Agile VC

JUNE 30, 2016

Subsequent challenges in 2005 and 2007 had better results, and the 2007 event was the first actually staged on roads… albeit an abandoned military base in California. 2007 DARPA Grand Challenge winner. But these challenges certainly sparked interest in vehicle autonomy.

Virginia 100

Virginia Acquisition California Global 100

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2011

US newspaper revenues faced a 30% decline 2007-09. What You Need to Know About Agile UX – [link]. An Interview With Twitter’s Forgotten Founder, Noah Glass – [link]. YouTube starting to roll out a live service – [link]. In France, the decline was – 4% [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 91

Agile VC

MAY 13, 2013

Of course Apple did some truly innovative things with the first gen iPhone launched in 2007 and also harmonized software and hardware better than anyone else. But part of their success was simply due to the vastly improved state of cellular data networks relative to when the first smartphones emerged.

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Cloud B2B Software Review Technical Review 205

Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. .]… Tom Eisenmann Furqan: Does outsourcing engineering work well when following a lean approach with lots of iterative learning? link] fnazeeri I’ve seen it work (and not). link] Alex Cook Outsourcing is incredible.

Software Review 65

Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

We engineers know that need to be agile in a startup and be able to scrap code and rebuild, but want we don’t want is to have a founder who manic or aimless. If you’re a founder who is still trying to grasp the product roadmap and create a company vision its probably not a good time to hire an engineer. Sweat equity or salary?

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Engineer Software Review Startup Technical Review 41

Steve Blank

JUNE 10, 2010

They were smart enough to realize that IBM’s existing processes and procedures wouldn’t be agile enough to innovate in this new market. Irfan started off with 100 such rickshaws in 2007 and have 300,000 today. Regardless of type, entrepreneurs have common characteristics: resilient, agile, tenacious and passionate.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur United States New York City 328

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

They know how to estimate work units, how to manage the agile development process and how to get the most out of their teams. As the CEO you can personally help manage deadlines and the Agile process. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. or add your 2 cents).

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Fractional VPE Part-Time VPE Fractional CTO CTO Hire 89

The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2021

Organizations are rightly leveraging the agility of the contingent workforce to allow for greater flexibility in an ever-changing economic environment. The Great Recession began in December 2007 marked by a 5% increase in the unemployment rate. The unemployment rate for FTE peaked in April, but it continues to be higher year-over-year.

Hiring 117

Hiring Agile Global Cost 117

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved towards a more agile planning process. “Plan-as-you-go” planning is about setting goals and objectives, defining accountability, and then revisiting and revising the plan as new information is discovered.

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Lean Silicon Valley Forecast Technical Review 147

Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Historically more revenue came from distribution/lead-gen (57% in 2007), but this tipped in 2008 though appears to be steady from 2009 to 2010 at about 58% advertising and 42% distribution. 166M round closed Dec 2007. Led by Accel (London) with participation by General Catalyst & Sequoia. Pre-money valuation was approx.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Posted by: Serkan | October 4, 2007 2:05 AM Sorry Serkan - next one will be faster out of the door! Posted by: Matt | October 4, 2007 2:18 AM Interesting post, Matt. Posted by: Matt | October 4, 2007 6:31 AM Great stuff Matt, cheers for sharing this, appreciated. More of this and faster, please;).

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Web AJAX Software Review Development Team Review 40

YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

One of our customer service executives recently discovered a space owner who’s been using the platform since 2007. Small businesses can be agile – when a driver is on the phone to a staff member who sits opposite the CEO, we can make decisions and troubleshoot on the spot. Pick the right business partner. Focus on customer service.

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Cofounder Agile Business Model Operations 127

Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

The first one in 2007 was Cornerstone OnDemand, the second one was Peopledoc in 2014 and the third one is Gloat in 2021. Some of the world’s largest, most forward-looking companies are already benefiting from the workforce agility enabled by Gloat’s AI-powered platform. It took me ages to initiate anything new.

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Algorithm Agile Cofounder Cloud 62

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is my friend David Meerman Scott, author of the longstanding best seller New Rules of Marketing and PR and the more recent, The New Rules of Sales and Service: How to Use Agile Selling, Real-Time Customer Engagement, Big Data, Content, and Storytelling to Grow Your Business.

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Sales PR Agile Conversion 66

Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 16, 2006

Venture Capital is about investing in the small, fast and agile company hoping that it will beat the large and slow incumbent. ► 2007. (10). Best Venture and Technology Podcasts for 2007. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. at 12:25 PM.

Software Review 48

Software Review Venture Capital Technical Review Europe 48

ReadWriteStart

JULY 5, 2012

Brian Burch, Symantec ’s vice president of marketing communications for SMB and Cloud, believes “accidental entrepreneurs are reshaping the SMB market, [by] growing significantly faster than the less technically confident, less agile, less ‘connected’ small business owner.”.

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Founder Entrepreneur Cloud Exit Strategy 121

Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Here at Palo Alto Software in 2007 and 2008, we embraced these planning concepts and moved toward a more agile planning process. “Plan-as-you-go” planning is about setting goals and objectives, defining accountability, and then revisiting and revising the plan as new information is discovered.

