Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.

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The Next Web

APRIL 25, 2014

These startups include companies from France, United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden. These companies are not only competing to be named the fastest-growing tech company in Europe, but also hoping the best overall company by. The Next Web has been hunting down the fastest-growing startups in Europe. This story continues at The Next Web.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 6, 2017

Nordstrom (Sweden), and Pierre Omdiyar (France) at Ebay. Those who come to this country with little more than hope to their name know that to get what they want they must work harder and longer than anyone else. including Sergey Brin (Russia) at Google, Elon Musk (South Africa) at Tesla, John W.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 29, 2021

The SaaS startup out of Sweden was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies last year and has recently been getting a lot of buzz from music publications, including Billboard , for its pioneering work in the B2B music streaming space. Ola: Soundtrack Your Brand started up as a joint venture with Spotify.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Jeremy’s entrepreneurial journey has led Melvin Brewing to recently be named the Brewmaster and Brewery Group of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival. During the festival, beers are shipped overseas to South Korea, Japan, Norway, Belgium, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The annual Interactive Festival awards program began in 1997 as the Texas Interactive Media Achievement Awards, and was re-named the SXSW Web Awards the following year. For 2019, finalists come from Australia, India, Sweden, France, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, and the UK.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. Another question that always comes up when talking about customer development, is whether VCs and other financial backers are embracing this way of building companies. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. It strokes your ego. You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 5, 2014

” Change Jim to any other name, and you may have heard similar conversations around the office watercooler or pantry conversations at many companies. “ Jim’s leaving the company? But I thought he was happy here! At least, that’s what he was always telling us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I want to thank Techstars for putting this event together and giving me a chance to experience the scene, even if it lacks a name. Traveling to new startup hubs is one of my favorite things about being able to do this full-time. For what its worth, I like Silicon Mountain. Brad Feld also had some thoughts on this event on his blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

I think Jim Murphys confusion comes where many peoples did, with the XP term "Customer", which was XPs name for the product management role. That naming issue aside, I think its probably good that Scrum and XP didnt really say much about how to manage products. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned. From the point of view of the caller of the function, they just pass in the name of the experiment and its various hypotheses. Check if the currently logged-in user is part of this experiment already.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. You dont need massive amounts of capital available for VC investment - modest amounts will do. Instead, focus on getting them ready for that stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Of all of the insights Ive contributed to the companies Ive worked at over the years, the one I am most proud of is the importance of working in small batches.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Listed in alphabetical order by category name, here are all the participants for this exciting competition (along with links to their recent interviews on Medium). The Pitch Award Ceremony , announcing winners in each of ten different categories, will be take place Sunday, March 10 from 6:30 pm-8 pm at the Hilton Hotel (6th Floor, Salon H).

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Thus the concept for Hera Hub was born (named after the Greek Goddess of women). The company now has additional communities Phoenix, AZ, Washington, DC, and Sweden, with several other cities in the works. What is Hera Hub? Hera Hub is a spa-inspired, shared workspace and business accelerator for female entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

The book takes its name from Steves theory of the four stages of growth any startup goes through. Or, you might start to iterate the concept, each time testing it against the set of facts that youve been collecting about potential customers. You dont have to wait to iterate until after the splashy high-burn launch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Mmm – maybe, one day, I’ll become a rock star, start a business, get a degree, you name it…”. You’re musing to yourself over a nice hot cup of coffee while listening to your favorite music on your playlist. Many of these thoughts and dreams enter your consciousness, bounce around a bit – then leave – almost without a trace.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Much of what I have found effective is counter-intuitive, because it requires investing more effort in each hire - all in the name of efficiency. Its one of the hardest things to see while its happening, and its one of the hardest mistakes to undo, because of the human and emotional costs of layoffs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

We're starting our new business, fanminder.com, to help small merchants instantly communicate with their customers, and I'm increasingly hearing your name and reading your keen insights. I also think you're spot-on with the solution - viewing spreadsheets as big holes to fill in with early learnings.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. This is the magic of sales: by learning about each customer in-depth, they can convince each of them that this product would solve serious problems.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 19, 2013

I’ve already parked my kid’s domain name. They don’t care if you’re in sunny Australia or snowy Sweden! This post originally appeared on the Flippa blog. I overheard this interesting conversation at the Flippa HQ the other day. It’s all set.”. You can give it to him when he’s 21. It’ll be worth more than a car!”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. What follows is his own account of the challenges he faced as well as the solutions he adopted, lightly edited for style.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

But we were cutting corners in the development methodology as well as in the code, in the name of increased speed. a is name, b is address, and c is tax percentage. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software. We were using it to get features to market faster, and that was working well.

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Up and Running

JUNE 1, 2015

The name of the copyright owner. Once registered, you can use the registered ® logo to notify the public that you own the symbol or name. See Also The Complete Guide to Registering Your Business Name. The year of first publication. What is trademark protection?

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 7, 2016

Hunter Walk: You’re an expat, having moved to Sweden last year for a leadership role at Spotify. For example, the hippest hottest app or service rarely launches first in Sweden (unless it was born here) and often those apps are dead before they achieve a large user base in Europe. At a personal level, what has that been like?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2017

Keep in mind relevant links because having a page that is about the Best Ski Resorts in Sweden and then having an external link to Legoland , just to benefit from their high ranking authority, will not sit well with your visitors or search engines. Domain name. 4) Writing meaningful content for your buyer personas. Internal links.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

So far, this is all an academic exercise in naming - but I think it has an important real-world effect. When we work on a product that takes many years to design and build, it natural to start seeing design decisions on a linear scale - because the product's purpose is clear and relatively stable throughout.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

If youre a startup investor, and you support the goals of the Startup Visa proposal, wed like you lend your name to our efforts. If youre a startup investor, and you support the goals of the Startup Visa proposal, wed like you lend your name to our efforts. You can read about the latest iteration of the proposal at StartupVisa.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

MVP, despite the name, is not about creating minimal products. Alan mentions above what I believe is the critical learning element your team needs to gain insight into via the Minimum Viable Product, Compelling Product Offering or other named approach. Some caveats right off the bat. There is a distinction between product and offering.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Accelerator facilities like Dog Patch Labs , launched by leading US venture capital firm Polaris Venture Partners, host music discovery platform Seevl , Guitar Hero-like software Riffstation and big data management tool Logentries , to name a few.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 11, 2016

In Cohn & Wolfe’s study (12,000 people participated from Brazil, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom and the United States), 69 percent of the participants claim customer relations is more important than the brand’s beliefs and environmental footprint.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 5, 2016

I give you Sweden. The way this code works is it creates an HTML element with the class name "AdSense" and temporarily adds it to the page. Now, click on the red button named + New Segment. In the box named Filter, in all likelihood the first button you'll see will read Ad Content, click on it.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 24, 2014

Let me drop a few names and you will get the picture: Adyen, Booking.com (acquired by Priceline), Distimo, Mendix, Shapeways, Spilgames, Takeaway.com, TravelBird, WeTransfer and Qandidate. We boast the world’s second highest fixed broadband Internet subscription rate only an inch behind Sweden.

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