Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

But the investor is already being compensated for that risk in the low price of the stock, so it is unfair to delay. When a company is only two months old, every day you wait gives you 1.7% more data about their trajectory. Fair or not, investors do it if you let them. Even VCs do it. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2018

That should be good news for manufacturers who are grappling with the Internet of Things and other new technologies. Smith said while the company is not hiring large numbers of people, it is aware that its average worker is 50 and wants to prepare for the future. “But everyone has skin in the game. I just don’t care.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

They take common stock, not preferred, a fact that the entrepreneurs mentioned to me many times. Every summer, they bring approximately 10 companies to Boulder for an intense "accelerator" experience (dont call it an incubator, or youll get dirty looks). They dont invest a lot of money; just enough to keep them going through the summer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 5, 2014

photo credit: auremar / 123RF Stock Photo. How many of us have found ourselves needing to do a little bit of finance, customer service, marketing or product development at any given point? Then, by all means, you should continue doing it beyond when your business can afford to hire someone or find another tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

Yet, the real stories of successful startups are full of activities that can rightly be called institution-building: hiring creative employees, coordinating their activities, and creating a company culture that delivers results. Contrast this with other high-risk situations, like buying a high-risk stock.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

My original post was directed at hiring managers. It said that I didn’t believe it was a good idea to hire job hoppers. My view still stands – for many hiring managers a large factor in looking through resumes of somebody who is 30+ and has never worked somewhere for more than 18 months will be the job hopping element.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Interestingly, the company’s founding vision was not a lean idea, but rather a big idea: to accelerate and manage Internet traffic on a global, highly scalable, highly distributed scale. The company quickly realized that its initial commercial product was in huge demand – they had reached product-market fit nirvana.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

I was a senior in high school when the housing crash imploded the stock market. The Internet wasn't as robust or developed as it is today. I never know if I will be wearing my marketing hat, my finance hat, my product development hat, or my lawyer hat. I think I've always been an entrepreneur at heart.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent).

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Of course, the real thanks should go to a startup - Gogo Inflight Internet - that I was lucky enough to meet at a recent workshop. I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door. Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. I don’t know any developers. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. No phone system.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Livelys launch was marred by zillions of sex chat rooms, with people spending hours and hours trying to figure out how to use Livelys stock animations to make their avatars do things that looked kinky. They did allow people to create chat rooms and set the topic to whatever they wanted. Guess what they wanted to talk about.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 27, 2015

The internet today is a fundamental paradigm shift. All of that to simply say that I think data is really important, and I'm a passionate believer in a data-driven product development, marketing, employee hiring, stocking the pantry at your office, and so much more. RM+RP+RT is finally possible. Fewer guesses.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Great for visualizing work of product development. find/hire freelancers. hire low-cost international engineering talent. VWorker -Â find/hire freelancers. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. Internet trends. Internet TV. London Stock Exchange. Kanbanery â??

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