View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

As an adult, I know the world operates on story first and logic second. Investors and smart hires will always do appropriate diligence before investing money and time, but they won’t bother doing that unless they are excited about your story. Tiny Speck decided to sunset Glitch and began winding down its operations.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Amar Bhide, my former professor, wrote in Harvard Business Review, “ Strategy is Bunk.” If you can just execute competently , you will outperform a lot of people who might have a theoretically superior strategy. . – Technology stack. – Thoughtful fund management. – Thoughtful fund management.

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Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Amar Bhide, my former professor, wrote in Harvard Business Review, “ Strategy is Bunk.” If you can just execute competently , you will outperform a lot of people who might have a theoretically superior strategy. . – Technology stack. – Thoughtful fund management. – Thoughtful fund management.

Venture Capital 60

Venture Capital Private Equity Silicon Valley Differentiation 60

ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The most common mistake startups make is assuming they can operate the same way big companies do, and expect success with little to no feedback from potential customers. The Concierge stage is about delivering the product promised in The Pitch, to a few customers with as little technology as possible. Phase 3 – Concierge.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. The HBR study contrasts Office Depot and Staples during the 2000 recession: Office Depot cut 6% of its workforce, but it couldn’t reduce operating costs significantly. Image source ).

Marketing 121

Marketing Campaign Non-Compete Lean 121

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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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Wanted: High Frequency Performance Operations Specialist at Two Sigma Investments (New York, New York United States). 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. File a CV and let the great jobs come to you!

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Software Review Stock Options Salary Technical Review 48

K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So while the infrastructure cost and startup costs may have declined, the operating costs have increased. As the check size increases, investors tend to look for more traction, established revenue models, proven unit-economics, and other metrics that were previously associated with later stage companies. Pre-Seed is the New Seed.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 12, 2023

I think that this will show both the magic and the current limitations of the technology. RH: Our discussion today will illustrate some of the insights and challenges with the Turing Test as a metric and benchmark. We will use an AI-generated voice for ChatGPT, powered by the text-to-speech platform of Play.ht.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

I sell thermometers and thermal imagers, and write reviews on popular products. The two businesses that operate within our corporation are Best in Class Education and Middle School Dances, a business I started with my son to provide social activities for the kids in our local area when we noticed a gap in the market. 6- Three things.

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Naming Baltimore PR Entrepreneur 56

Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Our defense department and intelligence community owned proprietary advanced tools and technology. We and our contractors had the best technology domain experts. Some are strategic peers, some are near peers in specific areas, some are threats as non-state disrupters operating with no rules. Newell ran the U.S.

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Community Silicon Valley Technical Review Incubator 232

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. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies.

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Venture Capital Technical Review LP Mobile 347

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. The team has stated it and has built metrics around key goals for future success. Like DeviantArt.

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Technical Review Startup Business Model Non-Compete 401

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Free often wins versus buying a competing product. ” Adobe Target is an enterprise testing tool that does a great job of leveraging a visitor based metric system. It’s not cheap.

Software Review 48

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Conversion 48

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage.

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Software Review Technical Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 167

Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. A second learning for me with Expedia: Expedia was a holding company of a bunch of different operations – Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Travelscape – and Expedia.com was our biggest problem asset.

Iran 39

Iran Technical Review Non-Compete Lean 39

Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

To my mind, it’s fear of the unknown that holds most of us back and not the thought of whether we’re competent enough or intelligent enough or whatever else we feel is needed to run a business. Or is it about running a non-profit soup kitchen for the unemployed? However, you can also start a corporation or a non-profit company.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

Through my non-profit Women Of Integrity Inc., I love knowing that my business empowers lawyers to actually understand how marketing works and how to hold the vendors they work with (and often their own internal employees) accountable for their work in measurable, fair, and metrics-backed ways. 30- The opportunity to compete.

Entrepreneur 139

Entrepreneur Jordan Non-Compete Community 139

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Disturbing, because many people & organizations want to compete on analytics, but are not doing the right things or adopting the right thinking about analytics. Here are the highlights: Only 2% of companies are tracking lead generation to sales metrics. 15% Of CMO’s Don’t Measure Marketing ROI, 27% Rely On Manager Judgements.

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Analytics Software Review Metadata Campaign 113

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Reinertsen weaves together ideas from lean manufacturing, maneuver warfare, queuing theory, and even the architecture of computer operating systems and the Internet. Executives coming to my product development classes report operating at 98.5 This leads them to load their porcesses to dangerously high levels of utilization.

Product Development 153

Product Development Developer San Francisco Product 153

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Full Fridge operated for a little over a year, and with each week, I was able to provide more and better data to support my answers to these questions: “Why is this not going to fail? These services compete with restaurants, cooking for yourself, ordering takeout, etc. Where do you need to get to and how will you reach that?

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Technical Review Startup America Due Diligence 48

conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The most common mistake startups make is assuming they can operate the same way big companies do, and expect success with little to no feedback from potential customers. The Concierge stage is about delivering the product promised in The Pitch, to a few customers with as little technology as possible. Phase 3 – Concierge.

Customer Development 60

Customer Development Conversion Developer Customer 60

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

I feel like the bar has been raised so much in the last five years in the start up community and I’ve been busy working for a distinctly non-start up company. The thing we’re sort of competing with is sort of the immediate things, and the awareness. You mean tech support? Michael: Yeah, help, tech support.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. It’s my hope that some of it can be useful to others, specifically other under-represented founders or non-traditional markets. (I With the help of advisors Ada Ryland and Wayne Lopez, we set up data-driven operation to get clarity on what and why we measured?—?and

Silicon Valley 54

Silicon Valley Startup B2C Sweat Equity 54

Hearpreneur

JULY 10, 2015

This essentially forces you to forgo 3PL’s due to the high cost of the logistics, and the technology behind recommendation engines aren’t reliable enough to automate the process. Offering great prices alone is not good enough if I want to compete with the big brands and chain stores. 4) No Hiding.

Entrepreneur 48

Entrepreneur Software Review Technical Review Small Business 48

alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

In 2003 as part of my master’s degree I reviewed over 50 empirical studies in typography and found a definitive answer. Part 2 reviews the evidence for and against the legibility of serif and sans serif typefaces. However, Tinker commented that perceived legibility was due to a great extent to familiarity with the typeface.

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Technical Review Software Review Design Web 85

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Microsoft started down this path when they were the only game in town, explicitly to maintain their monopoly by making it as hard as possible to either port Windows apps to non-Windows platforms, or to even conceive of how to do it in the first place. Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

One of my favourite implementations of Treemaps is in the competitive intelligence tool Compete. You can hover over each box to get a sense of the key metrics. You've see the application of content consumption and keyword analysis using the Sunburst above, and the use of Treemaps by Compete. I used infogr.am

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Analytics Sierra Leone Channel Conversion 143

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Analytics review â?? Seed Startups. Wordtracker.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Alexa Hubley: “How to Compete in a Saturated Market”. Set targets: metrics to tackle the overarching goal for your product lifecycle. We need a metric or KPI that shows how good we are at increasing the likelihood that someone will convert in the future. Here’s what went down inside the presentation hall. Conversion rate?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I think this is one of your better posts this year, because you are addressing a risk that you face AFTER some early success, when your guard is down and you are more inclined to believe that you know what you are doing and therefore do not need to be as diligent at framing your hypotheses and how you plan to verify them.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158