Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Advisory Board. At one of our initial board meetings we had agreed on the general principle of an advisory board and put together an overall stock budget to compensate advisors. Over the next week we exchanged emails over advisory board stock. Death by Spreadsheet.

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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Have you ever thought of creating an advisory board? Usually, you would want to create an advisory board to fill in the critical areas of need not evidenced in the board of directors or within the company itself. How many advisors should you seek for a board? Email readers, continue here…].

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

A properly built advisory board can be a huge strategic advantage to any company. On the other hand, an advisory board put together haphazardly can be the biggest mistake for a company in the early stages of business. How do you avoid the advisory board death spiral? Select the right board member.

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www.instigatorblog.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The Importance of Advisory Boards for Startup CEOs Tweet When a startup receives financing it will need to setup a Board of Directors. The Board probably existed beforehand, but was made up only of the founders. Mark Macleod spells it out beautifully in his post on Advisory Boards. Why wouldn’t you?

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 11, 2021

But it’s not as simple as reaching out to a company you want to collaborate with and putting their name on your website in exchange for cash. If your audience isn’t interested in a sponsor’s product or service, then putting their name to your offer won’t deliver the ROI they’re looking for, ruining any chance of a long-term partnership.

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Board Effect

MARCH 28, 2024

Administrators can keep track of versions and changes while board members are able to see the latest version without having to look through many emails or documents. For example, foundations, event committees, medical executive committees, quality teams, advisory boards and leadership teams, to name but a few.

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Gust

DECEMBER 3, 2011

And I don’t mean because they lend a credible name to an investor pitch: way too many entrepreneurs look at names on Advisory Board as just a way to expedite a raise. If that’s all you really expect of the Board, you’re cheating yourself as well as the investors before whom you dangled the names.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): Hey, did you know that HubSpot's annual inbound conference is coming up? My ask would be the next time you do or say something on behalf of the customer, like I've got a customer advisory board. Do you have an employee advisory board? Like this show?

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 15, 2022

[20:02] Could you talk a little bit more about this idea of being a sounding board and how that differs from an advisory board or an actual board? [21:22] And then one we like to call the sounding board, which is the small five to seven people. That's either your advisory board or their own advisory board.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

… and if you’d like to appear on a future episode of Smart Bear Live, send an email to Patrick.Foley@microsoft.com to schedule a recording with Jason. What’s the name of the company? Dan: The name of the company is Member Desk. These people like the guy behind I will teach you to be rich, I forgot his name.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 31, 2013

Send follow-up emails that include a request for a review. Give them something great to share — things like a special discount code, beta access to new products, badges and status, a reunion, or a spot on a special advisory board. Have you asked your happy customers to tell their friends about you? Really, just ask.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 2, 2011

Business history has proven time and time again that it’s not necessarily the best product that wins in the marketplace, and having a superstar founding team, VC partner, or advisory board doesn’t guarantee success. Tell your significant other that it’s all in the name of sharpening your business skills.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. 1- Our names. 3- My name+services we offer. My last name also happens to be “Way,” so it was an easy lead to “Way Solutions.”

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

You can also offer pre-written emails or social content for your referral clients to seamlessly share with their followings. Exclusive Content or Advisory Board You can create exclusive content or an advisory board of your champion customers. This can be done through special referral program landing pages or posts.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We just emailed the guide to you. Email address. If you plan to seek funding, you should describe your advisory board here, as well. Your company name , your company logo , and your website design should all grow from the concepts you laid out here. Learn: How to clearly articulate your brand identity.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The VP of Sales and I flew to Providence to convince Andy van Dam at Brown to join our company, or at a minimum lead our advisory board. I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group. On a rainy day in Providence we tracked Andy down just as he was leaving for a trip to Europe.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.

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The Startup Lawyer

AUGUST 30, 2010

They can provide your startup with guidance on a wide range of topics and typically take a seat on your startup’s advisory board. A founder will typically find out when someone he or she knows in the startup ecosystem tells the founder, “Hey, [Startup Creeper Name] told me he was an advisor to your startup.&#

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

A few days later, Mike emailed and asked if he and his wife Cindy could come to Boulder to spend some time with me and Amy. While we haven’t seen each other in person for a while, we periodically go back and forth on email and have a deep emotional intimacy that comes from the relationship we built through our time in YEO.

