Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2011

Join entrepreneur groups online, like Linkedin “On Startups”, Facebook for Business, and use Twitter to find people with like-minded interests. Major universities, like Stanford and MIT, are flush with smart people from all cultures, many of whom would bring a whole new energy and creativity to your startup. Talk to people at work.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Startup CEO experience (Founded P.S. XO along with my good friend Soleil Moon Frye. We believe it’s important to have our partners all based in one location so our starting point is wanting our partners to be based in LA and be committed to making this city a vibrant startup community that is now the third largest in the country.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

Join entrepreneur groups online, like Linkedin “On Startups”, Facebook for Business, and use Twitter to find people with like-minded interests. Major universities, like Stanford and MIT, are flush with smart people from all cultures, many of whom would bring a whole new energy and creativity to your startup. Talk to people at work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2010

Join entrepreneur groups online, like Linkedin “On Startups”, Facebook for Business, and use Twitter to find people with like-minded interests. Major universities, like Stanford and MIT, are flush with smart people from all cultures, many of whom would bring a whole new energy and creativity to your startup. Talk to people at work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network. Whats new is that we have learned to apply those principles in new contexts, like the extreme uncertainty that is the soil in which startups grow. So, in that spirit: thanks, Mitch.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 17, 2021

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. Two heads are always better than one in a startup. Use caution to avoid employer conflicts of interest and non-compete clauses.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. In the case of Silicon Valley, it was a combination of: Universities like Stanford.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

Sam’s goal was to build a tech company fulfilling the need for storing physical items in the cloud and to build a nationally-scaled business that would be hard to compete against. It’s not just big in Dallas but in San Diego, Phoenix and Sacramento but also Boston, Chicago, Washington and of course San Francisco.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2023

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. Two heads are always better than one in a startup. Use caution to avoid employer conflicts of interest and non-compete clauses.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

Recently raised $7 million from Atlas Ventures out of Boston. Competes with Seesmic , HootSuite , Brizzly. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Farb talks about how he did that. Total round was $2.5

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 15, 2018

Thus I find that two heads are usually better than one in a startup. Way back in the early eighties, I had the privilege of working with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, when Microsoft was still a startup. Use caution to avoid employer conflicts of interest and non-compete clauses. Relocate to a more lucrative geography.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can minimize risk by performing due diligence when selecting a company or individual to work with, clearly defining the project scope, expectations and milestones in any development contracts, and allocating enough money to hire competent developers. View More » Startups Facebook Co-Founder Launches Social N.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Fortunately, social impact startups (for-profit and non-profit) are feeling the love, too, thanks to springboard organizations like Skoll Foundation , Scwab Foundation , Echoing Green and Ashoka. Here are three more programs worth considering if you want to accelerate the growth of your social-impact startup.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

I wonder if another technology company in which you don’t compete, so that then doing one thing means they wouldn’t do the other and yet you’re both going after the same people. We don’t compete. Or are you building a web app to service a non-tech field. ” Interviewee: Yeah, that makes sense.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

When we started NextView, there were relatively few seed focused venture capital funds in the country, even fewer on the east coast, and almost none in the Boston area. Non-institutional Leads. Another way to summarize all of these is that in the seed stage VC market that I compete in: The barriers to entry are low.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

I desired to use the non-analytical side of my brain to create, inspire, lead, and find a new type of success. Thanks to Tabitha Jean Naylor, Successful Startup 101 ! #37 We are fed by teenage angst to understand the role of tech and non-tech in our world. It really started in Boston. Image Credit: Dr. Rajiv Laroia.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

and the resulting extreme uncertainty that is, incidentally, the environment where startups thrive. Startups are frequently guilty as charged - the 4-year death march example above could be written about dozens of venture-backed companies slogging it out in the land of the living dead. will this bug take 5 minutes or 5 weeks to fix?),

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. And what hurdles could be eliminated?

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 5, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. You’re a startup founder, whether actual or aspiring. You own a wall of books, or perhaps a Kindle or iPad bulging at the edge of its hard disk with non-fiction you’ve earmarked for future reading. Also a student of reading.

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View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale. This is about the non-scalable stuff that founders have done to “make things happen” and the “hustle” that actually creates step-function results rather than just wasted effort. Is This Practical If The Stories Are Inherently Non-Scalable or Not Repeatable?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2015

A common challenge faced by every entrepreneur is that they don’t have the bandwidth, interest or skills to do everything that is required to build their startup. Two heads are always better than one in a startup. Use caution to avoid employer conflicts of interest and non-compete clauses.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

Startups and angels: Along the way to success.   We were fortunate enough to have customers like Boston Store, Carson’s, Penney’s, Sears, GNC – and they loved our exceptional customer service and ability to deliver a better value to their customers – and more sales and customer satisfaction to them. People are the whole game.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Expo SF (May. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 10, 2020

My first job was a Product Manager at Oracle, then I worked at a tech startup called meVC. We were based in Boston. I showed them around Boston, while they were up. That kind of ties into another concept that it has been trendy, but it hasn't gone mainstream in education, which is mastery learning or competency-based learning.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Carlos Eduardo Espinal is a partner at Seedcamp , an early stage mentoring and investment program that engages startups through monthly Seedcamp Events, where entrepreneurs present their companies, network, receive mentoring, and compete for investment by Seedcamp. Seedcamp invests in approximately 20 companies annually.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

When I work with startups on improving engagement, I really try to emphasize the importance of their most powerful lever: positioning. The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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dondodge.typepad.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing Thoughts on business and technology Home Archives Profile Subscribe About Me « Boston VCs gets first look at Y Combinator Demo Day | Main | Digg-nation is HUGE! The key is to have several VCs or investors competing for the deal to arrive at a "fair" valuation. it Founder conundrum.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. Or the alternate model of letting third party currency resellers handle that (but then having to deal with competing in selling credits with those sites)? Appreciate your insights.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 9, 2019

He has an incredible resume, prior to working at Slack, he worked on growth at a handful of different startups. He decided that moving fast was more his speed, so he joined Conduit Labs in Boston in 2007, who was purchased by Zynga 3 years later. There’s a base set of competencies that every PM needs to have.

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Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale. This is about the non-scalable stuff that founders have done to “make things happen” and the “hustle” that actually creates step-function results rather than just wasted effort. Is This Practical If The Stories Are Inherently Non-Scalable or Not Repeatable?

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Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

Everyone likes to say that startups should do things that don’t scale. This is about the non-scalable stuff that founders have done to “make things happen” and the “hustle” that actually creates step-function results rather than just wasted effort. Is This Practical If The Stories Are Inherently Non-Scalable or Not Repeatable?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. It’s most comfortable to hang out with people like ourselves, but those are exactly the folks you probably don’t want to co-found a startup with. In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Usually there are different segments that are loyal for different, even competing, reasons. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

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