Lean 60

Lean Silicon Valley Business Model Forecast 60

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Customizable task management : With MeisterTask , teams can track tasks from creation to completion via agile and intuitive Kanban-style project boards. When we first launched MindMeister in 2007, we provided the first cloud-based, truly collaborative, mind mapping solution on the market. Here’s what MeisterTask 2.0

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Management Cofounder Entrepreneur Agile 55

Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

In The Lean Startup, Ries attempts to show entrepreneurs how to bring the principles of Lean manufacturing and agile development to innovation. My guest for this week’s episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast is Eric Ries , entrepreneur in residence at Harvard and author of The Lean Startup.

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Lean Small Business RSS Marketing 54

ReadWriteStart

JULY 5, 2012

Brian Burch, Symantec’s vice president of marketing communications for SMB and Cloud, believes “accidental entrepreneurs are reshaping the SMB market, [by] growing significantly faster than the less technically confident, less agile, less ‘connected’ small business owner.”

Founder 65

Founder Entrepreneur Cloud Startup 65

David Teten

JANUARY 28, 2013

Small, agile funds are in an excellent position to take advantage of opportunities in the angel space. All exits occurred between 1990 and 2007—the vast majority after 2000. Even if the methodology is full of holes, it is still useful for generating theories on angel-stage opportunities.

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IRR Angel Investor Angel Groups Cofounder 114

Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

Friday, April 13, 2007. The post-internet sales force evolved into a more agile tiered engine, starting with leads generated on the website, followed by a telesales team that would further qualify the lead and assigned it to the proper sales team (telesales for SMB or direct sales for Enterprise). . ▼ 2007. (10).

Software Review 48

Software Review Internet Software Technical Review 48

Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 After failing dismally at making disposable digital cameras in 2003 Pure Digital Technologies reinvented their company in 2007 to make the Flip line of camcorders. However, no markets last forever.

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Silicon Valley RSS California Agile 164

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In 2007 when they launched their streaming service, it faced no real competition. Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. The long-term goal is to maximize sales or profits. Take Netflix.

Product 142

Product Marketing Software Review Social Media 142

Hearpreneur

JUNE 23, 2015

By being both agile and lean in development and management, we can weed out all the frustration that exists in larger companies. After relocating to the United States ин 2007, my husband and I were looking for ways for the family to stay physically healthy. Every single thing we do is meant to have an impact in the company.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Community Matching 48

Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

This is true not just for entirely new product categories like tablets, but even existing ones… smartphones had been around for 5+ years before the first gen iPhone launched in 2007 (remember Palm Treos and the original Blackberry phones?). On the startup side, Square’s done a particularly good job of this in payments.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 124

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. If your company is using minimum viable product , you’ve probably said the same thing yourself. What prompted the process change? .&# Expo SF (May.

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San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Street Smart Product Manager

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In 2007, ProductRepair (name changed), a market leader in its industry, was facing some serious threats: A rapidly maturing business. New “digitally native” entrants with greatly enhanced data collection abilities. A 100% call center based customer service model, with an escalating cost per interaction.

Product 20

Product Naming Partner Cost 20

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The IPO market remained closed to IT startups, but there were big acquisitions like Google buying YouTube for $1.65B (Fall 2006) and late stage financing rounds for companies like Facebook (Microsoft round at $15B valuation in Fall 2007). Kevin Rose was on the cover of BusinessWeek.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Those things all got created in 2007, 2008. Lauren : Yeah, it’s being able to lean into that agility—to shift strategies quickly and adapt. I do think that is a massive difference. Andrew : I think there are two things that are different from the last era. One is, recall the iPhone platform, the Facebook platform. Andrew : Right.

Founder 36

Founder Conversion Technical Review Cash Position 36

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Google started and is still headquartered in Mountain View, but they opened an office in SF at the end of 2007. 3) Big companies follow – As more startup talent is concentrated in urban centers, it’s not surprising that large tech companies may follow.

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

If you want to learn how a focus on the bottom-line, especially net profit can change your life, and I mean that literally, please see this video: Agile, Outcomes Driven, Digital Advertising. In this case, that amounted to a bottom-line impact of $2.59. [If Parts two and three, Rockin' Teen and Adult (Ninja!).].

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.Net Campaign Analytics Channel 119

www.readwriteweb.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Cockcroft says business agility and the inability to predict capacity are the main drivers for moving to AWS. According to Gartner, between 2007 and 2012, most U.S. Netflx uses Akamai, Limelight and Level3 content delivery networks for streaming movies. Business is accelerating. Netflix customer growth is up 52% compared to last year.

Web 56

Web Tampa Cloud API 56

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Eric, When I came to IMVU back in 2007, I had really enjoyed the actual product (the chat client) and getting to know the regulars on the forum. Compared to 2007, the chat client runs whole lot smoother (well, right before 2.0 In fact, one of your own mods, told another customer to literally go f themselves. Expo SF (May.

Community 158

Community Management Lean Software Review 158

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

You blogged that it wasn't it's time… yet in 2007: [link]. We have not solved the problems outlined in the 2007 blog post. Abstract "how come it's not that way" questions: Dorota Umeno: How do you feel about predictive analytics these days? That's not right.

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Analytics Web Non-Compete Metrics 94