Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2020

Rising customer acquisition costs—especially on ad platforms—have also put weaker brands with lower conversion rates out of business. Fera can even tailor elements like reviews to feature past buyers whose profiles align with those of current shoppers. Only the best are surviving, thus perpetuating a rise in conversion rates.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2011

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 8, 2016

Make risk assessments based on potential geographic location. If establishing physical offices in a developing country, split them into at least two physical areas hundreds of miles apart from each other. Fortunately none of our employees lost their lives and the second office 300 miles away in Manila continued operating as normal.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

As a rule, you need to review your burn rate every month, and manage it every day. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes. The cost of giving up more equity early is often more than offset by the increased flexibility to recover from mistakes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. Inside the development organization, this Director attends to staffing, training, workload and productivity metrics, budget, and scheduling.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. Even with these, you will have paper-tested your MVP, but the reality is that customers will not be able to assess the value to them until they actually use it. Review the code being built. Plan for past the initial MVP.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. In teams that follow the "pick two" agenda, which two has to be resolved via a power play. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. I couldnt see that we were managing to pick even one.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Here’s a review from Andrew Anderson from Malwarebytes : Andrew Anderson: “ Pros – Offers the best in-product segmentation available. Here’s a review from Johann Van Tonder of AWA Digital : Johann Van Tonder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. What is customer development? This is a common mistake.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And that's mostly gonna be the labor cost of the work that we do for clients.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. But in these years I learned how to sell software – necessity is the mother of all invention. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process. I never built Google.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

Since we had a sales development team of our own, we needed to factor in their efforts, too. This is the model my customers referenced when I was selling them demand-gen software in 2014. Choose the model that aligns best with your business: How complex is your marketing and sales operation? Image source ).

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

A de facto requirement for any modern mobile operating system is the inclusion of a modern HTML5-compliant web browser. Platforms Choosing what mobile platforms to support continues to be a vexing problem for developers both big and small. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). This literally the dumbest, most ignorant piece that I’ve ever read about software development and/or hiring programmers. It’s an *freaking open source*.net net implementation. Checkout [link].net

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