Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

He and Bill Lowe somehow managed to convince then CEO Frank Cary to give them a dozen engineers, a small budget, and a few months, to set up a small skunk-works called Entry Level Systems in Boca Raton, Florida, to develop a low-cost personal computer (code name “ Acorn ”). Here are a few PC-related examples: CPU speed was 4.77 mHz, now 3.0

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The Next Web

JANUARY 15, 2014

Innovative technology helps us serve our world more effectively, and businesses have the potential to develop and deploy these solutions. Constructing software to make your vision a reality can be incredibly rewarding but also quite challenging. Create accessible technology. Once your all-star team builds your platform, it isn’t over.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 6, 2014

What sort of changes have you seen in the computer industry in that time, and where do you see it going from here? The Bottom Up Economy is about the global transition from an industrial economy to a technology-based one. A software developer can use a company such as Layer to easily add communications technology to a mobile app.

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David Cohen

AUGUST 22, 2012

As an example, one of the areas that I like to invest in is vertical search. With vertical search, it’s all about the crack. Vertical search is one of those areas where I think freemium can still make a ton of sense. I had a meeting today with the vertical search company that I recently funded.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

John Jantsch: One of the ways to really drive up profit is to specialize, is to go into a vertical market, is to go have a niche, to get known as an expert in X, Y, or Z. John Jantsch: A lot of consultants, a lot of businesses today, I think, can benefit from specializing, from becoming known as the person that can help with X.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The most traditional of these is takes the form of a top-heavy vertical structure, and provides benefits such as tight levels of control and close monitoring of activity. If you want a more cost effective and individually focused structure, you may benefit from adopting the more autonomous horizontal approach.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

4- Description of our software. Tradogram’s name originated from the root words “Trade” and “Gram”. As procurement software, Tradogram helps businesses to “trade” with one another by managing the process of buying, selling or exchanging commodities and services. This is where the name Broken Chains came from.

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The Next Web

JUNE 7, 2013

The eight teams hail from all over the world – including entrants from Montreal, Toronto, Portugal and Bulgaria – and have spent the last three months tirelessly working away on their hardware-based startup ideas for the Internet of Things in preparation for today. TOPPOT wants to change the way you cook.

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Software By Rob

JULY 1, 2010

For a startup, this means avoiding “me too&# products, staying away from horizontal niches, solving a pain-point, and targeting a vertical niche. The lesson: stick to vertical niches. This allows for better cash-flow, potential profitability from day 1, and no need to take out a line of credit. at 12:52 pm [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. This “get out of the building” activity is the Customer Discovery step of the Customer Development Model.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 1, 2012

Six Words Of Advice From Small Business Owners to Small Business Owners - [link]. Here are 10 tips from Inc. Here are 10 tips from Inc.- iOS app success is a “lottery”: 60% (or more) of developers don’t break even - [link]. The Case for Facebook (good analysis from The Atlantic) – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

10 things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Coach – crowdspring.co/1bkxKuq. 10 things Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Coach – crowdspring.co/1bkxKuq. Startup tips from “The Walking Dead” – bit.ly/1ajAWJh. What’s the role of a traditional agency when ideas come from everywhere? 1eEieQL.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Austin Startup

AUGUST 7, 2017

Texas has produced world-changing startups in the past such as Dell Software , National Instruments and Whole Foods Market but all of those were founded more than 30 years ago. We are immigrants from all over the country and all over the world. Austin is different from Dallas which is different from Houston and San Antonio.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 16, 2012

75 Professional Free Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 75 Professional Free Fonts from 2012 to Spice up Your Typography – [link]. Shocking – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 92

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Pivoting and expanding will distract you from your true goal. Conduct client development interviews. In 30 minutes, Grizzle pivoted from a productized digital PR service to an SEO-focused content marketing agency. Learn from your competitors. But we have a lot in common, and I learned a lot from our conversation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Journalism School of the future: Thoughts from Richard Edelman – [link]. How to run a software business on 5 hrs a week. The Need To Refocus From Time To Time – [link]. Writer 2.0

Social Media 95

Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Journalism School of the future: Thoughts from Richard Edelman – [link]. How to run a software business on 5 hrs a week. The Need To Refocus From Time To Time – [link]. Writer 2.0

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. So SuperMac engineering also developed video compression software, called Cinepak. The software was idiot proof. There was nothing for the consumer to do.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 5, 2010

Award-winning package design from The Dieline – [link]. 20 incredible examples of smooth horizontal and vertical sliding navigation websites – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. NYTimes: The Data-Driven Life – [link].

Social Media 88

Social Media Small Business Design Media 88

Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2014

This equates to a loss of revenue, which requires more and more signups from new customers just to replace what you are organically losing every month. I have seen this happen at a few startups I’ve worked with by expanding revenue from the current product, plus up-sell and cross-sell opportunities , but that will be a future post.

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Retention Churn Rate Metrics Software Review 106

Software By Rob

AUGUST 11, 2009

And thus it is with the majority of open source software: Open source software is free if your time is worth nothing. I’m bracing my inbox for emails from disgruntled Gimp users explaining how charging for software is bad, commercial software is evil, and my mother dresses me funny. But I don’t buy it.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2015

From that unofficial poll I made my choice and I have not changed it. Our company sells series of adventure books introducing world cultures to kids that arrive in very cool packages from abroad. It’s both obvious and subtle and always gets comments from leads and clients. Vertical or horizontal design?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Where exactly did the assumptions in our startup business plan come from?” The Focus on Execution Versus Agility The product development diagram has a linear flow from left to right. The Outsourcing of Founders Responsibility The Product Development model separates founders from deeply understanding their customers and market.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

We had thought really hard about “ market type ” and decided to reposition the company from a technology provider to a solutions provider. Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. From top to bottom. Yes you do.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Kalzumeus Software. Patrick McKenzie (patio11) blogs on software development, marketing, and general business topics. For example, immediately after you confirm your email address, I’ll send you a link to watch a free 45 minute training video on improving the first run experience of your software. Greatest Hits.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

Looking across these nearly 50 companies, the study finds that founding CEOs consistently beat the professional CEOs on a broad range of metrics ranging from capital efficiency (amount of funding raised), time to exit, exit valuations, and return on investment. Knowledge of all customer data and feedback generated from day one.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. They write everything from assembly to jQuery, on PCs to mobile phones, doing hard core computer graphics to high level social networking. We need people who can not only cook burgers, but cook anything , from scratch.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> Weve got a little funding from VCs. From "Think and Grow Rich". Isnt it? >> But, so does vision.

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