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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. It was a disaster.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. Ill give them the last word: You are already skeptical of Customer Development and Lean Startups and the slew of emerging buzzwords and supple-to-the-point-of-meaningless terms.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Would you modify any of this if you had a B2B product instead of a B2C product, where every potential customer is also a potential competitor? Reply Charlie Crystle , on April 8, 2010 at 12:31 pm Said: brilliant post.

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

The lean startup methodology is based on enlisting customers as allies, which requires honesty and integrity. The following was written an actual lean startup practitioner. It was originally posted anonymously to the Lean Startup Circle mailing list, and then further developed on the Lean Startup Wiki ’s Case Studies section.

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Why You Should Start Marketing the Day You Start Coding

Software By Rob

October 14th, 2010 | Micropreneurship , Startups Building your startup? If you go the lean way, you’ll have to create a MVP: A minimal viable product should not require coding at all. But I didn’t limit that comment to B2C software. Check out my book Like this post? Subscribe via RSS On Twitter?

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. The results were similar when he examined data for companies funded from 2000 to 2010, he says. At its peak, in 2010, Goodmail had roughly 40 employees. Consumer Services (B2C).

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

ConversionXL

Consider that NYT.com readers are on average 44 years old, have an average income of just under $75,000, over 50% are college educated, and over 25% work in some professional or managerial position – it makes sense that awe or anger inducing, opinionated articles perform the best on the left-leaning news site. image source.

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