YoungUpstarts

JUNE 1, 2019

In the first post , we drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. Go-to-Product. In the go-to-product phase, you can get help from a plethora of incubators, accelerators and angel investors. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

product that barely worked, no sales organization (except tech support, which often works better anyway ), and I just hoped they’d run a credit card. The contract says you retain the IP and are allowed to sell a product like this to other companies. And why do you think they’ll then buy the product?

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ConversionXL

JULY 3, 2020

Search engines are vital for discoverability. Google’s Public Search Liaison Danny Sullivan has openly pushed back against those who want subscription-only content flagged in search results: Our automated systems try to present the best information in relation to a search topic, as people expect us to do as a search engine.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Knowbella Tech is an open science collaboration company that uses blockchain to deliver free tools, services, grants, and intellectual properties (IP) to researchers, particularly the underserved in Africa, Asia and Latin America. We already have the scientific collaboration Knowbella Platform at Minimal Viable Product (MVP).

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI), and particularly Large Language Models (LLMs), have significantly transformed the search engine as we’ve known it. This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" cto , infotech , innovation , product , project , saas

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

Max entered Stanford in the fall of 2010 as a freshman, took as many of the engineering entrepreneurship classes as he could and independent study with me. (He more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. .

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. Gross margin (GM) is the amount of profit you make per sale of your product or service taking into account your total costs of selling that product or service. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will.

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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?

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Entrenched Innovation Model Issues : Qualcomm’s existing innovation model – wireless products were created in the R&D lab and then handed over to existing business units for commercialization – was wildly successful in the existing wireless and mobile space. Part 1 outlining the program is here. Read it first. Lessons Learned.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive.

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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 real power with Target, as with all Adobe Marketing products is when they are integrated through the Adobe Marketing Cloud. Pricing for Monetate is available on request.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 2, 2015

I can’t tell you how many people have thanked me for this advice and say their productivity increased exponentially. It freed up Ophir to grow out our sales organization, to work more closely with agencies, to innovate on product and to raise capital. Legal threats from other IP holders? Here’s the dilemma.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2021

The repeated mention of the product (hopefully). Product/regions/channels. You have the start of a fabulous in-flight optimization engine. Our innovative approach… Due to non-public IP, it is a cluster I can’t tell you much about. The first component is a gloriously scaled global creative pre-testing program.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. Delivery times based on geo/IP/mobile phone location. If you are in this category, know that the last “secret” of ecommerce is that figuring out how to weaponize shipping – and free returns – is a powerful conversion increasing engine. In-stock status. Life of current price.

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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). . Other products like Sparkswap, which allowed users to buy Lightning BTC via atomic swaps, faced the same challenge. 3) Exchanges + HFTs.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 13, 2016

I saw this firsthand during my time at YouTube where in addition to running the product org from 2007-2011, I sat on our Policy Committee. Not just with #StayWoke t-shirts (although those are cool), but with engineering resources and policy decisions. And the internal discussions (debates?) which are likely occurring.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 13, 2016

I saw this firsthand during my time at YouTube where in addition to running the product org from 2007-2011, I sat on our Policy Committee. Not just with #StayWoke t-shirts (although those are cool), but with engineering resources and policy decisions. And the internal discussions (debates?) which are likely occurring.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. 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. (See

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Hearpreneur

JULY 1, 2020

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 20, 2015

Along with the risk of the game itself (caused by the client software on the PC that receives push-based updates from the gaming server, and the gaming server that establishes multi-port connections to the PC), there’s the additional risk of accounts being hacked and social engineering happening in-game. File Sharing.

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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.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

Work directly with engineers, no company involved. To start off you should focus on working with a company that offers you direct access to engineers and is willing to work as an extended branch for your team. Also, it is not about the engineering talent only! Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2013

million) worth of hardware and software technology tools that’s developed as an incubation center for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) working on high-value design and engineering services. Hopefully, this would also lead to greater economic and technological development in Malaysia as a whole.”

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

You want to see your product or service performing in the hands of real users. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing. Some products are very simple to message.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

So, Google (and other search engines) are highly unlikely to penalize for A/B testing. Search engines don’t penalize them because that unique content is only found on their domain and no where else. Treat Googlebot just like any other user and don’t hard-code our user-agent or IP address.”.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The newly formed teams then work for the entire weekend, with the help of some experienced mentors from the industry, who volunteer their time to share advice on product, technology, legal, PR and other issues. Even if there aren’t any products out there doing exactly what you do, it doesn’t mean that you have no competition.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

So instead of simply increasing the volume of leads on a landing page, you’re suddenly also supposed to factor in quality of leads, lifetime value, sales productivity, etc. So, you have lots and lots of products and that brings complexity. Think about it this way: in B2B, sometimes optimizing means aiming for less leads.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2012

A recruiter found me, now in product marketing and wanted to introduce me to a hot startup making something called a workstation. Steve, the VP of Sales and Marketing previously ran their engineering department. Most of the sales force were previously design engineers. Why don’t you send me a resume and I’ll pass it on.”

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 27, 2010

This is the case when the requirements of these events don’t actually include building a real business or product. We spend way too much time, particularly in and around the New York area, teaching fundraising versus company or product building. Business plan competitions are the air guitar championships of the startup world.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2013

The Knox team was a great mix of hands-on device engineers and business development. They used agile engineering perfectly to continually test variants of their Minimum Viable Product (MVP’s) in front of customers often and early to get immediate feedback. Alex DiNello CEO at Relievant Medsystems was their mentor.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Since 2005 startup accelerators have provided cohorts of startups with mentoring, pitch practice and product focus. Other than measuring engineering progress, there’s no standard language to communicate progress. Diagnostics. You can see the entire presentation here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Always productive and efficient, John gets things done in a way that doesn’t call attention to himself, but rather to the work product itself. Thanks, guys! Thanks, John! Plus he likes Legos. Thanks, Chris! Thanks, Adriano!

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

Specialized alumni tech networks : Accelerate Yale (which had merged into it YaleFintech and Yale Tech), Yale Science & Engineering Association. Accelerators & Fellowships : CITY Accelerators , Social Innovation Lab , Yale Center for Engineering Innovation & Design Fellowship ; Yale Canaan Fellowship. ” Gregory W.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Russia is another emerging economy where businesses can attract investors and sell products and services at scale. Known for its abundant engineering talent pool, India attracts outsourcing hubs and multinational R&D labs. Russia is the seventh largest internal market in the world and the first in Europe.

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Flexible VC offers you this. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Hard covenants with potentially strict penalties. . Cash collateral.

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