Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But, I found that I was far more productive at work, even though I was dealing with all of the issues that come with pregnancy. Such a team can also often do the work for you, which helps to ratchet-up your effectiveness. What motivates me the most is productivity. In this way, I mentally get 2 days of productivity in 1 day.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Further, my products are actually processes. Each MVP is like a ratchet tooth or belay anchor that keeps the work from going backward, while enabling me to generate greater momentum for the next, more ambitious reach.” of our minimum viable product. We are on generation 3.0

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Up and Running

JUNE 2, 2015

When team members experience heartfelt emotion, their creative ability ratchets up a notch. It seems obvious – at least to me – that heartfelt emotion should create more positive feelings and therefore drive creativity but truthfully, few of the companies I’ve worked for have taken this approach, most likely out of ignorance.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 10, 2018

John Jantsch: Productivity. But let’s not confuse productivity with focus because focus is what it takes to actually get the important work done. He’s a productivity expert and an international best-selling author of the book called The Productivity Project. Focus and productivity.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Pragmatic cost cuts are always possible and often productive.” I’ve seen every imaginable type of liquidation preference structure, pay-to-play dynamic, preferred return, ratchet, share/option bonus, option repricing, and carveout. We entrepreneurs have been spinning that line for decades in every boom cycle.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2022

For founders that don’t have product market fit or are close to profitability, it might be a tough market to raise capital in. While rounds are still getting done, investors are being more picky, reducing the speed of deployment and increasing their diligence and price sensitivity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

They were deploying to production with every commit before they had an automated build server or extensive automated test coverage in place. Initially, IMVU sought to quickly build a product that would prove out the soundness of their ideas and test the validity of their business model.

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Up and Running

APRIL 27, 2012

With continuous development it can lead to percentage improvements at each step, which ratchet up and can have a profound impact on the final revenue tally. Finally, you’ll want to ensure that the percentage of visitors that get to your product pages in the first place is high.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

In fact, many of these investors are not just looking for early product/market fit, but for meaningful scale and growth. The ratchet protection put in place by the last round of investors in Square is just the tip of the iceberg, and is relatively benign relative to other structures that I suspect are out there.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Sometimes they have various ratchets and other bells and whistles that protect their downside further, like when Square IPO’d. Today, Amazon’s AWS product is probably worth hundreds of billions of dollars because who buys their own server anymore—but when they first started, people thought of it as a money losing distraction.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

How we look at our relationships and can we trust people and our pace of change and productivity, like it just shows up everywhere. And that makes a lot of people nervous and anxious and uncertainty just ratchets up your portfolio is yours forever. You own it. No one can take it away from you.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 10, 2017

Investors can delay until you’re desperate and then ratchet the terms. Potential acquirers can enter due diligence to learn your trade secrets and then launch a competing product. After the team-poaching mentioned earlier, the goal ended up being to keep product development moving while a new tech team was found.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The "just fix it" mentality is counter-productive here. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

MAY 18, 2011

In great detail, the ad explained what went on “beneath the dial&# with beautiful pictures showing dozens of interlocking ratchets, with wheels within wheels. Think of how your product or service may be of value to your market, and come up with a statement that encapsulates that advantage. Who benefits from it?

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abovethecrowd.com

APRIL 20, 2016

Examples of dirty terms include guaranteed IPO returns, ratchets, PIK Dividends, series-based M&A vetoes, and superior preferences or liquidity rights. And unfortunately, you may assume that the product of your Unicorn valuation and your percentage ownership is what you are worth. You might also know what percentage you own.

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David Teten

JANUARY 13, 2015

Yes, you like hip-hop, “urban” clothing and “ ratchet television”, but all that sinks you deeper into stereotypes. Speak at a conference, (co)-author articles, build awesome products that get press, ink standout deals – all under your current employer’s umbrella and scope of professional responsibilities.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

Other links: The Time to Think About the 3D-Printed Future is Now (HBR), Space Station Builds 3D-Printed Ratchet Wrench (NASA), Shapeways.com (3D printing marketplace). We sell our product exclusively at the banana stand, which is an eye catching and fun location. Do you have a question you’d like us to answer on the show?

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

White House advisers warned that additional trade measures related to steel, aluminum and other products from China could be coming, a signal that Mr. Trump is ratcheting up the protectionist policies he has long espoused as part of his “America First” approach. Trump has 3 months to make a decision on these rate tariffs. TPP Measures.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2020

So, what was the original vision for the company and then how did you settle on niclosamide as a product to pursue? What was the moment when you decided to completely pivot into full-time COVID as a product and effectively build a new company, replacing the work that you were doing before? That was a running joke in your team.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2020

Companies like Intel, Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron design and make their own products (microprocessors and memory chips) in factories that they own. Construction on TSMC’s facility is planned to start in 2021, but actual chip production will not start until 2024. And why the world just got a lot more dangerous.

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