article thumbnail

Statisticians make the world go round

The Startup Magazine

We see it everywhere, from sales figures to side effects on prescriptions, to chances we will win the lottery. Governments use statistics in order to help them make decisions, they also use social science for research into communities, and this also leans heavily on statistics. Massachusetts, Boston. California, San Francisco.

article thumbnail

Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

Seeing Both Sides

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. I have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. The first one I’ll focus on is Akamai. Founding Akamai.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

article thumbnail

Strategy Roundtable: Professional Investors Do Not Invest In $20 Million Markets

www.readwriteweb.com

Well, my advice for Chak is to focus steadily on a worldwide list of greeting card distributors using Telewebsales and Sales 2.0 methodologies - in other words, dont invest in travel and in-person sales, but try to close as many deals as possible by phone and the Web. (On While you may not have the budget to spend $500,000 on Sales 2.0

article thumbnail

The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Businesses For Sale |. Vending Machines. - For Sale. Massachusetts. Businesses For Sale |. Massachusetts. Businesses For Sale |. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Pension Crisis Looms Despite Cuts. Subscriber Content Read Preview. Firms Miss Out on Jobs Push.

article thumbnail

The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

The Burlington, Massachusetts-based startup provides Drupal-based content management systems. NCR, a retail technology company, has acquired Retalix, a point of sale provider, for $650 million. Windows 8 Phone sales quadrupled last year’s phone sales. Source: The Next Web ]. - November 29, 2012. November 28, 2012.