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Berkonomics

JULY 10, 2010

This insight addresses the establishment and maintenance of an advisory board, a formal group with no legal responsibilities, but one able to be called upon to act as business, industry and scientific advisors to the CEO. Email readers continue here.]

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

The next best move is to build your core team, e.g., recruit an Advisory Board, Venture Partners, and EIRs. For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update. E.g., email, “I look forward to our call at 9am-10am EST tomorrow.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

We just emailed the guide to you. Email address. If you plan to seek funding, you should describe your advisory board here, as well. Your company name , your company logo , and your website design should all grow from the concepts you laid out here. Learn: How to clearly articulate your brand identity.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

When I’m asked by young entrepreneurs for advice on how to be successful, the first thing I say is to build an advisory board. I think it was about five or six years in before I put my advisory board together. 9 – I hid behind email too much. It was incredibly helpful as we tried to grow our business.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

So make it as easy as possible, you know, create a landing page that can send people to pre-write an email. Well, what about your best customer is about having a special offer just for them exclusive content, you know, maybe put, maybe build a, a, an advisory board for your business. Sign up to receive email updates.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

So far, this is all an academic exercise in naming - but I think it has an important real-world effect. should the test subjects be part of the customer advisory board? Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 2, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John Jantsch (00:00): Hey, marketing agency owners, you know, I can teach you the keys to doubling your business in just 90 days or your money back. This also goes to being a business advisor or advisory board member, or even a consultant. Like this show? Sound interesting?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers. If you drop the sentimentality, a company is a merely a brand-name for a historical context. Agilent is a $5.8 To Order Outside of the U.S.

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www.davidgcohen.com

DECEMBER 22, 2012

Engagement is not accomplishing by sending an occasional email updating the person on what you’re doing or the major news every once in a while. In my opinion, the best way to do this early on is by email as it maximally respects the time of the mentor that you are engaging. David and Heather Duey get this. startupcto

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

More About Brad Feld: His book – Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors. Like that's a useful sort of way to wander into creating a formal board with the nuance that if you create something like an advisory board, be serious about it. Sign up to receive email updates.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

How do I name my real estate business? We just emailed the guide to you. Email address. If you plan to seek funding, you should describe your advisory board here, as well. Your company name , your company logo , and your website design should all grow from the concepts you laid out here. Operating plan.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

want to sidestep the argument about whether or not it's good to be " stealth " or not, and work with the assumption that if you've purchased the domain name, you're going to put up some sort of website. Advisory Board. You should follow him on Twitter ( @jasonlbaptiste ) or say hi via email. Carpe Diem.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

As I’ve helped entrepreneurs find their own product-market fit and connected them to potential clients, investors, and Advisory Board members, I’ve spent a lot of time telling them about the “cool kids”. He has a series of this name and you can see us discussing the topic on YouTube. it isn’t easy. in honor of my mother.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each cycle was punctuated by a meeting of our Business Advisory Board (BAB). A good example is Paypal realizing that their customers were gravitating to the email-payments part of their original solution, and ignoring the complex PDA-based cryptography solution. Heres what it looked like. Thank you for your nice posting.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 20, 2010

I recently did a webinar for the Search Engine Strategies conference (I am doing the opening conference keynote at SES London and SES New York ) and my Market Motive co-faculty member Greg Jarboe sent me this KPI via email: "Your webcast was a big success. Your KPI questions per attendee was off the chart!"

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Make a survey that includes the following questions: First name (text) Phone number (phone number) Email so we can send you a gift certificate (text) Best time to call, morning, afternoon, evening, weekend (multiple choice) Tell me about yourself! They muddled through using everything from email formats to Facebook groups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Ironically, meetings like this had given data and experimentation a bad name inside this company. Ironically, meetings like this had given data and experimentation a bad name inside this company. What a waste. And who can blame them? The data warehousing team was producing classic waste – reports that nobody read (or understood).

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