Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Below youll find the video of my remarks as well as the full slides embedded below. In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Without further ado, the video: Slides are below: Minimum Viable Product View more presentations from Eric Ries. Thanks Eric, great blog!

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

If I Launched a Startup - The Startup Lawyer , March 17, 2010 Great advice on initial steps of setting up a Startup. 9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. There are MANY of them. You might be surprised why this is the case.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Metrics – Mine is Bigger Than Yours The first thing SuperMac needed to do was to change how our potential color desktop publishing customers viewed our products versus our competitors’ products. As hokey as it is, when confronted with uncertainty or unknowns, human beings like to be reassured by comparative metrics.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Reply Charlie Crystle , on April 8, 2010 at 12:31 pm Said: brilliant post. All the best, Mark Reply Lisa Hjorten , on April 22, 2010 at 1:34 pm Said: Great post, it made me feel even more confident about my current approach which is 1. Did the VC’s like your team ? thanks for the reminder. Thanks and keep up the good work!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Deena , on July 19, 2010 at 8:27 pm Said: Mark – thanks for the awesome summary of the grey areas with customer development. steveblank , on September 7, 2010 at 11:00 pm Said: Mark, You’ve just listed the reasons why startups are not done by accountants with spreadsheets. It’s an art.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Our mystery keynote is now revealed and I couldnt be more excited.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 18, 2013

sources of information consulted in 2010 prior to buying something. Here, consumption metrics (eg downloads, views), advocacy and sharing metrics (shares, likes, retweets), lead-generation metrics (filling up an online form), and sales metrics come into play. In fact, shoppers in 2011 need 10.4

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Life Beyond Code

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

We want to improve on the metrics for the sake of improving on the metrics. Sometimes we forget to measure the amount of time we spend being obsessed with measuring the metrics. End of the year is a great time to stop, reflect and think about what are the metrics that really matter most to you. No registration required.

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Life Beyond Code

DECEMBER 26, 2010

We want to improve on the metrics for the sake of improving on the metrics. Sometimes we forget to measure the amount of time we spend being obsessed with measuring the metrics. End of the year is a great time to stop, reflect and think about what are the metrics that really matter most to you. No registration required.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, June 2, 2010 The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business Review) I continue my series for Harvard Business Review with the Lean Startup technique called Five Whys. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Eric -- I was very impressed by your two part video series, which rarely occurs these days. I have shared with multiple groups Part 2 [link] Very good work -- MM April 2, 2010 6:46 AM Gobala Krishnan said. April 6, 2010 8:23 AM Colie Brice said. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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MARCH 25, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, March 25, 2010 Speed up or slow down? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. We were constantly creating metrics to see the effects of different PR messages, channels and audiences on end-user purchases. steve Joshua , on January 5, 2010 at 3:19 pm Said: Fantastic entry, thanks very much Steve.

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. Ken Yagen (@kenyagen) KenAtYagenDotCom January 3, 2010 1:38 PM Paramendra Bhagat said. My first time at your blog. You are a great blogger.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5 We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. Warning sign? Say 40 years = 20 years real direct experience. At best. ~ Is 20 years enough? times the last whole business and credit cycle. Blog at WordPress.com.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 21, 2012

2011: Naked Business – How Honesty makes Money 2010: From Geek to Entrepreneur – Sifting through the B t I’ll be staying from the previous night to the last day, so if you come, be sure to find me and we’ll talk!

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MARCH 25, 2009

When we looked at the color graphics board market, our competitors had defined the market as one measured by technical metrics: screen resolution, number of bits of color, screen refresh rates, acceleration, etc. It didn’t take much imagination to realize that what we had to do was to tell our story around one key metric performance ?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

If you somehow missed SLLCONF 2010 , you can get caught up with a complete video recording here.) No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. Votizen’s David Binetti will show you a real pivot story, including the actual metrics that helped him realize it was time to change. And those are just our keynotes!

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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 All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv And then you can buy a t-shirt.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We’ve also consulted companies regarding national sales strategies by calibrating and customizing values and metrics to better suit the region and for their beliefs to bridge a goal that suits both the company and it is employees. TSM: What are the disruptive factors in your industry that make it so promising?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

If you watch the video/audio below, youll get to see some of the questions I was asked after my presentation. I did my best to capture video and audio; a YouTube playlist and Slideshare slidecast are below: Slides (with audio): 2009 08 19 The Lean Startup TechStars Edition View more presentations from Eric Ries.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Sunday, November 07, 2010. I love this video: everything you need to know about online advertising! ▼ 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. Happy New Year 2010! Cloudonomics and 2010 Planning for your SaaS and C. SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Cracking The Code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

I used to think that investments in metrics were a form of waste. Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product. The only reason we learned the art of metrics-based decision making at IMVU was out of necessity. that justify decisions already made. I think it was $350 the next, and so on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. For more, read on.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 15, 2010 Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review) The next part in the series I am writing for Harvard Business Review is online. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. Read the rest here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Departments were built and were even metrics-driven. But there was no feedback loop to help the company find the right metrics to focus on. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Great post!!!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Max Levchin of Slide and Paypal has noted that 10% of Slides headcount is devoted to metrics only.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. Last, Ive tried to keep this blog updated with events , slides , audio , video and books that are helpful as well. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23, 2010 in SF) Today we are opening up registration for the first ever Startup Lessons Learned Conference on April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Im incredibly excited. Im incredibly excited. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Leading up to a pivot, each cycle, despite our best efforts, the metrics werent good enough. Ajay January 24, 2010 6:15 AM Matthew Ogston said. February 9, 2010 3:16 PM Anonymoussaid. April 12, 2010 7:45 AM @hankzy said. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, It was painful.

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JULY 30, 2009

The notion of “Market Type&# is there so startups have a metric of when to spend marketing and sales dollars. In this case you spend every sales and marketing dollar you can get your hands on to take market share. Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Thank you very much for the video. ► 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 Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 7, 2010 Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Although much of it will sound familiar to readers of this blog, whats new is my first step towards the " new entrepreneurship " that is my goal for 2010. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! What to Expect in 2010: UX/UI Design Simplicity – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Want to change the world? 1gzv4hg.

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