Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Technical debt works the same way, and has the same perils. I won’t pretend that there aren’t teams that take on technical debt for bad reasons.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Your business name , your logo , your website design should all grow from the concepts you laid out here. Prepare your design resources (fabric swatches, sewn samples, and tech pack or renderings). It’s also relatively easy to create an e-commerce presence nowadays without a lot of technical knowledge.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Tech startups are at the other extreme. Second in importance only to talented people, IP in all its forms is the key asset comprising most of the value of any tech startup. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 21, 2011

The result is we can’t find that key name and phone number quickly when we really need them. Here’s the latest technology. For individual entrepreneurs, it’s a high-end alternative (entry $5+/month), and it’s definitely a candidate for your business sales force. The solution is simple to define. This is great and it’s free!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 17, 2024

06:24] Where do people get applying tech to marketing wrong? [08:58] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Let's start with a definition. What's the definition or the difference, I should say, between rev ops and marketing? We're talking about particularly in marketing, tech stacks are a huge deal.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 29, 2017

New tech is certainly going to play apart in the future of logistics. They’re not the only ones testing this tech either. Probably not as long as you think and in the next few years you can bet companies are going to be toying with this tech. However, Amazon has stated they are keen to further develop this tech.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2018

You Get Their Facebook ID: These tend to last forever, where as business emails expire on average 4% / month due to people changing jobs, etc. If you use a chatbot tool like MobileMonkey, this is easy because they handle all the technical stuff. And be sure to use your business name in your messages.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. The VC landscape has gotten much more competitive and crowded over the past several years, and if investors are not using software tools — they are definitely at a disadvantage. How do VCs originate investments?

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View from Seed

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Backup paper copies if the on-screen presentation fails are a bit low-tech but work almost as well. Spending too much time on introductions, small talk, and the name-game detracts from the opportunity to convey the primary message. Mistake #5: Attempting to force definitive feedback immediately. Mistake #7: Inauthenticity.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 3, 2020

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Photo Credit: Amber Christian.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

As we’ve been working on our new product that helps teams manage shared email inboxes, we’ve had struggles coming up with a name. We’d jotted down some name ideas as they came up, but didn’t feel like any individual name was the right fit. Here’s the structure that we used to come up with our new product name.

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

With the advent of the internet and cloud technology, many businesses have opted to keep their business online. For managing these numerous tasks, a business requires a project management tool, and in this article, we are reviewing and presenting one of such software which is certainly the best among the available ones. Applications.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

[02:39] Would you agree there’s some science in naming things? [05:01] 13:46] Can you elaborate more on your definition of focus? [16:51] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! There will be a whole list of meanings, thoughts, definitions, ideas and experiences. This is John Janstch.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 17, 2020

No one wants their hard work to do go down in the name of a shoddy investment. Technology has proved to have a great driver of the rise of ‘future industries’ and those that were previously seen to be tech-proof. 2-Technology. Trends that could spur investments in Technology. 1- Sustainability. 3- Self-publishing.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 20, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. The name MissHeard Media came as a group effort. It turned out to be the name of a wrestler and a gun magazine. 1- Group effort.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 4, 2024

He conducts field research on the future of work involving robots and AI, exploring how these technologies are reshaping skill development and training in various industries. Organizations must adapt training methods to ensure practical skill acquisition by creating structured learning environments where novices engage with new technologies.

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Start Up Blog

AUGUST 1, 2019

If we can agree on these truths and what innovation is, then we can usher in a long over due, different type of innovation. Here’s the Sammatron definition: The implementation of better solutions to meet existing market desires, new market requirements, and even unarticulated needs. So what is innovation? .

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 26, 2021

No one wants their hard work to do go down in the name of a shoddy investment. Technology has proved to have a great driver of the rise of ‘future industries’ and those that were previously seen to be tech-proof. It's definitely a good industry to work in because it's not going away. 1- Cybersecurity. Probably not ever.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In the past, if your startup had a website presence, the company was credible by definition. Until the company name is a famous brand, you are the brand. No name, picture, address, or business history only convinces customers that you are hiding, located in an un-trustable country, or don’t have a clue. Put yourself on the site.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence is an important, foundational technology that gets more important every year and will be used to solve more and more problems going forward. These events mean that technology is advancing fast enough to make better decisions than humans in order to accomplish a given task. Chris Rust, Clear Ventures).

