Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. 44:12) Show-related links Code for America United States Digital Service 18F U.S. She served as the U.S.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

You must also understand the value the product provides customers (along with the rest of your business model.). Tiffani was also a 2014 Code for America Fellow working with the City of Atlanta. If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Soccer prediction mobile apps are a dime to a dozen, but what do you expect when soccer – football to the rest of the world – is such a global sporting phenomenon? But what may be a lot rarer is one that actually is based around the engine originally built for a stock trading app.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

They see things the rest of us don’t see, which is why they get to be founders. I understand that part of this ‘risk backlash’ is that in many historical cases the risks have been disproportionately born by those with the least power in America. You’re in the middle of inventing the TAM. What went wrong here?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So for engineers, it's going to look different from salespeople, it's going to look different from lawyers. And if you think about corporate America, it's not designed for that. So as an example, and I'll share one of my own, when I was back in corporate America, there was a reorg. We have all disciplines. Keep it to yourself.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2011

The rest can be on the back burner for the moment. She has a master's degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then Umashankar Balasubramanian of RDimensio pitched an SMS-based classified service. The answer to that question, I believe, is the 1M/1M Premium Lounge.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

If anybody tells that you that being an entrepreneur is less work than being in corporate America, they are lying. I’ve spent a good deal of time working in corporate America, and the past four years being an entrepreneur, and I can say that entrepreneurship is way more work. It falls into that “all the rest” category of etc.,

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The rest have been companies with some early market validation. For example, in the case of one recent company that we’ve been working with for the last 7 months, we have sourced half of the new team members for the company, including their CTO, head of marketing, head of customer success, and a talented senior engineer.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Surrender to Serendipity My general rule of thumb is to make a big calendar with everything I could possibly want to do on it and then in the moment do whichever of the things is easiest and aligns with the rest of the group I’m worth. Engineering Serendipity Making real connections starts with having the right people in the room.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

He grew up in Colombia, South America. You know, the weird thing, Derek, and I should probably let you speak some time, but I was deeply technical when I went into Andersen consulting, and I got paid much less than engineers who graduated, because I had a degree in economics. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. The rest of the week is equally busy. And that’s just on Monday. Hacking for Diplomacy.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

Hacking for Diplomacy is a new course from the Management Science and Engineering department in Stanford’s Engineering school and Stanford’s International Policy Studies program that will be first offered in the Fall of 2016. The rest of the week is equally busy. And that’s just on Monday. Hacking for Diplomacy.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

And there is no pattern more consistent in America than being a white privileged bigot not wanting to see us black people included or recognized in any efforts to create a truly diverse competitive landscape. Hacking the Consistent Cyber attackers, hackers and data manipulators rely on one thing in order to be successful — consistency.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

agile engineering. So for the rest of us I put together this Visitors Guide to Silicon Valley. TechStars and Startup America are partnering to provide mentors in the U.S. I teach potential founders a hands-on, experiential class called the Lean LaunchPad at Berkeley, Stanford, Columbia and Caltech. customer development.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

These elements of my previous corporate career have been crucial in my attempts to reverse engineer an existing industry by simply adding an element of human interaction to a seemingly saturated (online dating) market. 11 – US Army Classified as a Computer Engineer. Thanks to Bryan Clayton, GreenPal ! #11

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy. So what happens if that innovation engine stalls? They show the immigrant innovation engine in Silicon Valley has sputtered to a halt. America's Loss Is The Rest Of The World's Gain. economy moving forward. We’re about to find out.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Key Takeaways Embark on a transformative journey with Ryan Deiss in this Duct Tape Marketing Podcast episode, where he unveils strategies unlock scalable business growth, gain insights into the power of value engines, strategic rhythms, and high-output teams. 07:42] How many value engines are needed to run a business? [09:07]

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2013

As to innovation, when a truly game-changing idea comes along, like the steam locomotive or the internal combustion engine, no amount of resistance is going to stop it. This goes somewhat against the grain of modern conventional wisdom, which is to focus solely on what the company does well and outsource the rest.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy. So what happens if that innovation engine stalls? They show the immigrant innovation engine in Silicon Valley has sputtered to a halt. America's Loss Is The Rest Of The World's Gain. economy moving forward. We’re about to find out.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2016

The Navy calls its program Outreach: Americas Navy. all with their engines running. At each stop an officer or enlisted man gave us an articulate description of what equipment we were looking at and how it fit into the rest of the carrier. And of course that’s the purpose of the two-day tour.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

It’s a well engineered, and under some conditions, a quite delicate instrument. If innovation is left to a few engineers or marketing people, while everybody else runs daily operations, you’ve got a problem. Guitars require moisturizing, as does your innovation environment! I have a beautiful Martin guitar.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Now the 9th largest economy in the world, it‘s clear that the rest of the world is waking up to the potential in Texas. With science and engineering breakthroughs ingrained in the fabric of Houston’s economy, the region has become a thriving hub of digital technology talent. Each city has its own special character.

