Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. Outsourcing is defined as contracting the work to another company, usually located in a developing country, like India, China, or Eastern Europe. Factor in all the cost elements.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

BigBand Networks, which has more than 200 customers in North America, Asia and Europe, provides broadband service providers with digital video networking solutions designed to make it easier to distribute, manage and monetize video. Binational Industrial Research and Development ( BIRD ) Foundation, approved $8.1 Share/Bookmark.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 17, 2013

The next obvious transition was the rise of the browser in 1996, which transformed not only the software application market but also the print and media world. The distribution techniques are completely new. But the combination of lock-in and a lack of a truly liquid new distribution hooks will favor the “new incumbent” mobile leaders.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 26, 2023

The US and China are in the lead, but Israel has certainly earned itself a place as one of the leading centers of excellence in the global AI ecosystem with companies like AI21 Labs, which is developing a large language model Jurassic, which can be considered as an alternative to GPT. We’ll continue updating the landscape on a regular basis.

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Transformify

MARCH 14, 2020

These days, due to coronavirus outbreak, many businesses have asked their employees to work from home. At the same time, the stock markets collapsed, and most businesses already report skyrocketing losses, unmet revenue targets and insufficient stock due to production slow down in China, India and the rest of the world.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Thanks to Rameez Usmani, Code Signing Store ! #2- Big Tech and legacy media still has a stronghold over most people, but in due time, I see this changing dramatically. These operations learned during the last 18 months they could operate in a remote or distributed environment. 2- Automobile industry. Photo Credit: Erick Riddle.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. What We Discovered About Blockchain The Afro-Tech approached blockchain and distributed ledger as how it will affect African-Americans in everyday living.

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K9 Ventures

JULY 21, 2016

Computing and software came a few years later for me as access to computers wasn’t as easy or affordable. Software is awesome as it gives you instant gratification. It requires a higher level of discipline than software does. You make a change, compile, and voila you can see the effect of what you did.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

Gordonsville, Virginia-based PBM manufactures and distributes over-the-counter store-brand infant formula and baby foods sold by retailers in the mass, club, grocery and drug channels in the United States, Canada, Mexico and China. AMDOCS BUYS LEADING UK MOBILE COMPANY MX TELECOM. Net-Aye is a subsidiary of Bar-Tec Ltd.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

This service is temporary unavailable due to system maintenance. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Welcome, Logout. Customer Center. My Journal. Message Center ( new). Edition Home.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. We did due diligence on one another through resumes, reference checks, technical interviews, and spending time together (basically reviewing the items offered in the FounderDating application). White Day Hackathon.

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Scalable Startup

JANUARY 15, 2015

I’m a startup growth consultant who started a digital marketing + web development agency due to such high demand from my startup clients. Hire them 8 hours at a time and review daily by skype, g hangout. I had a company in europe in the past and was very happy with the quality software we created. web development projects.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Google has been investing in a broad healthcare portfolio, Amazon has been investing in pharmacy distribution and Apple…? To get FDA clearance, Apple reportedly submitted two studies to the FDA (so far none of the data has been published or peer reviewed). It’s how China approaches approvals and will allow U.S.

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Agile VC

JULY 11, 2012

You can learn as much from these cautionary tales as you can from the enduring successes, plus studying a broad sample of firms helps avoid drawing false conclusions due to survivorship bias. How do you deal with a severely uneven distribution of investment success between individuals or groups of partners?

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

As the cloud becomes increasingly common and the data deluge shows no signs of slowing down, the good old firewall is simply no longer sufficient for protecting the highly distributed assets of the enterprise. Security-focused code reviews and rigorous penetration testing are also highly recommended.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

They use different technologies of course, and different distribution mechanisms. According to Pew, while cell phones are nearly ubiquitous around the world (95% China, 91% Chile, 82% Kenya), penetration of smartphones are still getting there (37% China, 39% Chile, 19% Kenya). You have to solve for all of them. Free or paid.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter. Code Hosting and Version Control. code spaces (svn). WorkingPoint.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Interesting to watch Google’s approach to its digital distribution model – compared to Apple’s – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Why China should fear the Egyptian revolution – [link]. – [link].

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David Cohen

APRIL 1, 2018

Like when I did this in China in 2013 with Andrew , who is now 16, I wrote a daily email home and am just posting them all here chronologically with a few photos. We got an upgrade on that second flight due to my status, so had first class. Move that to there and evenly distribute it so the land is flat. 3 hour second flight.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 26, 2019

I frequently see promising startups with a great product and strong initial economics hit a wall due to the piling up of problems relating to these questions, or what I like to call the ‘DTC death by a thousand cuts’. Bloggers are especially valuable in the early days when consumers are looking for actual reviews that are searchable.

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online.wsj.com

MARCH 4, 2013

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. iPhone 5 may come to China soon. A regulatory Web site shows a device that looks similar to the iPhone 5 has received approval for a “network license” in China. Chinese mobile carrier China Telecom Corp. The Week in Review.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

To prevent hackers from gaining access to your business's checking account, use low-cost software and dual controls to strengthen your payment processes. Press releases are becoming less successful, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining earned media. Photo Credit: Ernests Embutniek. Thanks to Michael Ziarko, No More Chores ! #3-

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Example: wechat in China. In an A/A test the distribution of p-values is random. Small snippet of code. Challenge data silos (metrics split out by different devices) by reviewing your metrics. Target email openers and clickers, run ads to people who opened but didn’t click, clicked but didn’t buy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Then I remember seeing back when they were only maybe like a thousand worldwide cases outside of China, the shape of that graph, and I sort of realized at some point when it just looked like this perfect exponential, that it was beyond what was going to be contained. There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 24, 2020

And at some point in the recent past, one of these viruses mutated, experienced a recombination event with another virus, seemingly pangolins were involved somehow, these anteater-like armored creatures that live in China. And as a result, we got this new virus which was able to infect humans and we had this first outbreak in China, in Wuhan.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Transformify

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Managing distributed workforce and remote teams was not something totally new for them. As the epidemic started in China, its economy suffered a lot and it’s still too early to predict the total losses. Most flights from and to China have been cancelled and it will definitely take time for the tourism industry to recover.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? I think we'd had, even actually apart from COVID, we'd had like three code events in our department that day. A code is when somebody is having a life threatening acute problem. So I think it was a shift when we had three code events.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

million cases and 300,000 deaths a year due to sepsis. So, how it works is we have provided the training and some of the software for the drive-through locations. Because if you can do a lot of tests in the lab but you can't actually distribute it, there's not much point. It's actually your own immune system that kills you.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2020

And I think it would be a mistake for us to go back, given how much progress we’ve made on China in general and technological competition. The first I associate with the return to the Obama era approach, which would focus on cooperation with China. China competition the last three years.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 6, 2025

The competitive edge lies in product and distribution, building defensible positions through industry alignment and effective go-to-market strategies. These marketplaces, which turn software into services, are expected to dominate due to network effects and the ability to provide pre-vetted, on-demand AI services.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Enlitic builds machine learning-based software for radiologists that produces more accurate and faster assessments.

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