Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

I was living in Europe in 2000 when the first WAP phones (Wireless Access Protocol) were introduced. But like lemmings, every company in the market rushed to proclaim they were launching WAP versions of their products. Before you let me have it let me say I am a FanBoy of Apple products. Absolute Power Corrupts, Absolutely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

It can be difficult to locate information about government assistance programs or find and complete the correct forms for taxes or business operations. design, build, operate/use, maintain, and service). In particular, small businesses and exporters have a fundamental problem navigating the Federal Government’s myriad resources.

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A Crowded Space

JANUARY 17, 2019

In most marketplaces, we’ve been operating in a one size fits all mode. The result of all these things is that you end up with tons of “5-star” rated users or products and can’t tell the difference between them. I’m not going in depth on this one since you can read all about it here. I was chatting with the founder of interviewing.io

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

They bought high-end car brands like Aston Martin, Jaguar and Land Rover thinking they would be able to successfully grow these brands using the same marketing and operational methods that made Ford so successful. The key learning here was that the techniques that work for mass-market products don’t work for luxury goods or services.

eCommerce 125

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999.

Marketing 121

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

But I especially admire the way that you have thrown yourselves into relief efforts very different from the product that you were building just a few months ago. So would you talk a little bit about the history of the company and what the product was pre-crisis. We were at Haas School of Business.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Smith identified that when men and women specialize their skills, and also importantly “trade” with one another, the end result is a rise in productivity and standard of living for everyone. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace.

Internet 88

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

How their product leaders and CMOs embrace the change adjusting product/marketing strategies based on new technologies. In AI implications on Marketing and Analytics , I placed my considerations explaining how and why Artificial Intelligence (AI) will shape the next generation of Analytics and Marketing SaaS products.

Customer 92

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

I use the money made from my private clients to launch intelligence operations against our enemies. One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. 14- Lack of transparency on existing products. 15- Upset with various products.

Entrepreneur 96

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

There are modern algorithms to optimize how much buffer you need at every point (read up on Toyota’s lean production system and the Theory of Constraints to get started). The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. Think of product ideas as the raw material. Feature backlogs.

Software Review 85

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. We started building the product 18 months ago so we are in better shape than 99% of start-ups. Free product. I wasn’t feeling it. Folksonomy.

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Venture Capital Term Sheet San Diego Viral 274

Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

John also spent several years at The New York Times Company at NYTimes.com running strategy, marketing, and operations. He was part of the management team that was instrumental in launching NYTimes.com’s first digital paid product and the acquisition of About.com. I would say, fundamentally, you know, we talk about product market fit.

Community 69

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

"I just directly observed that the technology for doctors was really far from what they needed to operate at a high productivity level," he told me. His first instinct was that "somebody" should rethink how a doctor operates, how they communicate with the patient, and basically how the whole concept of care delivery works.

Silicon Valley 60

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. Now I don’t get any.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. August 1995 – March 2000: The Dot.Com Bubble.

Internet 334

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

Similarly, Google, well on its way to owning the dominant smart phone operating system and which maintains a near monopoly position in search, trades at a price/earnings (P/E) ratio (ex-cash) of around 13.7. In the last bubble, the S&P hit 44x in January 2000. Secondly, developers are more productive.

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Technical Review Software Review Valuation Internet 76

500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

While a flood of new VCs came into existence during the late 90’s internet boom, many had difficulty raising new funds after the crashes of 2000-2001 and 2008 , and as a result significantly fewer fund managers exist now compared to a decade ago. They are operators, through and through.

Silicon Valley 74

Silicon Valley Early Stage Venture Capital Valuation 74

Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

In every start-up, finding initial product-market fit is a magical moment. You dive deep into a customer development process, working closely with a few customers who feed you requirements and are willing to trial an imperfect product that is evolving quickly. a "jungle" stage company would have a lower quota than a "highway" company).

Sales 50

Sales Technical Review Software Review B2B 50

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. The second is distribution —the ability to get product into the hands of customers. Plenty of headroom there!

