Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

> Uber's " Reality Therapy 4 Startups": What U Need 2 Know NOW > Steve Blank on why NOT to be an Entrepreneur > Airbnb's Globetrotting Lessons: Building 4 a Global Market > Vinod Khosla - The VC Legend: Interview w/ Dave McClure > Eric Ries on Entrepreneurship: What He's Learned Along the Way > GitHub's Secret 2 Success: Rethinking (..)

Lean 165

Lean Cofounder Startup Software Engineering 165

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. Both of those are forms of experimentation.

Continuous Deployment 162

Continuous Deployment Norway Lean Analytics 162

Occam's Razor

APRIL 15, 2019

Bubble Kings most commonly reside in organizations where there is little to no accountability (or misplaced accountability, ex: celebration of vanity metrics). They bring up that one time in 2013 when your analysis missed an important assumption. Archetype #2: The Attacker. Archetype #2: How they react: They attack.

Leadership 79

Leadership Non-Compete Analytics Software Review 79

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I’m also not suggesting that we should apply Facebook’s revenue/user as a “conceivable” revenue metric to every mobile messaging service… most will never monetize at anywhere near that high a level. That’s no longer the case… estimates range from $3-5+ billion for YouTube’s ad revenue in 2013.

Valuation 159

Valuation Acquisition Mobile Revenue 159

Agile VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

I’m also not suggesting that we should apply Facebook’s revenue/user as a “conceivable” revenue metric to every mobile messaging service… most will never monetize at anywhere near that high a level. That’s no longer the case… estimates range from $3-5+ billion for YouTube’s ad revenue in 2013.

Valuation 127

Valuation Acquisition Mobile Revenue 127

Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 23, 2019

We’ve turned improving company metrics into a game. After my mother in law passed in 2013 without any life insurance, we started our final expense agency to protect other families. Entrepreneurship makes you agile, able to view the world more clearly and truly live it to its fullest potential. Photo Credit: Dave Carmany.

Entrepreneur 69

Entrepreneur Employee Community LLC 69

YoungUpstarts

MAY 30, 2019

In 2013, I left a CTO job overseeing a 50-person product engineering team for the same job at a four-person startup. Upon arrival, I incorporated a few elements from my previous stop into this new endeavor, including a battle-tested Agile Scrum process and the corresponding technology.

Management 138

Management Product SCRUM Early Stage 138