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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. websites that are sparse and slick, Chinese users currently expect complicated, crowded and busy web pages.

China

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property

Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2011

The solution I’m exploring is a just in time learning methodology that accelerates founders’ learning curve by aggregating relevant content, peers and mentors.&#. A big piece of the solution lies in the scalable impact of entrepreneurship and an increase of successful entrepreneurs. Hmm, now I’m getting intrigued.

Technical Cofounder

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. – not just web-based startups. The first class was an introduction to the concepts of business model design and customer development.

Lean

Lean Business Model Customer Development Guinea

China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

They’re used to using the web and increasingly the mobile web for everything, commerce, communication, games, etc. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. websites that are sparse and slick, Chinese users currently expect complicated, crowded and busy web pages.

China

China Silicon Valley Non-Compete Intellectual Property

Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter.

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley IPO Technical Review Venture Capital

Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Entrepreneur Ryan Hoover transformed an email list experiment into a venture-funded startup community with tens of thousands of active members. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

Lean

Lean United States Fractional CTO Startup

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Experience and vision were the focus of today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The program examines the DNA of entrepreneurs: what makes them tick, how they came up with their ideas; and explores the habits that make them successful, and the highs and lows that pushed them forward. Peter Arvai.

Cofounder

Cofounder Entrepreneur Silicon Valley Sweden

Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

As entrepreneurs, more than any other industry, we’re in the meritocracy business. If women face structural barriers to becoming entrepreneurs, then those few who are able to overcome those barriers are probably exceptional to begin with. Or, maybe it is true that women make better entrepreneurs than men.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web.

Continuous Deployment

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal.

Customer

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Heres what I do know: The future strength of our economy depends on its ability to create, support, and sustain entrepreneurs. (If If you are somehow not convinced of this point, Ill let Fareed Zakaria explain ) We know who the next generation of entrepreneurs are going to be. Nerds are not entrepreneurs. They are nerds.

Programming

Programming San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment

It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

If we already knew who the customer was, how they would behave, how much they would pay, and how to reach them, this wouldn’t be a disruptive innovation. Just because entrepreneurs tend to forget about these models doesn’t mean their investors do. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup

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. This is true of most web application servers, caches like memcached, and all of the network infrastructure that connects them. what is your company web site or email address?

San Francisco

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database

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.&# Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper.

Customer

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean

Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Amazon Web Services. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Web Tools: Hereâ??s We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging.

Software Review

Software Review Technical Review Startup

Coffee With Startups

Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Do you know the archetype of their customers? Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley Startup RSS Customer Development

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? Not all crowds are wise. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC

Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Seed-stage investors are learning the metrics of traction, and are getting better at identifying those companies that are really achieving validated learning about customers. As you and I have chatted about, a Zynga developed game versus an EA developed game is quite different. Though technology tools and Web 2.0

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Distribution

Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. That is customer development. “But it never happened.&# [Alas, customers dont know what they want!

San Francisco

San Francisco Lean Analytics Continuous Deployment

Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses. Unfortunately, this program applies to the investor who holds the capital, and not the entrepreneur who discovers how to put that capital to use.

San Francisco

San Francisco Founder DC Washington

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business. 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. This is the blog post I needed to read.

Technical Review

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Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? | Vinicius Vacanti

viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? Hopefully, I’ll encourage other entrepreneurs with a dream but no technical co-founder options to take their destiny into their own hands. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Not all is lost.

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Cofounder Hiring Ruby Founder

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Five case studies you'll see at the Lean Startup Conference 2015

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 36: Jim Semick and Peter Arvai

Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Resources

Coffee With Startups

Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds

Marching through quicksand

Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? | Vinicius Vacanti

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