ConversionXL

AUGUST 23, 2017

Finland-based Leadfeeder is a top (Google) analytics tool that shows the companies that visit your website. Startups generally come prepared with an idea. .” My friends at NinjaOutreach are an all-purpose influencer marketing tool designed for bloggers, startups, small businesses, digital marketers, agencies, and large brands.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2013

There is a third way worth looking into: active utilization of the startup genre. Just think about where Nokia might be today if 100 of their best ideas and patents had been spun off as separate companies back in 2004, with Nokia owning 20% of each startup. I believe this would work with any of the hundred biggest companies in Finland.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

As part of our Founder Interview series, The Startup Magazine caught up with entrepreneur Ola Sars, Founder and CEO of music-tech leader, Soundtrack Your Brand. The initial product MVP was called Spotify Business and was only made available in Sweden, Norway and Finland. Ola Sars, Founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. Its a force that allows startups to build products at parity with much larger companies - cheaper and much faster. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 21, 2010 What is a startup? I think most people have a fairly specific image that gets conjured up when they hear the word startup. It leads people to mistakenly believe that any time they see two guys in a garage attempting the impossible, that’s a startup. Wrong again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. After all, our startup is on a fixed budget.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 26, 2019

We went on to lead Seriously’s first round of financing and since I’m not a video games expert and we do have a video games expert as a partner at Upfront ( Kevin Zhang )?—?he Petri built the studio and they developed the majority of game play in Finland, where there are a deep pool of talented video games professionals.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Those of us who have had the privilege of working in the premier startup hub in the world often take its advantages for granted. Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

In the case of an entrepreneur pitching for finance, its the same fear that has them putting on a facade and not comfortable in what they do and dont know that will see them a long way off getting funded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The task may be establishing a partnership; it may be selling a product or service; it may be financing a venture. For example, in Finland, broadband Internet access is enshrined as a legal right—because the Finnish government recognizes how important Internet access is now to personal and professional development.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

This led to an explosion in startups. I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. I don’t think purely option-based investing in startups suits the long-term brand of the investor. I doubt this will end well for those VCs or for the entrepreneurs they backed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

I grew up in Finland. I grew up in a small town in Finland as an outsider geek, one way to make friends was to essentially dungeon master or game master role playing games. And I think it's the same for startups. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google , or wherever you like to download podcasts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Heres an excerpt: One of the unfortunate side effects of all the publicity and hype surrounding startups is the idea that entrepreneurship is a guaranteed path to fame and riches. Building a startup is incredibly hard, stressful, chaotic and –- more often than not –- results in failure. But only startups combine all three.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. Nonetheless, I want to talk about a dysfunction Ive seen in several startups: they are literally refactoring themselves to death. Im in this exact position with my startup, industrialinterface.com. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Incubators, too, helped flood the markets with even more startups, and AngelList played its part too. A name like 500 Startups says it all. Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems.

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