Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. After all, our startup is on a fixed budget. Good luck, engineering manager.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2022

Whenever you discuss any startup matter, the receivers will view it from their particular frame of reference, including their values, their priorities, and their background. Technical semantics and jargon. In startups, the best policy is transparent honest disclosure across all levels of the team.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

One of the most compelling case studies of this shift away from apps and back to websites came earlier this week from Jason Pontin , the Editor-in-Chief and publisher of Technology Review. After launching iOS and Android apps in January 2011, Technology Review ran into development, sales and other difficulties.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. I work for a stealth startup. While this may be the case for many startups, this is not true at least in our case. humbledmba.com) 279 points by jaf12duke 216 days ago | comments. niyazpk 215 days ago | link.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future. Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak. April 17, 2011.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2019

Whenever you discuss any startup matter, the receivers will view it from their particular frame of reference, including their values, their priorities, and their background. Technical semantics and jargon. In startups, the best policy is transparent honest disclosure across all levels of the team.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Neither Pablo or I have a technical background and therefore needed someone to build our product. We’ve consulted and implemented projects for companies from Fortune 100 firms to small (successful) startups. We currently work for a top financial services firm while we focus the majority of our efforts on our startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Whenever you discuss any startup matter, the receivers will view it from their particular frame of reference, including their values, their priorities, and their background. Technical semantics and jargon. In startups, the best policy is transparent honest disclosure across all levels of the team. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2017

Whenever you discuss any startup matter, the receivers will view it from their particular frame of reference, including their values, their priorities, and their background. Technical semantics and jargon. In startups, the best policy is transparent honest disclosure across all levels of the team.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

This is known as semantic SEO. You can also review this terrific list from MOZ – their recommended list of SEO/Web marketing consultants, firms and agencies. For example, Raven Tools provides both SEO technical analysis and online marketing tools, starting at $27 per month. Ignore The Noise.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2013

Most startup mentors tell me that the single biggest problem they have to deal with in small companies is the lack of open, honest, and effective communication, both from the top down and from the bottom up. Technical semantics and jargon. entrepreneur Derek Torrington startup barriers communication' Marty Zwilling.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company.

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Brandanew

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Marketing automation is generally promoted as the all in one remedy for a lot of problems for Startups and businesses, especially to be able to scale. Many tools which semantically analyze brand mentions, often mistake bad to be a negative mention, when it actually is a place. It may refer to a place actually.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft. You need to build genuine relationships with these portfolio startup founders as well as trust with them and the rest will follow.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2012

Guest author Travis Sheppard is VP of Technology at BGT Partners , a 2010, 2011 and 2012 Ad Age Top 15 Best Place to Work in the U.S. BGT creates interactive marketing and technology solutions for global corporations that strengthen brands, develop more engaging relationships and transform businesses. semantic web. POPULAR TAGS.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. Applicaster - Company Website.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

Case studies helps to provide social proof before the customers so that the customers can review the products before they make the decision to buy it. Moreover, videos are semantic search friendly , meaning Google will prefer listing videos on the search results when people are looking for more information related to the product.

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datacommunitydc.org

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

Recommendation engines are arguably one of the trendiest uses of data science in startups today. The pitfalls of this approach are that an automated classification system could require significant algorithmic development and is likely not available as a commodity technical solution. Why You Should Not Build a Recommendation Engine.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In part one, How To Bootstrap Your Startup , we outlined the process of bootstrapping your company into existence. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author. The client always reviews the documentation and it’s much cheaper for him to make changes – to the documentation, not the code.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Why I Bought My Next Startup (Instead of Building It). But first I want to address the most common question I hear when I tell someone I acquired a startup: Why did you buy instead of building? Any problems that existed when I took it over had crept in over time due to changing APIs, lack of maintenance, and failed hardware.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 9, 2010

For decades the “layering&# of technology has allowed us to develop IT systems and networks in a specialized way that let’s best-of-breed technology solutions to emerge at each layer of the stack and to allow people with different skill sets to specialize in key areas without having to have competence in every technology arena.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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