David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

I propose here a framework for prioritizing your platform buildout. You might hire a really amazing designer, and perhaps even charge companies for their service for cost recovery purposes. However, the designer is a non-scaleable service; you’ll have to hire more people like her as your portfolio grows. . Advantages.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 24, 2013

“The reality is that there has not been a reliable, simple, or cost-effective way to calculate an early stage company’s valuation – which is why so many entrepreneurs and angel investors get it wrong,” says Alan Lobock, co-founder of Worthworm.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 19, 2013

This graphic comes from a post on Venture Village about design thinking for startups but it should apply equally to investment companies. I think we are doing well on a number of these design principles already, but there are a couple we could do much better on, mot notably making the product easy to understand.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 3, 2021

Underpinning it all are OKRs — Objectives and Key Results — the framework by which individuals, teams and the entire company is managed. They’re hiring lots of folks across engineering, product, design, marketing, sales and such! This includes not just observability and explainability but fairness.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

In the early stages of every technology, the market is usually dominated by products built for early adopters who are typically tech savvy – this mainly consists of developers who like to have full control over a product and its features. 1st phase (late 90s, early 00s): New Web programming languages and frameworks.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2019

If followed, we believe it can help startup teams navigate the critical early stages of development – and avoid joining a majority of early stage companies that end up on the entrepreneurial scrap heap. Read on to discover why successfully traversing the Traction Gap is critical to early stage companies.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 7, 2017

These five strategies are proven to work for early-stage companies in a variety of industries — including, perhaps, yours. Brand-faithful design and layout. Institute a process efficiency discipline like Lean or Six Sigma (or Lean Six Sigma ), a standardized management framework like EOS, or both.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. It makes this early stage challenging. What options do we have? Accounting?

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JANUARY 9, 2014

Simon Sinek’s Golden Circle framework “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it” Simon Sinek If your customers believe in your mission, then they’ll warm to you and listen to what you offer and how. This helps to add some constraints to the design process as everyone has a clear idea of what the product isn’t.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

This 4-part story, however, explores the Austin ecosystem based on the 4Cs framework —  culture , capital , customers , and competencies. It follows up on my posts discussing why early stage startups should — or should not — move to Silicon Valley. Should Early Stage Startups Move to Austin because of Competencies?

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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 argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 26, 2021

Margolis shares his three-step narrative framework that will help you capture your audience’s imagination, attention, and relate to your story about what you’re selling. His book, The Speed of Trust , is designed to help leaders build a collaborative team and environment on the basis of trust. Biggest takeaway: Steven M.R.

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View from Seed

JULY 21, 2022

They can’t afford to spend 10% of their $100,000 salary on Interior Design Services alone, but they would certainly be willing and able to spend a few hundred dollars. RH: What’s your favorite thing about being an early-stage founder? And your least?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. While we were going to teach theory and frameworks, these students were going to get a hands-on experience in how to start a new company.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. Accompany focuses on this use case.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

For example, if organic traffic is a priority for you, include a statement like this: From an SEO perspective, our primary goal in the early stages of this content strategy is to focus on low-volume, high-buyer intent keywords and queries related to specific pain points. This sets the intention for your early-stage priorities.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

For now, this means advising early stage teams and offering myself as a “COO in a box” – consulting for companies that need operational excellence and trusted help. My True North is staying close to early stage startups and working as a strong advisor and coach.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

Over my career as a serial entrepreneur I observed that since the late 1990s, no early-stage Silicon Valley investor had used business plans to screen investments. It taught lean theory ( business model design , customer development and agile engineering) and practice. Early-stage investors don’t read business plans.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

Though RBI will displace some traditional equity VC, its much bigger impact will be to expand the pool of capital available for early-stage entrepreneurs. . However, only recently have early-stage companies started to use this model at any scale. . So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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techcrunch.com

JUNE 22, 2012

It’s an age-old scenario: You’re building a company, you have a product idea, and you’ve got the framework laid out in your head, but you want some expert advice and guidance on how to take the next steps. You can reach him at rip[at]techcrunch[dot]com → Learn More. Powered by Personforce. Latest on TechCrunch TV.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 8, 2015

