Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

If you attend networking events, you’ve probably met a lot of entrepreneurs with an idea who need a partner to build it. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. You are also competing with the programmer doing a startup on their own.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Im a serial web entrepreneur here to share what Ive learned in my 11 years as a self-funded startup founder. Also by having a facebook group with active users about the subject matter/problem/solution etc it can fall into category 3.5 10 Rob on 02.09.10

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

You can minimize risk by performing due diligence when selecting a company or individual to work with, clearly defining the project scope, expectations and milestones in any development contracts, and allocating enough money to hire competent developers. 5 Young Entrepreneurs to Watch [MASHA. For the Person Who Has Everything, Go.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 12, 2010

Please see later version of this post on May 16, 2010 Entrepreneurs are often not experts in the area of term-sheet negotiations and all of the surrounding issues.   Investors sometimes “present” the terms they’d like and expect the entrepreneurs to react. Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 12, 2023

With the new capabilities from the large language models, I think we will begin to stop with simple categories — like “is this conscious or isn’t it” or “does it understand or doesn’t it”. By being so human centric, we lack the depth of understanding of intelligences. Rather, in what ways is this conscious?

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Gust

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I urge all entrepreneurs to consult and develop a good working relationship with a qualified startup lawyer. and search for its availability as a corporate name, domain name and trademark (all separate inquiries). Confidentiality or non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). Caveat entrepreneur ! Newco, Inc.”)

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

has helped thousands of entrepreneurs, small businesses, startups, agencies, and Brands (from over 70 countries), with graphic, website, and industrial design projects. Today, crowdSPRING is proud to launch a new category of crowdsourced projects: writing. Worried about increasing sales or competing against bigger companies?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2016

Business owners and entrepreneurs are flocking to a variety of platforms to help give their businesses a needed financial injection from the public. Crowdfunding can range from game developers raising money for an entire game to entrepreneurs finding enough backing to create their next exciting product.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Guide to Finding a Technical Co-Founder September 7, 2010 | View Comments Steve Job's Technical Co-Founder “I’ve got this HUGE idea. Before that, there wasn't a place for entrepreneurs to meet hackers and vice versa.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

This includes everything from new forms of non-visual entertainment (e.g. In most advanced economies, 40-50% or more of insurance is bought and managed over the internet, but in the US, it’s 1-5% in most insurance categories. The post NextView Investment Themes: A Search for Authenticity appeared first on NextView Ventures.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

This includes everything from new forms of non-visual entertainment (e.g. In most advanced economies, 40-50% or more of insurance is bought and managed over the internet, but in the US, it’s 1-5% in most insurance categories. The post NextView Investment Themes: A Search for Authenticity appeared first on The View From Seed.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Why compete with Slack? Because we had no stake in, say, whether Slack was better than Flock, we published some of the most unbiased app reviews in the category. It has thousands of monthly searches and high intent.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 26, 2021

You can listen to the podcast here, or search for Greymatter Podcast in your podcatcher. One common mistake is for entrepreneurs to simply select whichever venture capital firm is offering the highest valuation. Too often, entrepreneurs (who are inveterate optimists) focus too much on the upside when picking investor board members.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Ramon Ray , a successful entrepreneur, speaker, best selling author, and one of the country’s top small business experts, meets with thousands of small business owners every year. Mexican fast-food giant Chipotle has made serving non-GMO foods a key element of their brand promise. The four major categories of fonts.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

How do you compete with one of the biggest names in your industry—and with a brand new product? Why compete with Slack? Because we had no stake in, say, whether Slack was better than Flock, we published some of the most unbiased app reviews in the category. It has thousands of monthly searches and high intent.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. Successful entrepreneurs have a bias toward action, as illustrated in Tom and Huck. infoChachkie. Thanks for visiting!

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Austin Startup

JUNE 26, 2019

I’ve made a few grammatical and non-substantive updates for clarity. Because we will not be maintaining the integrity of the data after June 28th, we will be discounting the search and account features after that date. I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity?—?and at least for now.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. The New MacBook Air Is That Good.

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Tim Keane

MAY 27, 2010

  I’ve been fortunate enough to be teaching aspiring entrepreneurs at Marquette University ever since. And to me that means competing – and winning – in business – with an eye toward the purpose that we strive for. Most of these, to an entrepreneur, seems ordinary. Living a life of meaning is. Here’s a list to consider.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I would say my wife & I are on the “non neurotic&# side of parents. I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. EcoMom Makes a Breakthrough in its Search for Funding.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

Duhigg asserts that the climb to the top inevitably entails identifying the habits that are non-conducive to success and changing them. At the other end of the spectrum, Shazam responded to a straightforward practical need for a tune-recognition search engine in a touch. But the question is: To what exactly?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. Getting customers to see your service as #1 for a given category is what positioning is all about. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? So, in summary: 1.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Search for: Videos. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. How important is education when I know I want to be an entrepreneur? Non of this academic stuff.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. This says a lot about the pitfalls of having a free plan for entrepreneurs with limited resources. But the vast majority of apps aren’t in this category, and the vast majority of people don’t have the resources to make that model work.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Also, yesterday the winner of the latest Crunchies was GitHub and #2 was Palantir, both non-consumer, big data organizer companies. We have a company called Tidemark, which is in a category. That’s a really big deal, because that category of software, line managers and businesses have never actually used that software themselves.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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ConversionXL

MAY 8, 2019

The overwhelming majority of ecommerce site visitors are non-purchasers. Product pages will never rank organically for content-related searches,” explains Aaron Orendorff , a B2B content strategist: When someone goes looking for guidance on terms associated with your product—“how to [blank],” “best [blanks],” “who uses [blank],” etc.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And make sure to read our recent posts with advice from Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on his advice to entrepreneurs as well ( here and here ). Just make sure to not violate any non-competes, etc, in the process! link] Michael Arrington yep, this stuff is gold for entrepreneurs. The first post, From Nothing To Something.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 29, 2013

We now live in an anarconomy where entrepreneurs are making counter moves to disrupt the status quo so they can redefine commercial landscapes. And while we feel a bit uncomfortable, we still engage because the cost of non participation is currently higher than the price of privacy. This might just change.

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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. Categories: Programming, Satire Tags: Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) Leave a comment [.].

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore. Those categories represent roughly 84% of all portfolio companies. Printed from: [.]

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

trav (2010-06-19) # This is GPS for would-be web entrepreneurs lost in a sea of ideas with no sailors to steer their imaginary ship. Weve built Sandcastle specifically for an entrepreneur with an idea, who is not a developer. Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. Either that or theyre really bad.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Below are the trends to watch this year, with exciting new Israeli entrants in each of these categories: Android – the fastest growing mobile OS (Check out Pic2World and MailVision). It has been downloaded by 2 million time, requiring less CPU processing than competing text input apps.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Â Search for apps tools. Google Custom Search Engine. Email marketing.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. There are many ways to get there that don’t involve VC funding: Micropreneurship is the route I’ve chosen, Joel Spolsky’s done well with a traditional software company and 37signals has done well with a non-traditional software company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Usually there are different segments that are loyal for different, even competing, reasons. Yes, there will be a few who are truly just trolls for the sake of trolling, but your article gives me the impression that you lump a whole lot of "negative" feedback into the "troll" category. Thank you so much.

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