The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Gili Golander is a co-founder and CMO at Bazaart. WhatsApp founder Jan Koum is an Ukranian immigrant, and I’m betting it had helped him realize the potential of going global from day one. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app. Needless to say, it worked well for him! Isn’t that fun?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Insider information. They say the only way to consistently make money on Wall Street is to have insider information. During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Like what?? Now Adriana has an epiphany?

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 7, 2022

Marcel is the CEO & Co-Founder of Parakeeto, a company dedicated to helping agencies measure and improve their profitability by streamlining their operations and reporting systems. 4:14] When it comes to KPIs, how do we strike the right balance between too much information or narrowing in on the right things to track? [6:40]

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? If you read a lot of these though you start wondering if the only route into the world of web startups is to be a developer or computer engineer of some kind.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. I promised to do this post as a follow-up to the session to provide additional links and information. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage. To prove/disprove a hypothesis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

For the rest of us, we need to get some facts to inform and qualify our hypotheses ("fancy word for guesses") about what kind of product customers will ultimately buy. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

LinkedIn has been great to keep track of people I know and their current contact information. We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Open Source Business Models, speakers for Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. Sometime later, a guide would rattle off useful information, like the density of cars in the immediate vicinity, how that density compares to historical averages, the average mass and velocity of recent cars.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. Jack McGuinness:It was also very informative for the type of work I do right now. Find out at gusto.com/tape. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Jack McGuinness.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Excepting for cosmically co-incidental success stories, the fuzzy requirement stuff never congeals as a holistic engineering exercise. Second was not changing the requirements without full sign-off.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 28, 2020

In that unannounced meeting, Brett Hurt, our CEO and co-founder, laid it out for us. But such a simple funnel works only if you have a lot of inbound interest and a sales team focused on fielding inquiries. Since we had a sales development team of our own, we needed to factor in their efforts, too. Image source ).

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