VC Cafe
SEPTEMBER 26, 2022
Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Because the product and market can likely change in the search for product market fit. Be intentional about building your team’s culture – it will not only pay dividends in the long run, but also help you filter for fit in hiring and improve employee retention.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.
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Steve Blank
OCTOBER 24, 2016
These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – missing search, mobile and the cloud were directly where Microsoft users were heading. It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. Yet a very smart CEO missed all of these. Execution and Organization of Core Businesses.
Agile VC
APRIL 17, 2011
What They Do: Travel search engine. How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. Search Statistics: 2010 Queries: 634 million. liquidation preference, 6% accumulated dividend.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 25, 2010
Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Pretty soon, a soul-searching meeting ensues. Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. Pretty soon, a soul-searching meeting ensues. Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did).
Hearpreneur
AUGUST 11, 2021
Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3- Advertisements, search engines, and social media all provide businesses with the opportunity to grow brand awareness and gain influence in the market. Plus, you're able to reach a pool of target customers that you might not have been incapable of connecting with without them.
ConversionXL
MAY 1, 2017
With the pace of innovation increasing, and powerful new tools—such as cloud storage of big data sets and machine learning algorithms for mining that data—now affordable and accessible to even fledgling start-ups, even the most powerful incumbents, such as Walmart and Microsoft, must learn to be more agile in both product development and marketing.
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