The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

How much does it really take to build a product like Twitter or Instagram? With mobile development agencies and product incubators on the rise and more corporate “labs” spinning out each day, there’s no shortage of talent to help you build the next great Web or mobile app. Still, a product is nothing without scalability.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It’s been over a decade since Westin left Singapore’s shores; the hotel chain sold off its two properties – The Westin Stamford and The Westin Plaza – to Swissôtel and Raffles Hotel in 2002, after the brand’s own acquisition by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide in 1998.

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Growthink Blog

MARCH 28, 2011

Try this on for size – an analysis of over 300 patents acquired between 2002-2008 found an average price per patent of $383,000 ! A business, like a great product or service, must be cleanly packaged, neatly wrapped, to attract its highest price. All this translates into a well-developed story that there is gold (and a lot of it!)

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View from Seed

JANUARY 19, 2017

In 2002, online commerce accounted for just 1.6% This accepted internet-user model allowed several companies to achieve profound levels of product efficacy and total enterprise value due to an ever-expanding stockpile of user data they’ve kept and built around. It wasn’t just my parents. of total retail sales in the U.S.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. In 2002, members of Congress quietly passed a bill to help themselves. ” Don’t drag it out.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2013

For example, consider the following piece of copy from CopyLogic: “In 2002, members of Congress and President Bush began formulating a new economic bill to benefit a certain group of investments. In 2002, members of Congress quietly passed a bill to help themselves. ” Don’t drag it out.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

I took a Visual Basic class in high school, enjoyed it, graduated in 2002 and entered college on track to get a Computer Science degree. I wanted to be closer to the product. You're fooling yourself if you think you can lead product from a whiteboard or paper and pencil. Find a technical co-founder. Change it on the spot.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Maybe they were in their 20s in 2002 when being a startup CEO wasn’t really available to most? But if you’re the Director or Product or VP of Marketing – you don’t get to make that decision. But I also have advice for the 15% that really do want to be a startup CEO.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Takadu’s Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) product enables utility companies to detect leaks, bursts and equipment failures as well as alerting personnel of any problems through email and SMS. Procter & Gamble and ConTIPI, which was founded in 2002 and is based in Caesarea, have had a distribution agreement since 2007 based on royalties.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2018

My father and I started the business back in 2002 with the following dream: “our mission is to support USA families and jobs by producing high-quality clothing, in the USA, at an affordable price. We care about our country and the people in it; if we were only in it for money we would move our production overseas.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

Boris is currently based in Vancouver, Canada and has been since 2002, after his own company, JustBooks, was acquired by AbeBooks. Really, its a precursor to product/market fit. You can be seen to have “founder fit” if you personally fit the idea, product, or service you are pitching.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Decades later, in 2002, Dutch marketing professor Ale Smidts coined the term “neuromarketing.” Those insights can reduce risks for new product launches or major changes that could define a brand. Being presented with a product and its price resulted in higher striatal activation in compulsive buyers compared to non-compulsive buyers.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. Rather than a product demo – we believe in a “Learning Demo”. We think we can do better. Startup success is all about the team.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

Note: I don’t want to sound arrogant in the next paragraph (bloody Frenchman) but it is important to explain the breadth of my experience with.Net for you to understand why my productivity increase is such a big deal to me. But something happened in the last month that made a dramatic change to my productivity. I learned Ruby on Rails.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Angel Investment Activity, 2002-2013. After years of leading busy and productive lives, lying on the beach and sipping cocktails just does not cut it. In 2013, 298,800 angels invested in 70,730 entrepreneurial ventures, according to the 2013 Angel Market Analysis by the Center for Venture Research at the University of New Hampshire.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 4, 2014

User experience guru Jared Spool was talking about the dangers of radical redesigns already back in 2003, Louis Rosenfeld was ranting against it in 2002, and so on. If the product page performance sucks (e.g. less than 2% add product to cart), completely re-think it. product page, category, cart etc). Remember Digg.com?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

This product development diagram had become part of the DNA of Silicon Valley. Were startups failing because of product failures or was there some other failure mode? Reply Best books for the lean product managers — Justin Gibbs , on April 28, 2009 at 2:44 pm Said: [.] What was the difference here? Order Here.

