Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Doing so meant they would have to take risks for IP acquisition and customer/market risks outside their experience or comfort zone. They could have helped us anticipate and solve organizational challenges and agree on how we planned to manage the risks. 3) We unknowingly set up an organizational conflict on day one. Lessons Learned.

Programming 265

Programming Technical Review Incubator Intellectual Property 265

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Los Angeles Fractional CTO 150

YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2015

IT pros must zero in on application management to ensure business continuity. If a company is making the leap to Voice over IP (VoIP), IT should set the expectation that this is the only voice client that should be running on the wire. Get management buy-in. File Sharing. Examples: Mega, TorrentFreak, Pirate Bay.

Networking 100

Networking Bandwidth Software Review Security 100

David Teten

MARCH 14, 2018

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. This is a model used in at least one case by China’s third-largest private equity firm, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group ($12 billion+ AUM), which funded in 2015 CSC Upshot, a $400m seed fund through AngelList.

Private Equity 60

Private Equity Venture Capital Equity Cofounder 60

ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. IP address) can provide clues to search engines, as can search history, time of year, or time of day. Look at the search engine results page (SERP). Geography (i.e. What does it show?

Search 126

Search Aggregator New York SEO 126

ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2020

Getting its numbers aligned with other tools in your martech stack keeps results credible and blood pressure manageable. Thank you pages” for lead forms are often generic—and, by default, set to be indexed by search engines. Exclude office IP addresses using Google Analytics filters. How to fix it. Image source ).

Analytics 88

Analytics IP Metrics Conversion 88

David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

As two fund managers employing Flexible VC, we think it is a healthy addition to the ecosystem and will yield more predictable and stable healthy returns for investors. Too often, investment structures force the management team to make decisions between misaligned growth and investment (return) objectives. Flexible VC offers you this.

Cofounder 78

Cofounder Technical Review Equity Dividend 78

ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

There are a lot of available configuration options, for example you can add multiple filters such as user IP address, localisation or cookie values. The test segmenting features are very robust, actions can be triggered by device, ip, cookie, audience type and at specific times of day allowing us to test whatever we want, when we want.’

Software Review 129

Software Review Technical Review Analytics Algorithm 129

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

But the biggest thing to know is this: Companies who are scaling quickly in revenue and with a high gross margin often should invest as much capital in growth as they can manage responsibly because when you find a product / market fit and your company is growing at a very fast scale you want to capture market share before competition sets in.

Burn Rate 383

Burn Rate Balance Sheet .Net Valuation 383

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland.

Czech Republic 99

Czech Republic Russia San Jose Europe 99

Occam's Razor

JUNE 25, 2012

Information like IP address, the page requested, time stamps, browser ids and more are stored. But information like IP address, browser user agent id, time stamps, page urls and much more are recorded in web logs. Nuance on the cookie issue:] Cookies are fine, IP addresses can't be collected or only partly collected.

Analytics 130

Analytics IP Web Metrics 130

Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

These two recommendations will help you compute the opportunity size for your management team. Aim for quintupling revenue, obviously, but calculating just 25% improvement will give you all the budget you need from your management to insert urgency into the shopping process. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location.

Conversion 124

Conversion eCommerce Artificial Inteligence Aggregator 124

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

When you successfully pass it, you are going to have the information and skills required to manage a Cisco small network. The Exam Test Engine (ETE) is an excellent assistant for a dynamic and effective self-preparation. Extensive video training courses by the best network engineers in the IT field. Exam Simulators.

IP 165

IP Networking Salary Engineer 165

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

I’ve introduced a new class at Stanford to teach engineers, scientists and other professionals how startups really get built. This Stanford class will introduce management tools for entrepreneurs. ——————– Engineering 245. What’s Different About the Class? Below is the class syllabus.

Wiki 311

Wiki Lean Management Business Model 311

Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

I’ve found the best way to do this is to manage the projects daily. Work directly with engineers, no company involved. I’ve been acting as project manager/dev manager. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only! They start by demoing their skills on my project at no cost for 1-2 days.

Offshore 20

Offshore Web Development Europe Web 20

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

For a well-funded seed company I have controversially recommended hiring a great office manager that doubles as an administrative assistant. Legal threats from other IP holders? I promise you if there was no glue between sales, marketing, product and engineering we would have had greatly limited our growth curve.

Operations 150

Operations Metrics Early Stage Non-Compete 150

YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Entrepreneurs, business owners, senior managers at large corporations. Perhaps you know a Marketer, a Developer or Sales Manager that could fill a gap in one of the startups you back. Chances are if you are backing startups you have had some level of success in your career. Ask yourself, where is your startup currently struggling?

Pre-Money Valuation 187

Pre-Money Valuation Seed Stage IP Deal Flow 187

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 13, 2013

The investment news is significant because while quite a number of Singapore-based startup companies have been successful in landing Series A financing, further rounds of funding have remained elusive for most.

Singapore 228

Singapore Intellectual Property United States Cofounder 228

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. Less is more.

Lean 168

Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 19, 2017

by Amir Noghani, General Manager at GWM SEO Agency. To do this right, you have to be aware of the current trends in search engine optimization and the most important ranking factors: The key ranking factors. The sum of referring IPs. Your search engine optimization efforts need to be a part of your general marketing strategy.

