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How entrepreneurs benefit from ‘Alien Thinking’

Entrepreneurs' Organization

But the alien metaphor serves as a neat acronym for the five dimensions of our ALIEN thinking framework: A for Attention. Current innovation frameworks–think lean startup or design sprint–emphasize speed and action over reflection and strategic breaks. L for Levitation (meaning reflection). I for Imagination.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

“There was no real framework for a $15 million fund at the time so I had to make one up … it was really sort of an experiment … I invested across Funds I & II in 90 companies” Jeff then raised $55 million in 2010 and $85 million in 2014.

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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business

TechCrunch

From 2010 to today, the number of GitHub users has exploded from 500,000 to 103 million. Take PostCSS, a widely popular CSS framework built by Andrey Sitnik. New products like Meilisearch and Supabase are gaining traction exponentially faster than the legends of COSS like MongoDB, which were founded much earlier.

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Growth hacking is really just growth testing

TechCrunch

Who knew that “growth hacking,” a term coined in 2010 by Sean Ellis, the first marketer at Dropbox, would become so commonplace in 2022? At the heart of growth hacking are growth marketers who use stringent experimentation frameworks to run countless A/B tests to achieve rapid growth. More posts by this contributor.

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My big jump: Sukhinder Singh Cassidy’s CEO journey

TechCrunch

In early 2010, almost a year after I left Google, I finally found the right opportunity and decided to join fashion technology startup Polyvore as its full-time CEO. After managing a multibillion-dollar profit and loss and leading a 2,000-person team at Google, I became the newly minted CEO of a 10-person fashion startup in February 2010.

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How Biotech Startup Funding Will Change in the Next 10 Years

Y Combinator

It plummeted because new infrastructure was created: a combination of open source software, modern web frameworks, SaaS developer tools, cloud hosting, and better distribution channels. Actually, this trend started with top VCs earlier, basically for the reasons Ben Horowitz wrote about in 2010.

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Project Octane: Hustle & Heart

Entrepreneurs' Organization

ME/ “When we started out in 2010, we were the definition of bootstrapping entrepreneurs. Our shared commitment to unapologetically innovate formed the framework for our business. Before long, another baby was born— Pronexia.”. We sought to change the mindset of modern recruitment. That became the backbone of our business model.”.

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