Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

One of the criticisms of the technology industry and entrepreneurial community is that it lacks diversity and inclusion?—?by by focusing on products and platforms, it has forgotten about people. Capital Factory hosts D&I related meetups, pitch contests, and hack-a-thons. This is something many organizations do?

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Austin Startup

APRIL 14, 2020

Lazarus: Credit Before COVID-19 madness ensued, we were ramping up our beta community outreach, finalizing our Ambassador program, nailing product development, and flirting with guerrilla marketing ideas for a classic post-SXSW launch. A dating startup couldn’t ask for a better time and vibrant community to launch in.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Since starting the business, it has allowed us to home school our children while providing great value to the healing crystal community. I fell in love with the blogging community, traveling, and cooking (plus eating) new foods and flavors. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. 4- Research for my documentary.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 25, 2021

When Airbnb entered the hospitality industry, they needed to showcase their benefits to two distinct groups: travelers who needed a place to stay, and hosts who wanted to rent their homes or property. Because none of the product developers were parents themselves, this emotional aspect was overlooked.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Still, a product is nothing without scalability. You can’t just build a product today, you need to build a venture. And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. But if you were to replicate the product exactly, all those decisions are made for you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. A few other highlights from this year’s lineup: How Groupon is using Lean Startup ideas to scale their product development team, by VP of Product Development Suneel Gupta.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This isn’t limited to retail and clothing brands – it happens with local restaurants, boutique hotels, community banks, and just about any other business you could think of. Create a spreadsheet: Include all your current and anticipated operational costs, like professional fees, content outsourcing, sales, tax, and web hosting.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. More than two years ago, my business partner and I discussed launching a hosted version of our ASP.NET invoicing software, DotNetInvoice. After your product launch. Point #1: Developing a Proof of Concept.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

One of my major accomplishments of 2017 is being named Chair of the Public Relations and Communications Committee for The Los Angeles South Chamber of Commerce. communities through business development, entrepreneurship, and financial literacy education. 11- New products. Thanks to Zondra Wilson, Blu Skin Care, LLLC ! #8-

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

On November 5th, from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM EDT, I’m co-hosting a DEIS Practicum with Rodney Sampson and the OHUB Foundation. and I’m providing a copy of my newest book The Startup Community Way for free to all attendees. Rodney was one of the dozen Black colleagues I reached out to after George Floyd was murdered.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 8, 2019

On Friday, January 25, the entrepreneurial community at Chicago Booth looks forward to hosting their annual conference, SeedCon. This year, The Startup Magazine is proud to sponsor the entrepreneurship and venture capital conference, SeedCon, run by the Chicago Booth business school.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 12, 2018

He wanted to help people with eye issues, but there had to be a way to create something more meaningful than simply hosting fundraisers or donating to various causes. To date, our community has built 40 new homes in Nicaragua for families living in slum conditions. Aristotle began to investigate business opportunities. “My

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 26, 2012

Today's roundtable was co-hosted with the Jacksonville Startup Weekend. This past weekend, the Jacksonville entrepreneurship community hosted their own version of this exciting program. Eric has done some technology scouting, and believes he can deliver on the specs of the product. Investors rarely fund concepts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. Passionate online communities are real societies. It was absolutely worth it.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

They took a host of seemingly fragmented industry changes—customers demanding more from their vendors, customer relationships lasting years instead of days, competing businesses appearing virtually every day—and found the common thread that tied them together: more companies and customers were switching to subscriptions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. Ive been blown away by the level of demand you all have expressed in having a forum for the whole community to come together and share what were learning. Details soon, I promise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

If youd like to host an event, please let us know using this form. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. For those who can host a local simulcast, I thank you. If youd like to host an event, please let us know using this form. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

Over 5000 people in 87 locations will be joining up to use their talents to make their communities a better place. The National Day of Civic Hacking is the first of a yearly event created by the White House to gather Citizen Engineers and have them use newly accessible government data to improve their communities and our entire society.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

I strongly believe that the first few hires of a startup should belong to the growth department, whether they’re marketers, community managers, or salespeople (selling your product is the best way to learn how to improve it). 1x hacker in charge of product/development. 1x hipster working with both product and growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program. Share your toughest problems, and we’ll help you solve them. Prices increase on June 30th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Beyond the quality of the candidates themselves, Ive noticed three big effects of hiring out of free software communities: You can hire an expert in your own code base. Ive had the good fortune to see this first-hand. Submit patches.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2015

But there’s no guarantee that the places where most social networking happens now will be the same places hosting it in the future. By activating your own social platform, you can reclaim that data, and turn those consumer insights into the foundation of your marketing and product development efforts. Who’s Doing It Right.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Ning Communities. Launchpad (Free hosting and OpenSource). Fnord (resources hosting). Gatling (resources hosting). kHTTPd (resources hosting). Code Hosting and Version Control. Seed Startups.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Now that I put on events with official hosts and sponsors, my experience is different. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. A similar kind of datablindness happened in the US intelligence community in the decades following the launch of photoreconnaissance satellites.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. We also soon decided that we wanted to outsource as much of our operations to hosted services as we possibly could. So, your article is very consistent with our experience.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 17, 2014

For a few months, a team of mentors with expertise in sales, financing, business planning, marketing, product development, website design and many other fields will coach an entrepreneur to help create a successful launch and structured plan for future growth.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

So What is Customer Development? Steve Blank, a serial entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, developed a methodology for creating businesses that runs in parallel with the traditional product development process. The core idea behind customer development is that the assumptions you make about a target market are only guesses.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. Over the last year the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has become part of the “Innovation Insurgency” inside the U.S.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

In July the NGA hosted the inaugural 2016 Intelligence Community Innovation Conference with attendees from across the Department of Defense and public sector. Over the last year the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) has become part of the “Innovation Insurgency” inside the U.S.

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www.kalzumeus.com

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

January has been a very bad month for Ruby on Rails developers, with two high-severity security bugs permitting remote code execution found in the framework and a separate-but-related compromise on rubygems.org, a community resource which virtually all Ruby on Rails developers sit downstream of. Many startups use Ruby on Rails.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

The reasons why I am not a big fan of development shops are too numerous to go into here. In brief, startups succeed because there is strong alignment of interests among all parties, especially with the people who are actually building the product.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

She serves as the CMO of Post Planner and the host of the Brand Authority Podcast. Gina Romero is a heralded visionary who has an abundant expertise in entrepreneurship, community and technology. Gina Bianchini is the founder and CEO of Mighty Networks, which is a SaaS platform to help entrepreneurs create a community-powered brand.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 20, 2013

Being one of the first Googlers to join YouTube after the acquisition taught me a lot about what works, and doesn’t work, when you bring a fast growing community property into a larger entity. Avoid Locality Bias in Product Development. So I guess it all worked out, eh? price tag. We needed separate space and identity.

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