ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 13, 2010

They have fewer employees, which means there are typically fewer people focused on things like marketing, sales, and product development. When Occipital was in TechStars in 2008, they were faster than a speeding bullet. As a visual search company, they tried several products before having a runaway hit with RedLaser.

Angel Investor 121

Angel Investor Application Development Naming Product Development 121

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. Passionate online communities are real societies. It was absolutely worth it.

Advisory Board 151

Advisory Board Customer San Francisco Lean 151

ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Way back in 2008, an obscure SaaS company called Zuora started talking—loudly and endlessly—about the “ subscription economy. They just happen on sites like Quora, Reddit, and Stack Exchange—localized, industry-specific communities on forums and discussion sites. Create movement-first content to build credibility.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

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. It will be a lot easier for us to make improvements to our product when we have data-driven discussions and decisions.

Stealth 60

Stealth Startup Lean Cofounder 60

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

My background comes from owning my own photography business when I became an entrepreneur back in 2008. There’s an awful lot of passive income to be had through the sharing economy and it also made sense from a product development point of view to be using Fat Lama itself, so I listed my van on the site a few months back.

Entrepreneur 71

Entrepreneur Technical Review SEO New York City 71

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.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Continuous Deployment 113

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. Ive had the good fortune to see this first-hand. Submit patches.

Software Review 68

Software Review Software Hiring San Francisco 68

YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2019

by Lindsay Pedersen, author of “ Forging An Ironclad Brand: A Leader’s Guide “ In late 2008, Seattle’s adored Washington Mutual Bank (known locally and affectionately as WaMu) failed and was subsumed in a shotgun wedding with Chase Bank. And it’s not just product developers who risk a lack of empathy.

Seattle 113

Seattle Washington Green SEO 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc).

San Francisco 248

San Francisco Venture Capital Analytics Government 248

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.

Campaign 84

Campaign San Francisco Lean Agile 84

VC Cafe

MARCH 18, 2010

According to TechCrunch , it may very well be Paypal, who has been collaborating with Magento on product development since 2008. Similar to Wordpress, Magento has an active open source community, developing extensions and plugins for free. According to this SEC filing , Varien has raised $22.5

Los Angeles 84

Los Angeles SEC eCommerce Open Source 84

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The Startup Way is full of the stories of hard work we did together as these organizations changed not just their ways of working (in areas ranging from product development to internal processes like HR and legal) but their core cultures, to become more nimble and innovative. I can't wait to see what happens.

Lean 60

Lean Startup Government Leadership 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. Ive been blown away by the level of demand you all have expressed in having a forum for the whole community to come together and share what were learning. Details soon, I promise.

San Francisco 122

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 122

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.

PHP 166

PHP Software Review Ruby San Francisco 166

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. It got me thinking about what decisions are essential when building a virtual goods product. Hi, great post!

San Francisco 68

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. By creating a space for your startup community to congregate and share new ideas, youre enabling a new kind of economic growth. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs.

San Francisco 120

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Im open to being the coffee and snack technician :-) On another note, I live in Atlanta and believe that we have a strong enough start-up community that would greatly benefit from your lessons learned. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

Lean 60

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Software Review 60

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 6, 2014

As long as there are billions of people posting their daily happenings on Facebook, there will always be a market for something, but true community building has to be much more personal and tight knit than that. But, this message goes to heart of social media use for business in general.

Iowa 66

Iowa Social Network Social Media Viral 66

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The Embrace infant warmer was developed - by getting out of the country -- and how Rob Emrich learned and scaled his non-profit, Road of Life. BetaBrand building apparel MVPs and testing them quickly with targeted customer communities. A nascent community has blossomed into a full-fledged movement.

Lean 167

Lean Entrepreneur Agile San Francisco 167

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes.

DC 90

DC Washington San Francisco SBIR 90

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them.

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Congratulations! Check out my book Like this post?

Software Review 42

Software Review Software Product Salary 42

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.

.Net 158

.Net Operations San Francisco Lean 158

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. Labels: hiring , lean startup 4comments: Tamar said. This post has been removed by the author. January 21, 2009 6:39 AM Kevin Merritt said. Another terrific post, Eric. Keep them coming. January 21, 2009 1:19 PM Jon Bischke said.

Lean 140

Lean Hiring San Francisco Continuous Deployment 140

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco DC Continuous Deployment Lean 84

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. 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. My blog has over 14000 subscribers, for example. Is that a lot?

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution 113

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. MUDs made the essential truth about software into a powerful metaphor: that code is magic, giving those who wield it the ability to create new forms of value literally out of thin air. Expo (and a call for he.

Programming 143

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 143

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. But she needs to drop her tendency to "expand."

Bootstrapping 114

Bootstrapping Marketing Angel Investor Silicon Valley 114

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. Combining agile development with customer developm.

Employee 146

Employee San Francisco Lean Software Review 146

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? I would recommend periodic surveys, along with some kind of forum or other community tool where the most passionate customers can congregate. November 19, 2008 1:48 PM Will Pate said. November 19, 2008 5:57 PM McElroy Flavelle said.

San Francisco 60

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 60

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I firmly believe that in this age where the product development life-cycle is so short and user feedback comes so quickly, you will know within a year whether you are focusing on a worthwhile one thing. Before there was Fab there was fabulis, a social network meets places guide targeted to the gay community.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We'll have IDCEE conf on October 28-29, [link] If you could come any other day we'll organize small event at #kievstartup community. Summit wrap-up International tour about to begin The cardinal sin of community management Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL) What would you want to tell Washington DC about st.

San Francisco 84

San Francisco DC Finland Washington 84

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Summit wrap-up International tour about to begin The cardinal sin of community management Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL) What would you want to tell Washington DC about st. Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0

San Francisco 103

San Francisco Lean DC Continuous Deployment 103

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Summit wrap-up International tour about to begin The cardinal sin of community management Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL) What would you want to tell Washington DC about st. Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0

San Francisco 104

San Francisco DC Continuous Deployment Lean 104

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The scene is the siren song of the innovation community. Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. The scene will kill you. The Proof Is In The Revenue.

Technical Review 175

Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. In between sessions, this cohort of companies would have the opportunity to act as a learning community, sharing what theyve learned and supporting one another as they try to put the techniques into practice.

Lean 102

Lean Programming San Francisco Continuous Deployment 102