Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. Here’s what it looks like.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Now, I dont think even most dot-com era founders were bad people, I just think traditional startup methods make it too easy to become confused about whether were creating real progress or not.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 13, 2011

As customer and agile development reinvent the startup, it's time to ask why startup board governance has not kept up with the pace of innovation. Rather than invent a new form of corporate governance, venture investors adopted the traditional board meeting structure from large corporations. What's Wrong With a Board Meeting?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

"Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 9, 2012

Governance/Control – Founder/CEO Mark Pincus has sold a good amount of his stock and owns <20% of shares outstanding, but now essentially has unilateral voting control of the company. 71% gross margins are not exceptional for a software/internet company, but they’re not terrible either.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people. Federal government should do nothing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. Expo SF (May.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden. Ninety-four percent of households are equipped with a computer and have Internet access (the others are still playing 8-bit Nintendo). The Next Web and the Next Women) and several government backed initiatives.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers. Thanks guys!)

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. And I tried to evaluate the idea and figure out: What did the founder really need here? Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? Research in Motion (RIM).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

Other the years Kevin O’Connor, former CEO and founder of DoubleClick and I got to know each other. We figured our key partners would include consumers (to contribute data much like Wikipedia’s users), manufacturers (to keep their product information updated) and the US government (to supply datasets to power our content).

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

3 Internet Tools To Market Your Books Better and Faster – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Government Continues To Embrace Crowdsourcing – [link]. Understanding Salespeople at Startups – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

3 Internet Tools To Market Your Books Better and Faster – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Government Continues To Embrace Crowdsourcing – [link]. Understanding Salespeople at Startups – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

The government doesnt assign each clothing brand its own level of benefit. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Marketing intelligence experts at Datorama recommend tracking your branded impressions, internet search volume, and the performance of branded keywords. For example, Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always used to say he sold hope, not makeup. Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of Venture Capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

the wave of semiconductor startups in the 1960’s/70’s, the emergence of venture capital as a professional industry, the personal computer revolution in 1980’s, the rise of the Internet in the 1990’s and finally. the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21 st century. The Democratization of Entrepreneurship.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet enables intimacy. The Internet gets a bad rap for making people closed off, and sometimes, it’s true. Given useful and agile tools, people can take an idea and do amazing things with it, things that its creator may not have ever imagined. Rebecca MacKinnon: Let’s take back the Internet.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Had I known it was going to take the internet by storm I probably would have been a bit more careful with my word choice (especially referring to.NET as a language, doh!). Happy Look Like an Idiot on the Internet Day. If your desire was to make yourself look like an ignorant internet troll … I believe you have succeeded.

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Reid Hoffman

JULY 11, 2017

" In comparison, federal, state, and local government spend around $411 billion a year providing similar safety-net services. " And yet as statistics like the ones above suggest, even today’s most ambitious philanthropists are hard-pressed to match the resources the government has at its disposal. ."

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

To imagine that this person does so only to get attention, or only to harass others, or only to harass you are to play into the hands of this geek autocracy on the Internet that just isn't viable anymore. As a founder of a company, there is nothing more painful than to see your most loyal and devoted customers suffering.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

I chair a medical data research lab called WAMRI, and probably best known as the co-founder of fast.ai, although increasingly finding myself known, surprisingly enough to me, as the co-founder of this thing called #Masks4All. And for them, a lot of it was this kind of weird anti-government thing. Jeremy Howard : Sure.

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