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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups.

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Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

What I tell most startups we fund is that if someone reputable offers you funding on reasonable terms, take it. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Measuring Market Penetration with Brand Tracking (+ Metrics & Examples)

ConversionXL

Brand momentum can be calculated similarly to physical momentum (mass x velocity): Brand momentum = brand mass (your company’s size, reputation, and relevance) x brand velocity (speed of growth, agility in keeping up with industry changes). Take Tesla. Brand association tracking helps us to qualify this. Brand associations.

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Some IPO speculation

Startup Lessons Learned

Despite Google’s reputation as an innovative company, they seem to me to be counted as one of the last of the old breed. Despite Google’s reputation as an innovative company, they seem to me to be counted as one of the last of the old breed. We are living in a transitional moment. We are living in a transitional moment.

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A new way to recruit for (and find) startup jobs

Startup Lessons Learned

Need to build a good reputation system to rate both the startups and candidates, and then a matching engine that can make the matching. This is a machine learning problem and it can be solved as long as some relevant signals can be captured in the reputation rating. August 12, 2009 3:51 PM Gregsaid. Expo SF (May.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

However, after meeting with a very reputable Trademark Attorney he let us know that our business name was not likely to be awarded a trademark because it was too general, had too many common words, and there were existing businesses with similar names that would cause confusion. Thanks to Sara Abate Rez, My Personal Brand ! #13-

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

When IMVU instigated a policy of banning users from voicing their thoughts, however, even more damage was done to the company's reputation in the eyes of many. People felt themselves to be subject to censorship, a perception that continues to this day. Eric, people were PANICKING. Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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