Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2017

million, born 1985-2004, biggest business opportunity Generation X (Generation Me) – 82.9 These shifts are independent of technology innovations, but certainly will drive the application of key product developments. Gronbach is well-known for his generational research and keen forecasting of societal trends.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

So the natural comparison, we thought, would be to other 3D avatar based products, like The Sims and World of Warcraft. This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. Palantir’s products are used for integrating, visualizing, and analyzing multiple large datasets. Competitors: Gowalla.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

It was fall 2004, and the presidential election was in full swing. Hopefully that will take some of the sting out of the fact that you had to engage in a little trickery. To motivate you to give this a try, let me tell you a story from the early days of IMVU.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

I was paid less in salary in 2004 than I was paid at the job I quit in 1999 (a job I had held 8+ years). I learned how to better run a product management process. I learned how to integrate customers into our product development process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

The webcast is free with registration and will include a live Q&A with attendees.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. We actually lived this situation, and got to validate this answer: a process of rapid iteration can beat massive strategic investments from a big competitor. I especially enjoyed the discussion of the power of fact-based decision making. .

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

In this way, it’s more indirect and can determine price elasticity as well as an accurate range of effective pricing for a product. In eight studies published from 1987 to 2004 charm prices ($49, $79, $1.49, etc) were reported to boost sales by an average of 24% relative to nearby prices. Does it work with SaaS? End your prices in 9s.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

BillSeitz - yes, but that was already true back in 2004. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Have AdWords rates increased too much for most common phrases like this to have the numbers work? May 8, 2009 2:27 PM Eric said.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. If you offer a product for free you get more users and more feedback on your product. But is it the right data? They have something around 20 employees. The Rails 1.0

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. Koor is controlled by Discount Investment Corp, a subsidiary of IDB Holding Corp.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail. Odds are, you wont be a Brin, a Zuckerberg, a Systrom, a Karp or a Fake. Some startups are destined for failure. "A

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it."

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