www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. On average, the founders who keep the most control over their company make the least amount of money.

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. Said McClure,”We worship at the altar of ‘ lean ‘ a little too much when really we should just be running our businesses. Not one to mince words, Apple cofounder Steve Jobs was a stickler for focus. You know what’s cool?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

In early 2012, Pinterest became an overnight sensation and is now a major source of traffic for women-focused sites. If anyone tells you products sell themselves, they probably want you to fail”, said Phil Libin , co-founder and CEO of Evernote. Channel instability. Product-growth fit.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. How do I find good technical co-founders? 13 Entrepreneur Blogs that Educate, Enlighten and Inspire | Mavenlink Blog – [link]. .” Phenomenal Reddit AMA … I’m Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation – [link].

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 27, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. Marc Andreessen hardly needs introduction, but we're pleased to introduce him anyway--as a keynote speaker for The Lean Startup Conference on December 3, 2012 in San Francisco. Or of Opsware. Or of Ning.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. The business model is innovative and unique, and the business itself serves as a fantastic “how to” example for entrepreneurs looking to start a social, mission-driven business. ” Maternova also reaches out directly to entrepreneurs who are developing these products.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

The two guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show tell it like it really is to navigate the chaos of a startup. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. He founded Mouth in 2012.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Fatherpreneurship: How to be a Successful Father and Entrepreneur - [link]. Avoid the 50/50 co-founder model – here’s why – [link]. Lean Marketing: How to Run Your Marketing Team Like a Startup – [link]. 8 Core Beliefs of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs – [link]. Want to get a job at a startup?

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David Teten

APRIL 15, 2012

I hope you’ll join me at the 2nd Annual Entrepreneur and Investor Summit , sponsored by NYU Stern’s Entrepreneurs Exchange Club. Keynotes include: Dan Porter, CEO and Founder of OMGPOP. Mike Brown, General Partner and Founder of AOL Ventures. Kevin Nazemi, Founder of Done. Build Something-NYU EEX.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. John recently co-founded P360, a business that produces animated training content for the military, and he works for BMNT Partners.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Conference 2012. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced).

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

Before diving in completely in the beginning of February, 2012, I'd had a handful of false starts learning to program dating all the way back to high school. Find a technical co-founder. While you shouldn't run to them whenever you get stuck, it will be helpful to have a friend to lean on during the most difficult times.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 14, 2018

The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #5: The soul of entrepreneurs?—?you you change the world As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. It is the entrepreneurs that are singing their heart out, playing the instruments, et cetera. On Sushi and VC. We’re in the first bucket.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. “Empower Your Small Business”, crowdSPRING’s smallbiz newsletter: content marketing, lean biz, more – [link]. 8 Startup Founders Reveal Their #1 User Acquisition Tactic | Treehouse - [link]. – [link].

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries' book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. So instead, I am picking a few companies with less well known stories that may resonate with today’s entrepreneurs.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

After years of the San Francisco Bay Area dominating the tech start-up scene, with huge smashes such as Facebook, Google and Twitter, entrepreneurs are finding they can go elsewhere to grow and prosper. It takes awhile for the financial people to catch up with the entrepreneurs." © 2012 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Why do I do it?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2013

Guest post by Ben Yoskovitz, the co-author of Lean Analytics , a new book on how to use analytics successfully in your business. Ben is currently VP Product at GoInstant, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2012. We know entrepreneurs are delusional. Lean Startup pokes a hole in our reality distortion field.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. I’m a deeply emotional person.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

September 19, 2012, 9:32 p.m. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. Failure often is harder on entrepreneurs who lose money that theyve borrowed on credit cards or from friends and relatives than it is on those who raised venture capital. SMALL BUSINESS. Stock Quotes.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2015

Like many entrepreneurs, the founders of Crosscut quit their well-paid jobs in the belief that LA’s moment was about to arrive and they spent years on low (sometimes no) salaries to prove it. And some of the people in venture who have had the longest ringside seat to our ecosystem are the founders of Crosscut Capital.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Entrepreneur Joe Pulizzi has a long track record of making a difference in the world of content marketing, from founding the Content Marketing Institute to writing four books on the subject, his is a leading voice in the conversation on content marketing strategy for businesses. The first is to cause to lean, incline, slope, or slant.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Capital Factory is fortunate to have many co-founders and some that even joined a few years in. In 2012, when we opened up the coworking space Bill Boebel and Gordon became co-founders and helped establish the model that we have in place today. and some tough times where we had to lean on each other, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My advice to entrepreneurs was and is “ when the hors d’oeuvres tray is being passed take two ” (e.g. So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. What does this mean if you’re an entrepreneur? raise money now to weather any storms).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. Experienced entrepreneurs kept finding that no business plan survived first contact with customers. He called it the “Lean Startup.”. Now you too can take this course.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Aaron Skonnard is the CEO and co-founder of Pluralsight , an online training resource for Web developers and IT professionals. Let’s look at five advantages code-savvy founders and CEOs bring to their investors and businesses: 1. Design & Dev Entrepreneur Analysis and Opinion' Navigating the tech landscape.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

How To Choose A Co-Founder – [link]. Paths to $5M for a startup founder – [link]. Why Tech Entrepreneurs in Developing Countries Struggle to Raise Funds – [link]. 3 things entrepreneurs need to know about patent law reform – [link]. Raising funding as a first-time founder – [link].

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. In September of 2012, Zapier closed our seed investment round of $1.2MM. In May of 2012, I had no idea where to start when it came to raising money for a company or if I even wanted to raise money. Launch a solution.

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The Next Web

MARCH 3, 2014

Gili Golander is a co-founder and CMO at Bazaart. We chose to integrate our product closely with Pinterest, which was the talk of the town in the summer of 2012, and allow our users to do more with their carefully curated photos. My co-founders told me their dream is to get covered on this large tech blog.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. ” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Lean Methodology Sources.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

On November 28, 2012. Essentially, we got here by entrepreneurs having too much of a good thing. And because capital requirements are lower, entrepreneurs are holding onto more ownership, making it a lot easier to flip your company for less than, say, $30 million and become very rich. PandoDigest. Share on Twitter.

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