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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. Enjoyed this post? The Holy Grail of.

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Use agile budgeting to manage your cash

David Teten

Instead of budget approvals, monitor key metrics and give managers more flexibility. How should a growth company manage their budget? So here’s the solution I have recommended to some of my portfolio companies: “ agile budgeting ”, i.e., monitoring a few key variables while giving managers significant flexibility.

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7 Tools Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage Their Online Reputations

YoungUpstarts

Pinpointing a need, last month Reputation.ca , an online reputation management firm that’s helped clients with online reputation issues since 2010, released new software that gives everyone the opportunity to see their depersonalized Google search results.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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10 random online resources for Entrepreneurs (2010 version)

crowdSPRING Blog

Our small team collectively uses dozens of applications on a daily basis, but (outside of our browsers) the one we all have in common is Basecamp , 37Signal’s collaboration and project management tool. In 2010 it paid for several airfares that we would have otherwise come straight off the bottom line. Photo: Armando Maynez.

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Founder personalities and the “first-class man” theory of management

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

Both Sides of the Table

In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. This is what I wrote on that Quora answer from Sept 2010. Lemons ripen early, great companies take time.”