1999 Books Differentiation Founder 
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 29, 2014
This week I wrote about obsessive and competitive founders and how this forms the basis of what I look for when I invest. And that’s what differentiates founders and early employees. Why will people invest 5x the money to get book smart and struggle so much to take a big salary cut to get real life experience?
Feld Thoughts
JULY 8, 2013
A year or so ago I read an early draft of a new book titled The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win. Following is a guest post on DevOps by Gene Kim , Multiple Award-Winning CTO, Researcher, Visible Ops Co-Author, Entrepreneur & Founder of Tripwire. Wake up developers up at 2 a.m.
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Hearpreneur
JANUARY 28, 2022
Since my co-founders and I haven't agreed on the company name yet, we decided to post in one of the Business Naming Facebook groups that we joined. My wife and I co-founded our Web development and digital marketing agency atCommunications, LLC in 1999. Thanks to Roy Morejon, Enventys Partners ! #10- 10- From a naming contest.
ReadWriteStart
JUNE 23, 2011
He is heading straight into an intensely competitive market without adequate differentiation or competitive positioning. I asked him to review the TrueCFO project in my Vision India 2020 book. He currently has a 1999 strategy. I advised Anupam to come up with a 2011 strategy. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.
abovethecrowd.com
OCTOBER 17, 2013
The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. Having read the majority of Peter Lynch’s investment books, I knew not to ignore the overwhelmingly positive feedback from our team. Even those that started skeptically came back enthused.
Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 28, 2011
When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 That little online book company. More recently great funds like IA Ventures, Floodgate, Rincon Ventures, Founder Collective, Freestyle Capital and others have raised money to focus on early-stage investing as a strategy. Amazon changed our industry. Not Google.
ConversionXL
JANUARY 16, 2019
Picking a term with a well-understood foil (“outbound marketing”) makes it easier to understand and differentiate. An eponymous book (e.g. While the term was new, many of the ideas aligned with “ permission marketing ,” which Seth Godin brought into marketers’ consciousness in 1999 and contrasted with “interruption marketing.”
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