blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

When a company gets to be a certain size, hiring managers don’t have the bandwidth to look over every resume and treat every applicant like a unique and beautiful snowflake. Bemoaning that non-technical people are the first to filter resumes is silly because it’s not going to change. News and World Report). Highest degree earned.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder. So all Fog Creek software engineers are ranked at one of several different levels, level 8 through level 15.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

It’s why Canva can call itself a multibillion-dollar platform and how ConvertKit pulled itself up to compete with goliaths like MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. Where Airbnb recognized the value in another platform, Dropbox doubled down on the strength of its product as a distribution channel. The result?

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The trick then is figuring out what your exact solution is, and whether or not there will be demand for it on a scale beyond just yourself, or whether or not you’ll be able to compete, if you’re entering an already-flooded market, like the shampoo market. We’ll talk more about this in step three. What do your friends want?

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Walter Frick - Harvard Business Review. BitSight - Risk Management (backed by Flybridge and Menlo). Next major event? Future M on Oct 16. Places to Hang.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So The distribution of investors should mirrorthe distribution of startups, which has the usual power law dropoff.So Nearly all customers choose the competing product, ajob.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

You often end up with lots of half-done experiments lying around, an infrastructure that isn’t built to scale, and a mishmash of code that needs to be refactored. For example, a design approach just turns out to be error-prone or a junior programmer just writes bad code. Of course, we are mostly interested in the second type.

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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. You can add a custom goal right in the code, and it automatically shows up on the report – you don’t need to create the goal first. Free often wins versus buying a competing product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution. Matt Briel (01:33): Yeah, it's actually a really fun one.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Anyway, the way to manage that is still to execute better. The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

To my mind, it’s fear of the unknown that holds most of us back and not the thought of whether we’re competent enough or intelligent enough or whatever else we feel is needed to run a business. As with anything, learning to manage, learning to be the boss and learning to run a business, are just things that happen over time and with practice.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Disturbing, because many people & organizations want to compete on analytics, but are not doing the right things or adopting the right thinking about analytics. 15% Of CMO’s Don’t Measure Marketing ROI, 27% Rely On Manager Judgements. 1 in 4 companies are depending on “manager judgements” to make decisions.

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Consider this the Year in Review for Software by Rob. Some choose consulting, but many more inevitably decide to build a software product. ‘After all,’ they think ‘you code it up and sell it a thousand times – it’s like printing your own money! The third was something I hadn’t expected.&#

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

The strongest foundations in business are those whose cornerstones are based on non-negotiable core values. Tony Hsieh, CEO of online clothing retailer Zappos, has made company culture a focal point in his management style. Why do you think competitive people generally perform better than non-competitive people?

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Software By Rob

MARCH 12, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← What is the Micropreneur Academy? The programming language is important because we provide the source code with every purchase…which created one heck of a mess for us a few weeks back.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. Opportunity Management: Now that I had a few people of interest, the courtship began. Learn how to create, launch, and manage your start-up over complimentary beer and wine. You are selling yourself and your idea. San Jose, CA.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. 24 Comments • Nov 8, 2010 I love this answer.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. or just present your crappy, first-run code to investors then pay someone to re-write the entire thing. Yep, build yr prototype – if you can code or convince some out of work or college level codehead to work for dirt.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Non of this academic stuff. Don’t wait to fill the void before letting him go (but obviously get all the code / usernames / password). Sometimes I use Balsamiq, sometimes I code a prototype, doesn’t matter – just create something, then tell the world. I think quick, do something, then review what I’ve learned.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Google is not descriptive of the company’s search core competency nor was it particularly easy to pronounce, spell or remember when the site was initially launched. Amazon – While arguably better than the company’s initial name, “Cadabra.com”, “Amazon” does not convey the company’s initial core competency of online book sales.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 13, 2012

The credit distribution is proportional to content consumption (I like page count and not time) and finally apply the rules based on position in the path. To provide a hyper-fast non-nuanced summary… please invest in: 1. I'm valuing different positions differently, with a heavy emphasis on the converting touch points.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I If you’re a founder/product manager/business owner, I encourage you to find that out! outside of a vacuum. and the outcomes. “If

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. It’s called Enterprise Performance Management, which is kind of a weird term. Instead they employ analysts to use the software who become highly trained on the software. ALEXIA TSOTSIS.

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Version One Ventures

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

an image) and are frequently referred to as NFTs or non-fungible tokens. I’m guessing the next wave will center around creating other sorts of open, permissionless businesses and human organizations, more commonly referred to as DAOs or Distributed Autonomous Organizations. And manual migration is non-trivial for most users.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

MANAGE MY SUBSCRIPTIONS By clicking the Subscribe button, you agree to the Privacy Policy Fintech products ease more Americans into the stock market The percentage of Americans who own stocks is falling, according to the Wall Street Journal : only 55 percent own stocks today, compared to 67 percent in 2002. Thanks for signing up.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. As the lines of who we compete against are increasingly being blurred – Digital Demarcation – companies are beginning to compete horizontally.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Expect to see an uprising of startups providing software layers to protect end users and aggregate public data on them so they have awareness of what their digital footprints look like. As the lines of who we compete against are increasingly being blurred – Digital Demarcation – companies are beginning to compete horizontally.

Technical Review 48

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Here is the data for this blog from another tool I really like and use a lot, Compete … It is pretty close to reality, though everything from Dec '13 through mid-year is imprecise. Note to NSA reviewer of this blog post: I'm a harmless digital marketer, totally not worth your attention.]. Tools used in this post.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

You can argue that the DNA created by Microsoft's over emphasis on distribution (Steve) and development (Bill), has ultimately cost it $50bn or more in lost revenue, market share and market capitalization. But in the world following Jonathan Ive, designers are finally getting their due. They are many more examples.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Task Management. Project Management Tools. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Subscription Payments / Management.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Alexa Hubley: “How to Compete in a Saturated Market”. Common user testing mistakes: wrong users, attempting to get data on user perceptions, leading questions /tasks, launching and reviewing all at once, and not accounting for the full range of customer intent. As marketers, we compete for revenue and conversions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That’s okay, if the point of departure is about defending our values internationally, as opposed to better competing internationally, which was the Trump administration’s core focus in the national security strategy. And it was just more of a career flexibility and management thing. companies. Now we’ve tried.

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