SEO 127

SEO Search IP Engineer 127

YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2013

NI Managing Director for Southeast Asia, Mr. Chandran Nair (fifth from left), presented a token of appreciation to the Minister in PM Department and CEO of PEMANDU, Senator Dato’ Seri Idris Jala (fourth from right). Hopefully, this would also lead to greater economic and technological development in Malaysia as a whole.”

Malaysia 205

Malaysia Technology Intellectual Property IP 205

Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Given these key advantages, I believe that Lightning (or something like it) will ultimately eat all of the USD payment networks and create the foundation for MoIP (Money over IP). . When they can invest the marginal engineering hour in listing a new token that drives revenue vs. saving some costs on settlement, it’s hard to justify.

Networking 168

Networking Global OTC Security 168

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. This data gives innovation managers and investors a feel for the evidence and trajectory of the cohort as a whole and a top-level view of each teams progress. T he software rolls all the data into an Investment Readiness Level score.

Incubator 310

Incubator Intellectual Property Startup Lean 310

crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Most of our posts on the crowdSPRING Blog focus on managing businesses and startups; we often write about best practices, and offer plenty of practical tips for managers. John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. ” ~ Samuel Gompers . Thanks, guys! Thanks, Chris!

Bosnia 67

Bosnia Software Engineering Cambodia San Francisco 67

Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The shift to remote work and the easily affordable vendor management systems allow seamless sourcing, onboarding and management of remote teams while fully automating billing and payments. Known for its abundant engineering talent pool, India attracts outsourcing hubs and multinational R&D labs.

Global 95

Global Brazil Russia Singapore 95

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Africa Travel was established over 25 years ago, so there was no such thing as search engine optimisation back then. However, we have found our name to be a valuable asset in the world of SEO; the name itself is a keyword that our customers search for, making it easy for us to rank in the search engine results.

Naming 102

Naming LLC Entrepreneur Macedonia 102

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Are the logistics manageable? I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. You value creativity in your engineering staff, but it translates into profits only when pointed in the right direction. Can you acquire them at a sustainable cost?

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Software Review Cap Table Securities and Exchange Commission 48

This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

At the same time, in an effort to build up the base of “bench talent” in New York City, I’ve been running Product Manager School through nextNY. I always here that there aren’t enough good tech product managers in the city, so I figured why not just go and try to make more—or make the up and coming ones better.

New York 116

New York CTO Hire Technical Review New York City 116

The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

This type of technology includes HD cameras with IP connectivity, motion sensors, vibration detectors, time lapse photography and more. If a burglar breaks in and starts up a piece of equipment with the intent of driving it away, the engine will shut down once the equipment is outside of the designated area. Drone surveillance.

Security 70

Security Technology IP Operations 70

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

But in an account-based marketing thing, you might even want to throw up some things like Demandbase on the high end to LeadLander on the low end that do help you resolve IP addresses into companies, so you know which companies hit your website. Employees and managers. There you want to look at things in clumps and aggregates.

B2B 48

B2B Conversion B2C Sales Cycle 48

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us!

Naming 94

Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Promising men to let them ‘shop like men’, BRANDiD employs its Masculine Algorithmic Learning Engine (M.A.L.E.) A Latvian game development firm building a high-performance game engine in HTML5 for online games. to create a shopping service specifically for the way men shop for clothing. assemble a garden shed).

Startup 123

Startup IP Cloud Algorithm 123

David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Kappos: No inventions are needed to manage the post-grant process [i.e., They finally brought management in to break the tie. We are required to set up a council with representation from unions to manage this. We want to enable people to buy & sell IP in the same way that buy & sell cars. IBM, I.B.M.,

Intellectual Property 60

Intellectual Property Detroit Technical Review Software Review 60

ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Demandbase’s costs place it in the 96th percentile for “Marketing Account Management” software. For example, if multiple users from a company (usually identified by IP) are reading about how to reduce their corporate real estate footprint, it may flag that company as a strong prospect for a seller of space management technology.

Software Review 117

Software Review Software Marketing IP 117

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Using Air is the leading platform for marketing teams to manage and automate their creative operations. If I, if you've used my service before or have your IP address, I could say, Hey, welcome Paul from I'm in Loma Linda Paul from Loma Linda, California. So then I can go back and reverse engineer, right? Hi John, I'm Paul.

Framework 78

Framework Technical Review Software Review Naming 78

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2023

Steve McKee (08:08): I spoke to the roadway engineer who literally wrote the book on roadway turns and he educated me. And he says that what engineers reali recognize that it's better to have a number of shorter turns in a row for a driver than to have straightaway and then interrupted by a big turn.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Cofounder Kansas City Tulsa 65

Scalable Startup

MARCH 7, 2012

Investor groups are cutting out the management, bus dev, sales, and marketing professionals, trying to get raw, young engineering teams that have never negotiated a term sheet to give away their IP rights and equity for next to nothing. Some of these projects will produce amazing companies.

Software Review 26

Software Review Technical Review Los Angeles Due Diligence 26