The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Silicon Allee (a TNW content partner ) caught up with him to pick his brain on what 2013 might hold for us. The famously-monikered investor, who now lives in Denmark, was previously the COO at Skype, and has a wealth of experience in founding and building companies. SILICON ALLEE (SA): How do you see the startup scene in Berlin at the moment?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

JUNE 25, 2013

CPSI 2013 returned to a college campus, and to Buffalo, after many years of bouncing around the country. I’ve just returned and am still digesting a very rich creative learning experience. I’m thinking differently. Disclosure: KILN was a sponsor this year at CPSI. My first thought is to say I hope it stays there.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

A light “railway” using high density busses in dedicated traffic lanes is also due to start operating in 2011, and a cable-car connecting the bay area with the academic institutions in the upper part of the city is planned for 2013.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It can’t work if developers have the attitude that they’re done once their code works on their machine and it’s checked into version control. If there’s a problem in production, developers need to own it. Thus it’s important to create and establish fast feedback loops so we can measure the effects of our changes.

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Spencer Fry

MAY 2, 2014

It’s something that we began working on in July 2013, only to release it ten months later on April 30th, 2014. Anyone who works in product development will know that ten months is an eternity. It was never our intention to get stuck in a ten-month product cycle. OMG is the best way to describe how I feel right now.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Product marketers own a variety of marketing responsibilities, which can be roughly divided into two broad categories: pre-launch and post-launch. During product development and before launch, product marketing responsibilities revolve around the GTM strategy, positioning, and developing messaging. Image Source.

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firstround.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Product and Engineering. Date: September 4, 2013. I was their first full-time engineering hire and I helped build out the team and set the agenda for product development. Date: September 4, 2013. © 2013 First Round Capital. © 2013 First Round Capital. First Round Capital. Subscribe by Email.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

In 2013, we are in the midst of a critical platform transition from the browser-based Internet to mobile applications platforms like iOS and Android. “Conversion Rate” is a misleading term. To truly understand conversion you need a “conversion matrix” for every path through your site. Even this does not tell the whole story.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 24, 2014

According to the National Venture Capital Association , the amount of money that VC’s invested rose 8% to nearly $30 billion in 2013. To help build new product development and venture teams, my colleague Rob Goldberg, of Stages of Innovation , created an assessment tool called Talent for Growth.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

However, growth hackers are looking for growth through product utilization and product iterations instead of a marketers’ outbound- and inbound-based strategies.” (via And you need to understand the potential impact of product-economic fit so that you can be better prepared for it.”. Step 1: Product Development.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Cisco predicted that by the end of 2013 there would be more mobile devices on earth than people. According to Nielsen , more than 65% of Americans now own a smartphone, and the Pew Research Center found that more than a third of Americans own tablets. This gives new employees that ability to take their required training anywhere at any time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

As part of their book campaign, Brant and Patrick have teamed up with General Assembly to offer 4 free online video classes, including: Lean UX Research Techniques - Rapid Prototyping - How to Hire Developers - Growth Hacking Every book pre-order get access to all of these classes - and quite a bit more.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Twitter did the same thing with mobile-advertising exchange, MoPub , in 2013. The company, known for viral social content, is predicted to bring in $100 million in revenue in 2014 from native advertising on 150 million unique visitors a month, according to a 2013 Forbes article. A link to sponsored content on the Buzzfeed homepage.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This means fewer resources on hand locally, so innovation centers come into play: they’re virtual locations where employees collaborate on new ideas, such as product development or marketing. Tech Startup dedicated to custom jeans circa 2013. What Has Changed Over the Past Ten Years?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 4, 2015

“Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in…” said Kevin Spacey in a speech at the Edinburgh Television Festival in 2013 about the recent success of his series, House of Cards. Though he was referring to Netflix and the film industry, he just as easily could have been talking about optimizing websites.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

In this first edition of 2014, the highlight is in the 2013 performance of VC-backed companies in Israel, reaching a decade record in return. billion in 2013, a decade high. The average exit rose to $83 million, while the 2013 equity-return ratio reached an all time record of 5:3. Browse the headlines below for more news.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

At a Skolkovo related event I asked the young entrepreneurs what their own learning and development goals as leaders were for 2013. Tired, flaccid and hermetic are adjectives applied to many a fallen societal model. Alexey is a cool guy and can often be found in the front row.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2014

