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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you? Ive previously written about the advantages of having a pathetically small number of customers , and how to get started with customer segmentation. Since my subscriber count has doubled again (thanks!), it seemed time to return to the subject of investigating who my customers are.

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A Glimpse of the Future

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Something Big is Coming… Here is My Glimpse of the Future → A Glimpse of the Future Micropreneurship If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed.

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Relentless Tactical Execution: the Potrero Benchmarks

Steve Blank

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The “Googles” of the World

Eric Friedman

I am not sure there is such thing as “the Google’s of the world” There is Google, then there are other search engines and companies. You cannot group a bunch of companies together by claiming “they” are the “Googles of the world” This is not in support of or against Google, but rather acknowledging there is currently no way to generalize them.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Targeted television advertising is finally here

BeyondVC

I have written a few post about the future of television advertising ( 10/2004 , 11/2006 , and 12/2006 ).  Yes the web has taken over and yes video on the web is advancing rapidly but that does not mean that the $60b spent on television advertising will disappear overnight.  What is needed for the industry is a way to make television commercials more relevant, targeted, and dynamic.  In other words, some of the best practices and technology from Internet advertising should be b

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Something Big is Coming…

Software By Rob

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Marketing is Design: Three Words that Increased My E-commerce Sales 1000% Overnight A Glimpse of the Future → Something Big is Coming… Micropreneurship If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Looking For Work: Are You an Insurance Agent?

abovethecrowd.com

While it may seem hard to believe in such a dire hiring environment, one of our investments, LiveOps, has excess “demand” for workers. That’s right — excess demand for workers. For those of you that don’t know, LiveOps is a very, very cool company. Their core technology is a SAAS “contact center in cloud.” Just [.

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Investing vs Speculating

Andrew Payne

Brad Feld’s recent blog post on “ Investment vs Speculation ” is recommended reading for every entrepreneur. Brad’s writing as an investor, but the points apply to entrepreneurs working on new opportunities. Is your idea an “investment”: do you see an opening to create real value? Or are you speculating, and betting that someone will acquire the future business for more than the financials suggest it is worth?

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come attend the first thefunded east coast event in boston

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Startup Executive Compensation Study Going Global The Collapse of the VC Ecosystem & What It Will Look Like Post Recovery → Come Attend the First TheFunded East Coast Event in Boston Posted on March 4, 2009 by fnazeeri Put this event in your calendar.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, February 28, 2009 Throwing away working code Lean startups work by systematically eradicating waste. This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. But lean startups cant afford to be satisfied with just that definition, because there are situations where working code is itself a form of waste.

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American Innovation Is In Crisis: Why and How To Fix It

Pascal's View

I’ve been to Washington, D.C. twice in the last two weeks to. speak with legislators and government agency representatives about the need for. a renewed public policy commitment dedicated to supporting long-term innovation in. America. This morning I gave a keynote speech at the Cybersecurity Applications. and Technologies Conference for Homeland Security (CATCH) , delivering the. message that U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship, the crucial growth engines of. the U.S. economy, are at risk of s

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VCIR Winter 2009 is up and running | Seth Levine

VC Adventure

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Links for 2009-03-01 [Digg]

VC Cafe

Nicles and Dimes in Israeli Venture Capital. The Israeli venture capital industry has experienced a $250 million decline in the past few months. Israeli venture capital funds have struggled to raise the target capital and the impact is likely to be felt on emerging technology companies in Israel.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Startup Executive Compensation Study.

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Scientists Find Positive Correlation Between Wealth & Rudeness Come Attend the First TheFunded East Coast Event in Boston → Startup Executive Compensation Study Going Global Posted on March 4, 2009 by fnazeeri For several years now you’ve heard me rave about the annual survey of executive compensation at venture backed startups done by J.

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Links for 2009-03-05 [Digg]

VC Cafe

West Bank Story. For all the tension between the pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian sided people on this site. I thought if I brought a little bit of humor it could lighten the mood a little bit.

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