Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

And then it can get ugly. ► 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. March 5, 2009 9:39 PM Eric said. Anonymous - appreciate the thoughtful comment. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. If you just throw a minimum viable product out the door to see what sticks, wont that necessarily be ugly and badly designed? Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand.

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Scott Edward Walker

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

This week, we present Jessica Livingston , the Co-founder of Y Combinator , the author of the book Founders at Work: Stories of Startups’ Early Days and indeed an extraordinary individual. Even if you are Airbnb, you are going to start out looking like an ugly duckling to most people.” Don’t hire an army of interns.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

At the early stages of your company’s life, you cannot rely on disinterested, hired guns to define your company’s key tasks. John is currently a partner at Rincon Venture Partners , a venture capital firm investing in early stage web-based businesses, and is a Co-Founder of RevUpNet , a performance-based online marketing agency.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 29, 2016

Realizing you need help and learning how to ask for help are crucial skills for a founder. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Steve Sims , founder of Bluefish executive concierge service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. ► 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. Yet it had one huge advantage.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 17, 2016

Leading the way, we have a discussion with one of the first founders Mucker invested in, Jerry Jao, the CEO and founder of Retention Science. William Hsu, Mucker Co-founder and Managing Partner, introduced Jerry with the following: “Jerry is a shining example of the type of entrepreneurs we like to invest in.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

He is, like all of us, an online speaker, coach, consultant, podcaster; but he’s also the founder of WP Elevation , which is the world’s largest business community for WordPress consultants. They might be working from home or working from a small co-working space, and they really want to mature and grow up into a real business.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Like I said, it’s good the identity is disguised, because Rand lays a whole lot of blame on the unnamed CEO, and his behavior after a co-founder left the company. And I’ve seen second-hand some of these instances where some of the leaders make money while option holders don’t, and that’s ugly.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. When I started my first company in Berlin, I lived and worked in my apartment with one of my co-founders. There already was a lot of talent in Berlin, and it was relatively easy to hire.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

After a thorough analysis of those 32 start-up post-mortems, we have determined the common reasons founders gave to compile this list of the top 20 ways to have your startup fail. Work life balance is not something that startup founders often get and so the risk of burning out is high. 13 – Disharmony with Investors/Co-founders.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. Maple Butter.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 16, 2019

He is the current CEO and co-founder of DUDE Agency , dudeagency.io. So let’s look at the flip side of one of the most ugly websites in the world that crushes it, Craigslist. So the easy answer is to hire somebody who knows what they’re doing. Transcript. John Jantsch: Hello. Design does matter.

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ConversionXL

MAY 27, 2020

Whether you plan to write the copy internally or hire an experienced B2B copywriter, the cost per 2,000-word post can surpass $500, even if you’re doing the bulk of the work yourself. Myriad sites use ugly stock photos. To do it at scale, you probably need to hire someone full-time to create those visuals.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Right now, the app itself is pretty ugly, a bit buggy and slow -- and doesnt even do a lot. Rich Collins , founder of the Lean Startup Circle , responded to the poster with some Q&A. Right now, the app itself is pretty ugly, a bit buggy and slow -- and doesnt even do a lot. Time will tell if this theory proves correct.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Expect it incredibly ugly but functionally working. Hire one from each. Thats cold enough.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2019

John Jantsch: Today’s episode is brought to you by Break Through The Noise , the new book by Tim Staples, Co-Founder and CEO of Shareability. She was so ugly to me and I’ve made thousands of calls, but she really hurt my feelings. Back to Podcast. Transcript. This is John Jantsch and my guest today is Jeb Blount.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Check out the tips below from founders, CEOs and investors alike. Then remove half." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy. ." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Almost every PHP-based website is burdened with ugly URLs that contain the name of the file that implements each page. At IMVU, when wed hire a new engineer, we could get them to ship code to production on their first day, even if they had never programmed in PHP before. Youre right php can get ugly when used inline with html.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

There simply won’t be soft-landings and acqui-hires for all of them. Others have blamed the brutal hiring environment on everyone being able to start a company — whether they should or not — and argued that concentrating resources on fewer ideas would make the Valley a lot stronger. Now it’s glutted.

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