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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

But while Amazon blew away existing physical distribution channels to deliver products to you, we are blowing away existing physical infrastructure to help you store the things you want to keep – just not at your home. I wrote about that experience here without giving away the details of the business. Full on burger flipping mode.

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7 Ways to Use Data and Analytics for Strategic Change

Startup Professionals Musings

Certainly it’s important to optimize current operations, but in this age of rapidly changing demands and competitors, it’s more important change quickly as the market changes. View and leverage data as an asset for future decisions, not just a measure of past actions. The first step is to get the data and analysis to all the right people.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. NVV: That’s not in any book about growing a startup — “Build an interactive app to start your marketing, then host a webinar for its users.”

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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Hearpreneur

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH. Hi, I’m Todd.

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I’m Excited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. He became an in-demand advisor and individual investor in other startups , sharing the lessons learned through his own founder journey.

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I’m Exited to Welcome Aaron Batalion to Lightspeed!

Lightspeed Venture Partners

A year later and the Hungry Machine team had one of the top apps on Facebook, a social network for book lovers called Visual Bookshelf. Aaron was not an introverted CTO. He became an in-demand advisor and individual investor in other startups , sharing the lessons learned through his own founder journey.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

(Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996).