Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Pitches higher in the hierarchy tend to be more successful, and so if you can fit your company into one of those categories, you can get better results or better terms. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. Dancing Around the Question Union Square Ventures was kind enough to sponsor a meetup the night before my class.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

GeekWire Events. TECH EVENTS. Geeky Gathering Spots: Check out this new category in GeekWires Startup Resource Center , spotlighting some of the best places in the Seattle region for your team to huddle over coffee, drinks or games. Geek of the Week Archive. Startup Resources. Dispatches from the Digital Frontier.

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Up and Running

MAY 26, 2016

The FAQ page is a great place to start, because it helpfully breaks their content into relevant categories for easy perusal. For example, check out this ebook on maximizing the success of your organization’s events. While archived materials are only available for purchase, many of the upcoming webinars are free to attend.

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

  Tomorrow, you're going to close your first professional investment with "Fred," a wealthy individual you met at a networking event.    Tomorrow, you're going to close your first professional investment with "Fred," a wealthy individual you met at a networking event.  Categories.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

You won’t find us going out to the normal startup networking events or partying all night. Tweet This Post 2010 07 /18 CATEGORY My Experience My Startup Write comment Write comment Comments RSS Trackback ( 1 ) Comments ( 4 ) JR July 20th, 2010 REPLY QUOTE Very interesting post. The vast majority of us are a lonesome bunch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Items that paint a big picture include revenue by major product area, cost of goods, and operating expenses by category. Risks: Unexpected events can kill a firm (of any size), and can therefore detract from its value. Keep an archive of your old scorecards. Detail isn’t important; tracking your progress is.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. Many institutions have digital archives of historic maps. These posts often cover tech-related trends; other times they focus on books, pop culture, sports and other current events.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. Facebook Fans Recent & Upcoming Events 2010 I am experimenting with using Plancast to track my 2010 event schedule.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

He even remembered the names of their wives and kids and some details about schools or events. (I We shook hands with the customers, but instead of launching into a product pitch (or better, letting me launch into the pitch) he started asking how their families were.

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www.mattbartus.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Blog blog archive. ” Are you really going to have a record of each event that caused shares to vest and the backup to determine if they did, in fact, vest? Categories. A View from the Valley. Perspectives on issues affecting founders, startups and investors from a veteran startup lawyer in Silicon Valley. Quora Answers.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

And, check this out: [link] I bet if you start networking with the people involved in this event you might start to make some good connections. For example, I just searched for “philly startup&# and found some good things. In addition, I would seek out angel investors and VCs in Philly. Please wait a few minutes and refresh this page.

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Hunter Walker

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Here are a few examples of what I’m currently implementing across the three basic categories that I look to balance. Problem : Homebrew events strategy was stagnating because the events I wanted to do were getting too big, expensive and complex. My Playbook: Get Better at What I Do at Homebrew.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

It was the 15th anniversary and they made a big deal branding the event as Demo@15. To be fair, the Day 1 categories were primarily infrastructure companies (Enterprise, Cloud and Mobile). Im anti check-in and have been a conscienious objector in the whole category. Blog Archive. A check-in aggregation platform.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 17, 2009

Pitching the idea to the President of Stanford, Terman enthusiastically said, “In the event of all-out war , Stanford would become one of the giant electronic research centers…&# (A bit optimistic about the outcome perhaps, given that both the U.S. 1956 – Change Everything Yet in 1956 two events would change everything.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Based on several other similar events I’ve been through, I expected the ratio of business people to technical people to be somewhere on the order of 20:1 — and most of those business people would be of the “I have an idea and am now just looking for a techie to build it for me” variety. Categories. Database (7).

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 5, 2010

 This well-known event has been presented in most major US cities to high acclaim.   If you have an interest in learning about best practices in angel investing, and network with local angel investors, this is a not to be missed event. The event, at The Milwaukee Club, 706 N. Categories. Jefferson St.,

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

How to improve A/B test results How to prioritize A/B test hypotheses How long to run A/B tests How to set up A/B tests How to analyze A/B test results How to archive past A/B tests A/B testing statistics How to do A/B testing: tools and resources. This can involve fixing, adding, or improving tag/event handling in analytics.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

If you attend networking events, you’ve probably met a lot of entrepreneurs with an idea who need a partner to build it. When you attend an event to find a programmer, you are competing against many others in the same boat, and you are competing against companies offering very high salaries. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Rich Karlgaard , publisher of Forbes and co-founder of the Churchill Club refereed the event. The official title of the talk was Fresh Perspectives on Entrepreneurial Innovation and Economic Growth.) Carl has been been shaking up the staid world of academic entrepreneurship research for over 8 years as the head of the foundation.

