Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even the most radical Bell Curve -style thinkers have to concede that even if there are differences between men and women in the distribution of these traits on average, these curve have substantial overlap, and there should still be a lot more of them represented in high-tech startups. So why is demographic diversity important?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

The need for creativity extends well beyond product design. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. From left to right I wrote in boxes: talent discovery, content development, production, post-production, distribution, & marketing. Many people are visual thinkers. That’s a shame.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Distribution revenue is CPC and CPA. . Kayak generates both distribution (i.e. 5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010. Founding Date: 2004.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

On Wednesday, a group of 13 companies presented to 50 investors, looking to raise an aggregate of $16 million in capital. com takes this to a new level: They have a way to locate a particular product in a store's shelves. Do check out some of the companies mentioned if you are interested in their products and services.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Iterating with intelligent editors – products that enable users to take an existing output and refine it (ex. regenerate one frame or feature) without completely starting from scratch.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 28, 2024

I quickly built a prototype that would connect to each of my bank accounts and aggregate all of the accounts & transactions into one platform. 7- Decentralized and distributed ledger Photo Credit: Erwin Vico Being in the finance industry my favorite technological innovation is Blockchain.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

billion people living on Earth, we technically have enough food – it is just not equally distributed (which by no means is an easy problem to solve). Most vaccines require proper cooling and handling on their journey from point of production to consumption. Today, with about 7.2 For the last decades we grew output by 1%.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

If your startup’s goal is to sell a product or service but you’re having a hard time with your revenue model, affiliate marketing might be the perfect match to give you that much-needed boost. Going this route doesn’t mean your product sucks in any way. Therefore, this method seems more trustworthy and convincing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 17, 2011

As I said to an entrepreneur from Hong Kong at a previous roundtable: whether you are building a startup in Silicon Valley or Timbuktu, the methodology of bringing a product or service to market is not that much different. With that, let's look at the two entrepreneurs who pitched today from Costa Rica. Ten people paying $37.50 ResortHunt.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

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. We use a resource you already have – people who love your brand, enjoy your service or product, or support your cause – to spread the word. How do we do this?

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 8, 2010

This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. The aggregation of such high-intent traffic is what makes Google a formidable force on the Internet. Year of Social Utilities. Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

A number of factors are combining that enable faster product iteration in hardware. Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms are radically improving capital efficiency because customers are now paying for product months in advance and because first demand validation is now virtually free.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 22, 2016

Services such as Moz Local, Localeze, Infogroup, Factual and more distribute lists of small business info to major directories and can help correct the issues in a matter of weeks or months. And you can submit events to event aggregators like Eventful; news to Google News, Bing News and Yahoo News and submit content to local sites like Patch.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This combinatorial model works because it’s diversified, can best withstand bear markets, benefits from technological synergies, and it’s the mix of products and services clients value. Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Because people live, shop, and buy in real time, Monetate products enable e-commerce web sites to market in real time. In this role you’ll need to provide mentorship and technical guidance to individual team members as well as get hands-on in helping to maintain and improve on our products.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2013

For www.ti.com the content clusters might be: Products, Applications, Tools & Software, Support, Community, Sample & Buy etc. For a shampoo company it might be represented by these clusters: Expert Access, Personal Consultation, Products, Looks & Trends, Science, Samples & Offers. No siree, Bob! If not, why not?

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? In general, IP protection will do nothing to prevent others from independently developing something similar, copying the overall business model, targeting similar customers or end users, and perhaps even mimicking the product’s look and feel. Easier said than done!)

