that companies will have to make this year is becoming more agile and flexible. In order to keep up with the ever-changing landscape, businesses will need to be more agile and flexible. Thanks to Cody Candee, Bounce ! #16- Photo Credit: Emir Bacic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. Every business leader knows how difficult it is to keep up with a changing market. Customer data integrity and security.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 30, 2019

A new kind of company, built to leverage new technologies, new media channels, new working practices and new consumer markets, Crowdify is agile, adaptive, responsive and forward thinking — but also grounded and focused on product and brand strategy and return on marketing investment.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The smarter ones wise up and respond quickly to evolving technology and trends and deliver what sells, instead of “staying pure” Look at how Facebook pivoted its social networking site to reach beyond college campuses. Here are four thoughts worth keeping in mind to keep your start-up from suffering arthritis.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Identify existing paper-based processes A quick spin through any social network can reveal complaints about almost any city process, form, or policy. We’re super lean and agile,” says Ortiz Shields, who works with two researchers in the city’s Office of Design & Delivery. But there’s no need to start from scratch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2014

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app that mashes up existing technology derived from early social-networking applications. Mashup probably reminds senior leaders of a train wreck, and social networking is still seen by many business executives as a frivolous waste of time.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

We believe the long-term opportunity is potentially larger and more profound than the various innovations we’ve seen in social networking, messaging and video… We believe the economic opportunity for immersive co-experience is vast.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2016

Senior business leaders, for example, are unlikely to relate when you pitch your latest web app, highlighting the mashup technology, which you derived from early online social networking applications. Here are some key priorities that will resonate with every business leader I know: Ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Over time, open source software the rise of the next wave of web startups and the embrace of Agile Engineering meant that startups no longer needed millions of dollars to buy specialized computers and license expensive software – they could start a company on their credit cards. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014. Tools in the New Bubble.

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Agile VC

MARCH 13, 2012

In the early days of LinkedIn we jointly acquired an issued patent of the defunct SixDegrees.com which directly pertains to social networking as well as acquiring a nascent startup in part for its in-process patent filings. owns a bunch of patents around email, IM, etc), and yes E) social networking.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Jesse Davis , Entrustet. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

A finalist in the Health and Wearable category , which will pitch at 5 pm Sunday, March 10, Boost Biomes is using the powerful social networks among microbes to provide novel, sustainable solutions to feed and heal people everywhere. We trade off resources for agility, which I love, and the need to be resourceful.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 4, 2012

To stand a chance of winning the hearts and minds of consumers, small businesses need to take advantage of their nimbleness, flexibility and agility to outwit and outmaneuver the bigger boys. Achieve a reputation as a guru, wizard, or fix-it person on social networks and channels.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. But the early customers all compared it to MySpace.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Today these potential adversaries are able to harness the power of social networks, encryption, GPS, low-cost drones, 3D printers, simpler design and manufacturing processes, agile and lean methodologies, ubiquitous Internet and smartphones. DF-21 and Islands in the South China Sea. We’re Our Own Worst Enemy. Lessons Learned.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

Topics are an important feature for social networks, just as genres are for music or categories for ecommerce sites. If you can’t invite people into your office and squeeze a new feature out of them, you have two options: Use social networks or a user-testing platform. Quora did just that. Know the process.

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Agile VC

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Now that end users spend as much of their personal time with software (in the form of social networks, tablet/smartphone apps, streaming media, etc) as they do with business software they’ve become much more discriminating buyers.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

As promised, open source social network and Facebook alternative Diaspora released its source code yesterday. Being smaller has its challenges, however, argues Dan Neely, founder of the startup Networked Insights , a social media listening platform. But being small can be beneficial.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2012

Minnows can maneuver with extraordinary agility, and their size causes bigger fish to overlook them. Professional networking takes time, but the rewards could prove substantial. Social networking allows owners to trade links with other site owners in barter arrangements. Free Ways to Target Customers.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2015

Social networks have gained genuine power as a marketing tool for businesses looking to increase their reach, traffic and leads. But there’s no guarantee that the places where most social networking happens now will be the same places hosting it in the future. By Vanessa Richardson.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 17, 2016

By taking these guiding traditional principles and marrying them with the right online plan and cloud-based to platforms, you can quickly and easily deliver modern customer service that seamlessly integrates with social networks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines. Social network page views are much more likely to be internally focused; ads are more of a distraction. Expo SF (May.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Leverage Existing Platforms or Third Party Products - you want to test your social network, grab Drupal and whip something together, or even just use a hosted service. Fake Site - you can have what looks to be a real site, even take "orders" but not actually have anything able to run it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand. High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? For companies in the early-adopter phase, you can play "the earlyvangelist game" whenever a customer turns out to be too mainstream for your product. Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

How They Do It: Build email list of consumers interested in local deals (mainly via paid search & social network ads), sell coupon programs to merchants via telesales. What They Do: Deeply discounted coupons (often 50% off redeemed value) for local merchants. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

This means: Social networking and Community sites that want to unify chat, forums, polls, videos, blogs, etc. Especially when startups are generally started by technically-inclined entrepreneurs that know all the benefits of agile, but all the costs of taking a planning/research-oriented approach?

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