blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

The graphic below balances the risks cofounders take with their relative contributions to help answer this question. This covers one of the most common situations I encounter: For a pre-funding web startup whose team includes only a non-technical cofounder, how much equity should an incoming technical cofounder get?

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2013

The single most important factor to raising capital for any tech startup is the management team. If you have a technical background and you are focused on product development, consider a co-founder with a sales and marketing background that can focus on selling your world class product. Seed to Series A.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 12, 2023

InvGate , a provider of IT service management and IT asset management solutions, has secured $35 million in a growth round to fuel its international expansion. CEO and co-founder of InvGate Ariel Gesto says the company will continue to expand this year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 29, 2024

Paul is also a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the MIT Sloan School of Management and the co-founder of Oceanworks. And that might be in a startup, it might be as a founder of a startup, it might be as an early employee, as a startup. It might also be in Big Co.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. portfolio operator VCs, e.g., Andreessen Horowitz, ff Venture Capital, First Round Capital, Google Ventures. mentor VCs, e.g., most VCs.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Andrew is the co-founder and CTO of Parse.ly , a technology startup that provides big data insights to the web’s best publishers. He wrote: When startups die, the official cause of death is always either running out of money or a critical founder bailing. Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Andrew Montalenti.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Today startups build products differently.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Jeff Katzenberg has a great track record – head of the studio at Paramount, chairman of Disney Studios, co-founder of DreamWorks and now chairman of NewTV. Massive liquidity awaited the first movers to the IPO’s, and that’s how they managed their portfolios. ” Fire, Ready, Aim. He just hired Meg Whitman.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance. For background, see Revenue-Based Investing: A New Option for Founders who Care About Control. Alternative Capital. “

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Frustration is mounting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. But I’m not convinced those labels are right at all. Are we solving the right problem?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

DATA QUALITY IN DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION SXSW Conference | Track: Tech Industry & Enterprise Speakers: Gustavo Sanchez, Co-Founder of Pandata Tech The Pitch: 80% of digital projects are being hampered by data quality?—?deployed as well as strategies for founders in raising capital and marketing to the public.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 4, 2015

However, this relatively simple principle is game changing for early-stage operations that often focus exclusively on the Big Hairy Audacious Goals of a decade ago. Professionalisms business management business objectives Kris Duggan management Objectives and Key Results OKR' Here’s how: 1. Kaplan and David P.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 6, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan On August 20, Eric will sit down with developer and Hut8Labs co-founder Dan Milstein for a webcast you can join to discuss “Getting Engineers Into the Lean Startup Cycle.” He is interested in asking, given that environment: How can the team measure progress?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

The management team of one of the companies sat down for a brainstorming session. Enventys Partners was born when my company Command Partners, a digital marketing firm, vertically merged with Enventys, a product development firm. Our business name is a product of an online naming contest back when we were still starting.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We interviewed the heads of the top Web and mobile development companies, incubators, agencies and labs to understand what it takes to design and develop the most successful apps of our generation. If you asked me to build Facebook.com for you, I would quote you $500,000 and nine months of development and design time,” says Schippers.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2011

This approach worked much better, but by this point one of the co-founders was frustrated with the customer dynamics (all business facing) and decided to leave to start a new consumer-facing business (he left on good terms, we are still good friends, and he’s much happier today). The last three months have been pleasantly insane.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

(this post was originally published in Harvard Business Review and is co-authored with Nadav Benbarak of Okta.). Yet, in recent years technology startups have embraced a new role, Growth Manager — alternatively Growth Hacker, Growth PM, or Head of Growth — that focuses on it exclusively.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

(this post was originally published in Harvard Business Review and is co-authored with Nadav Benbarak of Okta.). Yet, in recent years technology startups have embraced a new role, Growth Manager — alternatively Growth Hacker, Growth PM, or Head of Growth — that focuses on it exclusively.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Thor Ernstsson, Founder of Alpha UX ; previously, founder of Casual Corp , a venture studio, said, “Fundamentally and theoretically, this model works; practically and actually, it didn’t at all. […] The most important thing to consider is that launching a startup is usually a personal endeavor. Others think the model can work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. We were totally unprepared for the magnitude of what happened.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

Typically, my managers frowned upon these thoughts and suggestions. By establishing a company dedicated to inventive and speedy product development, I am able to use cutting-edge technologies and consistently innovate faster than competitors. I started a wealth management firm because I knew I was the only hope for some people.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. So their management teams were insisting that they OEM (buy from someone else) these products.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 26, 2017

THE SPEAKERS MELANIE DISALVO Melanie DiSalvo began her fashion career in product development after graduating from the Fashion Institute of Technology’s Textile Development and Marketing program. As Director of Talent at Interplay, Mia saw first hand what it takes to be a founder.

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Transformify

APRIL 12, 2020

Hence, customer support representatives, account managers and all other remote workers who are required to work on a predefined schedule are likely to be classified as ‘’employees’’ Attending regular team calls, participating in training programs, etc. Overseas remote jobs. ’’ Round-tripping.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The only thing that matters is how good your product is. At Fab, our virtual product is our website & apps, our physical products are the merchandise we sell, and our experience product is our operations and service. Getting all 3 parts of our product right is everything. All the rest is noise.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Turns out that for big-business project management it's more valuable to be a sensible thinker and counselor than to be an expert in debugging legacy C++ code.). The Dream Team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. When creating a new market, expect to spend as long as two years before you manage to get traction with early customers, but enjoy the utter lack of competition. What kind of market are you in?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

As a CEO and founder, I work with employees, contract individuals, and other business owners who are genuinely stellar, and I love being part of the small business dream. I'm not dependent on a manager to see my worth, I'm not beholden to a company and their promotion schedule, there are no politics, no bureaucracy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Balancing competing objectives is a recurring theme on this blog - its the central challenge of all management decisions. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Communication.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. When operating with continuous deployment, its almost impossible to have integration conflicts. Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Small batches reduce overhead.

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David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

I met some time ago with Brad Wisler, co-Founder of SproutBox , and shared with him our research on portfolio value creation by venture capitalists. SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development.

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David Teten

JULY 30, 2013

I met some time ago with Brad Wisler, co-Founder of SproutBox , and shared with him our research on portfolio value creation by venture capitalists. SproutBox might accurately be placed in the Mentor category or Portfolio Operator category, but our primary value is very specifically in hands-on product development.

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