Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Coming up with our business name, Stellar Villa, was quite a process. This allowed us to knock a few more names off the list.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. March 26, 2009 6:15 PM Will said.

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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. I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects.

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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. Notice that the unit of progress changes as we move from waterfall to agile to the lean startup. March 16, 2009 11:18 PM William Pietri said.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

“Lean” is great in the early days but if you discover an attractive market opportunity you need to get “fat” really quickly or somebody else will. It’s been high tide since 2009 so an entire batch of entrepreneurs don’t know what low tide even looks like. It is VC math, like it or not.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. 2009 – Back to The Future The bad news is that since the bubble most VC firms haven’t made a profit. So what’s left?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I liked the fact that you linked to the wikipedia page for a payphone — nice touch Reply Chris Ryland , on October 5, 2009 at 12:06 pm Said: Where did Ben Wegbreit fit in the Convergent picture? Reply steveblank , on October 5, 2009 at 2:08 pm Said: Chris, Ben was the founding VP of Engineering at Ardent.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers. He even remembered the names of their wives and kids and some details about schools or events. (I I couldn’t believe it, here we were wasting precious time and the dumb sales guy is talking about other stuff.)

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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. Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. August 28, 2009 1:15 PM Derek Scruggs said.

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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? Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

One major theory that has influenced the way I think about processes comes from Lean Manufacturing , where they use these same techniques to build cars. Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks. The numbers were in. Overwhelmingly.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. NVV: Lots of entrepreneurs reading this will think about the lean startup movement when they hear about pretotyping.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. The book takes its name from Steves theory of the four stages of growth any startup goes through. March 14, 2009 8:34 AM Can Sar said.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The “Good” Student » 14 Responses Shane Rogers , on April 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm Said: The names of ‘secret’ customers is funny. Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River. If not they were Up the River w/o a Paddle. Never in Gulag, only in exile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

But we were cutting corners in the development methodology as well as in the code, in the name of increased speed. I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. May 28, 2009 8:54 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

You may know it by its final name. Filed under: Customer Development , Marketing , SuperMac , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , SuperMac « Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions Gravity Will be Turned Off » 17 Responses EricS , on May 11, 2009 at 11:05 am Said: I loved my Spigot. It’s here to stay.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

This year, marketing need to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter. on April 10, 2009 at 6:58 am Said: Amazing blog. Thanks so much for sharing such stories. The Sharp End of the Stick?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Reply Bill Allred , on May 1, 2009 at 10:46 am Said: This is a really common pitfall. That’s 10x what many websites convert.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? It strokes your ego. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And 30 years later I was teaching in a building named after him and never knew a thing about him. Wall 85: Squint « 365 Wallpapers , on April 27, 2009 at 8:29 am Said: [.] This post makes a lot more sense if you look at the earlier posts as well as the video and slides. Play spooky music here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. Paul June 6, 2009 8:34 PM Nick Shepheard said. June 8, 2009 1:16 AM Colin said. June 8, 2009 6:11 AM Jason said.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

We should have slowed down just a tad to plan a few steps further out when naming things. Stay lean for as long as possible. Be creative, and stay lean. Staying lean early on will help you when you need to scale.”. “Bootstrapping can be fun, you get to iterate quickly, turn on dimes, invent new features on the fly.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

As a startup, you’re working with limited resources and a lean business model. Back in 2009, Cloudera placed news of its Distribution for Hadoop launch in tech blogs and reputable news sources , and reached 1.5 Now, the startup and its software solutions are both household names. Prioritize social networks.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 4, 2012

As the morning fog burns off the California coast, I am working with Steve Blank, preparing for the Lean LaunchPad Faculty Development Program we are running this August at U.C. million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. His name is Alex Lawrence. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S. Serendipity.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

When outsourcing, remember that lawyers are like VCs…it matters less who’s name is on the front door than who you work with. … Tom Eisenmann Furqan: Does outsourcing engineering work well when following a lean approach with lots of iterative learning? Again…another nobrainer unless you’re LegalZoom.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ). As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times. recession in 2009.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 16, 2009 What is Lean about the Lean Startup? The first step in a lean transformation is learning to tell the difference between value-added activities and waste. I was giving my first-ever webcast on the lean startup. Eric Names matter. Not so with Kent Beck.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Deliverable for Jan 18 th : Find a name for your team. Read : John Mullins & Randy Komisar, Getting to Plan B (2009) pages 133-156. Read: Business Model Generation , pp. 161-168 and 226-231. Four Steps to the Epiphany , pp. 30-42, 65-72 and 219-223. The Blue Ocean Strategy pages 3-22. What were your value proposition hypotheses?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Similarly, an e-commerce retailer believes they need the domain name, shopping cart solution, and inventory to start their business. Eric Ries, author of “The Lean Startup” says -.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-08-27 , on August 27, 2009 at 6:04 pm Said: [.] Thirty years later we now realize that its one the causes of early startup failure. …alan ps.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

Except at this VC conference, 100 or so of the 300 attendees had badges that had their first name and only the last initial of their last name. (And Martin , on March 23, 2009 at 5:10 pm Said: A beautiful example of consilience. Reply Christine , on July 23, 2009 at 11:51 am Said: and how, Mr. Martin.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Midas Oracle.ORG , on September 17, 2009 at 7:05 am Said: [.] Each step results in specific deliverables.

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