www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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The Next Web

MARCH 24, 2013

Said McClure,”We worship at the altar of ‘ lean ‘ a little too much when really we should just be running our businesses. Writes Blank, “ Great entrepreneurs don’t just have a Plan B, they have Plans B through ?.” But what happens when a constructive conversation becomes a futile one?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

When the project winds up getting cancelled for failing to meet its ROI justification, it’s natural for the entrepreneur to feel like it was the CFO – and their innovation-sucking spreadsheet – that is the real cause. Just because entrepreneurs tend to forget about these models doesn’t mean their investors do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

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. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

They can make smart investments even if the entrepreneurs are not well credentialed or have a product/idea that is outside the mainstream of what investors are expecting As this change has rippled up the venture industry, it has meant a lot more worthy companies are getting funded than just a few years ago. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

I’m rarely surprised when a young entrepreneur or small business owner hasn’t fully identified how their new business will make money. But I’m always surprised when that entrepreneur or small business owner has a tough time describing the potential customers for their new business’s products and services.

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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. What this meant for entrepreneurs and VC’s was simple– the gold rush to liquidity was on. What Do VC’s Do?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 17, 2011

We have found lots of great resources both on and off the web to help us find and book flights and hotel rooms, and lots of great apps and websites to make our trips easier and more fun. With the resources available on the web there is absolutely no reason not to comparison shop. Hey, even Gary V. Photo: Nick Sherman.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The advantage is that in many of our best deals we now have $50+ million invested so we can really support entrepreneurs as their businesses scale. At Upfront when we know we have a winning hand we prefer to put more capital to work, which both helps the entrepreneurs succeed and drives more aggregate financial returns for our LPs.

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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.

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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. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale.

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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. . Below are their top 11 picks: 1. The conditional logic features are gold.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 12, 2014

These are easy calculations to make with the availability of cheap or even free stock analytics tools available on the web. In the letter, Buffett advised, “Put together a portfolio of companies whose aggregate earnings march upward over the years, and so also will the portfolio’s market value.” They use lean teams.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

Every entrepreneur is flooded with information from all directions, but despite their best efforts to absorb it, they likely miss the information really needed to start a business. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.” These are both experienced entrepreneurs and angel investors. Lessons Learned , by Eric Ries.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Some of the conversations went like this: Startup 1 Entrepreneur -“I’m competing against Company x and have been following the Customer Development process and I’ve talked to lots of customers.” Entrepreneur -“Well no but my product is much better than their product and I have this great idea….” Do you know how they create demand?

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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.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Anyone with a web browser pointed at Twitter and a knowledge of how to leverage hashtags and search can avail themselves of a stream of raw information on any topic they can imagine. Lean Marketing: Public Relations strategies for small businesses and startups. Photo – Emerson reading newspaper, Wikimedia.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect. These concepts have important implications for any lean startup. In an ecosystem, each participant acts according to its own imperatives, but these selfish actions have an aggregate effect.

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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.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The United States is the 3rd most startup-friendly nation in the world, behind Germany and Japan, according to US News, but startup entrepreneurs in America still need to keep operating costs under tight control in order to build their companies and make them profitable. Look at your team and decide which tasks they might not excel at.

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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?

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. Internet Web Sites/User Generated Content (UGC) — On the internet, information availability evolves in one direction only — more and more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

It just so happens that my disposition will always lean toward the health of human beings, it is part of who I am. Irma Olguin : Well, it's not glamorous, but the first I tried as an entrepreneur, it was out of necessity. Eric Ries : That is actually a common trait among the very best entrepreneurs. I talk nice.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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. In the post-mortem of Kiko, Mahesh Piddshetti writes : Most entrepreneurs have lots of ideas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

6:56) A look at how many biotech companies and non-biotech entrepreneurs have pivoted to work exclusively on COVID-19. (7:35) All the other things that matter, aggregating talent, getting people to care, all of that stuff that's hard in a boom and easier now. 7:35) Sam gives advice for investors looking to help. (11:45)

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

We love a good entrepreneurial success story – entrepreneur as protagonist overcomes obstacles and builds a thriving, successful company (and become wealthy while doing so). Post-Mortem Title : Lessons from Kiko, web 2.0 Also worth a read after you review these startup failure post-mortems. It’s free. Company : Kiko.

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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.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Innovate Israel 2012 aims to connect Israeli web, mobile & digital entrepreneurs & businesses with their UK & European counterparts. Unlike other companies, we are a true digital record label, not aggregators. Evolero empowers conference organizers to fully utilize today’s social web for their conference.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It has been awesome, flattering, and humbling to see that post went viral and has been seen by so many thousands of people — mainly aspiring entrepreneurs — and has been translated into many languages. The time to start thinking mobile first vs. web first was 6 months ago. We do twice-yearly reviews of all Fab team members.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. graph consists of a set of nodes connected by edges.

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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. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Web Tools: Hereâ??s Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Essentially, we got here by entrepreneurs having too much of a good thing. And because capital requirements are lower, entrepreneurs are holding onto more ownership, making it a lot easier to flip your company for less than, say, $30 million and become very rich. More cash equals more entrepreneurs who get to start companies.

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abovethecrowd.com

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Our firm has had the good fortune to invest in many two-sided networks that used information aggregation, supplier aggregation, and user generated content to attract and inform consumers and resultantly disrupt and change different industries. Gurley’s been attacking this from another perspective, that of the entrepreneur.

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