India Management Naming Portfolio 
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 14, 2017
LESSON #1: Equip your business with a portfolio map and a 21st century org chart. To do the same, Alex recommends building two things: a business portfolio map that recognizes invention as necessary and an updated organization chart. To support the three Cs, ING has also developed their own iterative practice named PACE.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 18, 2022
But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 18, 2015
One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. I can’t do every deal.
David Teten
MARCH 18, 2021
Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. However, we’d argue that for most smaller managers who are not brand names, it’s better to be highly identified in your niche than being a generalist. These firms focus on certain management philosophies or categories of founders.
Haystack
JULY 20, 2018
This is a post I’ve wanted to write for a long time, but I needed the time to digest all the other great posts on the topics by other investors, and to analyze specific portfolio data from Haystack over the last five years. Well, that time has finally come. Over the past two years, however, I’ve felt that something is out of balance.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 13, 2019
But it does mean that you think about the global implications at every step of the process: Pick your company and product names carefully. Don’t pick a name for your company or product that has a negative or totally different meaning in another language. Anticipate greater growth outside of North America.
Gust
FEBRUARY 22, 2014
As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)
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