TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

If you’ve ever used a similar application, (or if you’ve ever used the Internet at all) you’ve probably seen this approach before. Happy customers mean happy CEOs and founders - and that’s what makes us happy. Product descriptions and listings require tedious editing to make them engaging - especially after the fortieth one.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 29, 2024

Global e-commerce entrepreneur and investor Richard Burry followed a unique path to the pinnacle of Internet success. By the time businesses began to take notice of the unfolding promise of Internet technologies, he was perfectly positioned to take the leap into this exciting new industry. As the founder of Smartvu Ltd.,

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2020

As part of our ongoing Female Founders series , The Startup Magazine asked Terry Foudray, CEO and co-founder of IoT solutions provider, RUMBLE, for her views on the continued digitization of our physical world. Her premise is that technology has been a great disruptor – and no area more so than the launch of the Internet of Things.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2022

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. Product-line expansion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

But for founders who do their homework, the cost of entry is lower and the opportunity is higher than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. In this article we explore the unique challenges of a lean start-up and how Outsourced Product Development (OPD) can be used to overcome them. Reducing product turn time. Specifically, we show that OPD leads to: Increasing the ability to pivot.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

Most startups equate the process of fundraising to dating – founders have to typically kiss a lot of frogs until the find the right fit. Iterating with intelligent editors – products that enable users to take an existing output and refine it (ex. regenerate one frame or feature) without completely starting from scratch.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

by Angela Leavitt, founder of Mojo Marketing. These 7 business hacks will help to keep you productive and stress-free while on the road: 1. We always seem most productive right before leaving for a vacation, so why not treat business travel the same way? Angela Leavitt is the founder of Mojo Marketing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2021

Many of them get hung up on understanding how to select the right minimal viable product. He came up with the concept to simply the search for product/market fit by using an MVP Tree. Many startups fall into the trap of building toward a “mission” rather than a minimum viable product (MVP). Your mission is your baby.

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 3, 2024

Jairo Trad, CEO and co-founder of Argentinian company Kilimo , dreamt of a solution to optimize agriculture’s water usage, uniting environmentally-concsious companies with local producers to operate in the region’s main watersheds. As a result, the EU calls for a global ban on certain plastic products to combat pollution.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I’ve watched the Valley go from Microwave Valley – to Defense Valley – to Silicon Valley to Internet Valley. And to today, when its major product is simply innovation. the wave of internet commerce applications in the first decade of the 21st century. In the 1950’s and ‘60’s U.S.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 5, 2021

The founder explains that the product or service is so “buzz-worthy” that the merits will spread rapidly through word-of-mouth only, meaning people loving it and recommending it to their friends. It usually implies an opportunity to win big, like a lottery, or experience something sensational, like an incredible video or free product.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Kahn had a better idea – several, in fact – that led to the Smart Parka, the first product of North Aware that launched in 2016 with the help of a highly successful Kickstarter campaign. Our team worked hard to come up with innovative solutions in order to put out the best product that we could.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

For the company, he’s led multiple tech teams focused on products like voice and image search, Google Search for iOS, Google Glass, and Android Wear. I recently chatted with Saurya about how he approaches hiring engineers at Google and what founders can learn. Do they understand what the product is for and who the market is?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 31, 2024

Currently, it feels like every sharp technologist is pouring their effort into generative AI models or embedding them into their products—a movement too significant to overlook. The first time you try to do anything with a generative AI product, it feels like magic. Are these features, products, or actual companies?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. ” Fire, Ready, Aim.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 28, 2012

But when it comes to core technical skills, more and more entrepreneurs are opting to partner with technical co-founders rather than hiring someone for an in-house position. I really believe that what’s most important for a founder is the ability to have a vision for the company, make sales and hire well. Laura Roeder , LKR.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2023

Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. On the Internet, I am wary of one more search engine provider, clones of existing social-media sites, and yet another new dating site.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

Today is the day that eight hopeful startups got to pitch their ideas to investors at startup accelerator Springboard’s Internet of Things (IoT) demo day in Cambridge, England. The project’s founders, José Pinto Ferreira and Catarina Violante, said the device also learns your taste, adapts to your day and learns what and when you eat.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 30, 2022

To do this, startup founders need to analyze how many potential customers the product has, how much they can pay, and how their number changes over time. Startup founders can build a financial model based on their assumptions and data, but the approval of a professional must support such a theory. Deep Market Analysis.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 24, 2023

Best of all, many of these directories and review sites are completely free to list on: #1: Product Hunt Product Hunt surfaces the best new products every day. It’s a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1 On Launching and Finding Early Traction.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It’s the antithesis of how founders want to build a business. In a regulated market, the government controls how products and services are allowed to enter the market, what prices may be charged, what features the product/service must have, safety of the product, environmental regulations, labor laws, domestic/foreign content, etc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 20, 2022

Jeff Bezos , founder of Amazon, attributes much of his success to building a motivated and enabled team. Relationships are key to happiness and productivity. With the Internet and social media, your culture is no longer just an internal thing, but extends broadly to customers, investors, and vendors.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In For the purposes of our own discussion on female founders, the portfolio was the first thing I asked Boris about, and an obvious starting point. The founder drives the culture. Boris Wertz.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 7, 2011

Ineze (“Here it is”-in Hebrew), is an Internet search-engine, which aims to reduce the amount of time people spend looking for products, by yielding fine-tuned results based on user needs. He found that consumers were often overwhelmed by the amount of choice for different merchandise available on the Internet.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 18, 2012

At some point, everyone – not just overscheduled students , parents, and professionals – struggles with time management, organizing, and other components of a productive lifestyle. Meg Favreau and Ashley Jacobs tweet daily about fiscal productivity and how to live frugally, with generous deals and advice available. Productivity Hacks.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 5, 2020

by Itamar Gero, founder and CEO of SEOReseller.com . Plus, according to the Harvard Business Review, working from home increases productivity by at least 4.4% The opportunity here is in improving communication channels through the plethora of tools that technology and the internet offer. According to ABC News, another 6.6

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

With such daunting statistics, it’s clear that maintaining a startup becomes an uphill battle for founders without the right foundations. Rapid advancements in areas like AI, blockchain , and the Internet of Things (IoT) bring forth new possibilities.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 30, 2016

by Shane Kenny, founder of Filtersnap. It seemed as though venture capitalists were throwing money at any Internet idea they could find – no business plan required. Our idea was to build a dial-up Internet service to compete with AOL, MindSpring and EarthLink. We called this new product Safe Eyes. We wanted in.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 3, 2009 Minimum Viable Product: a guide One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product. MVP, despite the name, is not about creating minimal products. We have to manage to learn something from our first product iteration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

Big company powerhouses, like IBM and Xerox, took fifty years to make the cycle, but new companies today, in the age of the Internet, often make the cycle in five to ten years, or even less. By definition, most startups begin as a result of some innovation in product, process, or service. Product-line expansion.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Rick Boerebach is a co-founder of ZEEF.com , a curated link directory built by passionate experts. If your startup’s goal is to sell a product or service but you’re having a hard time with your revenue model, affiliate marketing might be the perfect match to give you that much-needed boost. What is affiliate marketing?

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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The Equity Kicker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Back in 1999 when I got my first job in the venture industry I remember having a debate with my boss about the relative importance of product and distribution for startups. Since then the internet has changed everything and for most industries product is now far more important than distribution. Takeaways for founders.

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