Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop. Lenore Estrada is one of those people.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. Uber initially worked well primarily within the San Francisco city limits. It now has high liquidity from South San Jose to Napa. Coverage density.

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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? All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal. More on that in a moment.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

lending at disruptively low APRs, discount travel that works for both the airline and the passenger, improving hiring outcomes while empowering employees to more actively manage their careers and job satisfaction, transforming medical research by watching a person or even a plant’s genome express itself from day to day). Crunch With Us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

If you can start getting ROI on a feature in month one of a twelve month project versus waiting until the end, youve comparatively reduced the cost of development by the revenue generated by that feature over 11 months. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Small batches also help deliver value earlier in the project.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 8, 2019

At the end of the month, I will be in San Francisco for a customer meeting but am padding a day on either side to meet amazing people. Maybe we’re the first company in history whose zero cash date keeps getting extended without any revenue. ?? Team: We are considering hiring [REDACTED] full time. NEED HELP / ASK? —?At

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

It could be more revenue, hiring clients or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. The pandemic changed that landscape and led us to a place where we revamped all aspects of our ad spend and funnel to create a predictable revenue system.

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It took me about six months to climb back to my old Verge salary, and right after that I launched my Discord with some other writers and that led to a big spike in revenue. But recently I hired my first employee, so I’m hoping some of that dissipates. The other measure I have now is my ability to fund more journalism through hiring.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

They were accustomed to measuring their progress primarily by gross revenue compared to their targets. They were accustomed to measuring their progress primarily by gross revenue compared to their targets. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. The company struggled mightily with how to explain this bad news to their board.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Correction: Last week's CTO position at Modcloth is actually a San Francisco opportunity, not Pittsburgh. Senior VP of Operations/COO – ROBLOX - San Francisco, CA Tree forts. Our revenues have increased every quarter for the past two years. Wooden blocks. Erector Set. Tinker Toys.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Usually, they are delivering only a fraction of the revenue they promised. Usually, they are delivering only a fraction of the revenue they promised. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Lets return to our team thats failing to hit their targets. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

We were even more embarrassed by the pathetically small number of customers we had, and the pathetically low amount of revenue we had earned so far. We’d always cringe as we admitted that, no, we really only had a few thousand customers and a few thousand dollars in monthly revenue. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Bring your questions. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Adam Hertz, a cable company executive in San Francisco , and his wife, Joan, have enthusiastically embraced the movement. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Thats real money."

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

If youre making revenue, you should be finding ways to grow it predictably month-over-month; if youre focused on customer engagement, your product should be getting more sticky, and so on. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. And if you neglect maintenance, you may not have a business left at all. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

At IMVU, we would occasionally hire someone from a more traditional organization who had a hard time letting go of their “best practices&# and habits. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. But for engineers that have the tendency to wait too long before shipping, they too have lessons to learn. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

And so the spreadsheet is built with conservative assumptions, including a final revenue target. No matter how low we make the revenue projections for this new product, it’s extremely unlikely that they are achievable. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. million post-money valuation with no revenue. I thought I’d post on one of the topics before hand. It was early 2000.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

billion in revenue and offices in over 100 cities around the globe. Liz is the founder of TransPerfect World's largest language solution company with over $1 billion in revenue and offices in more than 100 cities worldwide. We needed to bring in revenue as quickly as possible. I didn't know they threw this word in there for me.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 15, 2015

Headquartered in San Francisco, AppDirect makes it easy for businesses to find, buy, manage, and monitor cloud services from a central location. Many of our portfolio companies are those types of cloud services and the ecosystems that AppDirect powers can help them get to market faster, reach more users, and drive more revenue.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 6, 2014

Once I had a few under my belt, I realized I was a start-up junkie, and founded Five Mill Ventures in San Francisco before I was 30. My personal policy is to get the idea going, make it sustainable, hire passionate and experienced managers to take my place, then move on to the next challenge.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2010

