Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 26, 2020

So There You Have It We have an amazing team including our newest Partner, Aditi Maliwal, who runs our FinTech investment practice and is based in San Francisco. I’ll help own functions but I mostly just want to back great founders and not have to own all the other BS.” Please help me welcome Kara into her role as Co-Managing Partner.

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 18, 2017

Today, we are excited to announce that we will be hosting our second meetup in San Francisco, on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at 5:30pm on Data-Driven Marketplaces. The post Announcing our next meetup: Data-Driven Marketplaces, San Francisco, May 16 appeared first on Version One. How to optimize (on-demand) logistics, etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Some of the most inspiring conversations I’ve had about my work have happened at book events, and I’m looking forward to more of them. One of the most gratifying parts of writing a book is heading off on tour with it and finding out how it’s engaging actual readers.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2018

I’m a recent conversation with Eric Paley , he gave me an amazingly wonderful analogy for how the career of a VC unfolds. He said: “Being a VC is like taking a walk from Boston to San Francisco” I’d never heard that before so I said: “tell me more.” But you keep walking. And I keep walking.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

To help experienced Lean Startup practitioners share knowledge with each other, we’re dedicating several breakout sessions each day for advanced attendees to hold focused conversations with each other. So On December 10 and 11, we’ve booked tables for Lean Startup group dinners at popular San Francisco restaurants. Office Hours.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 5, 2012

If you enjoy the coffeehouse vibe, but hate the coffeehouse distractions, Coffee & Power in San Francisco is a great place to be a co-worker. Located in both San Francisco and San Jose (and soon to be Las Vegas), Citizen Space bills itself as simply, “a nicer place to work.” Coffee & Power. Citizen Space.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Use a chatbot to add conversations to your marketing, and your top of funnel engagement will increase. Karen Hayward is a Chief Outsiders Managing Partner and CMO based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Doing that, all by itself, will generate a 15 percent or more increase in productivity. Bottom-line.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At the same time, you’re probably not sure how many fields are too many, or how your conversion rates stack up against other e-commerce companies. In April 2017, we reviewed 62,000 random form submissions from 97 different industries to see how form length, device choice, and prices affected conversion rates. of the time on average.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

From New York, Philadelphia, and Boston to Los Angeles and San Francisco, entrepreneurs came out to share their enthusiasm -- you really are everywhere.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Think total publication views x conversion rate = total sales and cost of agency / profit from those sales = units needed to sell to break even). The challenge then becomes how do you calculate that conversion rate? How you define conversion will also change across the campaign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop. Here's my conversation with Lenore Estrada.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Two weeks ago in San Francisco, a conversation with tech lawyers from the US and Europe was a confirmation of what I read in the news. Israeli tech review Q3 2022, IVC Online and Bank Leumi. Israeli Tech Review Q3 2022 (Source: IVC Online and Bank Leumi ). It’s an investors market. Investors are calling the shots.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The funding will be used to further invest in hiring remote workers, with an emphasis on the greater Austin and San Francisco areas due to Honor’s existing office footprints, and to expand Honor’s groundbreaking operations and technology capabilities across the Home Instead network, which has three offices in the greater Austin area.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Kelly, your Twitter handle asks, "Can we please disrupt the conversation about local government?" How do we enable conversations that move us beyond where our organizations have been for the last 50 years? We are also having a lot of conversations about when it makes sense to use the methodology in our organization.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Selfishly, to me, this means we need more progressive voters coming from Manhattan and Brooklyn and San Francisco and Los Angeles and other cities that will lose some of their grip on jobs and buzz and quality of life for creatives after COVID. I’d also love Austin to be on the international radar. History proves this.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 25, 2013

“Our new office is more than 150,000 square feet – which is three times the size of our previous headquarters in the San Francisco Chronicle building,” Henderson says. Collaborative canabas at Square’s San Francisco headquarters. It also gives them the chance to unwind or de-stress. “[At

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We’ve made some cool additions to our pre-conference webcast lineup , including two conversations with founding figures for methods that underlie Lean Startup. Third, I needed to take small steps—one conversation where I really shared, one part of a presentation. Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Most of the time, the experiments you run will have a zero percent conversion rate - meaning no customers were harmed during the making of this experiment. I would aim to get no more than 1o0 clicks per day - over the course of a week or two, youll get pretty good conversion data. Measure conversion rates. Bring your questions.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