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Maker announced it has raised $62 million this year, acquired an amazing off-YouTube distribution network and grown its business in monetary terms by almost 300% year-over-year off of an already large base. You need to think like a producer of any kind and think about distribution more broadly. ” YouTube takes 45%.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

I use a more restrictive definition: A growth team is a product tech team that’s focused on acquisition instead of core product features. Design, Product, Marketing, and Sales get pissed that you’re not in sync. Take product positioning. Our new email subscribers would receive email campaigns for different products.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

We can guess our brand terms and product keywords, but the wonderful harvest of category-type, and beyond, keywords is gone. Another important reason historical data becomes stale pretty quickly is that any nominally functioning business will have new products, new content, new business priorities, and all that impacts your search strategy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services. If you try to sell your products and services to everyone in the world, you will waste both time and money. How many customers are in the market?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months. What’s going on?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 12, 2024

written by Tosin Jerugba read more at Duct Tape Marketing The Duct Tape Marketing Podcast with John Jantsch In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast, I interviewed Jonathan Gandolf, the founder and CEO of The Juice, a B2B content platform aimed at solving marketers’ biggest pain points in distribution, reach, and audience engagement.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The more well-known your company becomes, the harder it gets to directly impact primary KPI’s at the aggregate level because the majority of customers who buy are going to do so irrespective of if your button color is red or blue. This is especially true of big businesses: Chad Sanderson, Subway. So, we’ll ignore it.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

As mentioned in previously Spotlights, my goals are: Working with and investing in stellar teams delivering true vision with compelling products to paying customers for MEANINGFUL results. The founders are committed to the global distributed computing community and engage fully by offering and sustaining a free community versio n for life.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2019

The lessons in this post apply broadly to many types of surveys that seek to understand how people feel about your company, product, or service and why they feel that way. Include fake brands or obviously fake products in an answer list. No single article can cover survey analysis for every type of research. For one, it’s widely used.

Software Review 132

Software Review Customer Algorithm .Net 132

crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 20, 2015

Four times per year, Bianca (our Customer Service Manager) downloads reports from each of these services and aggregates them into one supersize Excel spreadsheet, allowing us to perform fairly sophisticated analyses of the results. hourly distribution data allows us to schedule extra help for the busiest times of each day.

Small Business 48

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Product Hunt, an 18-month old startup, has evolved from a basic idea into a thriving online community. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. Check out his post on how he launched Product Hunt, a story captured in tweets, emails, and photos.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 28, 2013

They are full of nonsenseware – cross-sells and up-sells, all kinds of seals and logos, irrelevant other products, promotions, mobile app pimping and so much more. The products you are purchasing dominate the page, right under the main site header. Shows me again if the product is in stock. How soothing. :) 3. the reviews.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

In this scheme, all of the data related to a specific feature of a product are stored on the same machines. Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Since 2003 the global market for children’s nutrition and infant formula products has nearly doubled reaching about $23 billion in 2009. The British mobile payments and messaging aggregator will become part of Amdocs’ OpenMarket US mobile transactions hub. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd. and was founded in 1998.

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www.kalzumeus.com

AUGUST 13, 2012

Speaking of custom-built web applications to determine pricing, the best product with the worse pricing strategy is Heroku. You can assume normality for the probability distribution of the average revenue per customer. This is pretty much the way that normal distributions show up in nature — through aggregation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

Filtering and aggregating content produced by others is not only a great service, it’s a great differentiator. Some might go as far as to suggest content marketing has become the most effective way to build a business.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Trust me, it takes just 5 minutes and, like with Google Analytics, you won't need to update your JavaScript tags or have to do extra work with IT or buy other expensive versions of their products just to do segmentation. Also see the much better, sweeter, distribution for Visitors who visit from 9-14 times through 26-50 times.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

We did not know how to price and package the product. We DID have a great product, though. Many of which have opened stores or sold their product around the country. We currently operate a large 17,000 square foot facility, 5 stores to sell products in, and a distribution business to sell the product to retailers.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review South Korea United States 147

YoungUpstarts

MAY 25, 2020

RFQ awards are being made daily — for medical and non-medical products. Find Active Buyers for Your Product. Government agencies are suddenly in need of a wide variety of products/services from an entirely new set of vendors. By joining the Vendor Registry, you also receive immediate access to COVID-19 bid/RFP notifications.

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