Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2015

Equally bad is a full tutorial on your new disruptive technology. Tag team shows don’t work in short venues. The average length of a funding pitch to Angel investors is ten minutes. Even if you have booked an hour with a VC, you should plan to talk only for the first fifteen minutes. Then match your pace to cover all the material.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Whether working with a developer or picking up a coding language yourself, you can truly create something new to either boost your current startup or disrupt the entire industry for the better. More Practice, Less Theory. However, the “entry fee” into such a space can be quite substantial. Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Silicon Valley’s Disruption Deficit Disorder – [link]. Clothing Hang Tag Design: 12 Trendy Examples – [link]. The Science Behind Design Color Theory – [link]. The Science Behind Design Color Theory – [link]. The Science Behind Design Color Theory – [link]. image credit: papalars.

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ConversionXL

JULY 2, 2019

In theory, our analytics department would work seamlessly to make the whole business profitable. In real life, it often struggled for constant improvement—new people, new business goals, and new technologies disrupted steady progress. What is the most effective mix of responsibilities for each analyst position under perfect conditions?

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Watch for phrases like “I’m worried about…” and “Can you show me…” Tag what you find so you can use it in your copy (#objection #late-stage, etc.). Add to that 400 old and new faces, plenty of conversations, live music, and more than a few beers. CXL Live is an experience. Els Aerts: “The Lost Art of Asking Questions”.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

No more theory, we felt it! Notice nothing is categorized or tagged in the pictures above. A rare post today. It looks a little further out into the future than I normally tend to. It attempts to simplify a topic that has more than it’s share of coolness, confusion and complexity. I’m going to take a very long walk with you today.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

The Twitter stream (which you can see here , using the hash tag #hbsltv) nicely captured our dialog. The Twitter stream (which you can see here , using the hash tag #hbsltv) nicely captured our dialog. Similar to last year , it was a terrific session. We do not have a final exam. You can see the course blog here. education).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 18, 2010

Equally bad is an extended pitch on your new disruptive technology. Tag team shows don’t work in short venues. The average length of a funding pitch to investors is ten minutes. I was recently a judge at a local event where the time limit for each startup was two minutes. If you have ten minutes, that means no more than ten slides.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

When my partner Marc wrote his post describing our firm , the most controversial component of our investment strategy was our preference for founding CEOs. The conventional wisdom says a startup CEO should make way for a professional CEO once the company has achieved product-market fit. Adobe—John Warnock. Amazon – Jeff Bezos. AMD—Jerry Sanders III.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

Which is one of the reasons I invested in Ad.ly – a company that is a market leader in “in-stream advertising.&# The theory is simple: our attention is moving from search to stream. One of the investment themes I’ve been focused on in the past 3 years has been Performance-Based Marketing. Thus, we click!

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure. This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. It has become an integral part of startup culture. The irony is that few startups fit these criteria. None of mine did.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 30, 2010

Truly revolutionary ideas come from new thinking; disruption comes from leveraging existing situations and tools to cause a shift in how business is done. Entrepreneurs can benefit from their example – be like a kid and move up the learning curve as quickly as possible: seek out new information; gather new ideas; grow new theories.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

It was a fun show today, especially Jason’s story at the very end of the episode! Before jumping into the post I wanted to point out one thing about doing TWiVC and posting my notes here on BSOTT. In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy?

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. This kind of incrementalism is mostly great, and people should generally do more of it.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Thanks ez, whoever you are! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. Sure, everyone says that. But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. For example, Mich is barely 5 foot tall, but is a competitive fencer. Witold is a 6’3″ former professional hockey player. See, experience is cheap.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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