Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 11, 2016

As an example, I am intrigued with the innovation and technology associated with flying drones of all configurations. Yet, I anticipate a long hard road for startups in this space due to the practical reality of innovation inhibitors, including several of the following: Dependency on new infrastructures and support.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2021

Finance, strategy, marketing, human resources, technology, and operations are all fundamental aspects of any business. When your business is also your passion, it can become all too easy to develop tunnel-vision. You need to generate brand awareness and positive reviews from totally impartial parties.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 3, 2020

By 2001, he was invested in the stock market and witnessed a unique situation where the stock market was in a tumble and, simultaneously, real estate was going up. In 2005 Vagnozzi put together 30 investors to pool $1M and fund the development of 110 acres in Montgomery County. Early Career in Real Estate .

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 29, 2017

Although most paper-based breaches and leaks occurred prior to the advent of digital technology, events like this one still occur today. of internal control weaknesses are caused by a lack of management review, also conducive to fraud and information mismanagement. Think again. The report also claims that 19.4%

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So I was part of the team that made the prediction that the Chief Marketing Officer would spend more on technology than the chief information officer. 03:03): But you know, sap, Oracle, Microsoft and Salesforce all went out and bought marketing technology companies, right?

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Ben's Blog

JUNE 18, 2011

We are not in a technology bubble. We have not even taken a major step towards a technology bubble. So let us first ask if “a very high percentage of the population&# has bought into a distorted premise about the future growth prospects for technology. Secondly, developers are more productive.

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Gust

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Working within a network of angel investors also expands the pool of expert resources and helps divide the work of screening companies and investment due diligence. Such comparisons can only be made for companies at the same stage of development, in this case, for pre-revenue startup ventures. Product/Technology.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 24, 2021

There are a number of trends concerning IPOs and capital formation to note: First, the raw number of IPOs has declined significantly: From 1980-2000, the US averaged roughly 300 IPOs per year; from 2001-2016, the average fell to 108 per year. double the rate of the prior year, 103 of those being venture-backed companies.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Most likely, this is a person who is a serial entrepreneur and was the chief technology officer for two or more web startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. This ended up developing into Visual Basic for Applications , the strategy for programmability in Microsoft Office. 15 minutes.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I’ve been interested in private company data since I started Feld Technologies in 1987. This kicked me in the ass very, very hard between 2001 and 2004. Sure, we did some more up front work and some formal legal diligence, but in that moment at The Kitchen, Seth and I knew that we wanted to be investors in Mattermark.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The median VC reviews 87 opportunities before making 1 investment. Detailed due diligence. I’ve shown below a case study of the geographic diversification of the largest late-stage technology venture capital / growth equity investors. Deal origination is a slow, labor-intensive, frustrating process. Target Selected.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Most of what I learned about operating startups I learned from the really tough years at my first company from 2001-2003. My company had raised venture capital in April 2001 but we were told that there may never be any more coming. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In other words, don’t hire solely based on someone’s technical skill set. Here’s the thing: Professional development is an essential part of attracting and keeping the best talent. If they sold 20 percent more in April 2001 — 120 cases — they would get $2 per case for every case over 100. You can always teach that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Responses ranged from, “hey, they’re in a HUGE market&# to “it is an amazing company and their technology rocks.&# It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. But everything has intrinsic value.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. 2001 ; Tullis et al., 2000-2001 , Tullis et al., Introduction. Definitions. Legibility vs. readability.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. .

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2020

After September 11th, 2001, people were afraid to fly. to 25% (national rate estimated at 32% by Federal Reserve): City consultant: 1 in 5 local jobs lost due to the coronavirus We closed things in March because a rapidly spreading and deadly virus was going to overwhelm our hospitals. TSA had two functions. protocol again.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer. The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. .

