Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Then there are the aggregator curators that bring together the best of the best from a wide variety of sources, without the single guiding light to make sure they are consistent and integrated. These are great for understanding the big picture, spotting trends, and product reviews. TechCrunch , founder Michael Arrington.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. Hmm, now I’m getting intrigued.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

StackOverflow is a free Q&A site for software developers, blending functionality from wikis, blogs, forums, and social voting (similar to Digg/Reddit); 7.1mm unique visitors per month; new funds will be used to build out engineering team and build out product. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2020

I think that’s a largely flawed fight to be picking and of all the uses of Senator Klobuchar’s I could think of some much more productive fights to be having. The problem for the restaurants is that the more successful the “aggregators” of customer demand become over time, the less power the restaurants themselves have individually.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2012

I’m talking in aggregate. Ask yourself the tough question about how you might spend that time more productively getting your job done well. There are also many times where that meeting isn’t really focused or productive. Lately I’ve seen some friends and colleagues go nuts with intros.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 30, 2011

We all know the result of the over-funding of the asset class – poor returns in aggregate for the industry. In the last 90′s it was impossible to charge fair prices for products & services in a market where you had 5 competitors giving away free products to acquire “eyeballs&# and fueled by an excess of venture capital.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2011

more likely to successfully scale with sales driven startups than with product centric startups. more likely to successfully scale with product-centric startups with no network effects than with product-centric startups that have network effects. Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. With the key social media platforms today, an entrepreneur can tune a product, build a brand, and grow the business with very low cost and a high interactivity never before possible. Most now routinely buy startups for new technology and new products.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Maybe they will get there, but I think that the experiential nature of the category — both in terms of the actual products and the brand experience — mean that this will play out very differently from other categories like media or consumer electronics. Reinventing Retail.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 4, 2011

I was recently talking with a startup company who wanted me to try their product. I’m a big believer in product stability & performance before adding too many features. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? They have a mobile app and I felt like it crashed too much for my liking.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. The product would leverage GPS and laser-based technologies and could be used on existing mower or farm equipment or built into new units. Unlike Groupon which offers one product deal per day chosen based on the customer’s location.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 6, 2012

That couldn’t happen without the advent of lower cost production & distribution. And as we know the book industry is moving fully electronic with the advent of the Kindle making the costs of production & distribution nearly zero. Production costs have plummeted. Even a hundred. Think about music as another example.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 11, 2020

social media giants, product review sites, and travel companies) to be wary of sharing large customer datasets. These large and reasonably priced aggregated datasets can be useful for startups looking to transform legacy institutions or disrupt established industries. Data fuels AI. Mexican birth records. government procurement data.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

A great diversity of frameworks means there are likely many options that provide high-performance while meeting your language and productivity requirements. In aggregate, the Round 13 results on physical hardware are generally lower due to the older CPUs, all else being equal. What a great time to be building web apps! Good fortunes.

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View from Seed

JUNE 13, 2019

Chewy sells tens of thousands of products from many 3rd party brands, as well as its own private label brands (though latter remains <10% of sales). Chewy helpfully provides some cohort data on both aggregate $ revenue, active customer spend, and LTV/CAC basis. 2) Impressive cohort growth & stability. in 2016, to 17.5%

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2010

First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. In fact, I encouraged my favorite IM aggregator client, Digsby , to go the opposite direction and become a Twitter client also.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 11, 2021

This is accomplished through aggregated, anonymized competitive benchmarking, market-level performance data across the major social and ad platforms, and curated news and conversation from industry leaders. To me, that’s the textbook example of “product-founder fit” and one of the reasons I believe this business will succeed.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 21, 2011

its product or service) to its customers. Virtual channels include Dedicated e-commerce, Two-step e-distribution and Aggregators. Should they create a freemium version of their current product? If you have more than one product, how will you package it into various offerings? The Nine Teams Present.

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View from Seed

MAY 11, 2016

The last time they were starting a company at the raw, pre-product/market fit stage may have been quite a few years ago. The context of starting business may have changed, and some of the tools and practices (especially around early product development and go-to-market) might look very different. 2: Pursue side projects.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Client posted a video of a soon to be released product on their Facebook brand page. The new product became the number one selling product in the company's history in that country. Even if there were millions of Likes on the post with the deeply emotional video about the new product. Gets more Likes. It was huge.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 22, 2019

And while there are many KPIs that differ in their importance to teams with different goals, there are some indicators that can be applied universally to maximize efficiency and productivity in project management.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. Small startups act the same way, simply cloning each other’s products. Perhaps products like WeChat , designed for an international market, might be the beginning of real innovation. Sharing and cooperation is not yet part of the ethos.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

by Shailendra Nagarajan, Senior Product Marketing Manager at DataWeave. How can they ensure that their products and overall brand identity are being perceived well on all eCommerce sites? How can they ensure that their products and overall brand identity are being perceived well on all eCommerce sites? Protect your brand.

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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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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In the highly competitive aggregate industry, standing out is crucial for attracting and retaining customers. This comprehensive guide will walk you through strategies to differentiate your aggregate business and help it thrive in a crowded marketplace.

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). As a result, Vin has a great framework for deciding if this is a viable path for your product. Subscribe on iTunes , SoundCloud , or Stitcher.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 16, 2020

We recently wrote that B2B marketplaces need to nail four things : aggregate product catalogs, automate procurement processes, increase trust/social proof, and integrate with key services in the ecosystem. DemandStar is on a great path toward executing against all four of these opportunities. .

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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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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2024

It excels in aggregating, sorting, and filtering data efficiently, crucial for applications in data analysis, business intelligence, and backend systems of many web services. The productivity that these tools unlock for us is remarkable, especially to people used to more heavily homegrown data engineering environments,” said Shin.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

They aggregate far more of your clicks across the Internet and power the hyper-relevant ads you see (e.g., an ad for a product you left in your cart on another site). Many users’ updates are aggregated (B) to form a consensus change (C) to the shared model, after which the procedure is repeated. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

MARCH 20, 2019

Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. The aggregation of individual behavior at a company level was the critical innovation. Terminus pitches the product as an “all-in-one” solution. TechTarget uses those cookies to aggregate intent data from site visitors. Image source ).

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

You can also have other specialized VIP services and fun offers, like a Halloween make up service, to up your costume game this year, with skin consultation & luxurious beauty products. These ratings are based on scalable matrices, like promptness, quality of service, quality of products used, manner and style and overall satisfaction.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

At NextView Ventures we have written many pieces about venture capital — how to raise it, build your business, engage with investors, iterate your product, navigate expanding industries, etc. So, we decided to aggregate NextView’s “greatest hits.” VCs sure do love writing. What Are Your Valuation Expectations?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. But honestly 10 extra hours in the office each day we would be there is way more productive.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 18, 2019

Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. Categorizing keyword modifiers is especially useful for sites that have hundreds or thousands of similar pages, like review sites with city-specific content or sites with hundreds of similar products. Or do they satisfy a range of potential intents?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

A business is an aggregate of multiple repetitive tasks and processes. Whereas a certain task may be necessary for the smooth operation of the business, the same task can take away from time you’d otherwise spend on activity that’s more productive. Process Automation. Not all such tasks and processes are created equal.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 20, 2018

Most vaccines require proper cooling and handling on their journey from point of production to consumption. A few years ago Nithya started to fixate on a problem which affects millions of people, mostly children, worldwide: Spoiled vaccines. They need to be kept at a specific temperature without too much variance.

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