Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I believe in the new world you describe, but I think you forget the role that the distributors play in aggregating content for a self-selecting consumer "type" The easiest place to see this in newspapers, where consumers normally buy a newspaper that shares their political viewpoint. [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization]. Why are media businesses so valuable? A couple things factor into this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

In the fall of 2010 I laid out reasons why all the tech “bubble” chatter was really more the hallmark of a reasonably sustained boom , and then revisited the topic almost one year ago to the day. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. Read More ».

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 16, 2010 Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium (Normally, I do not write about companies that are doing a marketing launch. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, But I have decided to make an exception today, for two reasons. Except it didn’t take off. [I

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 22, 2010 Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Diversity is the canary in the coal mine for meritocracy. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Not all crowds are wise. cause disaster. Theyll know if you dont.

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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. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. Steve Blank [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, The actual directory itself is straightforward. Expo SF (May.

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

12 cloud IPOs in the past 2 years: One from Europe SaaS companies are thriving in the public markets, with their aggregated market cap grew 350% since 2011, and 12 cloud companies going public in the past 24 months. These 12 have performed well, with an aggregate $2.6 Our investments in the space have followed suit.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 23, 2010

As of 2010 I still have a lot more years that I spend in the traditional data warehousing / business intelligence world than in web analytics. But even if 110% of the signs point to that first make sure you have aggregated all the marginal gains. It would be silly to not pick up the high ROI low cost stuff first right? Be flexible.

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Agile VC

MARCH 30, 2012

Lots of people more forward-thinking than me have rightly said that data is a powerful asset and aggregating, mining, and making it useful will be a core element of many businesses currently being built. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. Read More ».

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

Right now, the only company who’s really innovating is Dwolla, which is starting from the payment layer by aggregating funding sources and will eventually try to position itself as a platform (starting by offering real time cash transfers for free to banks). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Agile project management tool collaborative product life-cycle. Automates Agile / Scrum development. Agile eLearning. aggregation.

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