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.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
Building an Advisory Board In my travels outside the building I kept my eyes out for articulate and visionary scientists and engineers who had expertise we lacked, and were willing to help in an advisory capacity. I set up an advisory board as a vehicle to get these industry experts engaged with the company and product.
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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. He was having too much fun at Sun and turned me down.).
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 27, 2013
In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. But mostly as I read Rob’s post I didn’t think it did justice to the superlative job he has done at managing his rather boisterous board.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 4, 2019
The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. All of this is part of the “market-engineering” that must be performed alongside product-engineering. We advise founders and teams to build systems and processes with the right foundation early.
Startup Professionals Musings
JULY 1, 2022
CEO brought in to replace the founder, 5 - 10% CTO, CFO, VP of Marketing or Sales, 1.5 - 3% Chief Engineer or Architect, 1 - 1.5% Advisory Board Member, 1% Senior Engineer,3 -.7% 7% Product Manager,2 -.3% 3% If you are not on this list, just worry about getting whatever your peers are getting.
YoungUpstarts
MAY 24, 2019
The first post drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. All of this is part of the “market-engineering” that must be performed alongside product-engineering. We advise founders and teams to build systems and processes with the right foundation early.
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