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How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

But between visioning sessions, collaborative software development and Linus’ Law of bug detection — we’ve been taught to accept the wisdom of crowds as necessary to most startup decision-making. Investor and 500 Startups founder Dave McClure offered TNW a few of his thoughts. Groupthink. A billion dollars.”

Startup

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

All of these stories are useful for recruiting, internal alignment, and business development—they really serve as analogies for different types of startups. If you can tell these stories well, it will be a huge weapon in your startup’s arsenal. Co-evolution in an ecosystem is a beautiful and a relatively stable thing.

Founder

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There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Consider what followed since November: New foundational models, more efficient ways of training models etc An explosion of open source models, the rise of HuggingFace Breakthrough research across voice, video, text, multi modality, etc Billions of dollars invested in thousands of startups at the application layer of generative AI.

Generative AI

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. Unfortunately, most decisions that confront startups lack a definitive right answer. But this is wrong, too.

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue?

Customer

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. You can find out more at: manning.com/sande Many thanks in advance, Todd -- Todd Green Manning Publications Co. Third, you market it far and wide.

Programming

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

Four Tips For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2013

by Mike Broderick, co-founder and CEO of Turning Technologies. In addition to giving our customers the power to generate and aggregate audience response data in real time, Turning Technologies has been able to collect and use customer feedback to hone our product development efforts. Keys to Success.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles.

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki

Maternova and the Business of Saving Lives: A Secret to Success Story

Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. However, these can be difficult to obtain and ship, and this is exactly where social enterprise startup Maternova has made—and continues to make—inspirational strides. 90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator.

Cofounder

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Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

Todd McGuire is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of startup incentaHEALTH and we had to the opportunity to hear from him about starting business, the future of the company and what entrepreneurship means to him. I am the co-founder and CTO of the digital health care company incentaHEALTH.

Technical Review

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Just like with startups, this is a hybrid question. So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. 12comments: Dougvs said.

San Francisco

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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I had just left Salesforce.com where I was VP, Products, after they had acquired my second startup. It proved to be fortuitous because it allowed me the time & space I needed to get to know tons of founders and VCs and to hone my craft. I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower.

IP

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. Its actually part of a lean startup story.

San Francisco

San Francisco Founder DC Washington

Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. How are we doing? Eric] “The first user experience was actually terrible.&#

San Francisco

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11 SaaS products that help convert leads into actual sales

The Next Web

DECEMBER 5, 2013

I asked a panel of fellow founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following: Name one SaaS product your business uses to convert more leads into actual sales and why is it so effective. Patrick Vlaskovits , The Lean Entrepreneur. . John Hall , Influence & Co. . Below are their top 11 picks: 1. .

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

For startups (and other innovators ), that’s a decisive advantage. The work itself, especially in startups, depends primarily on intelligence, communication, creativity and empathy. Their recent article suggests that startups led by women are actually more successful, on average, than those led by men.

San Francisco

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Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Analyzing 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems to Find the 20 Top Reasons that Startups Fail. We’d previously highlighted the top startup failure post-mortems of all-time here (32 in total) written by a group of startup entrepreneurs gracious enough to share their lessons learned from their startup’s failure.

Cofounder

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Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Mark is a serial entrepreneur who is now active in the venture capital community for early-stage startups. He brings a strong technology base to the table, as a former CTO, and creator of the Lean Startup methodology. He is the co-author of several books including “The Black Art of Java Game Programming.”

Curation

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# A successful startup strives for this latter case. Founders struggle with this question.

Customer

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

They co-founded it with former U.S. Jen is the founder and former executive director of Code for America. 11:54) Raylene on how USDR has been built like a startup and the exponential rate of growth. (12:44) But a lot of it is also just getting the data, aggregating it, being able to take action on it. Digital Response.

New Jersey

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. 1) Manage the firm . 2) Market .

Technical Review

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. Sharding for startups To support a single partitioning scheme is easy, especially if you design for it from the start. But startups rarely have either luxury. to store it.

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Denouement

View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. But there is also opportunity in lean times. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

IPO

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C

Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Getting Lean. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology.

Silicon Valley

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Out of the Crisis #1: Sam Altman on resetting the clock cycle of biotech, investing in a cure and more

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

He was president of the startup accelerator YCombinator from 2014-2019, and is currently the CEO of OpenAI, which he co-founded. He also offers advice for startups, who are facing difficult decisions as we move forward. In the first episode of Out of the Crisis, I talk with Sam Altman (transcript below).

Silicon Valley

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time. Update – As a followup, we analyzed all of these startup failure post-mortems to identify the top 20 reasons for startup failure. Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. Post-Mortem Title : How My Startup Failed.

Software Review

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going.

Technical Review

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

Jake Soberal and Irma Olguin are the founders of a company called Bitwise. Here's my conversation with the founders of Bitwise. I am the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. Irma Olguin : My name is Irma Olguin, I'm the co-founder and CEO of Bitwise Industries. So what are we going to do?

Fresno

Fresno Community Technology California

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We just held our final week of the Hacking for Diplomacy class, teaching students entrepreneurship and “Lean Startup” principles while they engaged in national public service applying advanced technologies to solve global challenges. Getting Lean. Each of the teams used the Lean Startup methodology.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Lean San Diego Agile

Denouement

Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. But there is also opportunity in lean times. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

IPO

IPO Early Stage Cofounder B2C

90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer.

Technical Review

Technical Review Technology Software Review Valuation

San Diego Founders’ Fight Club Pitch-Off

Business Plan Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The San Diego startup ecosystem is growing, along with the resources available to entrepreneurs. Mentor programs, co-working spaces and meetup events over the past few years have increased at an exciting rate. Unless expressed, the startups and entrepreneurs in these series are not clients of The Startup Garage.

San Diego

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Predictive Analytics in 2018: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Judah Phillips, the co-founder and CTO of Vizadata and founder of SmartCurrent , explained: We already live in a world of “real-time” predictive analytics. Leaning on natural language processing and predictive analytics, the program analyzed conversations, forecasted trends, and trained more than 13,000 volunteers.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? About VC Cafe.

Software Review

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Incubators, too, helped flood the markets with even more startups, and AngelList played its part too. A name like 500 Startups says it all. 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.

Technical Review

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StartUpRoar

How groupthink and denial can ruin startups

The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

Trending Sources

There’s more to generative AI than picks and shovels

It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Four Tips For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Maternova and the Business of Saving Lives: A Secret to Success Story

Health Tech Entrepreneur Builds a Business Focusing on Improving The Lives of Tens of Thousands

Marching through quicksand

What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

11 SaaS products that help convert leads into actual sales

Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Why Startups Fail - 20 Top Reasons Gleaned from 32 Startup Failure Post-Mortems

Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’

Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Denouement

Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Out of the Crisis #1: Sam Altman on resetting the clock cycle of biotech, investing in a cure and more

25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Hacking for Diplomacy @ Stanford –What We Learned With the State Department

Denouement

90 Things I've Learned From Founding 4 Technology Companies

San Diego Founders’ Fight Club Pitch-Off

Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

Predictive Analytics in 2018: What’s Possible, Who’s Doing It, and How

Startup Resources

The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

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