Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

This post co-written by Sarah Milstein and Eric Ries, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. Our goal in hosting The Lean Startup Conference —which starts in just over two weeks—is to help entrepreneurs learn absolutely useful things from each other. We believe most conference hosts aim to create a great atmosphere for learning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin started Bitwise in 2013 with the idea that the technology industry could be used to fix a city--in their case, Fresno, CA. Our fundamental thesis is that people of color, women, communities of concentrated poverty, have immense talent to contribute to the technology industry," Jake explained to me. "In

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APRIL 12, 2013

Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. Chobani Founder: Why Quality & Community Are The Keys To Brand Success | PSFK – [link]. Lean Business: Pivot Point – [link]. Chobani Founder: Why Quality & Community Are The Keys To Brand Success | PSFK – [link]. Just try not to laugh!

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Last May, I shared the news that long-time Lean Startup advocates Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits were working on a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur featuring illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. LitMotors approach to using Lean Startup to create a new vehicle category. That new book is about to hit bookstores everywhere.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2012

I judged Lean Startup Machine Boulder yesterday afternoon. I’m a huge Eric Ries / Lean Startup fan and believe that the methodology can be quickly taught. It’s not a coding / hacking weekend – it’s an applied process of the Lean Startup Methodology.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Design Trends 2013 – Flat and Minimal | Abduzeedo – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2014

Guest post by Sarah Milstein , CEO of Lean Startup Productions The 2013 Lean Startup Conference was a hit on several levels, with many people telling us it was the most valuable business conference they’d ever attended. Quick Consulting , an evening event on March 27 in San Francisco. An in-person conference about remote work?!

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 22, 2013

Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. Good post by Seth Godin about online communities & personal motivations … Us vs. us – [link]. Lean Business: Office Space – A Meditation – [link]. The tech industry doubles down on design in 2013 | Gigaom – [link]. Kin – [link].

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 3, 2013

Happy New Year and welcome to 2013. Just as a small community newspaper or a special-interest magazine didn’t need significant amounts of capital to become sustainable, so too today with many of the recently seeded startups which have focused services for a specific target audience or customer-set.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2014

In 2013 the funding landscape changed with the JOBS act. All of these attributes will effectively benefit the entrepreneurial community. Melissa Thompson is the founder and CEO of TalkSession ( www.talksession.com ), an online counseling company which launched in April 2013. Now, how do we become successful founders?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 28, 2014

Post written by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts for The Lean Startup Conference We’re seeking speakers we don’t already know for this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 10 -11 in San Francisco. But we now go much deeper into startup communities, finding speakers you won’t necessarily have heard elsewhere.)

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 7, 2024

So if your campaign strongly leans towards social issues, Causes brings an exciting opportunity to leverage the power of passionate supporters. Launched in 2013, it’s primarily known as a hub for creators and artists such as musicians, writers, podcasters, artists, vloggers who release content consistently.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2015

” These were by far the worst interviews of my life and it was so bad … that some guy leaned across the desk and said, “I’ve got an idea for you. Miriam was similarly introduced to entrepreneurship at a young age: My father, Frank Altman, is the founder and CEO of an organization called Community Reinvestment Fund.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

January 14th, 2013. A mobile-optimized structure, however, leans towards a “taller” arrangement in addition to hierarchies. January 14th, 2013 6:40 am. January 14th, 2013 8:50 am. January 14th, 2013 11:06 am. January 14th, 2013 5:16 pm. January 15th, 2013 3:16 am. UI Design. E-Commerce.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

That's one of the very, very early companies that I was talking to Lean Startup about. I'm really curious, for now and when founders encounter Lean Startup, it's a famous old idea for most folks. And I actually made a sketch back in 2013, I think, so three years before I started a Carbon. ER : I remember Speed Date. EB : Yeah.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Last night it was finally time for Wayra demoDay 2013 – a chance for the fledgling startups to draw interest and offers of cash from a crowd of more than 200 investors. In finding that solution, his team created iHelp – a community driven emergency network.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

You can find the Part 1, Dream Big and Start Small , Work to Learn, Not Earn , and Join the Community , here. Those districts are not only right at the epicentre of the community, but also very beautiful and lively. It also helped us to start lean and simple, and grow our product into something bigger. Find the right location.