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Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Lately, everybody seems to be talking about a new technology bubble. A Comparison Between Today’s “Bubble” and the Last Tech Bubble. If publicly traded technology companies are not at bubble-like prices, then private technology valuations aren’t either because they are roughly equivalent. Are the prognosticators correct?

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genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Small Business Labs, from Emergent Research , covers the key social, technology and business trends impacting small business. New Communications Review. Interest in this waned when the Internet bust resulted in most tech start-up equity becoming worthless, but it seems to be coming back. Most tech start-ups fail.

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Ben's Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

CEOs and employees work tirelessly to develop creative narratives that help them avoid dealing with the obvious facts. She left, but we were going to fire her, or give her a bad performance review” – High tech companies tend to track employee attrition in three categories: People who quit. Some familiar lies.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2017

While the following advice is more focused on innovative technology companies, the idea can be transferred to any sort of marketing writing, including product descriptions. It’s also the core of developing winning test hypotheses. You can also do it, As Joanna Wiebe suggested, by scouring authentic customer reviews.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 19, 2019

I came up with my business name, Kate’s Theatrics at about 9pm April 14, 2001. Trees, flowers, and plants all symbolize growth, so there were a lot of names developed around those. Pineapple Development was founded on the principle of casual excellence. The name and domain were born then. Thanks to Alex Vale, Fundstack !

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 4, 2017

Some might feel that they will reduce the cost by developing their own site. It is only possible if one has the right technical knowledge. The venture requires a massive financial investment due to the numerous expenses that include marketing, payment services, license acquisition alongside an early license fee.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2017

When sites are designed, developed and written with web accessibility in mind, everyone has equal access to online information, products, and opportunities. aged 12+ had hearing loss in both ears, based on standard hearing examinations, from 2001 to 2008. What is web accessibility? Why does it matter to optimizers? census , about 56.7

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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). Tags: Pitching VCs Raising Venture Capital Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

The image to the left shows the Lord Howe stick insect, Dryocecelus australis , which was presumed extinct by 1960 but found again in 2001 on Ball’s Pyramid, the remains of an old volcano that emerged from the sea 7 million years ago. Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds – [link].

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Valuations in startups increased dramatically during the Dot Com boom and then both valuations and the availability of investment capital nationally collapsed in 2001 with the Dot Com bust and 9/11. But the timing of the launch of these new funds almost assured their failure regardless of their investing acumen.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

You really need to get with your development team and if you don’t know what the word responsive is, ask them and make them make your website that. All the stuff you’re thinking about here, testimonials, social proof, think about reviews. Like 10 years ago reviews on product pages were nonexistent.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

Technology. This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. Loading… Tech. Personal Technology. TECHNOLOGY. more in Tech. WSJ Classroom. Ran gold Resources Ltd. View All Search Results » |. The Wall Street Journal. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Edition Home.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 14, 2016

A durable, trendsetting presence in the industry since 2001, the Atlanta-based firm sends over a billion emails per day and is the go-to choice for over 14 million organizations and individuals around the world. There are metrics to review. This gives you time to develop relationships with your customers.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

We are certainly not abandoning CRM as a pillar of our positioning, we are recognizing that there is a more expansive vision to aim for, one which borrows on the lessons and capabilities of CRM while more fully embracing a next generation of social technologies that don’t exist exclusively in the context of master data and transaction records.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). But just to clarify a couple points, 24-hours into the storm: Yes,NET developers are great at what they do. It’s the most modern platform for application development on the planet.

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Work Less, Get More Done, Convenient Open Source, What a Startup is Really Like, and more… → My Report on StackOverflow DevDays Cool News, Links & Reviews If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. October 22nd, 2009 | Cool News, Links & Reviews Building your startup?

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Fundraising is always difficult for all founders; the median PE/VC fund sources and reviews 87 companies before investing in 1. Technically yes. Admit you have biases, like we all do, then recognize you need to put steps in place to overcome that – like start an NBA development league in China.” . Is that wrong? Is it human?

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