Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. As a new start-up, increasing our efficiency serves two purposes; firstly in achieving our mission of being a sustainably centered company, but also in keeping costs low and keeping the business agile and lean.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 4, 2019

From around 2008 until 2015, as the internet gained users by the hundreds of millions, viral videos were all the rage. As these YouTubers showed what was possible, brands jumped in and tried to do the same thing, that is, create viral content and build communities of followers. This is so cool!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Then in 2008, he had a revelation from his experience on the Penn endowment board about how to democratize investing advice and “accidentally” founded a new company to do it. Andy and I will be having a fireside chat at this year’s Lean Startup Conference in October. He’s currently the CEO of the company. It's a horrible risk/reward.

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

The development community is a friendly one (for the most part) and you’ll often find many people eager to help you out. This works if your passion and business idea is not just by pure profits or trends, but by serving the community and the world in a greater way. But such a connection can be long-lasting and meaningful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Beyond the quality of the candidates themselves, Ive noticed three big effects of hiring out of free software communities: You can hire an expert in your own code base. Once youre part of the community, a big question is who to try and hire.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, January 2, 2010 Towards a new entrepreneurship When I started writing about the lean startup , my aspiration was to do more than just share a handful of tips and tricks that work for consumer internet startups. This belief led me to the lean startup, and to an amazing 2009.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. My aspiration with the Lean Startup methodology has always been to provide such a framework, so that we have more intelligent conversations about what works and what doesnt for startups.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Go direct and network your way to the people you need to meet or find them directly in the local community. … Tom Eisenmann Furqan: Does outsourcing engineering work well when following a lean approach with lots of iterative learning? Plenty of people are willing to help you for free.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail I had the privilege of volunteering for the Obama campaign in swing states for a few weekends during the final push towards victory. November 6, 2008 7:46 AM spanky said. November 6, 2008 9:55 AM Jim said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. These concepts have important implications for any lean startup. And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Its a key lean startup concept. Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort. Even as "just a user" you make the community better by adding momentum. Yeah, weve got that.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Scott Albro of Focus , a knowledge sharing community for business people, has fully embraced the idea of constant iteration for 2011, taking the best practices of social media to the business media world. Glenn Rogers of CarDomain , a community of auto enthusiasts, concurs: Traffic,traffic,traffic! Improve the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

42:07) On how the 2008 financial crisis prepared banks for the pandemic. (44:25) And half our clubs were in the state of California in 2008, so was a very interesting time to be a CEO and learned a lot. If you lean in and understand this is a brilliant time to play offense. Stanley McChrystal's Team of Teams. (29:34)

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2017

Putting theory into practice, he went to Iraq in 2008 as part of the 75th Ranger Regiment, in support of a Joint Special Operations Task Force. Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the Department of Defense, State Department, Intelligence Community or other government agencies.). In 2012, Rep.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? You can find the origins of many successful companies in these early lessons. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

You can still see these early manifestos thanks to the wayback machine: [link] [link] We did that not just out of principle but because it served a very specific purpose: giving early adopters in our community a reason to invest in our success and give us strong feedback. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 11, 2008 Three decisions to make on virtual goods I was invited to the Virtual Goods Summit yesterday, and got to see quite a few interesting speakers and panels. As the size of your community and economy grows, youll be able to solve them as they arise, as long as you know what to look for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program Over the past few months, I have been engaged in another customer discovery exercise with passionate early adopters of the lean startup methodology. So if youre a lean startup earlyvangelist, read on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. For a lean startup , this lack of discipline is anathema. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2012

After every quarter I delve into our customer service data to have a look at a few things: first (and foremost) are we effectively meeting out goal of providing world-class customer service to our community? Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely (2008). Hooked by Nir Eyal (2008). The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2011). The Lean Startup explores the scientific process of creating products and services your customers love—without spending months or years walking toward a dead end. – Dan Ariely. – Nir Eyal.

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Jeff Hilimire

MARCH 24, 2020

The first is to look back at the 2008 financial crisis, and the second is to literally look to the East, where the world seems be about a week and a half ahead of us on this virus. And then we can look back at the 2008 financial meltdown. Most likely you are old enough to remember what happened in 2008.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

In the five years since I published The Lean Startup , I've worked with organizations of varieties and sizes I never imagined would be interested in the ideas I wrote about in that book. Or that a company like GE, which was founded in 1892, is comparable to one like Airbnb, which was founded in 2008. I can't wait to see what happens.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. In our case, society, we call the 900,000 communities we operate in.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. She had this crazy idea that someone who had actually worked on the site, might provide value and insight to the community that we couldn’t give ourselves. Plus he likes Legos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. Even if you have a very large community, I dont think this number needs to be higher than 100.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2018

I’m a partner in his latest venture, the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) , the newest addition to his long history of reinvention work that spans industries ranging from football to banking. That’s what the Corporate Entrepreneur Community (CEC) is for. I hope you’ll enjoy the conversation as much as I did.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. Those things all got created in 2007, 2008. Andrew : Right.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. In our case, society, we call the 900,000 communities we operate in.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 18, 2012

— sound like its time for the Lean University. According to the report, funding dipped in the early years, rose until 2008, and then fell sharply as the recession hit. Good piece covering NSF’s new “ Science and Engineering Indicators ” and its data on the funding of research universities in the U.S.

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