Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I used to use $.05,

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. And so an extra special thank you on behalf of all of us in the city of San Francisco for what you're doing. So, the numbers in San Francisco are very different than what we're seeing in other parts of the country. Sydney Gressel : Thanks so much.

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San Francisco Founder Community Software Review 68

The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Currently, the team is getting ready for the TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco and Health | Pioneers in Amsterdam. The team that won the People’s Choice Award, Raccoon World, is now busy brushing up its upcoming Kickstarter campaign.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. . San Francisco, CA. Upcoming Events.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

My first AdWords campaign was limited to five dollars a day, and we were buying clicks at five cents a click. We ran ad campaigns against every single product we could think of in an adjacent market space to ours. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Think of it as micropayments for beta testers. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

The "drip drip drip" of data he was seeing from countries that were hit first told him what was coming, and he made it his mission to start a campaign for masks -- Masks4All. Jeremy Howard : I'm Jeremy Howard, a research scientist at the University of San Francisco. Jeremy Howard : Sure. It's a bit of a weird background.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Getting to meet the founders and investing early is a lot more fun than trading stocks at an online brokerage. It will be easier to get in touch with VCs if you live where the startup scene is huge, such as San Francisco or New York. You’ll need an excellent marketing campaign, with a special emphasis on social media.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in October 2006 by Jonah Peretti (co-founder of Huffington Post).

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Except they won’t be called Product Managers. It’s simple.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Adam Hertz, a cable company executive in San Francisco , and his wife, Joan, have enthusiastically embraced the movement. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Thats real money."

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San Francisco Technical Review Zimbabwe New York City 105

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. Go west, young MBA: Important rules for building wealth in San Francisco – [link]. Campaigns | NYT FiveThirtyEight – [link]. Dave McClure – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2016

During this period Kobie worked closely with many SaaS companies including ExactTarget from its early days and the Founder & CEO, Scott Dorsey, served as a strong reference for Kobie. Kobie worked with several companies while at Accel including Campaign Monitor (run by my good friend Alex Bard), UserTesting, and Emergent VR.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Ill explain in a moment. This post is the result. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Amazon PostRank

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Sramana Mitra is the founder of the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) initiative, an educational, business development and incubation program that aims to help one million entrepreneurs globally to reach $1 million in revenue and beyond. In the past 100 days since its launch, Freshdesk has recruited 100 paying customers. Wealth Gathering.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Sounds too good to be true? They all simply ignore it. The desired allocation of the “hot IPO” is proof all by itself.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

As I write this, days after the 2012 presidential election, I’m probably not alone in feeling relieved that the political jeering and soapboxing that reached a feverish pitch during the seemingly endless campaign season has finally subsided. One particular four-letter word has been used pervasively by candidates of all stripes: Jobs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How founders find the determination to push through tough times was the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jacqueline Ros. Christina Stembel.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse. My experience is that many founders actually have a deep anxiety that maybe they are not succeeding. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Dont scale.

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? Founders struggle with this question. In an entrepreneurial situation, this is hard, because artifacts that we are creating (products, code, marketing campaigns, even revenue) are of secondary importance.

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Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai Today they organize breast cancer awareness campaigns.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Point’s founders had absolutely no connections to the established tech scene, but hit a nerve among the enthusiasts on Product Hunt. It’s available in San Francisco, New York, and Miami. High-quality new startups with no connections to Silicon Valley have a shot at getting discovered on Product Hunt.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Jamie is the founder and managing director of Bottleneck Distant Assistants. My guest today is Jamie Jay he's the founder and managing director of bottleneck distant assistance, a business he founded in 2016. We had the big wigs coming from San Francisco to visit our little radio station in central valley, California at the time.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). But more broadly than just that,the direct costs of launching a startup have obviously plummeted which makes being a founder more accessible than historically. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

I managed to convince myself that the solution to all of our companys problems were contained in that book, and that if we just faithfully executed a marketing campaign around the principles therein, wed solve everything. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

I apologize for the audio quality – we did this in a rush because we found a last minute studio and recorded in San Francisco. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Competitors: Google. Total raised: $17.0mm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Each new campaign is a startup where Lean principals can be applied to maximum effect. ► 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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And if you actually want to respond to shifting customer behavior by running a new marketing campaign (ads, email, etc.,) Over time one of our hypothesis was that our product should be a great fit for companies who had lots of customers, tons of data on them and wanted to quickly come up with new marketing campaigns. Founder Too.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

RD: Everything is a marketing campaign now, even policy ideas—they’re just marketing campaigns for an issue. HW: Post-2016 elections you’ve also gotten involved with some campaigns to assist their tech efforts. I led digital teams for the Thompson and Quist special elections for Tech for Campaigns.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC SPEC Campaign [link]. Way to go San Francisco! Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You – [link].

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. Recent, an episode featured Max Novak, the founder of Nova Cast, where he talked all about how podcast booking campaigns create value for listeners and for brands.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2014

by Bobby Emamian , co-founder and CEO of Prolific Interactive. When the chain realized customers hated its pizza, it responded by launching a marketing campaign that brazenly showcased its worst criticism. Scalability. Disruption. It’s amazing how quickly an idea can go from buzzworthy to buzzword.

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San Francisco Cofounder Salary New York 252

The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders.

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Belarus Viral Channel Startup 137

YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2012

Young entrepreneurs like Catherine Cook, co-founder of MyYearbook.com , Ashley Qualls, creator of Whateverlife.com , affiliate marketer Paul Bourque and Harrison Gevirtz, who has started online companies, are commanding growing attention for their endeavors.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How founders find the determination to push through tough times was the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jacqueline Ros. Christina Stembel.

Entrepreneur 120

Entrepreneur Cofounder San Francisco Campaign 120

Hunter Walker

MARCH 18, 2014

Our mutual friend Rob Bailey connected me with Natasha Ivantsova who, as founder of San Francisco’s Glow Yoga , made the jump from a world of finance modeling to yoga poses. We run a successful campaign, with home made silly video clip that I put together in, it was a very fun project [link]. As I was opening GO!

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Technology Founder San Francisco Social Media 80

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2012

Double Fine Productions , a San Francisco gamemaker, raised a record $3.3 Double Fine founder Tim Schafer told the San Francisco Chronicle that he'd think about selling shares down the road but notes that giving up equity in return for just $1 million doesn't make sense for Double Fine. Set a hard deadline.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2012

That’s exactly what Blowfish Sushi in San Francisco did when it put this poster (below) on the door of the Men’s bathroom! He is the founder and CEO of Waldow Social , a company that helps clients take their email marketing programs to the next level. Your read that correctly – a QR code on a bathroom door!

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