Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim." But along the way, something strange happened.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

World Business Leaders Are Getting on Board With Green Practices. As the technology stands now, it isn’t feasible for car companies to lower prices of their standard electric models to match their gas guzzling competition. Even wide-open areas, such as Australia, feel the burn of heavy duty carbon emissions.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

See the pitch at SXSW in the category of Enterprise & Smart Data Technology , 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. With the exception of LexSet, what tech trend is your team most excited about? What is the most over-hyped tech trend of 2020?

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Press releases are becoming less successful, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining earned media. I expect businesses in multiple sectors that have been limping along in crisis mode since the pandemic to really start buckling due to chronic understaffing and a loss of any kind of institutional culture or experience.

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Transformify

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Kenya and Nigeria are of a particular interest for the employers in the UK due to the high percentage of English speakers who have received bachelor’s degree or higher. Post Brexit, many companies in the UK consider distributed teams overseas as an alternative to the shrinking talent pool and high recruitment costs in Britain.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

MAY 3, 2024

By investing in green packaging initiatives, businesses in the cannabis sector can strengthen their market positioning while contributing positively to the environment. Technology Integration Technological advancements offer new opportunities for cannabis packaging to become interactive and informative.

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Start Up Blog

APRIL 11, 2019

Ten years is not a very long time, but in a world of exponential technology, a lot can happen. Sure, some of the ideas below might seem like science fiction or fantasy, but so was much of the technology we take for granted today. Fear of technology, job losses and immigrants will continue its current pattern.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The decision to ramp up pre-approval production on multiple COVID-19 vaccines so they’d be ready to distribute if proven effective was a classic blitzscaling tactic. Our current technologies alone won’t take us where we need to get by 2050, nor can we rely on simply reducing usage, increasing conservation, and constraining consumption.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 25, 2017

The different teams often share technology platforms which can be managed by a central team, but the usage of technology and the practice of CRO is distributed. CRO work requires technical resources like: A (javascript) developer. It also requires creative (and often technical) resources like a graphic and/or UX designer.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 27, 2017

Additionally, I find low conversion among investors who can’t articulate their specific investment thesis for a given opportunity and what they hope to discover during diligence. Kirsten Green , Forerunner Ventures : “Customer risk….we Technical risk. Distribution / growth risk. What would I say for Homebrew

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

The Blockchain is such an innovative and fundamentally transformative technology, but Bitcoin and Blockchain apps have not yet scaled as much as I would have liked. This slow traction is likely due to two things. Lower sign-up friction. Start-ups need to focus more on the user experience for first-time users.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 23, 2014

Tech Start-Ups: Take the Money and Build | by @tullman – crowdspring.co/1jvoIEu. 29 Tips for Entrepreneurs & Women in Tech | Tech Cocktail – crowdspring.co/1oj9QIU. A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales | 25iq – crowdspring.co/1lD0q6Y. – crowdspring.co/1j2mWos.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 27, 2021

As the COVID vaccine becomes widely distributed and regulations begin to lift, companies will likely want to move back to in-office activities, but when is the right time? More technology implementation is going to happen in 2021 and businesses will get more automated in their operations and processes. Photo credit: Tim Green.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 5, 2012

Tech ventures, some of whom were presenters at the earlier Demo Day, joined ventures in green energy and the life sciences. Applications are due by June 15th. Louis tech investor. The second event was the annual Invest Midwest conference on Thursday. Here more than 40 companies presented to about 50 investors.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. The perfect competitors are the ones where they unable to respond due to The Innovator’s Dilemma.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 28, 2010

The macro reason: that’s the way most of the great technology companies have been built. At Andreessen Horowitz, our primary goal is to invest in the great technology franchises. VMware—Diane Greene. (*) While not technically cofounders, Andy Grove and Thomas Watson, Sr. Oracle—Larry Ellison. Peoplesoft—Dave Duffield.

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David Teten

AUGUST 8, 2013

For example, whether the data shows consumption of soft drinks, vs. amount of soft drinks entering distribution channels, will affect the interpretation of the numbers. Car sales per capita have dropped significantly due to recession, cultural change, and growth of car-sharing. Indicate for what time periods the chart is appropriate.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. They controlled distribution to the masses. The conventional wisdom at Fox’s headquarters is that MySpace had “made&# both YouTube & Photobucket by allowing them distribution. AOL was closed, the Internet was open.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 24, 2018

They are high in the hierarchy due to their positive impact on both the business and the company culture – thus delivering a soft and hard advantage. Take the subset of metrics that actively drive action, and change the font color for them to green in the Impact Matrix. You can see that more sharply now. Congratulations!

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Up and Running

AUGUST 6, 2014

An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. What accounts for the difference? Is that a lot?

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? All I have to do is look at the very last column and look at the green and red arrows and get guidance about how I should shift my budgets? And they did not have the technical horsepower to do Visitor-centric analysis. The tool is actually that good.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And so I really warn against that in the book because you think about today's day and age, I mean we can look up companies easily if someone's not happy, they're gonna post on social, they're gonna post on review sites. Of tech tactics of scarcity. Like this show?

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 6, 2017

Coursera’s catalog offers a wide variety of courses, from music and art to technology, science , and business. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois.

Programming 48

Programming Technical Review Small Business Illinois 48

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 24, 2017

We’re very new to the industry, and while we’re passionate about the product, there have been obstacles every step of the way – production, shipping, distribution, etc. This year has been momentous for my company. This has to be the hardest job we’ve ever done.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

People + Process + Structure] > [Data + Technology]. This will ensure that the people, process and structure will be smart enough to take advantage of the smart and wizbang tech. They make a few things like tooth-paste which are sold online, but the primary channel of distribution is offline stores. Including data.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

But more often than not, the content is created, distributed on your blog, and then mostly forgotten about. If you’re not getting a green rating for both, speak with a programmer who can get your speeds up to where you want them to be. Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! Address Security Concerns.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. I see this happen far too often when people submit products to me for review to post on Product Hunt. Product launches are one phase in the product lifecycle.

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ConversionXL

MAY 6, 2014

In 2012, I launched a kind of ‘Groupon deal for musicians’, where I gave away $1,250 worth of products, including recording time, iTunes distribution, and a guitar string endorsement deal for just $69 for 100 hours only. There were only 5,000 packages available. I had invested a lot into this campaign. 4 Adding time-countdown urgency.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The reason feedback - specifically from actual customers - is usually chosen is because it is more on the science side than the art side, but I surely cant knock those people and teams that can deliver product excellence due to vision, luck or art. -- arrel 215 days ago | link. The technical side is fairly easy, and many people could do it.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

Below are a few challenges you should be ready to face if you are an aspiring female leader looking to build a start-up, especially a tech-based one: 1. I pitched to 86 investors before getting the green signal from only 5 of them. A report reveals, 2% of working women leave the workforce due to this reason.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

A Harvard Business Review (HBR) study of 4,700 public companies looked at the three years before, during, and after recessions. This means more people behind a screen, which means more opportunity across distribution channels. They divided companies’ responses—their “driving” strategies—into four categories: Prevention.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

We’re going to distribute that on a platform and we’re going to build an audience in some way and we’re going to sell our product or service, which by the way is fine. Could you leave an honest review on iTunes? Your ratings and reviews really help and I promise I read each and every one. That’s great.

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