ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Although there are many collaboration tools (like Slack and Trello) available, they do have a learning curve that can be hard for non-technical folks. They also complain about managers favoring in-office staff, even if they are less competent. Technical Challenges. Remote work is not one long vacation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. 50x more Internet users (2.4 But the biggest changes in our industry have been driven by technical changes themselves to which we are just observers and fortunate beneficiaries.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The main thrust of the post is that with YouTube taking a 45% of revenue and talent taking 70% of the remaining revenue, YouTube Networks didn’t have sustainable businesses unless they invested heavily in technology as a tool to increase margin and provide defensibility. That is the definition of Disruptive Technology.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. As a reminder, the Dot Com bubble was a five-year period from August 1995 (the Netscape IPO ) when there was a massive wave of experiments on the then-new internet, in commerce, entertainment, nascent social media, and search. The Rise of the Lean Startup.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Ten years is not a very long time, but in a world of exponential technology, a lot can happen. Sure, some of the ideas below might seem like science fiction or fantasy, but so was much of the technology we take for granted today. Fossil fuels won’t be able to compete on cost. Thirty of them, to be precise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 19, 2016

Every entrepreneur with a new technology tells me that his innovation will be industry-disrupting, meaning that it will render the existing technology obsolete, and create a new market. Yet truly disruptive innovations, like the smartphone from Apple and the rise of the Internet, are very rare, and are generally unpredicted.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Ask a technical founder about his startup, and he'll proudly describe his stunning software — simple, compelling, useful, fun. We're going to get reviews on blogs.". OK, so what can you do to rise above the cacophony that is the Internet? you have to truly bare your soul if you want to compete on the transparency front.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 20, 2015

Every entrepreneur with a new technology tells me that his innovation will be industry-disrupting, meaning that it will render the existing technology obsolete, and create a new market. Yet truly disruptive innovations, like the smartphone from Apple and the rise of the Internet, are very rare, and are generally unpredicted.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

If you’re a technology startup you need to excel at product, of course. But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. Everything we were taught pre-Internet is still relevant. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. But it wasn’t to be.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Summer is always the time when large numbers of new participants in the tech ecosystem arrive and start to get their bearings. It’s also surprisingly difficult for students to get plugged-in to everything that is happening in the local tech ecosystem. Greenhorn Connect: Excellent collection of BOS tech events and resources.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Advertising has driven the majority of Internet innovation. so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). So what do we mean by in-stream advertising?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Using IoT and blockchain technology to connect industrial machinery to back-office financial transactions creates the opportunity to deploy a range of Machine-as-a-Service business models that add value to both the OEM and the end users. Talk about the benefits of bringing blockchain technology to machine learning.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Whether you’re a nonprofit, a new small business, a high-tech startup, or an up-and-running company, and whether you’re looking for a loan or a grant or an equity-sharing arrangement, there is an option for you. If you’re a non-profit…. MicroVentures is very similar to EarlyShares, but with an explicit focus on tech companies.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

10:48] Is having more of a learning technology built into email currently on the Constant Contact roadmap? [13:51] 13:51] What are some of the effective ways that you’ve seen people merging digital and non-digital? [16:30] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! All right, let's go to another technology.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Internet Security. Home ▶ Businesses ▶ Startup Business Advice ▶ Current Page How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea. This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Business Articles. Accounting. Web Design.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

The reality of CAC is both the when you scale your acquisition “channel” costs usually go up plus when you find a great channel others notice it and drive up the costs as they compete with you in that channel. So here are some more details …. CAC Let me start with the easy stuff and graduate to the punch line in the final section.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2017

Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation. Your body language will reinforce your non-confrontational message that you want to work together to solve some of the sticking points left in the negotiation.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JANUARY 30, 2010

He has already reviewed two premium WordPress themes on my blog, so when Kevin Muldoon offered a review copy of his theme, Joel was happy to check it out and then write this review. Get your bonus copy of my book "How To Start An Internet Business & Make Your First $1,000 Online" Download Here.