Cofounder 28

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2011

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 Open-Source Software & Horizontal Computing.

Venture Capital 334

Venture Capital Software PHP Open Source 334

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. And his vendors ended up with nothing when his company, OpenAuto.com , went out of business, in 2000. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Naming a Business.

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Arizona Equity Iowa Venture Capital 40

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Party Pieces grew rapidly and the Middletons moved their operations to three converted farm buildings outside of London.

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Southern California Las Vegas Honolulu Massachusetts 162

www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Office and Operations. Back in 1997, Randy Parker was staring at a blank whiteboard, wondering where hed find the money to hire the employees and consultants he needed to build his new product. "We Copyright © 2000 inc.com. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. Naming a Business.

Fractional CTO 40

Fractional CTO Equity Iowa Technical Cofounder 40

www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). Joel on Software Fog Creek Compensation by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, August 30, 2000 At Fog Creek Software, the way we make sure that people are paid fairly and rewarded for excellent work is based on a professional ladder.

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Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says.

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Venture Capital Software Review Rhode Island North Dakota 107

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

An investment doesn’t guarantee your product will suddenly be on the investor’s price sheet. We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. 406 Ventures.

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Venture Capital Non-Compete Vertical Europe 225

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

But once the company has honed in on a strong value proposition and found initial product-market fit, what is the best approach to scaling it? With over $1 billion in revenue, 2000 employees and a market capitalization of over $6 billion, Akamai has become a role model for scalable start-ups. After all, scaling is hard. Really hard.

Distribution 49

Distribution Lean Massachusetts Cofounder 49

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. We also discussed having distributed teams (e.g. Content, of course, is the same!].

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Venture Capital Los Angeles Oakland Asia 217

VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

i-nigma was successfully deployed by hundreds of enterprises, among them operators, advertisers, integrators and solution providers. This highest quality of the traffic information, never achieved before, together with the perfect applications generate significant revenues for the operator and maintain customers’ loyalty.

Mobile 103

Mobile Securities and Exchange Commission Flash IP 103

VC Cafe

APRIL 23, 2012

The largest total amount of venture capital released to educational technology companies within one year is $534 million, reached in the year 2000. Many of these companies started strong with venture capital backing, but failed to secure enough clients to make their products profitable.

Venture Capital 96

Venture Capital Michigan Seed Capital Programming 96

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

As you can see from the chart their data suggests there are about $25 billion of VC distributions per year in the US. In 2000 our industry had more than $100 billion in LP money. I’ll admit that I do know one VC firm who’s strategy is not to call their entrepreneurs and not to be involved in operations.

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LP Later Stage IRR Term Sheet 374

The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

I’ve worked in digital businesses since 2000 as Product Manager, ECommerce Operations Director and most recently as Chief Operating Officer (3 companies). The next generation of successful VC firms will combine robust investment experience with practical operational experience.

Partner 91

Partner Early Stage Business Model HTML 91

VC Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2011

I’ve contacted Blazemeter’s CEO Alon Girmonsky , to learn more about the product and the load-testing market. VC Cafe: Like any enterprise business run out of Israel, the challenge is distribution. We will introduce open API so we can easily integrate to complementary products and allow them to integrate with BlazeMeter.

Cloud 106

Cloud North America EC2 106

abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

In other words, the arrival of a product or service like Uber will have zero impact on the overall market size of the car-for-hire transportation market. As Uber becomes more established in a market, pick-up times continue to fall, and the product continues to improve. There are multiple reasons why this is a flawed assumption.

San Francisco 111

San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

ReadWriteStart

APRIL 26, 2012

For a technology startup company to launch an initial product and survive long enough to gauge its success, requires two-orders-of-magnitude less money today than at the start of the previous decade. They all went away; they got rolled up in 1999 and 2000 into these too-big-to-fail banking operations," Davidson tells us.

IPO 115

IPO Stock San Francisco Lean 115

online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. that did so in 1999 and 2000, according to an analysis for The Wall Street Journal by Jay R. Personal Technology. What They Know. All Things Digital.

Silicon Valley 42

Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42