Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Even with advantages that independent startups can never hope to match, including brand recognition, customers, financial capital, and distribution, I don’t often see the entrepreneurial passion for innovation, agility, and team perseverance exhibited by new startups.

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Advisory Board Incubator Dilution Agile 359

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 13, 2024

In a progressively saturated market, these startups need to reevaluate their strategies and wisely distribute resources to remain competitive and sustainable amidst the demands of investors and well-established competitors.

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Down Round Marketing Artificial Inteligence Startup 154

Agile VC

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Startup outcomes are a power law distribution rather than a standard distribution. This impact of exceptional returns is diluted some at the fund level due to portfolio effect, so the distribution between the best and worst funds is far narrower than the distribution of startup outcomes.

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LP Accredited Investor Carried Interest Portfolio 176

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

It’s more than just a distribution channel. The answer is given by user intent: If your existing pages already target a clear intent, and the new feature would dilute it, create a new page for it. Unless you’re a small, agile startup, shipping new features isn’t as simple as it sounds. Know the process.

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SEO Framework SCRUM Search 159

Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners? Like any other form of diluting your focus… it occasionally works, but usually doesn’t.

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Silicon Valley Carried Interest Cofounder Boston 240

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The very best analysts distill, rather than dilute. The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like?

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