Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. Good stuff.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

"  The beauty of having the option to select from "standard" options is that WSGR has included some market data , e.g. what percent of term sheets in up rounds in 2008 included this term. So I think this is a brilliant step toward " open source law " which I've been advocating for a while. 

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 8, 2020

The Icelandic krona suffered a similar fate after that country’s financial collapse in 2008. For decades, central banks have reacted to economic threats by printing money and lowering interest rates, slowly creating a massive debt bubble that eventually caused the 2008-9 crisis. Bitcoin’s benefits to Ethereum.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&# Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

In that same spirit, here are some suggestions for tactics you can use to increase the leverage of your product development efforts: Free and open source software (and even hardware ). When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Nuospace – On demand collaboration software that provides online document management, allows you to edit pages in your browser, and offers tools to engage your colleagues. RightNow – RightNow is an on-demand customer relationship management program that integrates sales, service, marketing, feedback and voice functions.

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blog.stackoverflow.com

APRIL 20, 2010

This leads to challenges for us, but fortunately we have an excellent dialog with Andrew Arnott , the primary author of the open source DotNetOpenAuth library we use. There are certainly challenges, and although I am open to alternative login mechanisms, particularly for Stack Exchange , I’m still bullish on OpenID.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998. Like all bubbles, this was a game of musical chairs, where the last one standing looked dumb and everyone else got absurdly rich.

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

And just as Groupon unleashed a frenzy of daily deal sites after its launch in 2008, Birchbox helped make 2011 a year filled with new subscription services for just about everything. Open Source Lists. Want monthly shipments of staple items like toothpaste ? NYC Rises In the Tech Scene. Identity Lists. iPhone Resource Lists.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Soon they had grown into a shared space in San Francisco, and finally zozi got its own office space in August 2008. Goldberg says the challenge with getting office space for a startup is that quality small office spaces (less than 3,500 square feet) are in high demand, and there’s a very low supply.

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Startup Company Lawyer

MARCH 14, 2010

After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source&# equity seed financing documents: TechStars Model Seed Funding Documents (by Cooley). The Y Combinator documents were released in August 2008. Investor pressure.

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om.co

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

called The Rise of a Insta-Company, which theorized that open source, cheap bandwidth and increasingly falling cost of infrastructure would result in companies being built at a dramatically lower cost than ever before. I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

We used the Y Combinator open source term sheet. They were grateful for the extra money as their launch was overwhelmingly successful and they had to rapidly hire staff to support customer demand. If you’re doing well you’ll have demand. We offered them more : $750k-1 million. We took the $500k.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Scalable Startup

MAY 16, 2015

While the global financial crash of 2008 and the resulting Great Recession initially slowed job growth in Silicon Valley, the meteoric rise of smart phones and social media helped the tech industry as a whole to power ahead despite the near collapse of the global economy. A Variation on the Global Economic Crash of 2008?

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Many people are in a transition and career consultants will always be in demand to help people find the next best thing. There are self-hosted open-source e-commerce services available that allow you to use your own uniquely branded website with their e-commerce functionality. Career consulting. Communications consulting.

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