www.businessinsider.com

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

How One Guy Applied 2 Months Late To Y Combinator And Still Got In. First, the valuation of early-stage startups remains frothy and fraught with uncertainty. It focuses on finding the most interesting entrepreneurs from a range of sectors and stages, and then using all of company resources to help them develop their projects.

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blog.adaptiveblue.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

For early stage startups it maybe a challenge to recruit a dedicated sys admin, but any good hosting company would be happy to carry this function for you, likely, for additional payment. adaptiveblue FYI Glue and a few other critical plugins keep Firefox AND Chrome on my desktop as of late. Tags: startupcto. Startups!!!

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

link] Closer To The Ideal » Blog Archive » If you have an idea for a startup, talk about the idea with everyone. [.] Great points, though your bio does read “Personal investor in early-stage technology companies, including … a handful of other startups that are still in stealth mode!” link] Bruce Colwin.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MARCH 10, 2010

You will find plenty of articles on SEO in my archives under the SEO category if you’re keen for study materials. I can’t really remember why I decided to switch gears so late in the development of this product. The fundamentals are still the fundamentals. Bonus 2: My Live Presentation On Buying and Selling Websites.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Part of larger Adobe Suite and can take part of other tools such as Adobe Tag Management, AEM, Analytics, and 360 profile. Over the last 5 years or so it has lost value at every stage due to poor product management and positioning in the Adobe Marketing Suite. Not only does it archive results, but also ideas, hypotheses, etc.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 16, 2010

A few things jumped out at me: We all know that software companies get the lion’s share of dollars (about half), but it’s impressive to see how consistent the investing is from early stage $1-2 million rounds to late stage $10-15 million rounds. 11% of deals were Cleantech and most of those were early stage.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

ColdFusion occupied a niche for rapid web development since the late 90s, and its legacy consists of around ten very vocal agencies and developers, some of whom are moving slowly to.NET. In fairness, early-stage business failure caused solely by language or platform choice is rare, but its often a significant contributory factor.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

We’ll look at the model stage-by-stage. Concept and Seed Stage In the Concept and Seed Stage, founders capture their passion and vision for the new company and turn them into a set of key ideas, which quickly becomes a business plan, sometimes on the back of the proverbial napkin.

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www.readwriteweb.com

JUNE 13, 2011

That hardly seems a surprise with the amount of travelling that McClure has done lately. The participants in this round come from a pretty diverse set of backgrounds, with over a third of the teams coming from outside the U.S. startupcto

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers divided the portfolio companies into six stages and startups are still operating a loss in each of the first four. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. link] Kameko Oliver I definitely feel the decline in enthusiastic investing as of late.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# This isn’t helpful either, as countless companies have shown.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh. .&#

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Steve Blank

JULY 9, 2009

Later on, way too late, we’d remind ourselves it’s the game stupid.) steve David Needham , on July 9, 2009 at 4:26 pm Said: It may be a little late at this point, but I think it’s important to consider that gamers don’t really want to change. Alarm bell four should have started ringing louder for me.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Show Up Early, Leave Late I’ve talked about how crunch time should be the exception in software projects. at 8:00 am Great post Rob, However I think you need to include growth stage technology companies amongst those you listed in the relatively recession proof group. But desperate times may call for some extra hours.

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www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

Finally, P() will vary according to the recent history of the worker, because people dont work as well the morning after a late night as they do the morning after a good nights sleep. Archived at Mischievous Ramblings. In terms of knowledge workers, a programmer produces more good code and fewer bugs when well-rested.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The beauty of engineering “types&# is they love waking up late (i.e. noon) and working late into the night. And so our young “single&# engineers in Seattle loved the idea of starting work late in the evening and working through the night. Many US companies there learned too late that business is cut-throat.

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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. Ive noticed queues for instances lately. The better your internal APIs and data architecture, the easier this step will be. But even for total spaghetti code, this doesnt take more than a few hours.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In late 2008, Zoecity made a strategic shift in our product direction. Tags: startupcto. You have to put in time to learn each other’s “signals&# and develop the right team dynamics. After a few months we eventually “greased&# out the kinks. We decided to move out of social networking. WHERE ARE YOU?

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

There are three types of venture investing (early stage, “growth&# stage and later stage. Early stage means the first real investors in a startup when the team could be as small as 5-10 people. So in the current collapse, the later stage investors will fare the best, or should I say least worst.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Security researchers became aware in late December that just initializing well-crafted objects from well-chosen classes can cause arbitrary code to be executed, without requiring any particular cooperation from the victim application. Fluffy Logic » Blog Archive » I knew rails couldn’t be trusted… -.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Me, I live with a parent (moved back in my late 20s) to pursue and enjoy start-up life. 1 [link] meeblog » Blog Archive » starting up: focus on what matters most [.]

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Lately the trend is more to take a couple of words and stick them together like Facebook, Firefox, YouTube, etc. Lots of companies never make it to that stage though so it’s the kind of problem you’re happy to have. Tags advertising. A launch is a multi-stage event. Archives Select Month October 2011.

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Naming Startup Product Name Framework 41

sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Dont expect it to look pretty at this stage. We are still at the discussion stage with this idea, so it would be great to know if this is something people would find helpful. Lately Ive been hiring more than one person for the same position thinking I must be crazy. (It might take more or less than a day.) THANK YOU!!

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Theres no real answer.There is no rational way to value an early stage startup. So you should practicallyignore (or more precisely, archive, in the Gmail sense) everythingIve told you so far. By then itstoo late for angels. Tags: startupcto. If youre part of around led by someone else, that problem is solved for you.

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