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Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 16, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
OCTOBER 23, 2012
OneBox.com — On $60m invested, sold for $850m 18 months after launch to J2 just before market crash — score! After I sold Smart Bear, that division has increased revenue and profit every year, for five years, even through the 2008/2009 economic disaster. Support.com — On 2.5m Surely not.
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Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Instead, each potential customer has to go through a self-serve process of signing up and paying money. Because they have no presence in the market, they have to find distribution channels to bring in customers. What’s the total available market? What’s the ROI on acquiring new customers?
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 9, 2009
Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a Expo (and a call for he.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 29, 2010
I believe it means were achieving product/market fit for a set of ideas. These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization. Sure, everyone knows that getting customer feedback is important. Congratulations.
Steve Blank
JULY 19, 2016
— Peter says they launched Prezi in the middle of the 2008 crash, with the audacious goal of taking on Apple, Microsoft and Google. Again, remember, everyone was losing their job, no one was willing to invest and so we had to bootstrap Prezi in the beginning. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 14, 2009
Take a look: This full-day Master Class focuses on how to build a startup from the ground up to focus on customers, markets, and speed of iteration. Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon.
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