Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

If you haven’t read it you should consider adding it to you library. It was especially influential in my mind in thinking about media. This changed with Amazon because you could stock books in warehouses and ship them when ordered greatly reducing the costs of housing books and thus you could stock a much greater variety.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

The more the team collectively understands, the less it has to document in order to move forward. Instead of burn- ing too much time at my desk pushing pixels, I grabbed a whiteboard and called the lead developer over. I sketched my original idea about how to lay out all the content and functionality for this dashboard.

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Jim reflected: “What I’ve seen over my 38 years is a real evolution in our board structure. The discussion also highlighted the need for organizations to adapt in order to ensure effective governance. “What I’ve seen over my 38 years is a real evolution in our board structure.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2013

My favorite conversion tests are those that can be abstracted from the specific website audience and applied to larger populations of online shoppers. Automate The Ordering Process Where Possible. This one small change led to an additional 110 orders, bringing in an additional $43,230 in revenue in a 2 week period.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. What Has Given Birth to This New Movement in LA? . acquired Overture for $1.63 billion (Upfront Ventures was an early Overture backer).

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. In descending order of cost, I see four main ways to support companies with domain expertise: Example. If this was helpful to you, please sign up for my newsletter.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 23, 2015

My friend then said, “Why do we need a computer to do this? When I think about some software problems, I often think about what steps a human would need to take in order to do the tasks manually. Google hired people to scan books in libraries and hired people to drive with cameras on top of the cars.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

JULY 23, 2015

My friend then said, “Why do we need a computer to do this? When I think about some software problems, I often think about what steps a human would need to take in order to do the tasks manually. Google hired people to scan books in libraries and hired people to drive with cameras on top of the cars.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Through my platform choices, I have forced many people to learn PHP and to work with it on a regular basis. Through my platform choices, I have forced many people to learn PHP and to work with it on a regular basis. This post is about why.

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SVPG

JUNE 13, 2014

NOTE: My friend and colleague Jeff Patton is the author of an upcoming book on the general topic of User Stories and especially the technique of Story Mapping. I was also a reviewer of the book and it is definitely a must-read for any product person and fills a very big gap in the current library of Agile titles.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

increase the number of customers, increase the average order size, increase the number of repeat purchases. #1: 2: Increase the average order size. Offering something to go with the initial product for a special price is a great way of increasing the average order size. Offer coupons with the order. Image credit.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Customer Development Model Repeatable: Startups may get orders that come from board members’ customer relationships or heroic, single-shot efforts of the CEO. Reply Andrew , on November 3, 2009 at 3:46 pm Said: Great post Steve — this puts a great framework around what I’ve been thinking through with my current startup.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Part of that is mechanical, and a few years back we published “ Winding Down Your Company ” as part of Homebrew’s resource library. There’s not a magic wand here but my hope is that we approach these issues ethically in addition to legally. GET ALL MY POSTS VIA EMAIL Patients aka Customers.

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Diego Basch

JUNE 10, 2013

I’m writing this post because this weekend made me remember the three bullet points I mentioned, when I open-sourced my code to generate word clouds from Twitter searches. I had to replace it with twitter-api , and adapt my code to work with timelines. 2) I realized that my config.clj file had my private Twitter app credentials.

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VC Cafe

MAY 18, 2023

This means that they must be willing to sacrifice some financial returns in order to achieve a positive social or environmental impact. But Sam Zell’s impact investing in Israel’s Zell Entrepreneurship program for outstanding students, changed my life and and the lives of its many alumni.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Decision Making Heuristics for the Startup CEO The heuristic I gave my friend was to think of decisions of having two states: those that are reversible and those that are irreversible. My advice was to start a policy of making reversible decisions before anyone left his office or before a meeting ended. Order Here. Now In Print!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2022

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I’m doing a solo show where I’m going to introduce one of my favorite strategy topics around content. So I'm gonna introduce today one of my favorite strategy topics around content, and the reason I call this a strategy topic. Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch.

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ConversionXL

JULY 8, 2020

You have six options for your campaign goal: Visits to my website. Visits to my business location. With a broad match type, someone could type your keywords out of order in the search bar, and your ads will still display. To create a remarketing list, go to “Shared Library” and click on “Audiences.”. Phrase match.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My objective to each and every one of you is that you will get information that you’ll be able to incorporate into your business model, as soon as this presentation is done. I’ve had a lot of entrepreneurs come up to me and say, “This is my brand.” The very first question you should ask is, “What does my business do?”

