Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

How you present information is critical to getting viewers to understand what they’re looking at and getting buy-in, whoever the audience may be. Whether your audience is a group of internal stakeholders or customers, data visuals can be a powerful tool to accelerate growth. Which data points are relevant to your audience?

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VC Cafe

APRIL 15, 2024

Initially, many publishers were slow to recognize the internet’s impact on their business model as distribution and the classifieds and ad worlds split – or what Ben Thompson calls the “ Great Unbundling ”. The creation of content, but especially the sharing of content became a zero cost game. What do you think?

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! My passion is building and marketing web products for niche audiences. He is an avid Rutgers football fan and can be frequently found in Madison Square Garden at a New York Rangers hockey game.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. Linus Pauling.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. We also talked about the emergence of New York City as the “hot” new area of entrepreneurship, VC and innovation driven by the quantification of the online advertising industry.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Prior to joining Facebook, he was the president of Digital, News, Business, and Sports Properties at Time Inc. John also spent several years at The New York Times Company at NYTimes.com running strategy, marketing, and operations. You can't speak at your audience anymore. John Jantsch (02:08): Yeah. Very early on.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Co-founded in 2016 by the mother and son duo, Lillian Arinoviche and Alejandro Russo, Candela is now scaling its distribution and is available online and throughout Florida, California, New York, and the Dominican Republic. We interviewed Alejandro to get more insights into his startup’s launch and his entrepreneurial journey….

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Craze Digital is one of the world’s biggest Digital Entertainment indie companies, managing a host of online & mobile channels for high-demand Music & Video content, with a strong focus on innovative approach to monetization and distribution. We live, think and breathe digital music distribution. Gigya - Company Website.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

They should not be trying to generate new revenue streams or reach new audiences through such programs. These applications would hopefully reach new audiences to generate new subscribers and/or create new user experiences for existing subscribers that would increase their satisfaction with our service.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2013

More founders reject VC money | Crain’s New York Business – [link]. Building an audience for first-time entrepreneurs – [link]. Fully Distributed Teams: are they viable? Building an audience for first-time entrepreneurs – [link]. Rehearsing failure, rehearsing success – [link].

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www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Audience/Traffic. Additionally, use social media advertising to target your audience and to send them to your page rather than off of the social media site. Then distribute this content on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter in addition to social sharing. Photographs are audience magnets. SEO Paid Search Search Marketing.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Some businesses can service all four cities with a single distribution hub in one of the cities, making it a unique market for launching new businesses. Texas exports more than California and New York combined. Only California and New York have more. It’s not Silicon Valley.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 19, 2019

This increases the quality of the content and makes it available for today’s audiences. They were used to distribute and view movies in cinemas for the next 100 years until digital film technology came along. The DLP Cinema projector was used to display major movies in New York and Los Angeles.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

We also wanted to avoid any potential brand confusion with words such as New York City, Metro, Gotham, etc. Additionally, not limiting ourselves to a New York-linked name allowed us the eventual freedom to produce in other cities without having to qualify ourselves. Thanks to Eric Eihorn, On Site Opera ! #6-

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 17, 2015

The Bayesian approach goes something like this ( summarized from this discussion ): Define the prior distribution that incorporates your subjective beliefs about a parameter. The posterior distribution is a probability distribution that represents your updated beliefs about the parameter after having seen the data. Gather data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2022

He's a co-founder of Kumospace, the virtual HQ for remote teams and Char, and he's also head of Charge Ventures AE VC based in Brooklyn, New York, and serves as an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School where he teaches data analytics. So, you know, we have a fully remote and distributed team. Thanks for having me.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Back in the days of straight advertising, it was important to have a name that explained what your company specialised in so the audience would be drawn to it. MARQUEE – “MARQ” symbolizing that working with MARQETED would elevate your brand and industry reputation to a new level and above your competition. 14- Inspired by our address.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

I particularly urge you to review SpeakerNetNews ; it contains a tremendous amount of curated wisdom from professional speakers: how to be a more powerful speaker, deal with distracting audiences, etc. Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

there are still occasional new entrants into this list and departures too. but consumer behaviors are starting to ossify on the web and it is harder than ever to build a large audience from a standing start. And how does this impact your new company? Far more important is whether that audience has a need that you solve.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 31, 2010

We'll bring together Social Media Editors from some of the largest and most well-respected media outlets, as well as those in more traditional Editorial roles to discuss this new specialty role. Audience heckling and wisdom are welcome throughout. Cathy Erway, Not Eating Out In New York. On 2/2/10 we discuss 2/2/20.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. He already had two exits before he created Justcall, selling his last business to The New York Times. They landed their first customer the following March.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 18, 2017

With technological advances and globalization on the rise, virtual companies, also known as “remote companies” or “distributed teams,” are becoming more mainstream. My company Fit4D , an innovative health-tech company with a patient-centered diabetes coaching program based in New York City, embraces the remote work concept.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 19, 2015

YouTube takes too high of a revenue split (45% vs. 30% that Apple and many other distribution companies take – FWIW, YouTube argues this is because their costs are much higher since they host and stream the video). You should be able to convert at least 5-15% of your audience. You can spend money building audiences on YouTube.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 13, 2016

In the online world the ecosystem is being fragmented into those that primarily produce content (Mitu, Vice, BuzzFeed) and those who primarily distribute it: YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, Yahoo!, And of course once you dominate a show like Real Housewives of Beverly Hills you get to make derivative versions in Atlanta, New York, New Jersey, etc.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 30, 2019

This is useful if, like most startups, you rely heavily on word-of-mouth distribution for customer acquisition. So the lesson you should extrapolate here isn’t that witty copy sells , but rather witty copy sells to a very specific audience of Chubbies’ fans. They’re models of your actual customers.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2012

While I had just finished an approximately year long quest to see as many design museums as possible — in New York, Miami, Atlanta, London, and Essen, Germany — Derek had just visited New York City and experienced some pop-up retail stores. Looking back now I can’t imagine a better approach. Stay tuned!).

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Your context is basically you, the person or people doing the work, your audience, especially key for marketers, but the people receiving the work, and then your resources, which is your means to make that work happen. The decision here isn’t what works on average. It’s what would work for us. That is not who this book is for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. This has led to exponential growth. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

If you would like to talk about this at a Bootstrapper Breakfast ( [link] ) I think you would find a receptive audience. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Sure, Id be delighted to. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. “We had to ignore them, because they weren’t our target audience – and were never likely to become customers.&# They were interested in the tools and new distribution medium kaChing provided. Which is a nice story.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Gadea leveraged his connections in Silicon Valley to seed viral distribution of the product, which, in turn, generated the revenue to hire engineers and scale the company. He already had two exits before he created Justcall, selling his last business to The New York Times. They landed their first customer the following March.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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David Teten

JULY 12, 2013

I particularly urge you to review SpeakerNetNews ; it contains a tremendous amount of curated wisdom from professional speakers: how to be a more powerful speaker, deal with distracting audiences, etc. Distribute press releases on free sites like Free Press Release and PRLog.com.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 2, 2013

What about in Florida vs. New York? You'll find the report in Audience > Mobile > Devices. What you now see is the distribution of which link is making you how much money. Illuminate yourself by going to Audience > Demographics > Location. What is Search really good at selling? I hear you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

MogileFS - "Distributed (meta) file system. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. Three of my favorite: memcached - an in-memory object caching system. Spray files across cheap disks on your network. Pay less for storage.

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