Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. January 2, 2009 8:54 AM mancjew said.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Source: Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation (in constant 2009 $’s) We’ll Do Great in the Next War Early in 1950, just months before the outbreak of the Korean War the Office of Naval Research asked Fred Terman to build an Applied electronics program for electronic warfare. military to rearm and mobilize.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product. How likely will customers ultimately use that feature? Remember Hamlet?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 6, 2009 A large batch of videos, slides, and audio Ive been trying very hard to avoid turning this blog into a travelogue. pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. It was priced at $22,000 – equivalent to about $140,000 in 2009 dollars. Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. However, no markets last forever.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2016

Sometimes a great advisory board can be just as useful. A well-diversified advisory board, willing to answer phone calls and have discussions on regular basis are also priceless help, that I have been fortunate enough to take advantage of. The answer isn’t always VC’s or angels. Starting a business is a tough decision.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). It might also involve buying pay-per-click ads to see how easy it is to gain potential customers.

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Tim Keane

JANUARY 14, 2009

Now Is The Time for Entrepreneurs » January 14, 2009. One big example of this is boards of advisers, a real important concept for almost every entrepreneurial business.    I am constantly impressed by the high quality of members of advisory boards on opportunities I get to see.  If Not Now, When?

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Check out my list of featured essays Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps View Comments Answer this question honestly… When’s the last time you spoke to your target customer? It’s a good idea to balance out the data aspects, particularly if you are not your target customer. @AndrewChen New here?

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

North says: June 9, 2009 at 8:50 pm Thanks for this whole blog its the best I have found. Thanks North says: June 9, 2009 at 3:50 pm Thanks for this whole blog its the best I have found. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. for practices that will protect and enhance both them and the startup company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 5, 2009 The curse of prevention Beware! It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. One way to evaluate this fear is to spend time on analysis: how many customers will be affected? How upset will those customers be?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 11, 2009 Innovation inside the box I was recently privy to a product prioritization meeting in a relatively large company. Many custom reports had been created for this meeting, and the data warehouse team was in the meeting, too. It was fascinating. Everyone understands the results.

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venturehacks.com

MARCH 21, 2008

For example, they introduce the company to a key customer or investor. Normal advisors are also assembled by naive entrepreneurs who think the mere presence of an advisory board will create social proof and help them raise money. But investors don’t take these mock advisory boards seriously.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

Is the customer intent contained in the keywords telling you how to change / improve the page? Some very effective SEO strategies like allowing users to add reviews and comments and extend the scope of the page do not work as well with b2b as it is a differ net type of engagement and experience with your customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, October 23, 2009 Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum viable product How much work should you do on a new product before involving customers? But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one.

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Mike Michalowicz

JANUARY 18, 2016

In the year 2000 in Canada he started D&D Leasing to service the entrepreneurial segment of the SME field and expanded into the UK in 2009 when he opened D&D Leasing UK Ltd. His past board experience has includes a nine year period as an Advisory Board Member for Liberty International Church. Show Links.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

I have contacted my customer service/community management team and prepped them with information about the new feature and asked them to get back to me if we start to see any significant new support requests. I have embedded a short survey or feedback link into the page and will gather qualitative data from my users that way.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It’s not about you, it’s about your customers. At Fab we have been focused from day 1 on making our customers smile. Passion for building a business is not enough; there needs to be passion for your customer and solving your customer’s problem.?. Your customer is growing up on social media. Provide feedback.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Now the question: There are many ways to allocate the cost of acquisition of a customer across multiple channels – no one prospect or lead really just watches one webinar, but rather sees a website, reads a white paper, visits your community, etc… I have a couple methods, but what have you seen that works for you to figure out how to split (..)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich I have a new guest post on GigaOm today, called Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich. Three reasons: change the world, make customers’ lives better and create an organization of lasting value. But only startups combine all three.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

7 Startup Customer Discovery Questions. When you are dealing with literally hundreds of products it gets pretty hard for customers to find what they are looking for. It’s easier to do branding and since nobody knows about you at the start anyway, it’s better to have only one thing for customers to remember instead of 2.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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