Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 11, 2011

The Lean Startup Machine looks a lot like reality television for startups. I have written previously about how powerful the these events are as a teaching tool for Lean Startup principles. Below you will find the final presentations of each of the Lean Startup Machine NYC teams, including SnappSchool, who was judged to be the winner.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Time will tell.

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Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 16, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Customer service strategies for small businesses and startups – [link]. Top 5 myths about the lean startup – [link]. – [link]. – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Lean Startup Bundle People often ask me if they can buy "Lean Startup in a box" from me. People want to get started with Lean Startup but arent exactly how. Its called the " The Lean Startup Bundle " and it is available this week only. Dont panic.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 500+ Free PSD Web UI Elements For Download – [link]. 8 Essential Web Typography Resources – [link]. 80 Newest Free Fonts For Web Graphic Designers – [link].

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The Next Web

JULY 5, 2015

For the uninitiated, the Lean Startup methodology is a practice for developing products and businesses based on ‘validated learning’, getting customer feedback quickly and often. The process was proposed by Eric Ries in 2011. This sounds… This story continues at The Next Web.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

We are huge believers in a lean approach to marketing and business and one of the precepts is small batch testing: stick with what works and get rid of what doesn’t. Make sure your user agreement and About Us pages are up-to-date and plan to work with your web developers to make sure everything is ship shape. Clean house.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong | The Atlantic - [link]. Show them WHY.

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 93

crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 12, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! crowdSPRING’s latest small biz newsletter: lean marketing, social media, crowdsourcing & more – [link]. How Can Web Design Affect A Website’s Bounce Rate?

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

Scott Albro of Focus , a knowledge sharing community for business people, has fully embraced the idea of constant iteration for 2011, taking the best practices of social media to the business media world. in 2011, I’d like to encourage a culture where this happens as much as possible. Improve the product.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 7, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Don’t Believe Your Own Press Releases – [link]. Print Design Tips for Web Designers – [link]. Context menu design on the Web – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 95

Up and Running

MARCH 27, 2014

Have you ever heard of the book The Lean Startup by Eric Ries? But I really believe that there are lessons in The Lean Startup for all businesses, big and small—including my own. Both of us believe wholeheartedly in the lean startup method for small businesses, and both of us have used it in our own businesses to great success.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. In the Lean Startup world, this is called customer development. But it is not routine.

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Metrics Analytics Lean Churn Rate 156

crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The global art market is believed to be about $61 billion (2011). According to a new report from The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF), “The number of art-market transactions in 2011 was 36.8 T]he consumer web has matured. T]he consumer web has matured. Lean Marketing: Five Cheap Ways To Market Your Startup.

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Small Business Marketing Startup Silicon Valley 110

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I spoke about how Amazon Web Services deserves far more credit for the last 5 years of innovation than it gets credit for and how I believe they spawned the micro-VC category. But when it’s all over and they define the era of this mini run up in stock prices I suspect they’ll include 2011 in the “over valued&# category.

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Saudi Arabia Valuation IPO Technical Review 309

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 10, 2012

2011 Winners: Coffee Joulies 1. I was working in manufacturing studying lean principals on the factory floor when I came up with the idea for Coffee Joulies and asked Dave if he would help me. We are still coming up with ways to improve our packaging that can keep the process lean but make an even better finished product.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Out of all the business books I’ve read in 2011, these are the best ones: The best business book of 2011. The Lean Startup by Eric Ries. The best quick read of 2011. The best social media book of 2011. The best service business book of 2011. Which books that came out in 2011 impressed you the most?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. The New Bubble : (2011 – 2014): Here we go again…. (If 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. Rules For the New Bubble: 2011 -2014.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. And the Lean LaunchPad class I developed at Stanford was the first such class. PB: How has your Lean LaunchPad course, ENGR 245, evolved? Worth a read.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

05 percent CTR on Facebook in 2011. Tech companies naturally lean and rely on technologists to create value for their firm; however, the market has a long history of ignoring technology in favor of products that understand people. Since this change in the OpenGraph, both products have seen their traffic decline.

