Mucker Lab

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Combined with the usual summer slowdown, some are already raising the spectre of 2001 or 2008. Let’s not even get started with “on-demand” or “subscription e-commerce.” Normal distributions do not exist; standard deviations are meaningless. The “venture recession” of 2016 is in full swing. Whatever happened to IoT after Nest?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 11, 2019

The first time was just for a couple years, from 2001-2003, before I went to grad school. Well known founders within Silicon Valley demanded this kind of change across the board, and if they wanted to see it internally, they also had to see it within the organizations that touched their group. I've been in venture now twice.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. I asked Jonah in my interview how he became this viral guru.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Startups needed millions of dollars of funding just to get their first product out the door to customers. A hardware startup had to equip a factory to manufacture the product. But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.”

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Reid Hoffman

MAY 16, 2020

How much change will you demand? It recognizes that forces that create chaos and confusion also upend deeply rooted habits and patterns of behavior — the status quo – that often block potential innovations and more productive ways of living. It had a fancier-sounding title: Product Manager. Is it temporary? Is it ongoing?

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

Others claim that it’s unproven , unscientific and gets your product to market in a haphazard way that is ungrounded in quality. WebVan went bankrupt in 2001 after burning through $1 billion on warehouses, inventory systems and fleet delivery trucks. Lean startup engineering seems to work for consumer products. Absolutely.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

We recently wrapped up our strategy offsite, an annual event that brings together the members of our very distributed team – 12 different cities in four different countries – to discuss what our aspirations and ambitions are for the coming year. Instead, I wanted to focus on what I knew best — product and editorial strategy.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Hand reared, growing into a cheeky, unique little character, full of personality and attitude… what better name for our product than ‘Oska. The name for my independent film production company, Corner Piece Productions, was inspired by a motif of puzzle pieces in our first feature, West of Her.

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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? Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 19, 2015

When you can proudly use your product or service and find the value in it on a daily basis, you know you’re on to something. — in a class so high in demand that I had to wait several quarters to take it? In 2001, I came home to find my apartment on fire. Even better, I love the service and use it daily as well.

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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. Mark Siegel, managing director at venture capital firm Menlo Ventures, which has managed more than $4 billion since 1976, said its a matter of supply and demand.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MARCH 5, 2013

The council has issued 63,000 credit transcripts since 2001. Also, while we are talking Amazon, lets think Kindle/ebook model — digital products served on demand with few physical activities and interactions before, during or after the sale. MOOCs/distance are the proxy for higher education.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

We downsized from 35 people in 2001 and are now a size that allows us to work directly with clients. We can extend our clients' reach tremendously, and for low cost, by using the internet and social media to distribute and link to the "assets" we create. Having fun again. Our name Reality2 stands for Reality2.0. Absolutely.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And content distribution. ” I think the first thing to remember is you can spot the early warnings long before these things are at your doorstep demanding that you respond to them. We forget, we think this is ancient history, it was 2001, I mean it wasn’t that long ago. How do you decide what to do about it?

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