Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding? We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Can I send you a review copy?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

The boom in Internet startups would last 4½ years until it came crashing down to earth in March 2000. The valuations for acquisitions were nothing like the Internet bubble, but there was a path to liquidity, difficult as it was. My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5 Warning sign? At best. ~ Is 20 years enough?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

And thanks to the radical transparency enabled by the internet, the quality of these proposals is actually constantly rising, to the point that it’s almost impossible to judge the quality of the final product – because all the proposals look polished and professional, even the terrible ones. Is that a lot?

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.). The recent introduction of their “Channels” feature allows website owners to create a series of related videos and display the collection on their website—no coding required. Implementation is technical (i.e.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

ConversionXL

JUNE 9, 2019

Here’s how Aura.org put it : Visual Attention algorithms, where computer software “calculates” the visibility of the different elements within the image, are often sold as a cheaper alternative. Click maps show you a heat map comprised of aggregated click data. Are they trustworthy? Click Maps. Image Source).

Algorithm 111

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Save Asia for post-IPO Single instance, multi-tenant, single datacenter - Have only one version of the code in production. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software.

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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. Today, many of these businesses are suffering because the ecosystem no longer balances thanks to the Internet. If you are building a large, viral, ad-support consumer internet property, you just want to go big!

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Belle Beth Cooper of Hello Code wrote an article for Buffer, which included a variety of research on memory. The second stage is memory storage… Belle Beth Cooper , Hello Code : “If we didn’t do anything further, that memory would fall right out of our heads again. Memory Encoding. mnemonics). Memory Storage. Memory Retrieval.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

I don’t think we as busy professionals and Internet junkies know how to sit still and self-reflect. Lesson Learned : Build a peer review mentoring culture. But that is the real metric of success as far as I am concerned. None of them were hired by me, and instead they were picked up through a peer-review-hire process.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

John Warrillow: It’s why technology companies, ones, in particular, that are based on SAS-based software, for example, are getting tremendous multiples because acquirers know they don’t need to invest in a lot of infrastructure to scale. I love looking at cost per account acquired as a key metric to share with potential acquirers.

Entrepreneur 49

Entrepreneur Switzerland Revenue Differentiation 49

Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 4, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Software Review 48

Software Review South Korea IPO Portfolio 48

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 4, 2021

Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention. This is Out Of the Crisis. What are institutions for? BA : Yeah.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Metrics availability. Not that I blame you! Silly, right?

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Steve believes these baby boomers will become a large market of internet savvy people up for grab. Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review San Jose Venture Capital 48

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

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