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OnlyOnce

JUNE 9, 2011

Our sales team and our engineering team use pretty different methodologies from each other and from the rest of the company in how they set individual goals, monitor progress against them, and compensate people on results.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 9, 2019

Thank you to Alton McDowell, Frank Medrano, Ben Halliday and the rest of the J.P. Austin is a CPG powerhouse and the rest of the world doesn’t seem to know it yet. It’s the one thing that everyone in Austin knows but the rest of the world hasn’t caught on to yet. Morgan to approve a robot bus with their logo on it!

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Immigration has always been the engine that drives the American economy. So what happens if that innovation engine stalls? They show the immigrant innovation engine in Silicon Valley has sputtered to a halt. America’s Loss Is The Rest Of The World’s Gain. economy moving forward. since 2005. “I

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Pascal's View

JULY 8, 2009

On June 25th I moderated a panel on the implications of America’s. At precisely the same time that political leaders are calling for expanded innovation to meet our national needs, there appears to be an almost all out assault on entrepreneurship in America – by deed if not by word. Washington, D.C. now go home!”.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

OCTOBER 7, 2011

universities with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) should get a green card with their diplomas. We know that immigrants are 30% more likely than the rest of us to start a business. The paper also says such a policy would significantly benefit U.S. competitiveness and the economy overall.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Hey while I have you on the phone, what do you think I should call my enterprise level encryption engine?” Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us. And asking opinions is fine, but more often than not the people you ask are not in your demographic: “Hi Mom. Things are good, thanks. Check out my book Like this post?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Im not offering extensive studies or research to support this conclusion; the evidence from my peers right here in the innovation capital of America, Silicon Valley, is absolutely overwhelming. They are in school, right now, all across this country. They are nerds.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then I did a brief stint at AutoNation, America's largest automotive retailer in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. And we launched Message From America with Sony, where you could come in and tape a DVD and send it to your soldier or sailor or marine that was being deployed. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

As a kid growing up in America in a middle class family it just seemed so remote. Not knowing what would happen with the rest of the season. Human talent, marketing, engineering, R&D. Now is the time to do those things so that you come on the other side after the reset, in America 2.0, Like, "Oh, come on.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 19, 2023

So I start out with this wonderful day that I'm having at a five star resort, one of the greatest places in America, and I wake up on the 33,000 thread count Egyptian pizzas, and I head down to the spa and all the while I'm making notes. In fact, the best search engines on websites are AI powered. That may take care of them.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

The Referral Engine – Teaching Your Business to Market Itself – by John Jantsch. As well as having one of the world’s most popular marketing blogs , he has also contributed to programs on The BBC and ITV in the UK as well as CBS in North America. Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2013

This school has a distinguished roster of graduates… Earl Bakken, the founder of Medtronic , was an Electrical Engineering grad, and Bob Gore of Gortex , and your current president are both alums of your Chemical Engineering program. Engineers Run the World. Engineers used to be the people who made other peoples ideas work.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

He created the first GPU table joiner and the rest is history. William Malpica , a brilliant University of Texas friend, joined shortly thereafter to lead the engineering roadmap and delivers a level of focus and process essential for delivering on time. Significant capital has been raised in Peru and throughout Latin America.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2013

In North America, green is typically associated with jealousy. More often than not they reveal something similar e.g. there was no previous button or the button is just so much more prominent, it stands out from the rest of the page and thus converts way better. That is, until you look closer. Why is that?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

427 referred to the engine capacity. Three years elapsed from an idea in my head to an item I could hold in my hand for sale ~ on December 1st 2015 I was holding VagiKool, the rest is history. My father was a fan of them before me and basically introduced me to this car that really shook the automotive world in many ways.

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