We have a bias towards very early stage investing for a bunch of reasons, but it’s not easy. It’s often a good idea for founders to find a way to build something and get some early market validation before raising outside capital. I think this stage, more than others, is very dependent on the individual investor.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Bellroy has designed a range of slimline wallets to solve this challenge. Use the following design-thinking process to craft stories for your brand while keeping your customers’ pain points and values in mind: Empathize (What is your audience feeling?); In the early stages: Use product marketing to execute the GTM strategy.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2015

Born out of Intel and then later fully actualized at Google with the help of John Doerr, OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) have ushered in a new goal-setting framework that empowers every size business — but especially new ventures — to set out and stay on the right path to drive organizational success.

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Steve Blank

JULY 1, 2014

While the posts were theory I was a bit surprised when John Selep , an early-stage investor, approached me and said he was actually using the Investment Readiness Level (IRL) in practice. The Investment Readiness Level makes the stages of development for the business very tangible. Here’s John’s story. But the ‘ah-hah!’

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In most cases, the two most important things to prove early on are 1) that the founders can attract A+ talent and 2) that there are signals of market demand for their product. I have a related framework that company milestones fall into two buckets. Things that are hard but inevitable and things that are hard and uncertain.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 14, 2011

a group of entrepreneurs from TiE Chennai gathered at the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras (IIT-M) Research Park campus, and we spent the next four hours discussing strategy and tactics of early-stage entrepreneurship. At 11 a.m., The majority of the discussion was about go-to-market strategy, channels and regulatory issues.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 21, 2022

My fantasy as a kid was to work at the Audi HQ in Stuttgart, Germany, designing and building my dream car. After graduation, I spent the next 9 years working at a bank, an early-stage b2b fintech startup, and a growth-stage mortgage startup.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Gain valuable insights into the Miles framework, a strategic approach to identifying and leveraging your strengths. Through the Miles framework, they guide listeners to identify and leverage their unique strengths, turning constraints into creative opportunities. It's about the early stages of a startup to John (07:39): Workshop.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

Time: 5:30pm to 7:30pm Location: The Dogwood Downtown Register: Sign up here ATC Gateway Join us at The Roosevelt Room and TheEleanor, adjacent properties that evoke an early 20th century jazz atmosphere and known for their craft cocktails. framework for both presenting and analyzing early stage venture investment opportunities.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

According to the Dow Jones research, 43 early-stage funds raised $3.1 Madrona’s new $300 million fund — while the largest in the firm’s history — certainly qualifies in the early-stage group. Geek of the Week: Artefact’s Fernd van Engelen on design, inspiration and water bottles. Sponsor Posts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

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? Since were offering a complete solution, which involves the development of a new product, there is design, prototyping, etc.,

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. To that I say baloney. Even without cash you have many ways to outsource.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

One can even make the case that getting Market Type right is the most valuable thing a marketer can do to add value and affect success in an early stage venture. as well as a potential revenue model (why not start with a framework for revenue?). Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Blog at WordPress.com.

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Where to Play

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I also love it because from time to time I hear insights that surprise me, and indicate the depth of this framework. We designed it to help business leaders bring the right evidence to support their strategic decision. In fact, being able to see the bigger picture offers some real advantages to early stage ventures.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The difference matters, because while there are more than enough conferences aimed at startups—more of them every year it seems—so many of them look the same: a succession of speakers who are on the conference circuit, and a series of fast pitches and demos from early-stage startups. The fine art of experimentation.

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Mucker Lab

APRIL 6, 2023

What should an early-stage startup founder focus on if they want to implement PLG? But for early stage founders, I think there are two particular scenarios where PLG can be really helpful. What's the best way to do design? So for early-stage founders, those are the two scenarios where PLG might be a great fit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

You designed it. And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it? You know, you built the life that you're living now. 10:56): Right?

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