Board Effect

JULY 13, 2023

Among this year’s winners, joining the likes of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and the Animal Rescue League of Boston, is Crisis Text Line. In their official announcement, Classy notes, “The organization uses machine learning and data analytics to triage conversations by severity, not time.”

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Angels invest in one out of every forty deals they review (2.5%) versus the one out of 400 by VC’s (0.25%). They are professionals with full-time jobs, who often don’t have time for due diligence (and may not even know how to do it) and often make decisions through trusted referrals or based on gut feelings (more on gut feelings later).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

(for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did).

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Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Join My Online Split Testing Class on May 11th I’m Writing a Book: “Start Small. I will be speaking at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston this October.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Editor’s Note: NextView recently kicked off a Boston-based workshop series on technical interviewing with Google. Saurya Velagapudi is a senior software engineer at Google, based in their Cambridge, Mass., Google tries to cover a variety of topics, from the bare minimum, “Can you code?”

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 12, 2010

The Business of Software 2010 was last week in Boston. The whirlwind of the conference was such that it took me about 48 hours before I could hold a conversation about anything but starting a software company. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. at 3:23 pm [.]

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Software By Rob

JUNE 29, 2010

The early bird registration discount for this year’s Business of Software in Boston expires on Friday. In addition to speakers like Seth Godin, Joel Spolsky, Dharmesh Shah and Eric Sink, there are excellent networking opportunities with the other 300 attendees (a lot of self-funded software companies in the audience).

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Agile VC

DECEMBER 13, 2011

I recently was having one of these conversations with an entrepreneur I’ve known for a couple years. In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Business of Software is a conference organized by Neil Davidson and Joel Spolsky , and was held this year in San Francisco. The speaking line-up is a who’s who of software bloggers and authors, including Geoffrey Moore, Paul Graham, Dharmesh Shah and Joel Spolsky. There were several great presentations during the conference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. The same might be said of good software. Here we have the beginnings of a theory of design for software.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 15, 2023

Cracking the Code of Data-Driven Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Marketing Podcast with Christina Inge In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Christina Inge. She is the founder of Sleek Marketing, which offers hands-on education on digital marketing in the Boston area.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2016

We have locations in NYC, Boston, and D.C. The conversation is my head was always punitive. HW: At Homebrew we see lots of startups wanting to serve the small/growing business segment with software tools ranging from ecommerce, to point of sale to employees backoffice and so on. I was using the treadmill as a way to purge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. Yet there is one silver lining when it does happen: we wind up throwing out working code , debt-riddled and elegantly designed alike.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2016

We have locations in NYC, Boston, and D.C. The conversation is my head was always punitive. HW: At Homebrew we see lots of startups wanting to serve the small/growing business segment with software tools ranging from ecommerce, to point of sale to employees backoffice and so on. I was using the treadmill as a way to purge.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

In 1999, David Weinberger, a technologist and co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto , wrote, “Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there’s a piece of software that loves us for who we are.” Does it actually impact conversion rates?

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Author howerl.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Passiveness Due to its passive nature, facial recognition is often favored over other forms of biometric identification such as fingerprinting for border control. Starting in June, JetBlue will start testing facial recognition technology for flights from Boston to Aruba. More accurate identification increases border security.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

15:11] Where does employer branding fit into the conversation of employee experience? [17:18] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. So how does that fit into the conversation of employee experience? You lose that happenstance conversation.

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Software By Rob

APRIL 22, 2010

Due to technical difficulties I will be re-teaching this class at 10am PST on Tuesday May 11th. Luckily several thousand people have decided to stick around and join the conversation. I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The following are my rough notes (with permission, but without review by the speakers) from the event: ——————– Michael Smith, introducing the Case Foundation. We invest in Code for America (“Peace Corps for Geeks”). Follow us and join the conversation. are all working together.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

And a special thanks is due to all of our presenters, panelists, and mentors. Kent Beck is deservedly famous for his many contributions in the software industry. Unfortunately, the video of our sllconf conversation is not online (due to technical problems), but we have a physical tape backup which we are endeavoring to get online soon.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 28, 2011

But if you are a competent engineer, sales executive, online marketer or general manager in Silicon Valley, NYC, Boston or other start-up hotspots, the unemployment rate is 0%. CNN recently reported that 40% of the 130,000 job openings in Silicon Valley are for software engineers. Senior executives have never been harder to secure.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Boston, MA. You’ll also see a drop-down menu of relevant services next to a zip code search box. The ability to connect with customers at the moment they’re looking for services you provide (which, in turn, can lead to higher conversion rates). Focus on increasing your 5-star ratings and reviews. San Jose, CA.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Not long after the product launch we began the initial conversations with VCs for a Series A round. Is it a case of just design it, code it, build it, deploy it, trademark it, copywright it and then go for funding? . I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. link] Graham. quite encouraging.

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Software By Rob

MAY 3, 2010

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Catch Me at the 2010 Business of Software Conference in Boston Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Out → I’m Writing a Book: “Start Small. Stay Small.

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Genuine VC

JUNE 6, 2012

But not all conversations with venture capitalists are formal pitches, nor are they expected to be. The signal here is that this breakfast meeting is not a pitch meeting, but likely more important that a pseudo-coffee conversation in the VCs office. And sometimes it’s unclear if it’s a pitch meeting or not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

When I wrote a review of Four Steps on this blog in November, 2008, I did my best to be candid and warn of a few shortcomings: And Steve is the first to admit that its a "turgid" read, without a great deal of narrative flow. It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Code To make split-testing pervasive, it has to be incredibly easy. The only change you have to get used to as you start to code in this style, is to wrap your changes in a simple one-line condition. Now, it may be that these code examples have scared off our non-technical friends. October 4, 2008 10:33 AM Amitt Mahajan said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. This shift allowed us to crank out working software quickly as a service. It was a disaster.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 28, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! It'll be in Boston from September 5th through the eighth. Where people do have more time to, like, I'm really enjoying this conversation. So please go and buy the book and review it. Like this show? That's right. Alysia Silberg (23:36): Absolutely.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

Mailbox is a new app (get on that waiting list) that offers powerful tools for archiving, scheduling, and viewing threaded email conversations You can quickly move through that inbox, telling mailbox which emails to archive immediately, save to respond later, or deal with immediately. Find your way around.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. For example, the best book reviewers only review books published by the best publishers, which only accept manuscripts from the best agents. Is that a lot?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

The recent introduction of their “Channels” feature allows website owners to create a series of related videos and display the collection on their website—no coding required. Wistia’s analytics can help connect the dots between video consumption and conversions. Image source ). average), and 1,000+ donations. A free trial is available.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. There are a number of VC firms that had extraordinary success in enterprise software, telecom equipment, and semiconductors in the 1990s.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So they're giving an attribution to the user interface and the default settings of the software, not the science. So you might've heard they're doing custom GPTs with chat GPT and that software. This is predicting this conversation, right? You can tweak all of that.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

" 8 Questions to Ask When Interviewing at a Startup - Instigator Blog , June 18, 2010 Job interviews are meant to be conversations. had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. " The Bible Code predicted the Sept 11 attacks 5,000 years ago." It shows a lack of interest.

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