Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the Web 2.0 Usually in a tech / software startup 70-80% of your costs will be people. Why do VC’s care about these years?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2010

If we use our “startup to large company,” diagram, we can see that sustaining innovations occur within a large company’s existing management structures. Just like a startup. The diagram for managing disruptive innovation in large company looks suspiciously like starting from square one as a startup. different processes.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 7, 2014

Someone just linked me to a Paul Graham essay from 2006 titled The hardest lessons for startups to learn. Startup founders are naturally optimistic. It’s for a more practical reason: to prevent them from leaning their company against something that’s going to fall over, taking them with it.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2014

This post follows directly on Steve’s earlier excellent post, Why Companies are not Startups. For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. First, let me recap a key insight for me from Steve’s post.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 28, 2011

I was most intrigued by a comment posted by Jason Fried of 37signals: For reference, here’s our original post on this very topic in June of 2006 when Basecamp was 2.5 Related posts: Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups. Today Basecamp is 7 years old. Signups are stronger than ever.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. It was humbling.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

While the word lean might conjure up notions of cheap, it’s really about taking a scientific approach to innovating, measuring and responding in ways that stop companies from wasting time and money. The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Five Quarters of Profitability During the 1980’s and through the mid 1990’s startups going public had to do something that most companies today never heard of – they had to show a track record of increasing revenue and consistent profitability. The world of building profitable startups as the primary goal of Venture Capital would end in 1995.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

Lean into your strengths, and don’t try to appeal to everyone. At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. Since its 2006 foundation, YETI has built over 90K LinkedIn followers and 125.7K Why should customers choose to do business with you? Everyone else?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The company began from my bedroom, back in 2006. Driveway rentals were taking off, and a few different startup companies were vying for the custom of Britain’s motorists. Attempting to grow before you’re ready is one of the top reasons behind startup failure. So many startups falter when the coffers dry up.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

For scientific researchers who want to commercialize their technology, doing a startup first pulls them out of their comfort zone. But then the Lean Startup’s scientific method of validating their business idea quickly has them feeling right at home. in Structural Engineering from Stanford University in 2006.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

Startup after Iron Planet? (6:00 Yes an online video startup in ‘99 that helped large media companies encode and distribute their videos through portals. Since 2006 they have added offices outside of Boston including Menlo Park, Europe, and China. What gets you interested in a startup? (16:35-19:35). 6:00 – 7:30).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

For scientific researchers who want to commercialize their technology, doing a startup first pulls them out of their comfort zone. But then the Lean Startup’s scientific method of validating their business idea quickly has them feeling right at home. in Structural Engineering from Stanford University in 2006.

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

See Also: Business Startup Checklist. The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) predicts that two-thirds of nurses in Canada will be working in the community by 2020, compared to 30 percent in 2006. Start with a lean plan if you’re eager to get up and running fast or if you’re simply interested in validating your idea.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2011

Creating Customer Bliss Accelerate Your Startup The Trend Towards Lean Startups Are You Making Evil Plans? You can listen to the show by subscribing the feed in iTunes or a variety of other free services such as Google Listen (Use this RSS feed ) or you can buy the Duct Tape Marketing iPhone app. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Advisor. ); STARTUP. By 2006, he was still only dabbling in the occasional work-for-equity deal. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Entrepreneur news from reporter Eric Markowitz. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Email address: Home. Tools & Research. Newsletters. Subscriptions. Writing A Business Plan. Naming a Business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2011

The Trend Towards Lean Startups How to Get an MBA for Less Than $20 Has Social Media Changed Customer Service? You can listen to the show by subscribing the feed in iTunes or a variety of other free services such as Google Listen (Use this RSS feed ) or you can buy the Duct Tape Marketing iPhone app. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. So many startups hope to benefit from that seismic trend. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders. What makes software engineers different in the startup world is that they have the requisite skills to hack together an idea on their own if they so choose.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 17, 2024

No, not 19 2006, not 1996, 2006. And then so it just happened that I would do this, but I never ever found just that startup bible that I needed. And then you have lean times and then the IRS loves you and they'll call you every day. Phil (01:40): Well, when I started, I had no clue. I remember back in 19 what?

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OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Innovating in New York City Last week I wrote about speaking at the NYC Lean Startup Meetup. One of my other key takeaways from this, which I've known for a while and have been meaning to blog about, is just how vibrant the tech startup community is here in New York. There are many more per square mile in New York.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2011

They take downtime seriously and given the volume of usage and the amount of time they have been running it (since 2006), it is not surprising that they would eventually have a major outage of some sort. Enterprises have data center downtime, and back in the day when startups had to build their own, so did they.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Brad Feld’s new book Startup Communities joins the two other “must reads,” ( Regional Advantage and Startup Nation ) and one “must view” ( The Secret History of Silicon Valley ) for anyone trying to understand the components of a regional cluster. These events are a good proxy for the health and depth of a startup community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 2006, Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Saenz Tobey founded Revolution Foods to help ensure quality food access for all children across the nation. Together, they founded Revolution Foods in 2006. I co-founded Revolution Foods with Kirsten Tobey in 2006 to ensure quality food access for all children across the nation.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

In walks Ren Ng , introduces himself and says something along the lines of “I hear you do startups, could we chat?” Having just sold my second company in August, I was already chomping at the bit to get involved with another startup. ” Ren, now Dr. Ren Ng, was a fellow PhD student with me at Stanford.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

No matter its size or age, every brewery was once a startup. Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

There hasn’t been such a full list of Israeli startups coming to Europe since Barcelona’s World Mobile Congress. The UK is Israel’s second largest export market following the US, but Israeli startups often ‘forget Europe’ when it comes to Internationalizing their product. Applicaster - Company Website.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

23 Tweetable Insights From "The Lean Startup" (5 days ago). How To Pick The Right Idea For Your Startup (3 weeks ago). From Nashville to Boston: How A Startup Accelerator Changed Our Lives (1 month ago). For A Startup (1 month ago). Questions about startups? Most Likely Reasons Startups Won’t Talk.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

When we launched Traindom, we knew nothing about lean startup methodology or customer development. I learned a ton about startup marketing, figuring out your target users, and the importance of getting the product right. I haven’t had a job since 2006. Execution is everything, and knowing what to do matters.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2016

One of the most difficult and time consuming decisions we had to make as a startup was to select a company name that would reflect our product and brand. As a small business startup back in 2008, we knew we needed a name that stood out, to differentiate ourselves. This name came from the first pair of red shoes I bought in 2006.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Andy and I will be having a fireside chat at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October. Probably the biggest change that I've noticed in the Valley is the transition from startups focusing on hardware, to startups built on software, and what that implies about the venture model as well. That was not the plan.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

He spent a few years working at the tech startup SpeedDate before following through with his original plan, after which Udemy went on to be enormously successful. Now, as CEO and founder of Carbon Health , Eren is leading one of the country's fastest growing healthcare startups. Then he realized that somebody was him.

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