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alexpoole.info

AUGUST 14, 2012

Bix, 2002). The difference between point size and actual letter size (Image © Bix, 2002). It is often a better indicator of the apparent size of a typeface than point size ( Poulton, 1972 ; Bix, 2002 ). X-height refers to the height of the lower case “x” in a typeface. Journal of Design Communication , No.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

MAY 16, 2010

Note: I don’t want to sound arrogant in the next paragraph (bloody Frenchman) but it is important to explain the breadth of my experience with.Net for you to understand why my productivity increase is such a big deal to me. But something happened in the last month that made a dramatic change to my productivity. I learned Ruby on Rails.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I wanted to be able to provide pet information along with cannabis and hemp products to help their pets live better lives, so in 2015 I started VETCBD. I founded Wings Air Helicopters in 2002, which started out as a flight school with just one training helicopter and has since grown into a premier helicopter company.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Similarly, in it’s own 2002 study, the communications agency Cone found that 77 percent of respondents said that a company’s commitment to social issues was a major factor when deciding where to work,” writes CEO of TOMS shoes Blake Mycoskie, in his book Start Something That Matters.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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David Teten

MARCH 24, 2014

As the CIO, I am constantly looking to improve productivity of my office, and I have created many productivity tools and processes that have saved a lot of money and time since I first started. We over-weighted small cap value stocks in 1998-2002. Our value in the past has come from big tactical asset allocation bets.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Customer personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. We planned a series of questions that could aid both product and marketing.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

In 2002, McKinsey published a study of 1,000 U.S. By contrast, Staples closed down some underperforming facilities but increased its workforce by 10% during the recession, mainly to support the high-end product categories and services it introduced. Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? In 2002, Elon Musk created Space X. With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns. But not all content is story-worthy.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2011

So Neff started Neff Headwear in 2002, which began as a clothing company selling shirts and hats – he would buy 99-cent headbands and take a paint pen to them, and giving those to friends to help promote the brand. And he even hustled product out of his own car.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Let’s circle back to Latinitas’ first interaction with IBM, back to our start in 2002. It was one of the most personalized and well-tailored in-kind experiences of the agency’s history, and this was just one of the many generous contributions IBM has bestowed upon Latinitas over the years.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Keep in mind that there is some debate that taking out a loan during times of crisis can ultimately be counter-productive by increasing your debt over the long term. The European Union created the EU Solidarity Fund in 2002 specifically to respond to natural disaster-afflicted areas in Europe. Disaster recovery outside of the U.S.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

User personas are often talked about in marketing and product design, but they’re almost never done well. You use them to make better marketing, product, and business decisions and to keep your customer top-of-mind when doing so. We planned a series of questions that could aid both product and marketing.

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Software By Rob

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

My first reaction is that becoming a freelance developer (or starting your own consulting firm) can also be a lot less conducive to launching a product. Mental energy that can’t be spent launching your product. In addition, freelance development requires a lot more mental energy than being a salaried employee.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2011

Way back in 2002, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale " in the Harvard Business Review. The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products. Trusting your gut at this stage isn’t good enough. Absolute control.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Does your product really do what you say it does? Trevor Blake , author of “ Three Simple Steps: A Map to Success in Business and Life “, was founder and CEO of QOL Medial LLC, a specialty pharmaceutical company he started in 2002 with a few thousand dollars and sold in 2010 for over 100 million.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Got a cool product idea? Between 2002 and 2012, enterprises with over 1000 employees lost over a 1 million employees. Platforms can blend a payments process into their product seamlessly, while feeling confident that a robust system of fraud protection is standing behind them. Enter the Bottom-Up Economic Revolution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). Like many companies, TPGTEX rolls out new products several times a year.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. This workshop presents a new methodology that will allow you to bring new products -- and companies -- to life.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2010

Way back in 2002, John Hamm published some early work on this subject in " Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale." The key is to make decisions from data and feedback, once your business has real customers and real products. Certain behaviors between these two modes are incompatible, and can cause real problems. Absolute control.

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