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The lessons learned by successful startups

alexsavic — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 13:08:49 +0000

I recently came across Mixergy, a fantastic blog that focuses on startups and entrepreneurship. Mixergy’s founder, Andrew Warner, does a fantastic job in his video interviews with startup founders in getting to the real story behind the startup and asking all the right questions to get to the minute details of how these startups developed from nothing to large multi-million dollar companies. Andrew especially focuses his interview gusts on sharing the lessons learned during their growth phases, which can be a huge help to any of today’s up-and-coming startups, by inspiring them with these success stories as well as by highlighting some of the common mistakes that can be avoided by listening to others that have gone through them. Here are a few examples of these excellent interviews:

Interview with Gal Trifon, co-founder of MediaMind, one of the most innovative rich-media ad developers over the last ten years.

Interview with Mitchell Harper, co-founder of BigCommerce, one of the major Saas e-commerce platforms.

Interview with Pallav Nadhani, founder of FusionCharts, one of the pioneers of rich, interactive charting solutions.

Culture the ultimate competitive advantage

alexsavic — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:24:17 +0000

Ideas and technology can quite easily be copied, but the one thing that can allow a company to build out a sustainable competitive advantage is corporate culture. Zappos is clearly one of the leaders on the web when it comes to creating a customer centric culture and these three videos below give a good idea of how that works.

Practical info on building a software company

alexsavic — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:43:59 +0000

Here is a video by Vator.tv featuring Aaron Patzer talking about how he built Mint.com into a multi-million dollar business which he recently sold to Intuit for $ 170 million. Not only is his talk very insightful, but pretty funny too