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Common traits of A-Players

An unscientific observation of what A-Players have in common

by Auren Hoffman - November 18, 2009
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Local business center listings

by Derek Gordon, November 16, 2009 | Comments

	… and tips for tweaking them In August we ran a post about getting your site listed in Google’s 10-pack. This post has been our number one read post to date, so I thought you might appreciate additional tips on tweaking your local business center listings across Google, Yahoo, and Bing. 1. Submit complete forms. All three local search centers include a wealth of information that’s ...
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Building a product can be like saving a life

by Bryan McClain, November 13, 2009 | Comments

	What designers and researchers can learn from hostage negotiators It's 2 a.m. and a call comes across the radio that a young man with a gun has barricaded himself and his mother in his home. No shots have been fired, and little communication has been established between the man and police officers outside. The officers on the scene report that the young man has been struggling with the ...
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Can friends be business partners?

by Bambi Francisco, November 10, 2009 | Comments (2)

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Bonobos co-founder Andy Dunn on building a business with a former roommate, and other lessons/advice

Andy Dunn, co-founded pants designer and retailer Bonobos in 2007 with his former Stanford Business School roommate Brian Spaly. So far, so good. The two are making a killing at their new venture.But it's not been all that easy."My co-founder and I have highly overlapping skill sets," said Andy, in this segment of "Lessons for Entrepreneurs." Working together has been ...

Sports ratings records...

by Mark Cuban, November 2, 2009 | Comments (1)

	...and what it tells us about the Internet Have you seen sports ratings lately? Just this week: The NBA on TNT had its highest ratings in 20 years. Versus had its highest rated regular season NHL game ever. The first game of the World Series was the highest rated in five years. The NFL was setting records on cable and achieving viewing levels not seen in 20 years! ...
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The user knows best

by Bryan McClain, October 29, 2009 | Comments

	How to listen to the user and hear the experience When someone is speaking, do you think about what the other person is saying, or do you think about what you are going to say next?At Metric Lab, we are big believers in communication and what it can do to improve research. Our background in both human factors research and communication has allowed us to harness the experiences of our ...
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A real customer advisory board

by Eric Ries, October 29, 2009 | Comments

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The technique of having customers produce a "state of the company" progress report

A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company” progress report. I consider this an advanced technique, and it is emphatically not for everyone.Many companies seek to involve customers directly in the creation of their products. This is a lot harder than it sounds. Hearing occasional input is ...

Be relentless; don't compromise; be thrifty

by Bambi Francisco, October 26, 2009 | Comments

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Foundation Capital's Charles Moldow offers advice to entrepreneurs

Before Charles Moldow became a general partner at Foundation Capital, he spent more than a decade as an entrepreneur. He wrote the original business plan for AtHome, a high-speed Internet access comapny, which eventually became ExciteAtHome. He also worked at TellMe, which was sold to Microsoft. Charles also led investments in roughly 10 startups, including Xoopit, Powerset, Weblistic and AdWhirl. ...

Home visits and ethnography

by Bryan McClain, October 20, 2009 | Comments

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Differences between self-report and behavioral research

It's important to make a distinction between these two different research methodologies and the kind of data you get from each. Home visits, which rely on self-report data, and ethnography, focusing on behavior data, are sometimes confused as being the same, but they actually provide different types of data and have different strengths. We've had clients engage with us requesting ...

Some complexities of VC seed investing

by Brad Feld, October 20, 2009 | Comments

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Should there be a difference between seed investment and "Series A investment?"

Mark Suster, a partner at GRP Partners, has an outstanding post up this morning titled VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding. Mark started blogging recently and has quickly turned into my second favorite VC blogger (after Fred Wilson) – if you don’t subscribe to his feed, you should. Mark just did his first seed deal, a ...

Innovation inside the box

by Eric Ries, October 19, 2009 | Comments

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The sandbox is an area of the product where certain rules are strictly enforced

I was recently privy to a product prioritization meeting in a relatively large company. It was fascinating. The team spent an hour trying to decide on a new pricing strategy for their main product line. One of the divisions, responsible for the company’s large accounts, was requesting data about a recent experiment that had been conducted by another division. They ...

Why advertising campaigns fail

by Pascal Bensoussan, October 14, 2009 | Comments (1)

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10 reasons why advertisements reach the wrong audience

In 2006, Greg Stuart, Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO, estimated that advertisers’ waste, that is, impressions reaching the wrong audience or none at all, was $112 billion a year in America and $220 billion worldwide, or just over half of their total spending. Wanamaker was remarkably accurate. In 2009, we have made little progress. A recent research from ComScore indicates that ...

The secret behind Like.com's revenue engine

by Bambi Francisco, October 14, 2009 | Comments (3)

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CEO Munjal Shah reveals the real strategy behind making money off of visual search

Like.com CEO and founder Munjal Shah was one of the presenters at The Funded and Vator’s Juice Pitcher event last week. Munjal’s presentation, which was a frank and detailed outline of Like’s strategy to generate revenue, was a nice complement to Mint CEO Aaron Patzer’s, another detailed summary of how Mint grew its company and what it cost. Like.com has ...

Increase your agency’s productivity

by Derek Gordon, October 12, 2009 | Comments

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Integrated “Cloud” applications and efficiency

Though Joni Mitchell’s famous song “Clouds” may lead you to conclude that the whole “cloud computing” phenomenon is just some airy concept (”I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now / from win and lose / and still somehow / it’s clouds illusions I recall / I really don’t know clouds at all”), the fact is, these time-saving, efficiency-enhancing technologies ...

Aaron Patzer lays bare Mint's numbers

by Matt Bowman, October 7, 2009 | Comments (4)

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At Juice Pitcher, Mint CEO gives behind-the-scenes look at Mint's internal growth strategy

Last night before a crowd of some couple hundred budding entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals in the entrepreneur community, Mint CEO Aaron Patzer presented a step-by-step narrative on how he built his company in three years to $170 million target for personal finance giant Intuit.In a moment of nonchalance, Patzer, who spoke at the Juice Pitcher event, hosted by TheFunded.com and ...

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