Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 20, 2016

Even if your product is a technological marvel, I look for balanced strength on the team in finance, marketing and operations. Focus on prior results, not titles. Business credentials and functional coverage. If your team has a depth of expertise in software, that won’t help you get funding for a new hardware solution.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 25, 2020

The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. This was also the time when major companies set up their online properties to sell and buy products. A basic search on Google shows several ecommerce portals selling the same products that your business sells.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Visionary CEOs don’t need someone else to demo the company’s key products for them. What’s Missing?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

They are hard to do in a company that excels at products. Visionary CEOs are product and business model centric and extremely customer focused. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Visionary CEOs don’t need someone else to demo the company’s key products for them. What’s Missing?

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Software By Rob

OCTOBER 26, 2010

At the time (2001), digital cameras were very much maligned by “real photographers&# , and certainly by the general public. I loved this product. Rogue Wave Software loved their product too. If you ever coded in C++ during the 90s, there’s a good chance you used their core product: Tools.h++. The Curse of Love.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2021

But, if you’re truly determined, believe in your product and service, and you’ve taken the time to understand your target audience , you might be ready to take the plunge and dive into working full-time on your very own independent venture. To understand if you’re ready to take the next step, you’ll have to navigate periods of uncertainty.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 16, 2013

trillion since 2001 due to traffic – a massive loss in productivity. In Manila, a study by the University of the Philippines National Center for Transportation Study (UP NCTS) last year placed the average annual losses incurred due to traffic congestion in Metro Manila at over P137 billion as of 2011.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” We can’t wait for customers to use the product for 12–18 months and do customer interviews or look at purchase cohorts.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2015

Agile was created as a way to enable greater productivity and responsiveness in the software industry to changing customer demands. With that in mind, the key tenets of agile development from the 2001 Agile Manifesto include: Satisfying customers through continuous, early delivery. Harnessing change to improve product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 11, 2021

On the other hand, most people thought Segway was the next big thing back in 2001, as an electric “personal transporter,” but it has yet to find a foothold. For example, many products are now offered by subscription, which was a concept from the services world. Yet today, Twitter is a fifty billion behemoth, and MySpace is forgotten.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment via the Internet of Things (IoT) and analytical software with a suite of products called the “ Predix Cloud ”. Andreessen’s article helped accelerate the company’s digital transformation.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Secrecy can manufacture scarcity: timed or limited releases for physical products, exclusivity for services.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Follow us on Twitter for more information on our products. The unimportance of product names. Don’t waste too much time on picking a perfect name for your product. We usually decide upon a product name by seeing what the product does. Everybody knows what a product name should be. Apr 27 2010.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The New York Times, January 2001. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway. . Complex products and decisions—rife in the B2B world—encourage us to default to our heuristic judgment. Secrecy can manufacture scarcity: timed or limited releases for physical products, exclusivity for services.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 21, 2011

The digital native, a term first coined by Marc Prensky in his seminal article Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants in 2001 (and later a book called – Teaching Digital Natives: Partnering for Real Learning “), is today known by many names. Since their teens, the Internet and mobile phones have been part of their lives.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs? A global market enables the company to sell vastly more copies of its software without increasing its production costs. A Borderless Talent Pool.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2016

It’s meant to blend well with all of your other content, and gently push people towards a particular product or brand without being obnoxious about it. Max Emelianov started HostForWeb in 2001. Somewhat similar to sponsored content, a Native Advertisement is designed to look like a natural extension of your website.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

First, did I care about / have affinity for the product? Next, were the entrepreneurs obsessed about their product? So, regarding the question of “do I care about / have affinity for the product of Mattermark”, the answer was a strong, unambiguous yes. This kicked me in the ass very, very hard between 2001 and 2004.

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This is going to be BIG.

