Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product. For example, at a previous virtual world company , we spent years developing an architecture to cope with millions of simultaneous users. The downside was that we had to combine dozens of projects whose internal architectures, coding styles, and general quality varied widely.

Technical Review 168

Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In Customer Development the goal of a minimum feature set is to pare the features of the first product release to the minimum necessary for early customers. And once you got the data you asked for, it still took weeks or months for a marketer to tease out any customer insight and trends from the data. An Epiphany.

San Francisco 228

San Francisco Database Advisory Board Silicon Valley 228

Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As an entrepreneur, joining organizations or networking groups can allow you to connect with like-minded people who can provide you with information and support, and refer customers to you. These are just two of the many reasons why I think you should consider being a member of an architectural professional group.

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Community Architecture Entrepreneur Networking 96

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Architecture Lean Continuous Deployment 133

BeyondVC

DECEMBER 15, 2005

Repeatedly I heard about grid computing, security, and service oriented architectures. So lesson #1 is while it is always hard to land your first financial services customer, remember not to screw it up because if you do everyone will know. It is damn hard to break into the clique, but if you do it can be quite rewarding.

Advisory Board 60

Advisory Board New York Dividend Sales Cycle 60

andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Check out my list of featured essays Talk to your target customer in 4 easy steps View Comments Answer this question honestly… When’s the last time you spoke to your target customer? It’s a good idea to balance out the data aspects, particularly if you are not your target customer. @AndrewChen New here?

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Customer Advisory Board RSS Software Review 42

The Next Web

JULY 8, 2013

My startup reached product market fit, meaning that customers love our product and we are actually producing value for them. 8 are in R&D, 1 product, 1 customer support, 1 biz dev, 1 marketing and 1 administrative. More customers means more requests: The more customers we get the more requests for features, customization and so on.

Advisory Board 128

Advisory Board API Cofounder PPC 128

Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

Is the customer intent contained in the keywords telling you how to change / improve the page? Make sure your site architecture is well thought out. This results in not speaking the same language (say keywords) as their customers. Do the keywords match the intent of the page ? On the other hand what are the surprises?

Analytics 90

Analytics Search SEO Metrics 90

www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

7 Startup Customer Discovery Questions. When you are dealing with literally hundreds of products it gets pretty hard for customers to find what they are looking for. Most startups start out with only 1 or 2 offerings and often aren’t thinking about how things might fit into a naming architecture. advisory board.

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Naming Startup Product Name Framework 41