Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s why we have operations alerts trigger a page, but it can also work for other customer events. This is true for split-testing features, but it’s also true for marketing programs or even operations changes. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information. Mr. Lindzon continues to manage a hedge fund he started in 1998. He joined Goldman Sachs & Co. Christopher Ahlberg is the CEO and Co-founder of Recorded Future.

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Professor VC

MAY 7, 2013

My Original Mobile Email Device My love affair with RIM started with my first blackberry I purchased in 1998 - the fat pager pictured above. However, even up until a few weeks ago, I was considering hanging on for the Q10 to experience the slick new operating system and still have the trusty blackberry keyboard.

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Silicon Valley Cofounder Mobile New York 51

Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 23, 2022

David is the Founder and CEO of David Novak Leadership, the parent organization to five nonprofits dedicated to developing leaders at every stage of life, from ages 5 to 65. David is also the Co-author of his newest book – Take Charge of You: How Self Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career. And I said, who could I learn from?

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2011

We will discuss liquidity options appropriate for a wide range of people with private company stock, including private equity funds, venture capitalists, angels, founders, and employees with options. David Weild IV, formerly Vice Chairman of The NASDAQ Stock Market Mr. Weild is the founder of Capital Markets Advisory Partners.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine. Or maybe valuation depends on growth rates or operating margins.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 27, 2021

As I discussed last week in the Greymatter podcast with my friend and Blitzscaling co-author Chris Yeh , I believe that a knowledge of philosophy is actually a great asset for entrepreneurs. Like many first time founders, I ran over that landmine. Or maybe valuation depends on growth rates or operating margins.

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Silicon Valley Venture Capital Balance Sheet Cofounder 69

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Even more tragically, the company's founder, Danny Lewin, was killed on one of the 9/11 airplanes.

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Seeing Both Sides

MARCH 2, 2011

I had the pleasure of teaching a new case at HBS yesterday on foursquare that I co-authored with Professors Tom Eisenmann and Mikolaj Piskorski as part of Tom's new course "Launching Technology Ventures". A product-obsessed management team suddenly had to transition to become an operational scale management team. Monetization.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

I told the story about how Brant Barton, my Bazaarvoice co-founder, and I picked the name in Chapter 7 of my book “ The Entrepreneur’s Essentials ” (also available for free online). Then in 1998 along came a tiny company in Los Gatos, California named Netflix. And the Blockbuster name became synonymous with late fees.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Webinar Description: Entrepreneurial and Investment Opportunities in Fintech You’re invited to listen to a webinar, hosted by Growthink co-Founder and Managing Partner Jay Turo, where a select group of Fintech entrepreneurs and investors will share how they and their companies are winning in this incredibly dynamic space.

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Disintermediation Cofounder Venture Capital Angel Investor 48

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

First, he was the co-founder of Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM – currently valued at $8 billion.) They entered, but didn’t win, the MIT $50K competition in 1998. It was awesome and I recommend it for any entrepreneur out there either working on a company or thinking about starting a company.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Time and time again, experts in entrepreneurship and business (often with little to no operating experience of their own) offer formulaic advice on what startups must do to succeed. It was only in 1998 when Andy Bechtolsheim invested $100,000 in Google, Inc. There are many myths about what it takes to start a business.

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