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Every waking day, we are having tremendous changes in regulations and technology which greatly affects the way businesses operate. Some entrepreneurs will say the future is definitely bright but to others, some of these changes are meant to work against their expansion and business operations. Thanks to Ben Reynolds, Sure Dividend ! #3-

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

For many CEOs, competition with the tech giants an existential concern. A relationship with Google can take many forms, which I will detail in this post as a guide for founders exploring their relationship with big tech. Commercial – a data/tech/commercial partnership or client relationship.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Brainstorming, domain name and being formal. We chose otium as the basis of our name, which is latin for ease, peace, calm and leisure.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. MakeSpace (as he named it) would help you get your excess goods into low-cost warehouses. Seriously, this happens.

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Start Up Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2019

For a brief moment, let’s review the definitions of the two words in question – followers versus students. A follower would most likely only take the advice of their favourite author, entrepreneur, technologist, CEO, politician, celebrity, you name it. And quite frankly, it’s an easy path to go down.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Starting up a business is an enormous and serious task that will most definitely pose many challenges along the way. The competition is fierce and with the constant development of technology and social media advances, everything has become bigger, better and faster. Another thing you must not forget is the choice of your brand name.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

In fact, JW Player was the technology that ran the earliest version of YouTube. It has continued to offer technical capabilities at the forefront of online video. The technical features of JW Player have attracted enterprise-level publishers (e.g. Here’s a demo featuring my name: Who is personalized video right for?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 3, 2020

Before we jump into specific 2020 logo design trends, let’s briefly review why every entrepreneur, marketer, and designer should care that their logo is strong and compelling. You can’t just plop your business name under your logo mark in a serif or sans serif font like Helvetica or Times New Roman and call it a day. Broken box.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2017

Today’s customers definition of service is the sum total of their “experience,” covering all aspects of their relationship, including the shopping and buying process, as well as ongoing assistance. Use technology to personalize and expedite requests. Set up online forums for customers to help each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

I have never felt prouder of the team & product at awe.sm ( please visit to check out our latest & be ready for our next big product announcement due out in next month or so) and yet we just brought in a new CEO to the company, Fred McIntyre. ” We had inbound M&A requests from some of the biggest names in tech.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2019

In the modern era, mostly due to the advent of technology, the number and variety of tools we have at our disposal is incredibly numerous that it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the total scale of things. This type of software does exactly as its name suggests: helps you track your expenses.

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View from Seed

MARCH 4, 2020

There is always some debate about the methodology and accuracy of the list, but I think it’s a pretty interesting data set that reflects some of the things that have been happening in tech and VC over time. This was definitely one of the major trends over the last 10 years. What will be interesting to see is whether this persists.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! So we have 10,000 unique portraits, our Boss Beauties, and the book artwork is really bold and vibrant and bright, and so the book actually can live on coffee tables, desks, bookshelves, you name it, schools in boardrooms of women and girls of all ages.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 12, 2014

Can’t be the logo, or even the name. Can someone in their first week of tech support decide whether it’s OK to give a customer a large refund or spend extra hours to go above and beyond to fix something? Isn’t that the definition of empowerment? Can’t be the office space, Lao Tzu already pointed that out.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Although help comes in the form of diligent teams and reliable investors, in order to come at par with established names, a startup needs to rope in useful tools and resources which can standardize things. From recruitment to CRM, project management to marketing, there’s a tool for everything be it for managing work, tech stack , etc.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

With new virtual and augmented reality technologies emerging, the merger of traditional and digital media is more than just on the horizon. It’s an exciting technology, so here are ways to prepare yourself for the revolution. It’s an exciting technology, so here are ways to prepare yourself for the revolution.

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VC Adventure

JULY 27, 2011

Before Foundry makes an investment we perform extensive due diligence. While this process varies, we’re always diligent before entering into what we view as a long term partnership with the company. One of those recently sold off a significant piece of technology for quite a bit money.

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