Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

The popular view of a real entrepreneur is someone with a big vision, and a stubborn determination to charge straight ahead through any obstacle and make it happen. His popular book on this subject, “ The Lean Startup ,” lays out how today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. You are also less likely to be an entrepreneur when your personal obligations, like family and mortgage pile up. What is the reaction when you first tell people a concept?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Where Airbnb recognized the value in another platform, Dropbox doubled down on the strength of its product as a distribution channel. Neither would have achieved virality had customers not received something tangible for their efforts. One of these colleagues happened to be author and Silicon Valley venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Enter Facebook.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

The popular view of a real entrepreneur is someone with a big vision, and a stubborn determination to charge straight ahead through any obstacle and make it happen. His popular book on this subject, “ The Lean Startup ,” lays out how today’s entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

The signals are loud and clear : seed and late stage valuations are getting frothy and wacky, and hiring talent in Silicon Valley is the toughest it has been since the dot.com bubble. For VC’s and entrepreneurs the gold rush to liquidity was on. Carpe Diem. We’re now in the second Internet bubble. 1970 – 1995: The Golden Age.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

These elements of the business model– revenue (pricing, pricing strategy), distribution channel, How to Get/Keep/Grow customers, Key Activities, Resources and Costs – are other, critical parts your start up needs to understand and have in place. serial entrepreneur. Silicon Valley. 2M in 18 months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Sam is one of the most prolific company builders in Silicon Valley. 6:56) A look at how many biotech companies and non-biotech entrepreneurs have pivoted to work exclusively on COVID-19. (7:35) There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. 7:35) Sam gives advice for investors looking to help. (11:45)

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View from Seed

MAY 27, 2015

On the show, we’ll explore and share the stories of all the creative, unusual, and clever ways that entrepreneurs find early results. Taking advantage of an emerging distribution channel or market inefficiency is an opportunity in a moment in time, not today. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of our new podcast TRACTION.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

One of the things we hear a lot about in Silicon Valley is how cheap and easy it is to launch a startup these days. No doubt early-stage companies can be started on a shoestring by low-paid entrepreneurs, but when financing a scalable, sustainable product, a free application server won’t make much of a difference.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Giant Media is a video platform that distributes long-form content for brands. He had no doubt that had he started the company in Silicon Valley, he would have received funding, but the paying customers are all in Southern California — a lot of car manufacturers are based in LA and that makes up a good chunk of his clientele.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Tim O’Reilly’s recent article, “ The fundamental problem with Silicon Valley’s favorite growth strategy ,” makes an impassioned argument that the ideas in our book, Blitzscaling , encourage entrepreneurs to behave in ways that are irresponsible or even dangerous in the pursuit of what he characterizes as “runaway growth.”

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Practical Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs. How to Write a Business Plan in Under an Hour.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

This is an incredible story of entrepreneurial speed in action, of yet another entrepreneur putting their normal business on hold to get into the fight against the pandemic. Because if you can do a lot of tests in the lab but you can't actually distribute it, there's not much point. Eric Ries : So, what was the investor reaction like?

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 11, 2015

The best entrepreneurs are often those who can articulate their vision and roadmap in a simple, elegant and purposeful manner. 6 Passion While everyone wants to make money, good VCs look for more in an entrepreneur than the desire to cash out. They invest in entrepreneurs who want to change the world.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The landing page for Bonds viral, social game, Spymaster. Developers dont usually think much about how element should sit on a screen together, so you see a lot of items crammed together or unevenly distributed. Aesthetics play a major part in that decision." What web design trends have surfaced and dominated in 2009?

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Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

On the show, we’ll explore and share the stories of all the creative, unusual, and clever ways that entrepreneurs find early results. Taking advantage of an emerging distribution channel or market inefficiency is an opportunity in a moment in time, not today. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of our new podcast TRACTION.

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Rob Go

MAY 27, 2015

On the show, we’ll explore and share the stories of all the creative, unusual, and clever ways that entrepreneurs find early results. Taking advantage of an emerging distribution channel or market inefficiency is an opportunity in a moment in time, not today. Today, we are excited to announce the launch of our new podcast TRACTION.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

Hannu is one of those entrepreneurs who has put everything on hold to try to make a difference in a worldwide pandemic and we're grateful to him for that. But certainly I've been finding more and more that being an entrepreneur and being a writer are two sides of the same coin. You're an entrepreneur. You're a scientist.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

5 Comments 30 Answers Tristan Kromer , I help entrepreneurs find co-founders. Would that take away my right to talk about successful entrepreneurs and top managers? Of course, if the Biz Guy is a serial entrepreneur with references from employees and co-founders who made so much money they are investing as angels in this venture.

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