YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

Or as he put it in a letter to shareholders in 2008, ‘Whether we’re talking about socks or stocks, I like buying quality merchandise when it is marked down.’ In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Its actually part of a lean startup story. For more on his lean startup journey, you can take a look at this slide presentation. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. Its actually part of a lean startup story.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Founder DC Washington 150

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment 167

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. I already advocate cross-functional teams as part of the lean startup methodology. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions.

San Francisco 167

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

San Francisco 83

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 83

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. These concepts have important implications for any lean startup. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Expo SF (May.

Customer 156

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But there is also opportunity in lean times. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

IPO 202

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Each kind of shard just maps to an appropriate kind of URL: customer://1234 (id) forums://master (vertical) log://January/2008 (date) You can even do more complex schemes, like having groups of IDs all map to the same URL in a bucket system, although I recommend keeping it simple whenever possible. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

San Francisco 151

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Good Times” presentation (Oct 2008). Aggregate VC investment in 2009 hits a low of roughly $20B, a figure last seen in 2003 in the wake of the bursting of the dotcom and telecom bubble and 2001 recession. But there is also opportunity in lean times. We’re only a few months past Sequoia’s famous “R.I.P.

IPO 100

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C 100

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

It is ok that when I'm shopping for a $368 dress they show "Ads by Google" to Lean Cuisine (PS: I'm not fat), NextTag, UGG, and Nordstrom. by creating a great experience, reassuring me with clear pricing, and they won't even have to pay a bounty to their aggregators!

Web 164

Web Design Marketing Security 164

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Find one person, make them your sherpa, and lean on them. I’ve leaned on Allen Morgan for the last 8 years through 4 companies and all sorts of ups and downs and twist and turns. Fab Culture.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Hiring is hard, and without proper experience, we should have leaned more heavily on our investors to help us with this decision.

Software Review 79

Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

should have leaned on them a lot more, but I didn't, or at least not in the right ways. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list. Automating the Path to a Better User Experience - The Product Guy , July 5, 2010 I started writing about Quick-UX in 2008. These are the top linked domains from Facebook pages.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. They don’t have to worry. That’s fine if you have a home run in that 20 percent. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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Technical Review Silicon Valley Incubator Syria 93