YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2015

By adopting an empirical approach which examines social ties between individuals, we can identify the social and behavioural dynamics in networks and tune them to the desired frequency – just like radio engineers. This also entails looking at how ideas flow and aggregate in social networks. Social Stock Traders Do Better.

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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.

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Ben's Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In conversation with a16z managing partner Jeff Jordan (and former CEO of OpenTable and former GM of eBay among other things) — so, from all sides of investing, operating, life — Annie shares tips for decision makers of all kinds making decisions under uncertainty… really, all of us. Jeff: Yeah. That resonates a lot.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 13, 2012

Sean Fanning developed Napster, one of the first aggregated and user-friendly peer-to-peer music file sharing platforms, when he was just a freshman at Boston’s Northeastern University. They later renamed their search engine research project “Google,” and the rest is history. Time Magazine.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Task Management. Project Management Tools. Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? Google Custom Search Engine. Subscription Payments / Management. Managing APIs. Customer Relationship Management. Contractor Management. Part 4- Closing. Rand Fishkin. Start Spanish. Live Mocha.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The internet has disrupted stock brokerage (E*Trade), payments (PayPal, Stripe), and lending (LendingClub, OnDeck, et al), but little innovation has happened in insurance. In most advanced economies, 40-50% or more of insurance is bought and managed over the internet, but in the US, it’s 1-5% in most insurance categories.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The internet has disrupted stock brokerage (E*Trade), payments (PayPal, Stripe), and lending (LendingClub, OnDeck, et al), but little innovation has happened in insurance. In most advanced economies, 40-50% or more of insurance is bought and managed over the internet, but in the US, it’s 1-5% in most insurance categories.

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Search B2B Artificial Inteligence Semantic 120

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. ” The stock traded at about $12.10 They don’t have to worry. November 29, 2012. Source: AllThingsD ]. -

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. It’s a pain to manage payroll, unemployment, insurance, etc in one state. Nearly everyone thinks they can give good management tips.

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Software Review Startup Technical Review Vesting 79

om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I remember sitting down in the balcony of my apartment and looking into the night, taking stock of my life so far. Build a true, peer-to-peer management culture. It also helps weed out the weak links without much management interference. It also turns us into micro-managers. What I had learned and why.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. Jen Pahlka : Like your Long-Term Stock Exchange.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. is it really that the only people who can build great startups are engineers? Engineers don’t always have the best business ideas.

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Technical Review Cofounder Technical Cofounder Software Review 84

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I doubt that I’ll even have a growth team at any company I’m managing in the future. It other words, it’s a team of designers and engineers. We had a designer, a front-end engineer, and a data scientist. Then, I evolved it into a growth team by hiring a designer and two engineers. How I define “growth”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. How about if they knew how often I came to Vegas?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

He was the co-founder of Intel and he probably wrote some of the very best books on modern management. He wrote a book called High Output Management. We have to manage our stakeholders, raise money, diversify our business, and cut costs." I'm perhaps an oddity of Silicon Valley because I'm not an engineer by training.

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Silicon Valley Hosting Cofounder Employee 60

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

The suggestions engine they have. Then they match it back to their rules engine that serves me the best options. Shows me again if the product is in stock. The product/brand managers at 7 for all mankind clothes, Bertolli pasta sauce, Pepsi, Dodge Dart, etc. I really do. It is such a cool service. How soothing. :) 3.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Is there any need for the useless stock photos (and what is up with the magnifying glass to represent research, who does that?)? And because all data in aggregate is crap , segmented trends are even better! The data is the hero, what is the need to have the arrows and the box and the descriptions? Thank you.

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Analytics Search Metrics Web 144

ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Being featured on sites like Search Engine Journal (SEJ), Moz, Entrepreneur, and HubSpot is solid social proof. Another great example of linkable assets are pages that aggregate industry stats, like this one. Myriad sites use ugly stock photos. Growth Design does an amazing job at this. Give a new spin to already-published ones.

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ConversionXL

JULY 11, 2016

“Umbrella terms” are when you aggregate multiple features and benefits under one vague term, like “powerful” or “easy-to-use.” Iridion – Optimization Workflow Management for free. Use free test software to minimize the cost of A/B testing ( A/B Testing with Google Tag Manager ).

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In 2009, Netflix offered $1 million to anyone who could improve the quality of its recommendation engine by 10%. As it turned out , the enhanced algorithms “did not seem to justify the engineering effort needed to bring them into a production environment.”. It took two years, but a team finally won. Slow adoption but soaring interest.

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Analytics Algorithm Artificial Inteligence Campaign 131

Occam's Razor

APRIL 29, 2013

That is also a way to get people to sync the data analysis (not data puking, sorry I meant data reporting) with the speed at which the company actually makes decisions (data > analyst > manager > director > VP > question back to manager > yells at the analyst > back to director> VP = 6 days).

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