Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We wanted to give you a rundown of what’s in store, along with particular insight into two of the workshops we’re most excited to have lined up for Gold and VIP attendee s—one session with Jez Humble on implementing continuous delivery and one with Alistair Croll on Lean analytics for corporate entrepreneurs.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. At the core is still the same balance of analysis and creativity – but you’ll get an advantage with experience in product development, marketing, and commercial strategy. “. Image Source.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Agile marketing may not be a phrase you hear often, but it’s becoming increasingly popular and important. Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 10, 2018

is the transformation of traditional mechanical chains in production to “cyber-physical” chains where companies, suppliers, and customers are all connected through IT networks and production processes are fully digitized and automated. Essentially, Industry 4.0 What Can You Do to Be Industry 4.0 Be Updated.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This post describes how companies using the Customer Development model can increase their credibility, valuation and probability of getting a first round of funding by presenting their results in a “Lesson Learned&# venture pitch. Is there a profitable business model? Can it scale?” Just as a refresher.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

——— Yuri, one of my ex students started a big-data analytics company last year. He turned his PhD thesis into a killer product, got it funded and now was CEO of a company of 30. It was great to watch him embrace the spirit and practice of customer development. We’re building the wrong product!”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

In the early fall of 2009, as kaChing prepared for its marketplace launch, the management team showed the app—which included real time market data, SEC-grade accounting, analytics, compliance and customer management tools—to a number of investment pros to get feedback and endorsements. Expo SF (May. Want to learn more about me?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Of course, I can still get access to the data about who’s signing up and when – and a lot more analytics, to boot – but I have to ask. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Asking imposes overhead. They’ve learned to see this waste. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? We did surveys, user testing and psychological profiles. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. All successful media companies had at their heart a series of editors, producers, and agents tasked with discovering and developing new talent. Is that a lot?

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

In his 17-year career, Rosenberg has developed key insights into the minds of CFOs and FP&A teams, with strengths in both customer-facing leadership and data analytics itself. The promotion signals the importance of product development for the company’s growth roadmap. Prior Leader Moves On. CEO Perspective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development. Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

You’ll learn about the different strategies available and the impact they’ll have on the future of your product. Before introduction comes development. These are the four stages of a product we’ll be focusing on. . However, on a more granular graph, the introduction phase would be preceded by a product development stage.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.

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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. If your company is using minimum viable product , you’ve probably said the same thing yourself.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 7, 2017

The first, according to Dr. David Travis at UserFocus , was agile development : Dr. David Travis: “‘Development’ teams morphed into ‘design’ teams. To use the agile terminology, design teams wanted to get a ‘shared understanding’ of their users and they were suspicious of any attempt to set requirements in concrete.”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

How do we know how much energy to invest in analytics vs. doing real work? Establish baseline metrics by building the minimum viable product — the minimum required to measure the response of early adopters. Then, in each development cycle, use the insights gained by studying customers to make improvements. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

We have to manage to learn something from our first product iteration. In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. You refer to an anonymous Valley-based MMORPG that consumed years and tens of millions in development, but got little commercial traction. Thanks Eric.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Deliver analytics in a consumable manner. Be agile, move at the speed of business, don’t hold up product development. Parallel to what we see in analytics on URLs (same premise).

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

For many start-ups, the central focus is developing a product that offers value to a target audience. For this reason you should find out as quickly as possible if the product is indeed offering real value to your customers by looking at real data. Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. Develop a strong backbone.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. A: have them deploy code to production on their first day as an employee. Trial and Error + Analytics? farazq : Awesome session @ericries. made a big impression. What else?"

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

In the process, we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system. And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. Only much later did I realize that this was an application of customer development to online marketing. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. Wanted to add one additional note from the perspective of someone who was intimately involved in developing this system. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What are you waiting for?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

" In honor of that spirit, I'll take a step away from our mutual obsession with marketing and analytics and share with you the philosophies and values that guide me when I go to work every day. My career spans customer service, engineering, finance, product development, marketing, sales, and corporate functions.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role. Who’s on the Sharp End?

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Visitor Loyalty is not in every single report in your Digital Analytics tool. If the web analytics dashboard prominently measured Visitor Loyalty, would they still create link pukes? I've developed distaste for the time on site metric. Short term loss; long term gain. But it is there. It is a standard metric.

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JULY 8, 2011

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

digital analytics, market research). For a simple test, connecting Google Analytics with Google Optimize would’ve taken a couple seconds, but because we didn’t, we wasted two weeks. Optimization is by nature agile: CRO yields new data for the team to prove that whatever the organization did was good or bad. Tell Don’t Sell.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t Codeacademy.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

Go a little bit further, it is not always in Google Analytics. It’s in website analytics and emails, but that is just a small piece of it. Development = rules. Alexa Hubley: The Agile Marketing Playbook. Create your agile process: Map (start at the end). Analytics & Insights. Design = rules.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Obama understood the two concepts that are essential for building a high-performance, highly adaptable, agile organization: 1) rapid iteration and 2) clear values-based objectives. The risk of incorporating a bunch of brand-new volunteers is much lower if you have good analytics about their performance. Expo SF (May.

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