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Technical Review Software Review Distribution San Francisco 150

genylabs.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

September 2011. August 2011. April 2011. March 2011. February 2011. January 2011. Wall Street Journal: With New Technology, Start-Ups Go Lean. CRM Magazine: 2011 CRM Market Leaders. The Franchise King Blog. The Global Small Business Blog. The National Dialogue on Entrepreneurship. Unleash It!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

The Lean Startup Book launches in just under a week. I chose Amazon Web Services to be our marquee reward, and not just for the obvious reason that so many of you are - right this very moment – already hosting on AWS EC2. You’ll get awesome video content, including the video Lean Startup course I created exclusively for Udemy.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 27, 2010

Why on earth would I use their product when I already use Google Analytics (99% of the web developers do too)? I am aware that KissMetrics is applying the lean startup principle that promotes to publish a minimum viable product and iterate based on feedback. Flickr Search Copyright © 2011. Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Inc. The 2011 Top Lists. Arizona Bay, after all, had built the IT infrastructure and Web applications that Jumpstart needed to hit it big. He prefers to work with companies that are building Web-based applications and have relatively low start-up costs. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave. Technology.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JUNE 24, 2010

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks Tags lean startup , social debt Lean startups, beware the social debt!

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 29, 2011

I am holding in my hand one of the very first print editions of The Lean Startup. And in just two weeks, on September 13, 2011 , it will be in bookstores everywhere. Over the weekend, The Lean Startup hit #1 on Barnes & Noble overall (it's still there as I'm writing this, wow).

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2010

I have: Im going to mark the occasion at SXSW Interactive in March, 2011. Im starting to experiment with new ways of talking about the Lean Startup movement and the impact you all are having on the practice of entrepreneurship across countries, industries, and even sizes of companies. It is called the Lean Startup.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 12, 2012

” Food on the Table — a now-famous lean juggernaut in Austin run by IMVU alum Manuel Rosso — talked to 120. Capital Factory 2011 alum GroupCharger talked to 50 before building and another 50 after that. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

KissMetrics is all about funnel conversion, which any web analytics tool already offers and having to add yet another script on your page isn’t justified by having pretty conversion graphs. MixPanel is about tracking events and cohorts in your web application (in real time). Flickr Search Copyright © 2011.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

KissMetrics is all about funnel conversion, which any web analytics tool already offers and having to add yet another script on your page isn’t justified by having pretty conversion graphs. MixPanel is about tracking events and cohorts in your web application (in real time). Flickr Search Copyright © 2011.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 20, 2011

Wibbitz provides web developers with a plug-in which automatically transforms static web content into an interactive video. The company was one of the five winners at Seedcamp Tel Aviv 2011 , an early-stage micro seed investment and mentoring programme. Israeli startup interview series by Startup Intelligence.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2012

If you’re not creating content on the web, you don’t exist on the web. You will market all over the web – but you should find a place where people can always find you. It didn’t start getting traction until mid-2011. Lean Marketing Tips: Blogging to Build Audience and Drive Traffic.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2021

We just finished the 11th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford — our first version focused on deep science and technology. The existing winter quarter of the class remains the same as we taught for the last 10 years – taking all students’ projects – e-commerce, social media, web, and mobile apps.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Clearly it'd be more accurate to say "sometime in Q1 2011." I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. " But the goal here isn't accuracy, it's motivation and focus. Maybe you could get v1.0 This should not deter you.

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Technical Review Technology Product CTO Hire 175

crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 17, 2011

When 2011 began, 64 percent of small businesses reported having a website, but that still left an astounding 36 percent of small businesses without a web presence. For example, if your small business is a restaurant, I recommend that you read Best Practices and Tips for Restaurant Web Design.

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