Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

If you don’t value your product neither will your customers. Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Ryan Smith , co-founder of Qualtrics insight platform. Lane Merrifield , founder of Fresh Grade learning collaboration solution.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2023

We were founded by a gentleman named Bob Young, who was the original co-founder of Red Hat, which is a massive software company. So that's the quick and dirty of our origin story is that, and Bob Young, by the way, is still the sole owner and founder of the company, and very much and involved in what we do on a day-to-day basis.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

If you don’t value your product neither will your customers. Values – who and what founders and customers hold dear – were the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. Ryan Smith , co-founder of Qualtrics insight platform. Lane Merrifield , founder of Fresh Grade learning collaboration solution.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Takadu’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product enables utility companies to detect leaks, bursts and equipment failures as well as alerting personnel of any problems through email and SMS. P&G ACQUIRES ISRAELI MEDICAL DEVICE CO CONTIPI. ConTIPI’s product has approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

Note: I don’t want to sound arrogant in the next paragraph (bloody Frenchman) but it is important to explain the breadth of my experience with.Net for you to understand why my productivity increase is such a big deal to me. But something happened in the last month that made a dramatic change to my productivity. I learned Ruby on Rails.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I took a Visual Basic class in high school, enjoyed it, graduated in 2002 and entered college on track to get a Computer Science degree. Find a technical co-founder. I wanted to be closer to the product. You're fooling yourself if you think you can lead product from a whiteboard or paper and pencil. Have an idea.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Got a cool product idea? Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. Platforms can blend a payments process into their product seamlessly, while feeling confident that a robust system of fraud protection is standing behind them. Enter the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

Note: I don’t want to sound arrogant in the next paragraph (bloody Frenchman) but it is important to explain the breadth of my experience with.Net for you to understand why my productivity increase is such a big deal to me. But something happened in the last month that made a dramatic change to my productivity. I learned Ruby on Rails.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. On multiple occasions I’d get in to the office in the morning and find our CEO (Elon Musk at the time) asleep on the couch in our little product team lounge from the night before.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 28, 2019

Thanks to William Griggs, Virtual Reality Rental Co. ! #2- AI will open up opportunities for a single person to create a product and provide support for hundreds or thousands of people. Thanks to Jacob Landis-Eigsti, Jacob LE Video Production ! #3- 2- Artificial intelligence and automation. Photo Credit: Jacob Landis-Eigsti.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. 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.”.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

by Bill Clerico, CEO and co-founder of WePay. Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over one million employees. In the past, as an individual or small business, if you had a talent, product or skill – finding customers or buyers was a huge hurdle.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. On multiple occasions I’d get in to the office in the morning and find our CEO (Elon Musk at the time) asleep on the couch in our little product team lounge from the night before.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 26, 2020

I told the story about how Brant Barton, my Bazaarvoice co-founder, and I picked the name in Chapter 7 of my book “ The Entrepreneur’s Essentials ” (also available for free online). I think this is brilliant, and our slant on this question today is, “Would you buy this product again?”

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

Today Cloze has started to talk more publicly about their funding and also is starting to open their product more broadly. Having been involved in the formation and early growth of LinkedIn, I saw a clear opportunity for Cloze’s product. I first met co-founder/CEO Dan Foody a little over six months ago.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

The name has been a great introduction to the core ideas that our brand was founded as well as our product offering. I run a product review site and every other site doing the same type of thing was using a generic business name or one that was impersonal. 8- Developed a character that people could relate to.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

I started off as a product manager and while I never actually slept over at the office, there were frequently late nights. On multiple occasions I’d get in to the office in the morning and find our CEO (Elon Musk at the time) asleep on the couch in our little product team lounge from the night before.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

Co-founder and CEO Nicolas Brusson spoke to me about BlaBlaCar’s early ambitions to be a European rather than local country winner and its progression to global player. But then came 9/11 and the severe downturn in the Valley in 2002. You then came back to Europe and joined a venture firm before co-founding BlaBlaCar.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

For now, it’s fine to think about pre-seed rounds as relatively small ($750K or less), early (pre-product), and typically followed by a larger round within 12 months ($1M – $3M). Series A investors invested quite early, often before product/market fit. technical co-founder). FWIW, that is not how we operate.).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Family relationships influence founders and their startups. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of online jewelry retailer BaubleBar , and Jane Moritz. Daniella Yacobovsky , co-founder of BaubleBar , previously worked at American Capital Securities and UBS Investment Bank.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and immigrated to Austin, Texas, in 2002 at the age of 15. Maria’s dad started Donn’s Bar-B-Que 35 years ago and Maria now co-operates the business alongside her parents.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). Like many companies, TPGTEX rolls out new products several times a year.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

The story of each business is as unique as the products they created. In June 2012, Fanning and fellow Napster co-founder Sean Parker launched a new live social video mirco-sharing platform called Airtime. The phrase “reddit” came to RedditM co-founder Alexis Ohanian while in the library of the University of Virginia in 2005.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. This workshop presents a new methodology that will allow you to bring new products -- and companies -- to life.

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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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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Monty Munford is the founder of Mob76 , a company that helps companies become investible and prepares them for exit. Now, we have more than 500 employees and we deliver the widest range of products in the country,” said Raphael Afaedor, co-founder of JUMIA, at the time of funding. “We Konga, Jumia and Gloo.ng

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Spencer Fry

APRIL 12, 2012

Back in what seems like forever ago, I started freshman year of college in 2002 with the full intention of majoring in Computer Science. I've co-founded a handful of small businesses as a non-technical co-founder, TypeFrag and Carbonmade being the most successful. Why the change of heart? First, a little backstory.

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OnlyOnce

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

We have been the global market leaders in email deliverability since my co-founder George Bilbrey coined that term back in 2002. For a tech company to grow and thrive in the 21st century it must be in a state of constant adaptation. We’re establishing ourselves as the global market leaders in email intelligence.

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Scott Edward Walker

JULY 6, 2011

This week, we present Sean Parker, a brilliant entrepreneur and visionary; the co-founder of Napster and Plaxo ; and the former President of Facebook. What you want is people using your product because it’s part of their life and they can’t stop using it. ” (at 19:40) “Where did Myspace go wrong?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 7, 2012

million firms are owned or co-owned by women, 40 percent of all businesses in the U.S., Between 2002 and 2007, women created almost twice as many businesses as men, according to data from the Census Bureau. Lisa Barone is Co-Founder and Chief Branding Officer of Outspoken Media , Inc. March is Women’s History Month.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

But you don't have any lords and masters to answer to and the pay out goes entirely to the founders and management team. He is currently Co-Founder of CapitalMarkets.com and Editor Of SaaSInsights. The sailboat startups don't invent a product out of pure imagination. Learn the rule of 3. Photo by LotusHead.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I remember calling up my best friend to tell her I was starting a company but refused to tell her how the product would work. Ill help with product development ideas, offer feedback, make intros to investors (if I would myself invest.)--anything The likelihood that you build a product that missed the mark, is an almost certainty.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Here are some of the most interesting facts about female founders as well as startups. She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Alexia Tsotsis: Since people like me (millennials) are putting pressure on our IT departments to buy products that we can actually use and aren’t blinded by, what do you think the enterprise space will look like in the next five years? Marc Andreessen: Yeah. So that’s how it started. It became very hard to get businesses to adopt new stuff.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 9, 2018

Since the product helps with all kinds of bra fit issues and clips between the two bra cups, it seemed like the right way to convey how it functions while at the same time offering an ‘easy to remember’ name for marketing purposes. When I started the business in 2002 we mainly sold portable air cooling and heating products.

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