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conversionxl.com

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Eric Ries, author of “The Lean Startup” says -. Sep 06, 2013 @ 12:24:13. Sep 07, 2013 @ 09:32:18. Sep 07, 2013 @ 07:35:25. Conversion Research. Most startups fail. 6 Comments.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2013

However, I’ve noticed as the design community has leaped from font to font, color to color, designs are converging on a theme of minimalism. Just like in fashion, web designers tend to go through a lot of fads – specifically color schemes and font choices. Less colors, but more meaning behind each color choice. If You Liked This Post. :

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Added – March 2013* Startup Intelligence tools. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Lean Methodology Sources. Part 3- Lean Cust. About VC Cafe.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Pete Newell retired from the US Army in 2013 as the director of the Rapid Equipping Force (REF), responsible for rapidly understanding problems of soldiers in combat and rapidly providing solutions. He connects the Lab with the defense user community. Our guests Pete Newell, John Kuhn and Matt Weingart served for decades in the U.S.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 22, 2021

I don’t see how you can tackle it without addressing the “othering” of ethnic and racial communities, toxic masculinity, white supremacy, online hate speech, economic anxiety, inadequate mental health services, gun control and I’m sure a whole host of other factors I’m not even thinking about here. Because he’s a good guy?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Eric Ries, author of “The Lean Startup” says -. Most startups fail. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. sustainable business.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

In 2013, everything changed. I had time to learn where our community of drivers and space owners was located, to observe what worked (or didn’t) for other parking services, to consider the features we needed to add to the site and to formulate a business model that would set YourParkingSpace up for success.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 8, 2021

The Lean Startup by Eric Ries (2011). The Lean Startup explores the scientific process of creating products and services your customers love—without spending months or years walking toward a dead end. This Book Will Teach You How to Write Better by Neville Medhora (2013). [This post contains video, click to play].

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

By Lauren Drell 2013-06-10 14:46:07 UTC. In Running Lean , Ash Maurya says that you know when you have spoken to enough customers when you can start to predict what they will say. With more than 20 million unique monthly visitors, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities. ©2005-2013 Mashable, Inc.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 22, 2017

This year, she feels ready to increase her influence in business as well as her community, but where to begin? The first step is to lean into her circle of women friends. One of their most notable agreements prevented a government shutdown in 2013. One commentator joked, “The women are the only grownups left in Washington.”.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Multiply that by literally a couple thousand, and that’s what 2013 is going to look like in Silicon Valley, and to a lesser degree some other startup ecosystems. The “2k” refers to the $2,200 income tax hike that will take effect for households making $250,000 or less if a deal is not reached by January 1, 2013).

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Up and Running

MAY 16, 2016

In 2013, North America accounted for just over 40 percent of the global home health care revenue. The Canadian Nurses Association (CNA) predicts that two-thirds of nurses in Canada will be working in the community by 2020, compared to 30 percent in 2006. The trend toward home health care is just as strong across the northern border.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 10, 2021

I trust her to hear out the community, gather all the data, and, unlike our current Towering Ineptitude, actually make a decision—one that she believes is right for New York, not just politically popular. They got the union to agree to it by splitting the savings between the city and the other two workers. Kathryn is exceedingly practical.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. In 2015, 46 percent of workers were enrolled in a plan with an annual deductible of $1,000 or more, up from 38 percent in 2013 and 22 percent in 2009.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 23, 2015

By being both agile and lean in development and management, we can weed out all the frustration that exists in larger companies. Having fenced in his youth, my husband found a fencing community in Silicon Valley and began to train again. Soon I realized that there was a need inside the community. 9) Endless Possibilities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) There are people in communities who are trying to deliver food to needy residents. She served as the U.S.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2013

Now here in 2013 I’m beginning to see a movement happening. They’re using the 4 Hour Work Week , Lean Startup , Rework & Linchpin as their textbooks. The mentor network and community forum. In class they were talking supply and demand. School is getting too expensive, and startups are becoming less costly.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

It’s close to de-facto adopting a Lean decision-making process and rapid clearances for things that minimally affect health. It may be the first one built into the watch, but it’s not the first Apple Watch ECG app cleared by the FDA – AliveCor , got over-the-counter-clearance in 2014 and Cardiac Designs in 2013.)

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