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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. my startup is Blank Label (www.blank-label.com), which is a provider of custom dress shirts that empowers consumers to become the designer of their own product.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. That is customer development.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. talking about web based business) July 9, 2009 9:08 AM toivotuo said. Dear Eric, I'd like to invite you to speak at a European Web startups conference I'm organizing in October. Oh well ;).

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

It is a hangover of other days, of thin-skinned geeks who cannot still be heeded on the big, wide web. No other industry in America says that customers complaining are "trolls" -- it's only those with digital wears using these old geek memes that are so marginalizing and destructive. It is a stage that must be outgrown.

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