David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . In particular, highlight the metrics by which you measured your past activities: size of exit, number of people you managed, $ budget you were responsible for, etc. Lastly, gather feedback.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 30, 2008 Refactoring for TDD and interaction design In TDD , we follow a rhythm of “test-code-refactor.&# This basic pattern is useful in all aspects of product development. The basic idea is to avoid building something based on what you think it might need to do in the future.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. Sam began drawing out plans for a new way to provide storage after he had horrific experiences with traditional storage after the storm.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

No wait, I forgot, actually the question is: What happens when employee #2 makes off with your code and roadmap and marketing data and customer list, moves to Bolivia, and starts selling your stuff world-wide at one-tenth the price? But now she has the vision and ability to design her own software, capitalizing on modern trends (e.g.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

Joel on Software. Software Inventory. That means on the average day you have 150 metric tons of wheat flour in stock. The software production process has several major “inventory” accumulation points, itself. How is software like a factory?” An implementation process (writing code). That code is inventory.

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Software Review Software Database New York City 85

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine Founder Interview Series , we interviewed Maha and David Harper, wife and husband co-founders of Atlas Group London, a construction-tech startup that has digitized the building of healthcare facilities. TSM: As Atlas Group has grown, what have been the primary challenges? Quality control?

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 28, 2021

David Raab Founder at CDP Institute. Additionally, on average, businesses receive data and metrics from 28 unique sources. While suitable for web applications and mobile use cases, the general consensus based on digesting hundreds of reviews is that they are strongest for web applications. G2 Reviewer. Avoid Data Silos.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Even when someone is aware of what a CTO does, they often have limited context due to the wide variety of CTO roles. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics. A CTO is in the business of scale, for whatever an organization has as its core metrics. They will review and negotiate all related contracts.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

But have you ever had the opportunity to pick the brains of founders who created amazingly successful startups and companies like Envato , Backblaze , Simple , or Treehouse ? Few people like talking about their mistakes, but thankfully nine founders took some time to share some of their hard-earned knowledge with you. Find your niche.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

So I recently re-shared a 2019 blog post where I’d basically advised founders who’ve raised seed capital to worry less about “how will I raise the next round” and more about “how will I execute my plan?” Has any pre-Series A company succeeded on every metric month after month? Is that a fair starting point? Kristen Anderson: Yes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. Especially for a startup, not taking maximum advantage of free software is crazy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Do you fix bugs before writing code? Please leave feedback!)

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As part of The Startup Magazine’s Female Founder Interview series , we interviewed Adriana Rozo-Angulo, founder of international consulting firm MAS Connections and author of The Buoyant Business: How Simplicity Can Keep Organizations Afloat in a Stormy Economy. Adriana Rozo-Angulo, President & Co-Founder, MAS Connections.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2011

74% of high growth internet startups fail due to premature scaling. times more lines of code in the discovery phase and 2.25 times more code in efficiency stage. “In our dataset of 3200 startups about 70% scaled prematurely,&# say the authors of the Startup Genome Report. Findings on Premature Scaling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did).

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Integration risk is the term I use to describe the costs of having code sitting on some, but not all, developers machines. It happens whenever youre writing code on your own machine, or you have a team working on a branch. It also happens whenever you have code that is checked-in, but not yet deployed anywhere.

Software Review 136

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 136

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. To his credit are Extreme Programming , jUnit, patterns, TDD , the list goes on. Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. To his credit are Extreme Programming , jUnit, patterns, TDD , the list goes on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective.

Software Review 68

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

A version of this article is in the Harvard Business Review. Why do these founders get to stay around? Because the balance of power has dramatically shifted from investors to founders. VCs competing for unicorn investments have given founders control of the board. This seems to be occurring more and more.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

It’s one of many ecommerce software platforms on the market but only the fifth most popular by market share. It’s the reason that 69% of people buy from a brand they know over one that gets better reviews. It only takes a single bad review to strip away your competitive advantage. Take Shopify. Image source. Relationships.

Equity 94

Equity Marketing Social Media Software Review 94

Board Effect

APRIL 15, 2024

Measuring DE&I progress Use tools and metrics. “To To be clear, coming to an agreement with a diverse board does take more time, more challenging conversations and potential confrontation. To get a true read on your organization’s DEI efforts, it’s important to first measure your baseline diversity and inclusion (D&I) data.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

GrowthHackers founder and former Head of Growth at Dropbox, Sean Ellis , coined the term: “A growth hacker is a person whose true north is growth. In his course on Growth Mindset (part of CXL’s Growth Marketing Minidegree ), WeTheFuture.org founder John McBride describes three key components of a successful growth marketer: 1.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In comparison, Facebook Live shows overview metrics like minutes viewed, average percentage completion, and unique viewers.). The recent introduction of their “Channels” feature allows website owners to create a series of related videos and display the collection on their website—no coding required. Implementation is technical (i.e.

Hosting 127

Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

A key impact metric for Kairos is the number of faces processed. The Kairos expanded customer base has grown their processed faces from 40 thousand per month to 50 million per month over less than a year, significantly due to Endeavor-provided connections. The Endeavor connections catapulted Kairos’ customer reach. 75 Mentors.

Miami 61

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. Pitchbot.vc

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 25, 2011

The issue was that for the last two weeks in August, there were no VCs around to pitch, no distribution partners to meet with for biz dev deals, and seemingly no one else around actually working for me, the non-technical co-founder to push ahead toward milestones. When will the call for panels be due? Record some video.

Technical Review 121

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year. Metrics availability. Not that I blame you! Silly, right?

Software Review 217

Software Review Startup Venture Capital Technical Review 217

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not?

CTO 168

CTO Fractional CTO CTO Hire Technical Review 168

David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC Advantages.

Private Equity 78

Private Equity Venture Capital Portfolio Equity 78

View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Founders laud their own “end-to-end” thinking. Alberto Savoia: Pretotyping consists of a set of techniques and metrics to help you make sure that you are building “The Right It” before you build “It” right — where “It” represents your new product, service, company, etc.

Product 120

Product Technical Review Marketing Lean 120

VC Cafe

JULY 29, 2012

On “ Intelligence Is Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed “, a research by Carnegie Institute of Technology shows that “ 85 percent of your financial success is due to skills in “ human engineering ,” your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. ” Question: What is Human Engineering?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

TL;DR Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. Product management is a unique and poorly understood discipline, especially as it applies to software and other tech-related companies. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Our code pushes take another six minutes. Since these two steps are pipelined that means at peak we’re pushing a new revision of the code to the website every nine minutes. On average we deploy new code fifty times a day. Code reviews and pairing Great practices. Throwing out a lot of code.

Continuous Deployment 123

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Software Review Lean 123

crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Why Good-Better-Best Prices Are So Effective | Rafi Mohammed-Harvard Business Review – [link]. Will Software Eliminate Physical Retail? How do I find good technical co-founders? Metrics for Series A – [link]. How should one go about pricing their software product? LinkedIn – [link].

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