Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

So how do you make sure that your startup makes it through the first few years on the current market? That’s how they can validate the potential of their project and gain feedback from users to make their product or service even better. In fact, 75 percent of venture-backed startups fail. . Develop a viable proposition.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. 1) Twitter. It’s not that simple,” he says.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2011

My general rule is that it’s good to be stealth in the early days while you’re building your product and testing your market. The truth is that we work in a very small, tight-knit industry and news & plans spread fast. “ We need to learn from doing, by trial-and-error. You need some guidelines to make decisions.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 13, 2018

Of the thousands of submissions, our team has poured through and highlighted a diverse grouping of Austin startup focused panels that we think deserve to be at SXSW 2019! Of the thousands of submissions, our team has poured through and highlighted a diverse grouping of Austin startup focused panels that we think deserve to be at SXSW 2019!

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Did you just start a company but are concerned about how you are doing things? Let’s talk about some of the most common mistakes and how to avoid them, using the words from the founders of Envato , Dribbble , Freshbooks , 6Wunderkinder , Treehouse , Backblaze , Simple , Shapeways , and Statamic. Alan Johnson , Co-founder of Treehouse.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 21, 2016

If you’re a technical startup founder, one of the painful lessons is that it’s not enough just to build a great product. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Clay Hebert.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 31, 2021

In this article, I’ll outline how to create an agency content strategy that fuels your business development efforts and generates the optimal kind of organic traffic. This is great if you’re creating success stories, but less so if you’re writing about high-level, tactical fluff. It involves putting in the work.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. We just turned on the rental car radio as we entered campus and heard the mid day BBC news – the space shuttle Challenger had just exploded. Working with my old boss sounded like a great idea.

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Up and Running

JUNE 27, 2018

Gathering your team to plot out your next marketing campaign can seem daunting, especially for a new business. If you aren’t strategic and thoughtful about how you spend your money, you’re more likely to waste your money on campaigns and tactics that don’t work. . Lack of a marketing plan. But it shouldn’t be just any old plan.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 5, 2019

Here’s how to increase the chances of success with cold email. Here’s how to increase the chances of success with cold email. Cold emails are unsolicited emails sent to previously uncontacted recipients. The term has a bad reputation. To many, cold emails are synonymous with spam and a nuisance—one reason why U.S. workers spend 3.2

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 26, 2011

That’s old news. Stocking is the new rage. Good tips from @jasonfried in @Inc about managing conflict & innovation on small teams - [link]. Don’t build Swiss Army Knives – Find features that add value - [link]. Don’t build Swiss Army Knives – Find features that add value - [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 15, 2017

He can visualize something, and when he visualizes it he sees exactly how to make it happen.” ― Robert L. It takes guts and gumption to leave behind the familiar and secure 9 to 5 job, start something new from scratch, and be completely accountable for its fate. So, how does an entrepreneur beat the odds? Of course not!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

His lab specializes in accelerating the discovery of new drug compounds and treatments. Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. As a child, Alpha Lee lived through the SARS epidemic in Hong Kong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 14, 2015

Their teams may disagree about what a product should look like, who the customer is, and which distributors to work with, but one thing they can all agree upon is: “We build high-quality products in this company. How can we assure our teams that they won’t be penalized for adapting an iterative approach—even if the first version bombs?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

Share It’s always a special time when you take the “leap of faith” and start your own business. But it’s rare that an entrepreneur or business owner doesn’t leverage their background in some way to launch their business. No one even “born entrepreneurs”aren’t born as CEOs. It’s usually a process.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2012

10 Tips To Help You Build a Successful Small Business Brand | Duct Tape Marketing – [link]. Best Collaboration Tools For Remote Teams – [link]. The Science of Persuasion: How To Persuade Others To Do What You Want – [link]. Best Collaboration Tools For Remote Teams – [link]. Be yourself.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision. Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win? Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move.

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www.theenterprisearchitect.eu

MARCH 26, 2014

The Enterprise Architect building an Agile Enterprise Home MDD PaaS Startup Presentations About The cloud landscape described, categorized, and compared October 12, 2013 Johan Den Haan 10 comments “I work for a PaaS company” I answered him. “Ah, okay, great”, and he moved to another subject. Google App Engine?

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blog.alinelerner.com

JUNE 21, 2013

Because I used to be an engineer, one part of my job was conducting first-round technical interviews, and between January 2012 and January 2013, I interviewed roughly 300 people for our back-end/full-stack engineer position. Aline Lerner's Blog. making technical recruiting suck less. Jun 21, 2013. GPA doesn’t seem to matter.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When we see entrepreneurs come up with great ideas (and we see many), we hope that they also remember that while an idea is key, it won’t go anywhere without the right team in place. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Find your forward and your point guard.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Let’s take a look at how this all plays out. Just look at the news media: it’s well known that the way in which news is presented tends to influence how people think about world events. Each blog type provides a public service that can inspire readers to do something great. Bloggers are influencers, too.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

If you intend to accomplish anything of substance with your startup, you are no better than your ability to choose the right members of your team. There are many ways to measure technical skills and check work histories and achievements, but assessment of team chemistry is a high art form. Let’s look at some specifics: 1.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

PRO How To. News & Features. How To: SEO. How To: Paid Search. How To: Social Media Marketing. How To: All Categories. How To: SEO. How To: SEM / Paid Search. How To: Search Marketing. How To: Analytics. How To: Link Building. How To: Social Media Marketing.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Metrics – Mine is Bigger Than Yours The first thing SuperMac needed to do was to change how our potential color desktop publishing customers viewed our products versus our competitors’ products. We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

Dino and I kept in touch as he moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Part 3: Engineering a Regional Tech Cluster. Part 1: Bend, Oregon Ecosystem and Entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She was an engineering and product executive at Stripe and Facebook. They've brought together a group of passionate volunteers across engineering, data science, content strategy, design, logistics and supply chain and disaster response to assist with open source solutions. Digital Response. They co-founded it with former U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

How does a cat manage to always land on their feet when falling from any height? How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. How To Choose A Market For Your Startup Or Small Business – [link]. How Small Businesses Can Compete with Big Business – [link].

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Hire a social media marketing team member or freelancer who constantly manages your accounts and is available to answer questions, to engage with customers and to use social monitoring tools to see how effective your activity is proving to be. This guide will get you started with the basics. Social media. Influencers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

The most common reaction I get is something like, "that sounds great - for your business - but that could never work for my application." Or, phrased more hopefully, "I see how you can use continuous deployment to run an online consumer service, but how can it be used for B2B software?" Or variations thereof.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. ); // Welcome to Mashable! Sign in with Facebook or Twitter to get started! Have an account? Leadership Abilities Are A Must It’s natural to want a tech savvy and competent CTO.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 20, 2018

How we got into Y Combinator (OwnLocal W10) OwnLocal received seed funding from Y Combinator in 2010 and has grown to work with 279k+ businesses through 3,500 local newspapers This is a repost from my self-hosted blog that mysteriously disappeared in 2014. This is not that story; this is how OwnLocal got into Y Combinator.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. There are multiple approaches you can take to staffing when it comes to IT projects.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

Bianco, 25, has been working on building solar arrays to power satellites. As a manufacturing engineer, Bianco takes design specifications, puts them into work instructions and then works to ensure that satellite hardware is built correctly. The largest generation in the U.S. By Steve Minter, Industry Week . million, according the U.S.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. After four years of living in New York and attending courses at New York University, she returned to Los Angeles in. Smartphones. Digital Cameras.

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