Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Entrepreneur Prerna Gupta believes that there’s a billion-dollar opportunity in bringing “Lean” principles to the development and distribution of mass-market fiction, and in presenting stories as a mobile-first experience. ReadyTalk, a 15-year-old web conferencing software company, launched an internal startup.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. Go into almost any office and chances are you’ll see at least one whiteboard.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré , a B2B SaaS consultant, lamented that. Another plus: It costs almost nothing to produce. Image source ). Test launch tiny products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

A provider of low-cost health clinics across the country, Carbon Health was also on the frontlines when the COVID pandemic hit--and even understood what was coming long before most people in the U.S. Carbon Health is a provider of low-cost health clinics across the country. They had to decide whether and how to respond.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Youll estimate time and cost better. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. The blog software thinks Im spam, so if you want to find us, go to "build a sandcastle dot com" Sherlie Matthews (2010-06-19) # I need desperate help in revamping my website, self-built many years ago with Dreamweaver.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Every change required a server restart.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. Contributing to the high cost structure was the new culture of working 9-5 Monday through Friday.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I too am looking for someone to work with that knows the manufacturing and distribution end of a solid product. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Thus, the opportunity cost of joining your half-baked venture is dramatically lower than it is for legit professionals. Tiny, contracting market. Huge upfront software licensing fees. Customers are technophobes.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Developer, engineer, CTO, or technical co-founder? It's my perspective as well and I'm not a software engineer let alone a rockstar. It is true however, that most of what goes on today involves software, and most of the people that write it are absolutely anonymous. Rockstar v. " Words of wisdom, my friend.

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