Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. Nothing made any difference.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 29, 2010

Berkeley’s Haas Business School since the fall of 2004 and in a joint MBA with Columbia since 2005. Back in 2004, Jerry Engel the head of the Entreprenuership program at Haas Business School at U.C. While the Customer Development class was cutting edge theory in 2004, by 2009 the class was getting stale. Four Steps.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. Next Tuesday, October 22 at 10a PT, we’ll take a look at this advanced entrepreneurship question.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

You’d think that no one could recreate a product so sophisticated and advanced as space rockets, right? He was swiftly followed by Richard Branson and Virgin Galactic in 2004. With enough resources, products can always be copied. It’s tough to compete on product alone and you’re likely to see diminishing returns.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

In the very early days, the trick is to find anyone at all who can understand you when you are talking about your product. In our first year at IMVU, we thought we were building a 3D avatar chat product. As product people, we thought of competition in terms of features. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high-quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information,” “long descriptions,” and “reviews and ratings”: ( Image source ). Joann Peck and Suzanne B.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 4, 2021

Whilst teaching 16-18-year-old college students part-time, I had taken on a Flash website build in mid-2004 for a highly-reputed jewelry company in Bristol, UK, referred to me by a friend, and done a good job, other website opportunities started to come in. But I also leaned that is actually ok. Thanks to Mike Staines, HUB ! #8-

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2014

In 2004, Alexis Ohanian and Steve Huffman launched Reddit. I’m personally 70% management, 30% product […] If I feel a priori that the CEO can’t cut it I’m highly unlikely to invest. If you have good experience then the VC will be leaning forward for the rest of the presentation.”. Market Share and a Competitive Advantage.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

According to MDG Advertising , 67% of online shoppers rated high quality images as being “very important” to their purchase decision, which was slightly more than “product specific information”, “long descriptions”, and “reviews & ratings”: Joann Peck & Suzanne B. image source.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Products that require a high degree of behavior change are doomed to fail. What does it take to build products your customers love to use? What separates a wildly successful product from one that fails to gain traction? Covering everything from strategy to productivity, it’s a must-read. Mauborgne (2004).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 24, 2009 The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Image by Jessica_Mah via Flickr Last week I had the opportunity to lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at Haas, which is always a great learning experience - for me at least! Eric takes a different approach.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Last week, we hosted a webcast conversation, Lean Startup for Growing Companies , with Eric Ries, Wyatt Jenkins of Shutterstock, and Ari Gesher of Palantir. Wyatt and Ari will both be speaking at The Lean Startup Conference in December.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! What was your first thought when you read this title? I wrote a post about Facebook Like buttons some time ag.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 21, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! I wrote a post about Facebook Like buttons some time ag. 7 Characteristics of a Re. : The Complete Small Busine.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 24, 2021

It’s about achieving excellence: delivering maximum value and creating the best product possible based on the customer’s needs, responding to changes as the project progresses to achieve the final result envisioned by the client. Productivity may be a concern if you are working on multiple tasks simultaneously.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! The Trend Towards Lean Startups How to Get an MBA for Less Than $20 Has Social Media Changed Customer Service?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2011

In 1998, Google was the new kid in an established (if not quite mature) market for Internet search, and by 2004, it was by far the leading Internet search engine, handling almost 85% of the search requests on the web. Lean Marketing 101: Giving good interview, or how to get a reporter to eat from your hand. An energy bar?

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2011

SIMPLE, EFFECTIVE AND AFFORDABLE SMALL BUSINESS MARKETING Home About Consulting Products Programs Workshops Blog Resources Contact Subscribe by RSS Subscribe to Duct Tape Marketing by Email Small Business Week 2011 Our winners! Creating Customer Bliss Accelerate Your Startup The Trend Towards Lean Startups Are You Making Evil Plans?

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. Many of these now-trendy Micro-VC funds began as individual angel investors who gradually grew up and started small funds (myself included).

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 12, 2012

At the seed round, the two entrepreneurs (who are in their mid-20s and, like many young entrepereneurs today, wise beyond their years) had already both been successful serial entrepreneurs, had completed a customer discovery and development process with 20 application vendors and had built an alpha product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? In a mature company with a mature product, the goal is to pay for lots of people to come to your website. SEM is a simple idea. chatted once?

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 2, 2011

But the gap between product success and business success is a large one. There's an old saying in the venture capital business: "Fund great companies, not great products or great features." As a user, I have fallen in love with five apps and find myself using them almost daily. Instapaper.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And you know what – this was mostly in 2012 (+ Moneyball came out in 2004). Call your actual customers and learn how your product fits in their lives. Are you familiar with the Lean Startup methodology? It’s about an iterative process for building new companies, products, services. So this is the past.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 11, 2011

I started focusing on design as an actual professional service around 2004-2005, after a lot of practice and study. I use Adobe products almost exclusively, not because I think they’re the best, but because they get the job done, and I haven’t taken the time to learn new programs. Then I used one, and I shut up. Find your niche.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. Those that adopt this mentality will find new levels of productivity, and as a result, will deliver higher quality care at lower and lower prices.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Consumer Products. Paper & Forest Products. His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., Fabricated Metal Products.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 1, 2014

Similarly, Wang likes to tell visitors about middle-aged, empty-nest mothers in the Chinese countryside who’ve built their own businesses selling products from their homes. After Amazon acquired that site, called Joyo, in 2004, Wang went on to build a new e-commerce site, DHGate. Lean On Outsiders To Fill Your Gaps.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

But none of them matter if the product is harder to use, since most people simply won’t care enough or get enough benefit from long-term features if a shorter-term alternative is available. deprecated the old feature-complete product (ACS 3.4) before finishing the new product (ACS 4.x); During this year they.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. That resulted in a new process for Search: Customer Development + traditional product management/Waterfall Engineering. He called it the “Lean Startup.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Add onto that the incredible amounts of infrastructure code that we reused, and we were able to bring our product to market months earlier. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. These development platforms have contributed significantly to the popularity of the products from Apple and Microsoft. Eclipse has been emulating Visual Studio for years now. March 26, 2011 at 3:52 am.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That’s because these innovative startups are learning new things about their product and customers at a very fast pace and their strategies change more frequently. Simpler plans— Lean Plans that can fit on a single page —get updated more frequently and are more helpful to these companies because they can review their strategy at a glance.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). Perhaps the team is working on a product that really isnt that great or useful. Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Some startups are destined for failure. Forgoing Simplicity.

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Up and Running

MARCH 9, 2015

See Also Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. That’s because these innovative startups are learning new things about their product and customers at a very fast pace and their strategies change more frequently. I recommend starting with a lean plan. Department of Economics. University of Oregon.

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