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TechEmpower
JULY 31, 2023
When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. These two questions/answers can help define the early proof points for your company. Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect).
InfoChachkie
OCTOBER 13, 2009
In addition to all of them reaching the pinnacle of their chosen professions, they also all started their careers performing the same job. The American Seed Company, as shown in the accompany ad, encouraged young people to sign a simple “contract” that read: “Please send me your Big Prize book and one order of 45 packs of American Seeds.
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Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons &#. Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation. Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company. It’s landing AT&T or Microsoft as a customer when you’re a start-up.
Both Sides of the Table
DECEMBER 19, 2011
In it he asserts that the web is dying and in its ashes will see the rise of the “App Internet.” The web is dying and will be replaced by “the App Internet.” Things got so bad on one project that we ended up doing split shifts with teams of people programming from 8pm-6am and the next team arriving at 8am.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 There were tons of young entrepreneurs showing their latest Web 2.0 portfolios.
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 8, 2009
A post by Fred Wilson pointed me to Dave McClure's Startup Metrics presentation. This is a great presentation and one that I'm going to point out to startup / early stage company CEOs. This kind of a simple model also helps: Define the early proof points for the company. You only build what you need to prove that model.
Both Sides of the Table
NOVEMBER 22, 2010
I’ve had a long-standing rule of thumb in product design, which I call “design for the novice, configure for the pro.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, lean startups or even the advent of AJAX. Even in 2010 I think most companies err too much on the side of complexity.
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