Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

For startups (and other innovators ), that’s a decisive advantage. The work itself, especially in startups, depends primarily on intelligence, communication, creativity and empathy. Their recent article suggests that startups led by women are actually more successful, on average, than those led by men.

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Gust

JANUARY 4, 2012

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ?

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Intellectual Property IP Startup United States 143

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital 237

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. But startups rarely have either luxury. to store it.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 17, 2011

This applies equally to VCs, startups & big company executives. It’s ironic because I believe creativity is the most important success criterion for a startup. Yet most startups seem to constrain creativity to product design. So no whinging about what a long post this is! So I thought I would. That’s a shame.

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Technical Review Framework Audience Media 356

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). The United Nations predicts that by 2050 our planet will be populated by 9 billion people, which makes food supply a fundamental issue. Today, with about 7.2

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. 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. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

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. Startups to watch in this space are Legolas Media , Krux Digital , and BrightTag , among others. Social Media based Discovery Traffic Breaks Out. Are you ready? *A

Internet 114

Internet Media Social Media Advertising 114

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Is your new startup targeting auctions? … Due to the relatively small potential contract values in restaurants, startups serving these customer segments have to build very efficient sales teams or online customer acquisition tools to aggregate many of them inexpensively. . The other half is commercial gallery sales.

Small Business 110

Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

He has a background in affiliate marketing and development and is a startup enthusiast in general. 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. What is affiliate marketing?

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 20, 2013

Venturebeat has an article up this morning titled Startups and big corporations embrace the maker movement which reports that the annual Maker Faire has this year introduced a ‘Startup Pavillion’ which it cites as evidence that the maker movement is moving beyond hobbies to being a ‘rich source of economic potential’.

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Open Source Venture Capital Software Review Aggregator 102

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.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

Distribution. For product companies, a distribution plan is an important part of the complete business plan. Distribution is how you will get your product into the hands of your customers. Here are a few common distribution models that you may consider for your business: Direct. Retail Distribution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Product Hunt, an 18-month old startup, has evolved from a basic idea into a thriving online community. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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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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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

Small Business Customer Intellectual Property Aggregator 48

This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

If you know of senior level business and technical professionals looking for exciting startup opportunities, they can sign up here. One thing is for certain — you must have experience dealing with large scale distributed applications. Over 1,000 senior professionals have since signed up for the mailer, which goes out on Fridays.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

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Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

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. For starters I’d like to tell you what I tell every startup that wants to “build a YouTube business.”

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs. Transformations, aggregations and joins at massive scale is where BlazingDB wins!

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Peru Fractional CTO Artificial Inteligence Database 58

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 27, 2011

But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. By definition, you read blogs.

Startup 373

Startup eCommerce Audience Community 373

David Teten

JULY 25, 2017

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. We have built relationships with a set of service providers specializing in startups, and have pre-negotiated discounted rates with them. For example, consider public relations.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Being a startup founder is hard, tough, frustrating and rewarding – possibly all within the space of a nanosecond. Before I started GigaOm (the company) in June 2006, I had never really worked for a startup. The closest I got to having a startup experience was being a member of the founding team of Forbes.com.

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Start Up Blog

JANUARY 28, 2015

Startups are the new MTV. Telling people you’re in a startup is a bit like what being in a band was a couple of decades ago. The opportunity for startups right now is around anonymity. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. The first thought is pretty obvious.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Aggregator 48

Start Up Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Startups are the new MTV. Telling people you’re in a startup is a bit like what being in a band was a couple of decades ago. The opportunity for startups right now is around anonymity. Distribution and data is where the power lies, it’s no longer in making things. The first thought is pretty obvious.

Technical Review 48

Technical Review Startup Australia Aggregator 48

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Do you know have they distribute their product? Do you know how they create demand?

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Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development 211

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 5, 2021

You can distribute asphalt aggregates and dirt evenly using the square-nosed shovels in areas where large machinery cannot operate. This is especially true throughout the curing process as otherwise; the new asphalt aggregate will fail to properly bond with the existing mix. This is used before starting with a project.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Taking a look at the list above you can get a sense for what tools are needed for creators to create, distribute and monetize their content. This is a big area of opportunity for startups. The creator economy tool categories. The landscape for creator economy tools is evolving rapidly.

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Curation Social Media Aggregator Vertical 210

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35). The entrepreneur’s story and what brought them to their startup business. 6:00 – 7:30). 16:35-19:35).

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Vertical Curation Boston Burn Rate 265

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2020

You can do this by not only drafting a top-quality and interesting press release but also distributing it through a tool that uses multiple aggregators. Other writers and bloggers can help distribute information. There are plenty of ways on how startup businesses can benefit from a press release. Command Respect.

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Social Media Public Relations SEO Aggregator 207

VC Adventure

AUGUST 15, 2018

It was and is imprecise science but – at least in the case of venture backed startups – there wasn’t much harm in an option being priced low.

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Valuation Common Stock Cap Table Software Review 48

Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I recently had the privilege of assembling an all-star group of media executives in Beverly Hills to discuss the challenges they face in distributing, monetizing and delivering their video content. In aggregate, the various revenue streams would continue to support the creation and distribution of high production value content.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2013

Ragge also predicts that many travel startups in the space are likely to not exist in the next few years. It’s being able to have an extensive network, robust aggregated content and integration with global distribution systems (GDS) that is required to survive in this space,” he explains.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Database, File Storage & Information Management Pixily – An online service that lets you aggregate, organize, find and share your documents. Shoutlet – Distribute and track viral marketing campaigns across social media outlets. Simple Sales Tracking – An online sales tracking app that offers free and paid plans.

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Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

I live in LA and fund startups. So you can imagine that I see a lot of video startups. You have to build a large online tech company that distributes video.” And it’s not about aggregating traffic better. Online technology company that distributes video. Most will fail. Here is an example.

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Video Curation Distribution Silicon Valley 150

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

As many of you know, in the past I’ve done a series of posts deconstructing the S-1s of VC-backed internet startups going public. A few years ago this was sort of a novelty… not that many startups were going public and not that many bloggers or mainstream journalists took the time or had familiarity with combing these SEC filings.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

In this post, I wanted to deconstruct the various pieces of the flywheel that drives the Creator Economy, as well as the challenges, and opportunities for startups in this space. Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. Source: A16Z, 1,000 true fans? The new Creators.

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