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  • 20 days as a growth hacker (timothy.userapp.io)
    Tue, Dec 10, 2013 2:46pm -08:00 #business #growth #startups #users
  • Cancellation as a Feature (logoscreative.co)
    Sun, Dec 8, 2013 9:22am -08:00 #business #startups
  • How To Generate 90k Per Month In 9 Months (accel.io)
    Wed, Nov 13, 2013 1:23pm -08:00 #10k #business #revenue #startups
  • 5 Steps to $5,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue (blog.statuspage.io)
    Sun, Nov 3, 2013 10:40pm -08:00 #10k #business #revenue #startups
  • Postmortem of a Venture-backed Startup - Lessons Learned from the rise and fall of @Sonar (medium.com)
    Tue, Sep 17, 2013 5:11pm -07:00 #sonar #startups #sxsw #vc
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    Filing this under: "how not to announce an acquisition" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6014001 #startups
    San Diego, CA, USA
    Tue, Jul 9, 2013 9:33pm -07:00 #startups
  • How We Hit $912 Million in Sales (www.inc.com)
    Mon, Jul 1, 2013 2:22pm -07:00 #esri #funding #jackdangermond #startups #vc
  • Aaron Parecki
    "If you want to come up with awesome, fundable ideas, go work for large companies with deep pockets that have old and archaic processes and few highly-technical and dynamic problem solvers. Identify the inefficiencies, make friends with decision makers, and then leave, build your solution, and sell it back to them." - @JoeEmison https://medium.com/on-startups/db355566d8b7
    Portland, OR, USA
    Sat, Jun 15, 2013 10:34pm -07:00 #startups
  • How to Pitch Investors: Introducing the Startup Pitch Breakdown (dashboard.io)
    Mon, Jun 10, 2013 9:16pm -07:00 #glider #pitch #startups
  • Users of my iOS Game Teach Me a Lesson MIT Didn’t (blog.aaroniba.net)
    Wed, Mar 27, 2013 11:01pm -07:00 #game #ios #programming #startups
  • The Top 5 Tech Startup Trends of 2013 (blogs.wsj.com)
    Mon, Dec 24, 2012 6:26pm -08:00 #2013 #startups #tech
  • Year of the Exit? Oregon startups sell at a brisk pace (www.oregonlive.com)
    Sat, Dec 22, 2012 12:19pm -08:00 #esri #exit #geoloqi #oregonian #oregonlive #press #startups
  • LivingSocial Cuts 400 Staff Positions in Cost-Saving Move (www.bloomberg.com)
    Wed, Nov 28, 2012 8:54pm -08:00 #bubble #startups
  • The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? (pandodaily.com)
    Wed, Nov 28, 2012 1:13pm -08:00 #funding #startups #vc
  • Things First-Time Founders Regret Saying (viniciusvacanti.com)
    Mon, Apr 23, 2012 7:34am -07:00 #ceo #hackernews #startups
  • A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure (apenwarr.ca)
    We are running Access in Wine in X11 on Linux in an isolated user account on our server slice that revision controls your Access database in git, and we're displaying it using VNC in your web browser in flash. People can't possibly want that. But they need it. Which is better.
    Sun, Mar 25, 2012 8:53pm -07:00 #access #microsoft #startups
  • SV Angel Also Buying Up Foursquare Stock. Dennis Crowley Emerges As Big-Company CEO (techcrunch.com)
    Sun, Mar 4, 2012 5:48pm -08:00 #foursquare #funding #startups
  • How to date a supermodel (or get dealflow or find cofounders) (thestartuptoolkit.com)
    Sun, Jan 1, 2012 7:20am -08:00 #advice #startups
  • Founder’s Hell: Competitive Horror (mittermayr.tumblr.com)
    You start with an (obviously) great idea. You go hunting on the web, trying to find people who are in the same business, possibly the same idea. You find maybe one or two similar services, but come up with great ideas on how to differentiate almost immediately. Things are looking good, let’s roll! A while after, it’s more often than not a TechCrunch post, you read an article about a company doing something very close to what you are working on. You feel somewhat motivated, but also stressed out, they’re ahead. What if they are soon known for being the go-to-place for what you wanted to offer? Time to speed up, you add features, you move faster, you long for early reviews/previews/beta-testers. Feedback is scarce, and not very insightful. You would pay for good feedback. Then, huge investment announcement for this random company you never heard of, they just got shitloads of cash. You, well, you still have your lousy personal bank account, thousands of lines of PHP code and a dream. As days go by, your hyper-excitement fades out, maybe it’s not a good idea after all, maybe it’s a waste of time. You release a tiny preview, nobody cares. So my idea isn’t good enough? Minutes later, your feed reader delivers new depressing updates. Huge investment, everyone’s in it, from Ron Conway, Adreessen Horowitz to Dustin Moskovitz. Panic creeps in. It’s been a long time, the end of year one is approaching. Profit? A few hundred, maybe a few thousand dollars, maybe nothing. And to make matters worse, someone releases a product, with hundreds of thousands of users. Complete nobodies, how could you miss them?? And they do what you do, but they do it really, really good. They have cash, they have an absolute stunning design, the right vision, they are fucking nice on their website and if you weren’t competing against them, hell, you would post that idea all over the internet because it rocks.
    Thu, Dec 8, 2011 8:27pm -08:00 #competition #startups
  • Focus on people, not products (www.zurb.com)
    People don’t buy products – they buy the benefit.
    Thu, Dec 8, 2011 12:32am -08:00 #people #products #sales #startups
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