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2012

My MBA- Finance : All the bedrock principles of finance are here for you to investigate, from capital structure to debtor management. My MBA- Accounting : This solid app from ololac Interactive is an interactive course in enterprise and general accounting. It’ll teach you about the particular aspects of doing business at a non-profit.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Smashing Library. Libraries such as PhoneGap provide this capability. In this application, the HTML5 is generated with a mustache template, via the GRMustache library for iOS. This is very much like the versioning built into some REST based interfaces in order to support compatibility with older client applications.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

And throughout my career as an entrepreneur I kept asking questions of my VC investors and friends; Where did entrepreneurship come from? And the answer came back much as it did in my past jobs; Who cares, get back to work. The book is on my reading list for the Secret History. How did Silicon Valley start?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

This year has been momentous for my company. Considering how much time and efforts we have put into it and how long it has been my dream to have a fully automated booking system, it is only normal that I get so excited about it. 3- Quitting my day job. Photo Credit: John Pope. Thanks to Rune Sovndahl, Fantastic Services ! #3-

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Early Growth Financial Services

MAY 28, 2019

Quantum computers write my essay perform calculations on all the probable states of a system at the same time. Technical support is offered by the ComPADRE Digital Library. It’s vital that you understand that my experience may not be yours. The End of Theoretical Physicist Definition.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

I was hiking with my kids between the Yosemite High Sierra camps. The ideas were bouncing around my head so hard that I shared them with these strangers around a campfire, drawing out the four steps with a stick in the dirt. And Jennifer is now my co-instructor in the Stanford Lean LaunchPad class.). The MVP Tree.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 30, 2019

The first is to always remember my why(s); specifically why I started my company in the first place. And its usually a number of things: to have an impact on the world, to provide a better life for my wife and daughters, to give our employees a platform to be their best, to find personal fulfillment, etc. 3- Three motivations.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The great thing about starting to see the world as an overstuffed library of ideas is that you couldn’t have any better proof that inventing is for everyone. For example, I’ve been making my own jewelry for years. But, I’ll never know if I never put my hypothesis to the test and start doing the research! The headache pills.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2017

my top strengths are learner, achiever, focus, self-assurance and futuristic) Why do we take these assessments and how do they help us? I don’t know what the research says but, in my opinion, the most important benefits are to learn more about yourself, the inherent assets you have and also the gaps and blind spots you have.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 10, 2022

This is John Jantsch and my guest today's Terri Broussard Williams. Terri Broussard Williams (02:50): Yeah, so I, there are a couple of points in my life where there definitely has been a match that is in night. It's something in me and it's been fuel for, for my fire and for my soul. So Terry, welcome to the show.

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David Teten

AUGUST 5, 2013

I haven’t been an active coder since I was in my late 20s, but there’s no question that my experience learning how to code when I was 12 and teaching children and adults how to program has changed the way I think about every aspect of my life. Its creator characterized it as a way of assessing lower-order thinking.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Two years in the making and literally ten years in development, I’m proud to announce that my new book, The Startup Owners Manual , goes onto the printing press next Tuesday. In fact, you could say that all that remains from my last book are the four steps of Customer Development. Let me be brief…. Briefly, the new book.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

But I've seen the teams with my own eyes and witnessed their results first hand. For my take on how this is possible, you can see my previous post on Lean Government here. Yes, there are Lean Startups even in the United States federal government. I know this is an unpopular thing to say, since it sounds so patently absurd.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I also use several living Google docs to maintain the minutes and the group agendas for my fixed weekly meetings. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Her answer? ‘I

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

I normally start by saying something about where we are in this crisis, however, my guest for this conversation is so concise and clear about the data and what we all need to do that I'm just going to let him summarize it. Here's my conversation with Jeremy Howard. That's been the common theme throughout my career.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 28, 2011

The entries are broken down and categorized into five categories, which are based on the amount of money you’ll need as startup capital – which I thought was odd, and would be better off in pure alphabetical order so it’s easier to search for the entries one is most interested in. What I read broke my heart.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

My bachelor’s degree is in IT, my first job out of college was a programmer, then I did sales and marketing for many years, run an SEO company and a SaaS business. But you don’t have to be a total math nerd in order to be a friend of numbers. In my experience it’s quite the opposite actually.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Monday edit : Skip my post and read this one instead. But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. Indeed, I spend about half my time on it, while Lisa spends about all hers. Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! Learn more… Saturday edit: Wow, quite a response to this.

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