Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it. Notice that none of those five reasons deals with TDD or automated testing, which have changed the game. This is the approach of test-driven-development (TDD). I agree with the other Anonymous regarding TDD (Test Driven Development). Do you have testers?

Software Review 144

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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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Technical Review Algorithm Channel Analytics 127

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

Azure 120

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

After running Microsoft for 25 years, Bill Gates handed the reins of CEO to Steve Ballmer in January 2000. Each transformation – from a new computer distribution channel – Apple Stores to disrupting the music business with iPod and iTunes in 2001; to the iPhone in 2007; and the App store in 2008 – drove revenues and profits to new heights.

Azure 120

Azure Business Model Cloud Artificial Inteligence 120

Ben's Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Building a technology company is hard. So much so that our diligence found him working round the clock, running a hyper-intense environment and looking very much like a 20 year old entrepreneur on a mission from God. Today, only 8 months after launch, the SnapStore has 63 supported snaps representing around 2000 integrations.

Technical Review 77

Technical Review Memphis Software Review Software 77

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While you may not be able to address all of them, you can work with your dev team to find and fix the more technical areas: Slow application logic : Use a code profiling tool to help determine which dependencies are being used on your site and how long each of those dependencies takes to load. An easy way to ensure that is with a CDN.

Caching 102

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 16, 2018

Despite practicing law and building tech startups, there was a big part of me that was unsatisfied in each of those roles. One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. Thanks to Alison Bernstein, The Suburban Jungle ! #9- 9- I HAD to.

Entrepreneur 101

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Folksonomy. Free product.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 4, 2016

Technology is changing the way sales is conducted. And as I mentioned, technology is making sales generally more sophisticated. A 2015 global study of 2000 B2B buyers and sellers by Accenture shows that B2B buyers have high expectations for engagement. Dropoff reduced drastically due to no dead centres of uninteresting slides.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Technology | Thursdays. TECHNOLOGY. Technology. Jumpstart was one of Grahams first clients; it signed on shortly after he founded Arizona Bay, in 2000. Like a venture capitalist reviewing business plans, he now weighs the potential of every company Arizona Bay works with. Join our community. Forgot login ?

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt. Product launches are one phase in the product lifecycle.

Product 110

Product Campaign Acquisition Social Media 110

www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

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. This person proposes design approaches for review and agreement from peers and his or her supervisor.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

By 2011, the number of subscribers worldwide had surpassed 5 Billion and cellular communication had become an unprecedented technological revolution.” ( article via @trengriffin ). I don’t think very many people put young kids into taxis (due to trust), but they are quite comfortable doing this in an Uber. New Use Cases.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 11, 2013

You assign an annual quota to each rep, train them, feed them some sales tools and assign them a sales engineer (particularly for more technically complex products) and coach them along the way. Find a new sales rep with industry experience, a rolodex and a strong track record.

Sales 50

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. 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. Image source ).

Marketing 121

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 28, 2005

Luckily, I have 2 portfolio companies that I respectively invested in during 1999 and 2000 which survived the nuclear winter and are having an opportunity to contribute to this innovation by helping make search better and easier for users. There is obviously lots of innovation happening in the search space.

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Search RSS Technical Review Portfolio 60

Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And now I think it's definitely through technology, through, you know, a lot of advances in opportunities. And again, for a lot of people, that's what they were concerned with was distribution. And that stigma has been present up until very recently, actually.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. July 11, 2012.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

Product 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. Is the game over?

Social Network 318

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

All I have access to is just a cursory review of their digital existence. You can still put together a quick dashboard that will allow Jim and Bob to do a quick review of the data and make smarter decisions about how to invest their limited budget on digital upgrades. Let your competition be lame and play by 2000 worldviews.

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abovethecrowd.com

AUGUST 23, 2020

It has to do with the trends in how much effort the investment banks put into marketing and distribution, versus how much effort they put in historically. If you talk to the market-makers that execute the Direct Listing they have zero technical concerns about how it would work. It is purely a regulatory question at this point.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. 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. TECHNOLOGY.

Silicon Valley 42

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Most of them only have technical details. Don’t get me wrong, the technical details of a product are important, but they should supplement a real product description). Take this segment of a description for a $2000/night villa in Los Angeles from luxury rental site Luxury Retreats. Image source.

eCommerce 125

eCommerce Conversion Sales Technical Review 125

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project?

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

They’re being found at breakneck pace right now precisely because they required substantial new security technology to actually exploit, and that new technology has unlocked an exciting new frontier in vulnerability research. The recent bugs were, contrary to some reporting, not particularly trivial to spot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

And then we also looked at our operations and said, "We have a footprint across the US that can produce and distribute millions of meals every week, fresh meals to 400 cities and towns at incredibly affordable prices given the way we have cost optimized our footprint and our program." And our customer base grew probably.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

What’s even more remarkable is that the amount of financing poured into private cloud companies dwarfed the amount raised by public cloud companies in 2021, as hedge funds like Coatue, Tiger and Dragoneer are turning their eyes to the private tech markets. We opened our office in London in 2000, followed a few years later by Bangalore.

Global 62

Global Europe Software Review 62

crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Sometimes called “Gen Y”, millennials are the much sought after generation born between 1980 and 2000. Harvard Business Review explains why such collaboration would be a win/win: Ironically, startups and established companies would both improve their success rates if they collaborated instead of competed. Millennials.

Small Business 53

Small Business Startup Global Design 53

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

We’re going to talk about some of the findings from what, I think, is a somewhat massive undertaking that takes the form of an eBook called The State of Engagement: Insights on Engagement from 2000 Global Consumers and Marketers. I think they feel like with all the new technologies that marketing is pretty passive.

Channel 44

Channel Retention Technical Review Software Review 44

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… Tech. 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. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. » More. » More.

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Let’s just review them all and see what we like, see what we don’t like. Our last sign, sign number 12 is when your time distribution is uneven. It’s free for up to your first 2000 subscribers. Jonathan: “12 Signs, Me Need to Hire a Manager.” Jonathan: Yeah, sounds good to me. Peter: This is good.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Management Startup Hiring 60

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These are good things to think about and companies to study as we move back from consumer to Enterprise in the tech cycle. And so we think that the model flipped to a model where, today, where the most interesting and advanced new technology now comes out for the consumer first. Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc.

Software Review 22

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ProofHQ – Online management and review of designs, artwork and documents. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Office Applications Celum Imagine – Software that lets you manage and distribute your photos, PowerPoint presentations, PDFs and multimedia content.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78