Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Between day one and your first confrontations with those issues, particularly if you’ve raised any outside capital, you will have formed a board and stocked it with people you can really get to work on your behalf. Does the rest of your team measure progress the way you are? The rest will take care of itself.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. No one was confused after that. Who’s on the Sharp End?

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2015

It may not even be sparked by the product itself, but by a poor service experience, for instance. That’s why it’s important to collect data not only about the product itself, but about several post-purchase touchpoints: Shipping and delivery: Is the item in stock and delivered quickly?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Those customers are fairly easy to sign up, but if I look at where most of the money comes from, and those are the larger licenses of five or ten users, that is according to your definition then the small businesses and small businesses include actually the Mexican Stock Exchange, Chamber of Commerce. In Spain I have large companies.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 23, 2011

You may recall a few weeks just before Steve Jobs passed on, Apple stock dropped a good few percentage points. Unfortunately for Apple’s stock, instead of the iPhone 5, they received the iPhone 4s, an upgrade to the phone already on the market. The industry was less than impressed with this and thus stock was sold.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

If you do have competition, pay special attention to your product name, price range, materials used, what the product claims to do, packaging, and who the manufacturer is. Drop into a store that you think would be a great candidate for stocking your product in the future. Why spend the extra money when you don’t have to?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. When doing the post-interview team meeting, it was common for the first opinion expressed about a candidate to become the prevailing opinion of the rest of the team members.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Your challenge will be incentivizing your developers to create, and managing the volume of their output. And what do you do with the rest? Yes, I have had to deal with developers on strike. How do you help customers find the best of the best? And you may find yourself at the whim of some pretty unstable people.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. In addition, the adoption of personas by marketers led to distrust in the validity of the methodology by designers and developers. Development teams couldn’t use marketing personas to make design decisions, so they decided personas weren’t that useful. (It

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

All of them share a couple common traits: they launched before taking outside investment, and they were able to do it because they had a set of founders with the skills to build the initial version of the product themselves. Only eBay was founded by a single individual – the rest were team efforts. link] Chiwuzie Sunday Great Article!,

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

They took on cheesy stock photos and cringey names like Big Spender Billy. In addition, the adoption of personas by marketers led to distrust in the validity of the methodology by designers and developers. Development teams couldn’t use marketing personas to make design decisions, so they decided personas weren’t that useful. (It

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

Most of the blame rests on the advertiser whose ad you are seeing right now. All of that to simply say that I think data is really important, and I'm a passionate believer in a data-driven product development, marketing, employee hiring, stocking the pantry at your office, and so much more. Does Yahoo! Magnificent.

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