Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. university in math or science&# (Thomas Friedman). Crazy, huh?

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MARCH 17, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 17, 2009 Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free Im honored to announce that my Lean Startup session at the Web 2.0 Thanks Hazem March 18, 2009 6:34 PM Anonymoussaid. March 19, 2009 6:11 PM Anonymoussaid. March 19, 2009 6:11 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. 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. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help) Ive been asked to speak this year at the Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. Expo SF (May. .

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

He would go on to be a co-founder of two mechanical engineering software companies.) Reply steveblank , on October 19, 2009 at 8:22 am Said: Quick fixed. Reply steveblank , on October 19, 2009 at 2:27 pm Said: [link] Jose Diaz-Gonzalez , on October 19, 2009 at 11:25 am Said: I wholeheartedly agree with your advice.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Posted on December 7, 2009 by steveblank In my 21 years of startups, I had my ideas “stolen” twice. Disbelief, Anger, Resignation and Acceptance My cofounders and I went through the stages of disbelief, anger, resignation and acceptance. Steve Blank -- Topsy.com , on December 7, 2009 at 6:06 am Said: [.]

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. But startups can shoot themselves in the foot when founders use consultants at the wrong time or in the wrong way.

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Altgate

JUNE 7, 2009

  I've been wondering how the previous list of entrepreneur bloggers I posted maps to Twitter so I redid the list (order is now by Twitter followers which is the number in parentheses).    80% of the bloggers on the list are on Twitter.    I suspect there's a "sunk cost" argument driving this. 

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

She is also the co-founder, co-owner and CEO of MFE Interactive in addition to being the co-owner and SVP of Marketing for Speedy Incorporation. Tip: click on your competitors’ listings to see additional sites their reviews are coming from.) Note: There have been some updates since I published th.

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Up and Running

MAY 10, 2017

In the summer of 2009, my wife and I caught the entrepreneurial bug and started a company without any prior business experience. I discovered this firsthand when I contracted a software developer to build a system for the English teaching company that allowed classes to be purchased and scheduled via web application.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

April 27, 2009 8:59 AM Anonymoussaid. July 15, 2009 11:18 PM markmontgomery said. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May. .

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Reply Bill Allred , on May 1, 2009 at 10:46 am Said: This is a really common pitfall.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. February 21, 2009 12:10 AM Harold Fowler said. February 21, 2009 7:39 AM Rocky1138 said. February 21, 2009 12:26 PM Anonymoussaid. February 21, 2009 3:08 PM SCC said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. I say this as a founder: the contribution of founders is always overestimated. The danger here is that new founders, looking at existing founders, will think that theyre supermen that one couldnt possibly equal oneself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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View from Seed

APRIL 21, 2015

On the heels of our research on HBS entrepreneurs , NextView’s Dimitri Dadiomov (HBS ’15) interviewed several top founders on the early stages of their companies. Matt Prince , Co-Founder and CEO, CloudFlare (Web performance and security to protect and accelerate websites; $72.1

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JULY 28, 2010

the version that would facilitate the investment of real money) was planned for late-2009. Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive. the version that would facilitate the investment of real money) was planned for late-2009. The result? The response was surprisingly positive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief. Most people cant sustain more than a few of these iterations, and the founders rarely get to be involved in the later tries. March 14, 2009 8:34 AM Can Sar said. April 11, 2009 1:22 AM CeeTee said. The root of that mistake is premature execution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. But all things are never equal. (Of

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" Was it an important or irrelevant fact that most of our web code was procedural and not object-oriented? January 18, 2009 8:22 AM Dan Khan said. Cheers, -Dan January 18, 2009 9:04 PM Ivo said. January 20, 2009 1:12 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. February 7, 2009 5:40 AM Major_Grooves said. May 6, 2009 3:03 PM Ivan Acosta-Rubio said. June 22, 2009 6:30 AM Anonymoussaid. June 28, 2009 2:51 PM beorn said. What a great post.

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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. March 16, 2009 11:18 PM William Pietri said. March 17, 2009 9:21 AM Eric said. March 17, 2009 9:39 AM Mike Tobias said. Just a thought.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, February 22, 2009 Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Of course, what I really mean is: let them teach themselves. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. February 22, 2009 5:54 PM CapnCleaver said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. Ive been there: is it me or my cofounder thats crazy? As usual, Id like to post the slides and then offer some additional commentary. Iterating at whiteboard !=

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, May 31, 2010 Thank you The past month has been an incredible roller coaster: #sllconf was a trending topic (briefly topping Justin Bieber before the wifi in the hotel gave out), the Web 2.0 There are so many more people to thank: Sarah Milstein and the Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 6, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund slides and video As a follow-up to my previous post on my talk for fbFund at Facebook , there was enough interest in watching video of the talk that I have finally uploaded it using Apples MobileMe. July 6, 2009 4:21 PM Anonymoussaid. July 6, 2009 8:43 PM Eric said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Building a new startup hub Last week, I had a unique opportunity to spend some time in Boulder at the behest of TechStars. August 28, 2009 1:15 PM Derek Scruggs said. More recently it's skewed to software & web. August 29, 2009 8:54 AM Ben Casnocha said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

We talk about taking advantages of the incredible agility offered by modern web architecture for extremely rapid deployment, etc. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post. More often This logic can be extrapolated to the web world to mean: more users, visiting your site more often, for longer amounts of time to maximize advertising exposure. Buy a higher quantity 2.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? June 15, 2009 7:41 AM William Pietri said. June 15, 2009 8:24 AM Stevesaid. Thanks, Steve June 15, 2009 9:15 AM Bonifer said. June 15, 2009 12:21 PM Damon Edwards said. June 15, 2009 8:20 PM Anonymoussaid. Very well stated!

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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. Very much appreciate the suggested solutions (Five Why's, split testing etc) July 29, 2009 6:24 AM Kevin Gadd said. July 29, 2009 6:57 AM Heiner Wolf said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Were trying to put some of these "its the system, stupid" ideas into practice on NileGuide (www.nileguide.com) April 28, 2009 9:19 PM Jake Faris said. September 3, 2009 12:25 PM Omar Ead said. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Some of my favorites: Ash Maurya (whose Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup was one of my favorite posts of 2009), Brant Cooper , CindyAlvarez , Laura Klein , Kevin Dewalt , Giff Constable - and I must be missing many more. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Have a favorite who I overlooked? Please share in a comment.

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JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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