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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

Both Sides of the Table

” Bill Gross, who is one of the Godfathers of the Internet, once told me, “ If you don’t design a product that is 10x better than the competition then you’ll never build anything truly big or amazing.” After 9 months it was time to raise seed capital and go test drive our new software and processes.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

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[Interview] Michael C. Fillios, Author Of “Tech Debt 2.0™: How To Future Proof Your Small Business And Improve Your Tech Bottom Line”  

YoungUpstarts

Along with lack of oversight, outdated software or hardware, inadequate cybersecurity, or one bad tech investment could seal the demise of a small enterprise. That definition is nearly 30 years old, and hadn’t evolved with the pace of technology changes, from mainframe computers to the Internet to the cloud, and much more.

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Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?

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Internet scale. If you spent the 3 years perfecting some hugely differentiated technology IP that may also be different. Fast early growth in a market is often eroded when competition gets fierce and prices are forced down due to competition. In many Internet startups 80% of the operating costs will be people.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. The second event was in Boulder. They have come a long way since then.

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6 Keys to Marketing Customer Experience vs Products

Startup Professionals Musings

A classic article in the Harvard Business Review “ The Truth About Customer Experience ” defines it as your customer’s end-to-end journey with you, not just the key touchpoints or critical moments when customers interact with your organization. Now all we hear about is providing the best “customer experience.” Shoot for the customers’ hearts.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. What worked on the tethered Internet will not necessarily dominate in the mobile world. This means that changes are afoot. What does it do? it has built in iPad support from Day 1.

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