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Steve Blank

JULY 27, 2009

On your serious note, there’s an event tonight (Thursday 20 July) in Palo Alto sponsored by Startup2Startup. If asking is easy for you, that’s an advantage. Just take it to where it’s no longer easy and break through that to become persuasive.

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eranki.tumblr.com

JULY 13, 2012

RSS Archive. If there is a way to do this, it would also be cool to have markings on the graph that point to events you can annotate such as code push, or AWS outage. Rajivs blog. July 12, 2012. Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1. Rajiv Eranki. For most of that time we had one to three people working on the backend.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

PR often gets lumped into the same category as advertising and marketing—which is why so many small businesses assume they’re covering all their bases by buying ad space in the local Yellow Pages and sponsoring posts on Facebook. Read through their archives to get a feel for the types of topics and trends that make them tick.

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Tim Keane

OCTOBER 8, 2012

 The labels were delivered, and the promotional material for the biggest event of the year went in the mail.  They failed to mail a substantial portion of the best customers for the biggest event of the year.  It isn't as though this one event alone held their loyalty.  It preserved their reputation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 22, 2009

Calculate the Odds The heuristic I suggest is: hear the corner case objections, make the objector calculate the odds, if the potential damage estimate is low (probability of the event occurring multiplied by its ability to put you out of business) keep the meeting focussed and move on. If you do this consistently your team will catch on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The same is true of brand-name products in almost every category (and it can be measured ). For example, many customers derive satisfaction from feeling like they bought the "best" product in a given category, even if that product has no objective performance difference from its nearest competitor. Again, great post.

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grasshopper.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Categories/Archives. Categories News & Updates. Categories. Grasshopper Blog. Grasshopper.com. How it Works. Pricing & Signup. Getting Paid in Equity: A What to Do Guide. July 29, 2010. Comments 1. July 29, 2010. Need a Phone System? Get Grasshopper » 1 Comment. Connect With Us. Customer Spotlights.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. We can’t just diversify across industries or geographies.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

  The risk-protection sense of a dividend is that the invested money makes some interest-like return, which makes it more likely the investor will receive some modest amount of earnings in the event the company doesn’t do well. Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 18, 2011

Keepstream – tool that allows you to organize and publish an archive of things on Twitter such as events streams, specific conversations or a product launch and then embed the conversation on your site. Also makes a great way to share a conversation about a client to help them understand the buzz. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

All this leads up to a flurry of press events and interviews, all geared to the product/web site launch date. The PR agency helps the company understand and influence key bloggers, social networks, industry analysts, luminaries, and references.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

The perfect situation is to have a few people moving between all the categories. blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Sign Up to Get Trada Event Updates About Trada Trada is revolutionizing the way Agencies, Advertisers and PPC Experts build and manage PPC marketing campaigns. Robertson [.]

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 21, 2010

from a.net developer point of view by Aymeric on June 21st, 2010 I gave this presentation today at a internal event at Readify. We had to follow the Ignite format, 20 slides, 15 seconds per slide. (I I had to remove some content to make it slideshare friendly, it doesn’t work with stacked up objects).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 5, 2009

instant messaging add-on - it’s not a category that exists in her mind. Heres an excerpt from YouTube: Second, the complete audio (with slides) from my webcast last week is up on YouTube now too: I hope youll indulge me as I share some of the testimonials we heard from the participants who opted to answer the post-event survey.

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Steve Blank

MAY 21, 2009

Is the company hosting/co-sponsoring some event? Key Influencers Does the company have press/industry analysts scheduled for demos? Does the company have demos or dinners/lunch scheduled for key industry influencers? Now there are thousands of real live customers walking around the show floor with facts.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

You might be interested in reading something similar here : [link] (3 Ways to Design a Landing Page to be Conversion Focused) [link] samirabid.com» Blog Archive » Two interesting posts [.] &#. we are cloud Thanks for this informative post. Here are two interesting posts I found on the web. startupcto

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 14, 2013

Now that we are producing keyword rich content it’s time to start driving people to get that content, to download that eBook, subscribe to your content updates and to connect for specific events and presentations. Here’s another category that lots of people want to jump right into. Month 11 – Start Employing Smart Advertising.

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