Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
He’s a founder of Andreessen Horowitz, which has backed Facebook, Skype, Jawbone, and dozens of other companies whose products you use. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today. And the whole site was developed in just 9 weeks. Eric Ries will interview him.
Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. They never understood Market Type. Why does Market Type matter? End result?
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K9 Ventures
AUGUST 13, 2010
In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., SneakerLabs’ first product was a Java-based chat server and client. Since I had good connections with the University, we got a lot of feedback on how the product could be improved to meet their needs. Our products were iClass, then iMeet, iServe and iShow.).
Steve Blank
MARCH 26, 2014
innovating new products and services within an already scaled business model), the processes that companies have optimized for execution inevitably interfere with the search processes needed to discover a new business model. But Xerox instead chose to shut XTV down in 1996, despite its external success.
Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 8, 2010
Describing your product as “new and “never been done before” instead of “we’re just like those others guys, but better” could cost your company billions. Soon, RIM was focusing on making products for people on the move, using wireless communication and digital data. Underneath the hood RIM’s product was a technical tour de force.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. Like GroupOn, with a product that everyone agreed was brilliant, spawning 1,000 copy-cats. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). Support.com — On 2.5m
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