Her message is apparently being heard; Adam Grant, whose research on leadership is helping to further erode the stigma of introversion, recalls how he instructed two groups of Wharton MBA students, first in 2011 and again in 2013: “Raise your hand if you’re an introvert.”. In 2011, only a handful of students raised their hands.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 23, 2015

She founded Wellthie in 2013 out of a deep passion for making health insurance more simple and approachable for consumers. She had a successful career leading product development at WellPoint, one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 7, 2015

Essentially, mobile product development and device-appropriate customer experience design are converging; people are spending more time on their mobile devices than ever before and expect more from their interaction with businesses. 1] Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’s 2013 Annual Internet Trends Report.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

That job involves not only managing internal resources to ensure that products are developed that meet customers’ expectations but talking to customers throughout the product development process. Scholthauer likes the smaller size of SUN and the ability to see his ideas come to fruition.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2010

million from the State of Texas through the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (TETF) for the development of its module?integrated Timing of SolarBridge’s product launch could not be better; according to IMS Research, the global PV inverter market is projected to grow at a double?digit digit rate, exceeding $4 billion by 2013. “We

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It is what Seed used to be from 2009-2013, until the Seed rounds got fat and bloated and the bar for raising a Seed round became a lot higher. The first time I used the words “pre-seed” (yes, the initial use was in all lower-case, but then became upper-case over time) was on June 27, 2013, at the K9 Ventures LP Meeting.

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Tim Keane

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Its amazing how fast this happens, especially in companies with short product development cycles in non-medical industries. Its amazing how fast this happens, especially in companies with short product development cycles in non-medical industries. Can they take our product to a new group of customers? April 2013.

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Spencer Fry

AUGUST 26, 2014

Most of them never get built, but this one has always stuck in my head and itched and itched, until finally, in September and October of 2013, I asked three people whether they’d be my first interviewees. Not so with Sweat The Product. Interviews on STP are entirely focused around the details of product development and product design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

Like previous years, the 2015 conference will feature 100+ expert speakers on topics ranging from corporate entrepreneurship to analytics, product development, engineering, sales, marketing, and design. We attended in 2013, and we enjoyed it so much that we attended again in 2014.

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Tim Keane

JUNE 13, 2006

Growth involves, in many businesses, more customer service, product development, support, marketing and so forth – in addition to more R&D. Growth involves, in many businesses, more customer service, product development, support, marketing and so forth – in addition to more R&D. April 2013. January 2013.

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Up and Running

JULY 3, 2014

This book was published in December 2013 and is available for purchase online. It’s one thing to know a product can be sold in a market—after all, that’s why you selected a particular market—but it is a totally different ballgame when it comes to forecasting how much you can sell and over what time frame. Next Week’s Extract.

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Tim Keane

APRIL 24, 2006

The product development cycle was excellent. However, the distribution channel we had planned to use lacked the sophistication ultimately required by the product design, and the manufacturers adoption cycle was insufficient. (A The product development cycle was excellent. April 2013. January 2013.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

Anish Sebastian co-founded Babyscripts in 2013 with the vision that internet enabled medical devices and big data would transform the delivery of pregnancy care. As the CEO of BabyScripts, Anish has focused his efforts on product and software development, as well as research validation of their product.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC. While we love getting ideas from our team and have seen some stellar product development and user experience decisions generate from brainstorming and having an open office environment, we try not to let everything come to a vote. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc. Whats This?

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techland.time.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

Over the past decade, she has played a vital role in strategizing the revival of the web site including being directly involved in edit, design, multimedia, product development, business development, strategy, personnel, budgeting, technology and infrastructure. Best Phones and Tablets at CES 2013. © 2013 Time Inc.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. So What is Customer Development? The Problem With Traditional Product Development.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

It’s Not a Conversion Problem, It’s a Customer Development Problem. I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. image source.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. About VC Cafe.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. Sunday, January 27th, 2013. In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2022

By establishing a company dedicated to inventive and speedy product development, I am able to use cutting-edge technologies and consistently innovate faster than competitors. In 2013, I was diagnosed with a painful orthopedic condition that prevented me from continuing my corporate job. Thanks to David Wurst, Webcitz ! #3-

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