APRIL 3, 2012

When Chantel at chloe+isabel was getting offers from VCs, one of the things I said to her was to try and get as experienced a VC as possible--because she already had the younger product focused/community networked guy on her board.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

When you have a compensation plan based on an hourly rate, you’re paying for attendance, not production. If they sold 20 percent more in April 2001 — 120 cases — they would get $2 per case for every case over 100. At Barefoot, we believed that customers look for overall value when buying a product, not just a low price.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 3, 2015

My head of product and I were able to spend time with the product team at Braun, the manufacturing company known for its shaving products. Even though we come from the software sector, we learned about developing a design language to unify our product design efforts.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 26, 2016

The chairs, desks and lighting, even the flooring and decoration all go towards creating (or hampering) a productive environment. It may sound strange, but many businesses make the mistake of being too focused on one particular goal, product or service. The truth is, it’s better to be more diverse in what you do.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

By contrast, Staples closed down some underperforming facilities but increased its workforce by 10% during the recession, mainly to support the high-end product categories and services it introduced. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. Where do your consumers fall? Premium-brand market leaders [.]

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Up and Running

JANUARY 8, 2019

That might have been fine in 2001, but if you were opening a kennel in the state of Oregon today, you’d get in big trouble with those numbers, since you’d be planning to pay your staff $.50 So, for example, if you aren’t writing a plan for outsiders, then you probably don’t need descriptions of the product, team, or exit strategy.

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ConversionXL

JULY 15, 2020

The most recent report shows other benefits: 53% of marketers experience higher levels of productivity with their teams. In a software team, a full-time Product Owner and separate Scrum Master work together to ensure the team is working on the right work at the right time, but they stay away from rolling up their sleeves and executing work.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

days in 2001-2003. LinkedIn also just recently announced TalentInsights , a new big data analytics product that enables HR leaders to delve more deeply into data for hiring. Glassdoor reports that since 2009, interview processes have grown from 3.3 days on average in 2016 which is an increase from 19.3

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2014

These are the ones who will spend extra hours on a project, who will think about that problem or product on the weekends, in the shower, wherever they go. In the end, their differing opinions and interests will sharpen the company and result in better products and services. Don’t sacrifice productivity for the sake of bureaucracy.

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deal architect

JANUARY 9, 2016

CES has traditionally been a harbinger of technology and societal trends with the products that are launched there: 1981 saw the introduction of the camcorder, 1991 the Interactive CD, 2001 the Microsoft Xbox and 2011 was the year of the.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Of course, Excite also went bankrupt in 2001, so maybe five is a terrible number? Skills – I do product, business, marketing. But having a design cofounder was critical in getting the large volume of work on the website, product, marketing material, done; iterating quickly; and keeping a consistent aesthetic to the brand.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Facts: Many popular startup companies are tech companies because they can create highly specific products quickly and distribute it to a large audience fast, but a startup does not necessarily have to be a technology company. Create a specific product that satisfies the needs of your target market. million after five years.

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Brandanew

JULY 15, 2015

While the brand/ products had found organic mentions all over the Internet and who’s who media of their particular industry, the brand itself had little presence on social media or Google. Digital natives was coined as a term in 2001 by Marc Prensky. Marketing leader Michael Hyatt posted a very critical post last year- here.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2022

The revenue of products that contain chips is worth tens of t rillions of dollars. Chips are probably the most complicated products ever manufactured. In 2001 there were 17 companies making the most advanced chips. Today we are incentivizing bringing fabs and chip production back to the U.S. Fab Issues.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

In 2001, I entered the publishing industry, figuring I could use the general services turnaround skills I had developed after B school in an industry in turmoil as a result of the internet and the changes. Thanks to Yaniv Masjedi, Nextiva ! #4- 4- My story in the publishing sector. Photo Credit: Joel Poznansky.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 5, 2019

First, it had to evoke the product use case in some way. While the service launched primarily directed at the wedding industry other print products are in soon coming online. The year was 2001. This was 2001, when almost nobody was on the Web. On July 11, 2001, I had my Last Bad Day. Photo Credit: Jessi Honard.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 10, 2017

Launched in 2001, it is the world’s sixth most popular website regarding overall visitor traffic. For example, users save time and increase productivity when they work with trusted data. This concept has the power to transform entire industries. Wikipedia is a good example of user collaboration in action.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 18, 2013

Finding effective solutions for managing business data is one of the biggest obstacles businesses encounter in reducing costs, improving service, increasing productivity, and meeting regulatory requirements. Founded in 2001, eFileCabinet, Inc. from Matt Peterson, President and CEO of eFileCabinet. Consistent Folder Structures.

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