I was living in Boulder at this point, but traveling continuously to Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle where I was making most of my investments. I didn’t really know what help out meant, but on my next trip to San Francisco I had a breakfast meeting with Gary Rieschel and Jerry Yang.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2019

Brian Spears , Cofounder and CEO, spoke about his San Francisco-based company. Last July, we met a young pig named Jessie at a farm in Marin, just north of San Francisco. While she and I worked to define our technical vision, we also had long conversations about our values.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Heres an excerpt: The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Every startup that achieves success eventually faces a critical moment — whether to speed up or slow down. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

I had really debated about whether there was any value in spending the time and money to fly to San Francisco when there was a perfectly serviceable simulcast going on in Cleveland. All I can tell the folks who attended the simulcasts is that I’m not missing either the time or the money.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

When food and shelter are a freelancer’s two heaviest expenses, a conversation about “costs” sounds absurd, no? of UC San Francisco. However, to have a sober conversation about freelancing’s costs, we must acknowledge these mental, physical and spiritual stakes. by Donovan Janus, founder of 17hats. Causes and Remedies.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2023

In New York, San Francisco, and the world over, investors are having lunches just talking about it. Rating for an app: 7/10 Rating for software: 9/10 Rating for technology other than app or software: 5/10 #7: Reddit Reddit is home to thousands of communities, endless conversation, and authentic human connection.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Id be honored to have you join the conversation. The Conversation - Harvard Business Review For most of us, the phrase management science conjures up a decidedly non-entrepreneurial image, and for good reason. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Id be honored to have you join the conversation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

The Five Whys for Start-Ups - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Root cause analysis and preventive maintenance are concepts we expect to see in a factory setting. The Five Whys for Start-Ups - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Root cause analysis and preventive maintenance are concepts we expect to see in a factory setting.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 25, 2016

Encouraged by the demand, and motivated by direct conversations from users, I began to realize that my personal pain point with form building was shared by many people around the world. Aytekin Tank is the founder & CEO of JotForm , a SaaS online form building company based in San Francisco.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 21, 2013

This weekend I had the very good fortune to attend Ryan Deis and Perry Belcher's Traffic and Conversion Summit in downtown San Francisco. And this is where events like the Traffic and Conversion Summit are so valuable. Aha” moments were aplenty for all who made the effort to attend.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Take San Francisco-based sneakpeeq , for example. This has already led to significant gains on conversions, lifetime value and audience engagement. “ Badgeville has enabled us to engage our customers more in ways beyond just looking at a product and buying it,” says sneakpeeq senior engineer Neil Gandhi.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2018

So I was excited to visit IndieBio, a life science accelerator in San Francisco. The first half of the conversation talks about Lean and its origins. Five years ago we brought evidence-based entrepreneurship to Life Sciences – teaching the first Lean Lean Launchpad class at UCSF, then the NIH and Imperial College.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places. Bring your tough questions – Brad and I will be having a conversation on stage and you’re invited to join us. SLLCONF 2011 is happening on May 23 in San Francisco.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Tell us your favorite thing about being based in San Francisco. But my personal favorite part about San Francisco is the energy of the startup founders and the investor network. It’s very frustrating to be led through a long conversation with no substance to be told no. Just come out and say no.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

Everyone in San Francisco? For example, to outflank a competitor who had faster products, Intel moved the conversation about microprocessors away from speed and technology to create a valued brand. Select the messenger you want to carry your message. Step 1: Who’s the Audience(s)? Is it all the people on earth?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff. It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I think theyve succeeded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2021

When Uber started out, they focussed solely on hailing black cabs in San Francisco. was originally published in Austin Startups on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. But don’t worry, you can always scale.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2013

It’s fair to say, this impromptu conversation helped change the course of both my personal and professional life. San Francisco, Hong Kong or Tel Aviv? On our shortlist of three, there was San Francisco, Hong Kong & Tel Aviv. Your nation simply defies all odds. Your hummus is pretty magnificent too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Editor’s Note: We wrapped up the 2017 Lean Startup Week in San Francisco just a few weeks ago, and we’re excited to share with you some of the best lessons learned in entrepreneurship and corporate innovation. Guest Post by Misti Yang, Writer for Lean Startup Co. The first MVP was “a shoebox and a doll.”

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