Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

If your personality already leans toward narcissism, being the boss will likely bring out the worst in you, leading to intimidation, deception, and the use of coercive power. Even if your startup is a one-man show, you can find an intelligent outside mentor or advisory board member to bounce ideas off. Meet customers online.

Advisory Board 210

Advisory Board Leadership Early Stage Lean 210

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Unfortunately, after months or even years of development, many companies discover that customers arent willing to buy their new wares. It isnt until a customer actually clicks or calls to place an order that TPGTEXs developers will build the software. "We Read the rest. For that, release early, release often will suffice.

San Francisco 137

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 137

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

The larger-account division wanted to move the pricing in just the other direction – making the low-end products more expensive, so their large customers would have an increased incentive to upgrade. Many custom reports had been created for this meeting, and the data warehouse team was in the meeting, too.

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Metrics Continuous Deployment 133

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

All the rest is noise. It’s not about you, it’s about your customers. At Fab we have been focused from day 1 on making our customers smile. Passion for building a business is not enough; there needs to be passion for your customer and solving your customer’s problem.?. Your customer is growing up on social media.

Technical Review 108

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation 108

usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

Is this feature usable, and is the UX reasonably consistent with the rest of my product? I have contacted my customer service/community management team and prepped them with information about the new feature and asked them to get back to me if we start to see any significant new support requests. The ROI isn’t good enough.

Software Review 40

Software Review Agile San Francisco Advisory Board 40

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

All the rest is noise. Use them as a sounding board for corporate development issues. Advisory boards never amount to much. Find one person, make them your sherpa, and lean on them. . Do your own customer service. If you’re taking more than 3 weeks to ship updates, you’re taking too long.

Post-Money Valuation 92

Post-Money Valuation Valuation Dilution Advisory Board 92

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Three reasons: change the world, make customers’ lives better and create an organization of lasting value. Read the rest of Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich Also take a look at the great Hacker News discussion of this essay. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

San Francisco 111

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 111

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship.

Delaware 297

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 297

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Berkeley and NCIIA , Jerry Engel and I first offered the Lean LaunchPad Educators Class. The class was designed to teach educators (and the adjunct entrepreneurs that support them) the Lean LaunchPad approach (Business Model Design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) for teaching entrepreneurship.

Delaware 189

Delaware Lean Entrepreneur Advisory Board 189