VC Cafe

APRIL 29, 2020

According to the Covid-19 impact report by research firm Beauhurst: 5,070 UK companies are at a ‘severe’ or ‘critical’ risk 615K startup and scaleup jobs are at risk Later stage startups are at the most risk Across the board, tech sectors and verticals are the most likely to experience a positive or low impact.

SBA 124

SBA Technical Review Startup 124

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Often, marketing creativity encounters technical limitations. Take Hertz: They’re now suing their marketing partner, Accenture, for $32 million after a botched site and app overhaul. This post delivers baseline technical knowledge about PWAs and focuses on aspects—like UX, SEO, and analytics—that most affect marketing teams.

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Web Caching HTML Marketing 103

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2020

That's why the Corona Initiative is a Public Benefit Corporation--a for-profit company dedicated to the public good that aims to fund its research with its revenues. I'm general partner at MarsBio VC and Director of The Corona Initiative. He went to the same school I did, Georgia Tech, and studied electrical engineering.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Software Review Finance Technology 68

maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

I have the knowledge in tech to implement it. What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. If you’re looking for technical talent – go to the dev meetups. I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it.

Technical Review 44

Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. Sure, we kept bits of information private like our negotiations with future partners or plans for the next version, but it really didnt matter that much. Ran if for two years before we shut it down with almost no revenue achieved.

Stealth 41

Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. This single decision wound up costing the company significant revenue and over the course of several months sent its customer growth into decline. peer review is NOT working.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158