YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Aneace Haddad, CEO & Founder, Taggo. Engineers initially failed to understand the new possibilities of the new paradigm. Loyalty experts add social media to their programs in the same way that 19 th century engineers added combustion engines to their existing carriages. We are in this in-between stage right now.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2021

One of the biggest attractions to the dropshipping business model is its low capital intensity, as you don’t need to purchase inventory up-front. This means you can start a dropshipping business with relatively little investment at the start, other than to create your website and start marketing. Low startup costs and less risk.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders. He was a delegator, not a doer. There’s the team.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. VP of Strategic and Emerging Business Development, Microsoft. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. New York ›.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

One would think that designing a medical device would be a simple engineering problem, and startups would be emerging right and left. Business Model Issues. Business Model Issues. Yet healthcare has its own unique regulatory and reimbursement issues and business model issues that must be understood.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I put in these particular elements because I did a study of the reasons people cancel at WP Engine , and these are the main reasons for cancellation. Beyond the analytical breakdown, I have an emotional attachment to this number , because whenever someone cancels I think about what had to happen to get them to this point, and it kills me.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

He had an idea for a new class of enterprise software insight-as-a-service based on big data web analytics as a Cloud/SaaS (Software As a Service) application. Bob had taken to heart the business model canvas and Customer Development lessons. The first thing that I noticed was that Bob couldn’t seem to find a co-founder.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

While finding product-market fit is important, getting the rest of the business model right is the difference between and a great demo and a great business. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 21, 2018

Without it, even a startup with the best product idea and business plan can fail in the face of challenges and obstacles. Many founders choose to recruit great leaders to take their startups to success. A few years ago, tech and non-tech startups were recruiting engineers for their natural ability to solve problems.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 27, 2015

by Scott Petty, co-founder of Signal Peak Ventures. Yet very small businesses (VSBs) are one of the last untapped bastions of innovation and, by association, venture dollars. VSB might stand for very small business, but the potential is huge.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

New entrants with seemingly endless amounts of cash are creating strong competitive pressures (think Amazon, Netflix, Apple) forcing incumbents to change their business models (e.g. In the world of HR the hope is that gaming will help keep employees engaged and provide new analytical tools.

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

what rights and preferences the founders and the other investors have. While Ive made at least my share of mistakes taking equity in lieu of pay, I continue to see this as a key part of my business model. I have done this for no fees up front and get paid in equity on all resulting business. Business Models.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. Because the SlideShare team was used to giving away a high-value product, engineers balked at charging for a clearly imperfect product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. Normal depends on what kind of business you're in, and what stage of that business you're at. If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 20, 2010

A year after leaving Smart Bear, having talked with dozens of startup founders about their marketing woes, I realized 100% of them needed the marketing-measurement engine I built at Smart Bear. Startup founders in my town of Austin were the most obvious target because it was easy to take them to lunch. There's the magic moment!

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

My engineers say our website is old school, and we need to be on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, my VP of Sales says we’re wasting our marketing dollars not targeting the right people and my board keeps giving me their opinions of how we should describe our product and company. Painful and invaluable” was her reply. Here’s how.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? It's very hard for PLG to be the only or main motion with infrastructure products because it's not something one engineer will just test and buy. What should the founder avoid if they want to implement PLG?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I am the founder/coach of Never Settle Coaching, LLC a coaching business. I began my business in 2014 because, well, it was just time. For nearly 15 years I had analytical, numbers-driven jobs in finance and banking, working for some of the world’s largest banks. 20 – To Blend A Beautiful Business Model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

What differentiates them is their disciplined approach to determining when to spend money: after the fundamental elements of the business model have been empirically validated. They use customer development , split-testing , and actionable analytics as vehicles for learning about how to make their vision successful.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Notice that I didn’t say I wouldn’t invest in a founder with an MBA; there are many amazing entrepreneurs and investors with MBAs, such as my friend Aneel Bhusri of Workday. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine. Going to business school is one of the worst places to accomplish this.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

Notice that I didn’t say I wouldn’t invest in a founder with an MBA; there are many amazing entrepreneurs and investors with MBAs, such as my friend Aneel Bhusri of Workday. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine. Going to business school is one of the worst places to accomplish this.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 3, 2017

That may not mean a permanent move, but you have to be willing to immerse yourself for months with like-minded founders in a setting that provides added value to your venture. You will gain a major advantage by watching peers in your space develop their business models, and you’ll be able to commiserate with those who speak your language.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? This post is an accusation.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

However, for most of the rest of us, the analytical skills honed in college or grad school, along with the opportunity to network and explore different fields prove invaluable later. Business, Engineering, Computer Science, and Design were all represented. Collaboration with engineering, computer science, life sciences, etc.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

They had a couple experienced co-founders, including the now legendary Reed Hastings, but the problem was that they were stuck at about 300,000 customers. Necessity being the mother of invention, this is where the queue, the ratings system, and the recommendation engine all came from. The title is not important; the work they do is.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

You’re a startup founder, whether actual or aspiring. Business books are a founder’s learning tool. The problem is that the premise of all of them – whether true or false – is irrelevant to you as a startup founder. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In his white paper How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood , PEVCTECH.com founder David Teten explored how private equity and venture capital investors are trying to automate more of their job. We store it in a logically indexed manner and apply Predictive Analytics on companies’ metadata.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

TripAdvisor may be one of the most fascinating companies I know and so I was excited to dig into their business model as part of my series on scaling. TripAdvisor is more of a classic consumer Internet success story, but with even more powerful network effects and an amazing business model. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Business Model.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

It other words, it’s a team of designers and engineers. I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. We had a designer, a front-end engineer, and a data scientist. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 5, 2016

The top 5 – analytical mind, user/data drive, kaizen, process-oriented, and curiosity – were referenced by nearly everyone we talked to. Be Analytical. If you were going to hire someone less experienced, I’d start with someone with an analytical mindset.”. How do you know if someone is analytical?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. Turns out, most industries need to analyze and react to data simultaneously—they need continuous analysis of streaming and historical data, location analysis, and AI/ML-powered predictive analytics. I just could not sell myself. So, I started doing that.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams can prove their competence and validate their ideas by showing investors evidence that there’s a repeatable and scalable business model. A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. We focus on evidence and trajectory across the business model.

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

Lean Analytics Book. Founders are magpies, chasing the shiniest new thing they see. There are three criteria you can use to help choose your OMTM: the business you’re in; the stage of your startup’s growth; and your audience. First: what business are you in? Is my business model right?

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