Founder Troy Schwartz, who ran a video company in Austin prior to starting BidModo, explained the company’s rational in a statement today: “I would regularly hear of companies in town turning to New York or San Francisco to hire for their video needs. Furthermore, the aspect of local is fantastic.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

What is the right revenue model? Aside from the dramatically shorter development cycle that browser games enjoy, the split testing of features (which is intuitive to web application makers) is something that propelled Zynga's games and revenues to the top of the social games vertical. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Hiring always comes with a degree of risk, but this is particularly true when it comes to sales positions. A company’s lifeblood is its revenue, so the stakes aren’t much higher than with these front-line jobs that put your business’ products or services into the hands of consumers. by Andrew Armstrong.

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Scott Edward Walker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

And please don’t tell us to hire a lawyer.) You also need to remember to file your 83(b) election with the Internal Revenue Service within 30 days after the grant/purchase date of the restricted shares (see tip #3 of my post “ Founder Vesting: Five Tips for Entrepreneurs ”). Vesting Restrictions. IP Ownership. Many thanks, Scott.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

They both reached the top 5 in the App Store and generated enough revenue to profitably build the company to 40 employees with no invested capital. This approach has delivered stunning early numbers. TinyCo’s early games, Tiny Chef and Tap Resort, have been downloaded over 10 million times. Phenomenal Entrepreneur.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

No automated test is going to catch that, but it still will drive revenue to zero. No automated test is going to catch that, but it still will drive revenue to zero. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. There are huge classes of bugs that "work as designed" but cause catastrophic changes in customer behavior.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

He shared his tips for building a global business, hiring, what he’d do differently and more… The Chainalysis journey ? It sounded fun, so I went to San Francisco to join the team and Kraken launched in summer 2013. In the best of all worlds, we’d have probably moved to San Francisco. I also had family in Europe.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Large companies have a habit of hiring outside agencies to do market research and customer discovery. You can’t hire outside professionals to test and learn from customer interactions and make decisions for you. Remedy: For radically new ideas you should defer hiring outside agencies until you’ve found product/market fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 21, 2014

Post by Lean Startup Conference co-hosts Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries We’re excited to announce this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 8 – 12 in San Francisco. What can I do when I have a handful of customers who absolutely love our new product, but not enough to meet our revenue or impact goals?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 5, 2013

Small Business Marketing Tip: Send Email Campaigns At Night To Increase Revenue | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Why I No Longer Advise Startups to Hire M.B.A.s | The Accelerators-WSJ – [link]. Why Silicon Valley needs critics like Morozov | San Francisco Chronicle – [link]. Tribute to Ridiculous Voices!!

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

My friends at Fitbit are hiring a director of marketing. If you, or someone you know, wants a director of marketing job in a fast growing, well funded company in San Francisco, go take a look at the job spec and apply. There is a ton of hiring going on in our portfolio right now at all levels. just a new financing).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 14, 2015

But like many companies over the past five years it hired aggressively and probably had some degree of straying off of a core strategy and some amount of excess jobs relative to its current revenue forecasts and opportunities. What is your revenue growth rate and what does this imply about your number of months of capital remaining?

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David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2019

For instance, Columbia has launched a variety of explicitly interdisciplinary centers in recent years, including the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute , Columbia Data Science Institute ; the Brown Institute for Media Innovation ; or cross-school courses such as Columbia Business and Engineering’s Research to Revenue course.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. What key hires do you need? Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0 I don’t make it out to SF much, but for special occasions I will.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 26, 2020

And, if I told you that by the beginning of May, you’d make every hire remotely, you might have laughed in my face. …suddenly, nearly all technical jobs are remote-jobs, all dev-teams are distributed teams, and virtually all hiring is remote hiring. A Quick Word About Hiring in the Time of COVID-19.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Pitch Night in San Francisco. Some of the finalists were generating revenues already and/or have very promising strategic partnerships lined up. What key hires do you need? Last week, I attended the Annual Women 2.0 I don’t make it out to SF much, but for special occasions I will.

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