2008 Aggregator Bootstrapping Customer 
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. They are gaining valuable customer data.
ReadWriteStart
MARCH 17, 2011
He needs to bootstrap it to a certain level, and following the 1M/1M methodology would be a good start. Marcial proposes to use friends living in the United States to transport products on behalf of consumers in Costa Rica who are regular customers of products from the US e-commerce vendors. and each book costs $375 retail.
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Steve Blank
JULY 19, 2016
a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. — Peter says they launched Prezi in the middle of the 2008 crash, with the audacious goal of taking on Apple, Microsoft and Google. Jim offered this advice for entrepreneurs doing customer discovery: People want to be nice; people want you be successful.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2009
That’s because the model is based on assumptions about customers that are totally unproven. If we already knew who the customer was, how they would behave, how much they would pay, and how to reach them, this wouldn’t be a disruptive innovation. The solution is to change our focus from outputs to inputs. If it costs $0.10
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 18, 2010
Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. On the one hand, this is the ultimate in customer responsiveness.
www.subelsky.com
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
Im still able to surprise people who have worked with me for awhile with how quickly I can turn their feature ideas into something they can play with and show customers. For continuous integration, like many Rails shops, we use CruiseControl.rb - its easy to install and customize, but I dont think people are especially enamored of it.
Professor VC
SEPTEMBER 16, 2010
A check-in aggregation platform. However, liked the team, and Dennis Mink, FootFeeds CEO, convinced me of the value in check-ins as a white label service for brands to market to their customers. Bootstrapping 101. ► 2008. (14). FootFeed - The only Day 1 company on my list. ► July. (1). ► May. (1).
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