Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Whether youre a US citizen or an immigrant, entrepreneur or investor, founder or employee, theres something you can do. If you are an immigrant founder who has helped build a company that has created jobs in the US, we need you to tell your story. This is especially true if you live outside the echo chamber of Silicon Valley.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Over 150 CEOs will be in attendance at the MIT Media Lab for talks on business strategy, fundraising and more. And if that’s not enough, the venue will include some of the most exciting projects at the MIT Media Lab such as the “stackable electric car&# and Nexi, the lifelike robot. Click here to register for the event.

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Altgate

MARCH 4, 2009

Over 150 CEOs will be in attendance at the MIT Media Lab for talks on business strategy, fundraising and more. And if that’s not enough, the venue will include some of the most exciting projects at the MIT Media Lab such as the “stackable electric car&# and Nexi, the lifelike robot. Bookmark the permalink.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 2, 2009

0) Founder Mastermind Breakfasts, how we do it (0) How to insert the new Tweet button in your ruby on rails application (0) Is the incompleteness of your application hiding behind the term ‘Simple’? (1) 1) Wise Labs, the mission statement (0) From → Online experiments 14 Comments → Pinky permalink That’s a great post.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 25, 2010

Also, hearing what challenges other founders face allows you to do some preventive work when possible. I find these events very educative and the structure that we use encourages deeper exchanges among the founders and the small aspect of the group lets us open up more easily. Wondering about those Flickr photos on the right?

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caterina.net

OCTOBER 25, 2010

But we were pretty good at getting people to tag photos with what were in them. People adding tags, descriptions, titles and comments turned out to be better sources of metadata for those photos, and that metadata could then be used in interesting ways. Tags: startupcto. Matt Gattis | January 13, 2010 2:49 PM. Another avenue.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 22, 2010

Please ask any question you may have, I will update the article accordingly) Other articles you might like Wise Labs, the mission statement (0) The Kayakist Entrepreneur (2) Founder Mastermind Breakfasts, how we do it (0) Lean startups, beware the social debt! (3) link] to have a custom Google search page.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

It is a mystery actually whether the tagging of application as hot/popular has to do with the number of downloads or merely from the usage statistic. If the rating in the App Store is based on usage, I am sure those popular social networking applications are sure to be in the top and the hot seat always. However, this is not the case.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

Let this article serve us reminders to founders and boards alike Reply Michael F. Reply Desmond Pieri , on May 22, 2009 at 6:30 am Said: I remember when Wang Labs finally (at 30,000 employees) moved into a new headquarters building. It was an odd feeling at that time, we thought we have made it and fail to stay lean and hungry.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Many capable founders aren’t developers, and I frequently meet with entrepreneurs that have taken a very different path. link] Nivi The guys at Pivotal Labs address “-4 Points: You don’t know exactly what you want&# very well. link] Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for March 8th – The zeitgeist daily [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you haven’t figured out the ecosystem, growth is useless – whether it is a acquisition-only viral loop, like Tagged, or an advertising blitz like countless dot-bombs. Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? Founders struggle with this question.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Our engineers built a series of test tags, so you could quickly run a subset of tests in your sandbox that you thought were relevant to your current project or feature. We had a comprehensive set of unit, acceptance, functional, and performance tests, and practiced TDD across the whole team. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Most people are going to hear about the site for the very first time via an organic notification, when a friend signs up for the site (or tags them in a photo, etc). For example, consider a site like Facebook in its early days. No positioning exists yet in the mind of the prospect. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Ultimately, the project can founder on the “core incompetencies&# you both bring to the partnership. Post flyers around the CS labs. Tags: startupcto. If you cannot compensate for your mutual “core incompetencies&# by learning quickly or bringing in additional help, your project will fail. Blog at WordPress.com.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But its exponentially more engaging to have each person tag their friends in each picture, because the notification is so much more interesting: "youve been tagged in a photo, click to find out which one!" Those customers get prompted to tag their friends in their photos. Positioning ( the battle for your mind ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

We change the code to have all of the queries identified in step 3 tagged with the apporpriate entity URL that they affect. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

If youre emitting HTML, as 99% of all PHP apps are, its just so damn convenient to throw in PHP tags along with your layout tags, all inline on the page. PHP encourages one of the worst programming heresies of all: intermixing code and presentation logic in a giant mish-mash. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Co-founders and outsourcing work the same. Tags: startupcto. Your thoughts?

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