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Hearpreneur

MAY 31, 2020

As someone who owns a primarily “Blog style” business model, it can be hard to network with people within the same industry, especially if you are many miles away and competing for similar spaces on the internet. Thanks to Elliot Reimers, Rave Reviews ! #11- What I do is I build relationships through cold email outreach.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can minimize risk by performing due diligence when selecting a company or individual to work with, clearly defining the project scope, expectations and milestones in any development contracts, and allocating enough money to hire competent developers. check them out at: www.amt.in

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 12, 2023

It does not reason like we reason, but there are interesting parallels between how it works and we work, since it is trained on a huge amount of human data from the internet. I think that this will show both the magic and the current limitations of the technology. This magic is just starting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. It had a pretty good technical design. That "good design" turned out to be technical debt, after all.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2012

Peer reviews matter. A 2010 study by The Nielsen Company confirmed what we already knew – people read reviews and decide by them. Start gathering reviews on your site. If you sell commodity products, you might want to look into pulling reviews from an external site to have more of them. Not necessarily.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

2021 will see a boom in retail redevelopment, high speed internet and commerce adoption, deferred spending, and creator-driven dynamism. "Années 52% of buyers say they’ve shifted more of their spending to online due to the pandemic. It’s all about finding businesses with complementary offerings that don’t compete with yours.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Neither Pablo or I have a technical background and therefore needed someone to build our product. Our application tool will be free and will immediately compete with Peterson’s, Kaplan, Princeton Review, and other smaller players. In the longer term we will compete with social networks and online advertising.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. The United States is now a debtor nation to China and that the bill is about to come due. These are probably the two sites where I've posted the most reviews. One out of ten of Americans are out of work.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Our official titles will be: (8) Technical Intern (9-12) Member of Technical Staff (13-15) Fog Creek Fellow "Member of Technical Staff", a.k.a. After that, every six months, Fog Creek management will review the performance of everyone in the company with the goal of making sure that people are at the right level.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. They compete on features, price and execution. By the end of 2011 the Internet population was estimated at 2.3

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affect the way businesses operate. Especially with Technologies like AR and VR that allow an interactive and engaging experience for consumers from the comfort of their own homes and open up so many possibilities and opportunities.

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Up and Running

JULY 31, 2015

I think, like Tim said, a lot of folks who hear lean, lean startup these days apply it to tech startup, to app development. Expect to be reviewing results often. Expect that plan to be kept alive by a planning process that includes a monthly review. Review it and revise it often. Review it and revise it often.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The internet. The trick then is figuring out what your exact solution is, and whether or not there will be demand for it on a scale beyond just yourself, or whether or not you’ll be able to compete, if you’re entering an already-flooded market, like the shampoo market. The non-disclosure agreement (NDA). The headache pills.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 4, 2015

It has become so synonymous with Internet companies that the French have invented a disdainful term including Amazon: “les GAFA,” which they refer to as Google-Apple-Facebook-Amazon to talk about American dominance of the Internet. It is a household name. Thus Amazon’s market cap is $200 billion.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link. The technical side is fairly easy, and many people could do it.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 10, 2022

They are free-thinkers and I admire how they viewed the potential in technology and made it happen. I admire Microsoft for its exceptional contribution to technology and innovation. They have a really cool business model where they summarize non-fiction books into 15-minute read or listen. Thanks to Jean Chen, Cicinia ! #10-

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

How to Compete Against Open Source As a commercial software vendor you have to focus on your key advantages over open source software: Save Your Users Time. How to Compete Against Open Source Competition | Software by Rob [.] #2 Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. The vast majority do not.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

He calls this competing with “non consumption” It was the most profound business strategy book I had read and greatly influenced how I thought about company building and certainly how I think about investing. I have written this up before if you’re interested – I call it Deflationary Economics. Like DeviantArt.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2022

While Metaverse rose to fame initially due to Facebook’s name change into ‘Meta’ to express their ambition to become a Metaverse company within 5 years (and perhaps deflect some of the negative PR), there are now many large companies, startups and brands working on their metaverse strategy.

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