Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Ive written about this before in some detail, but this was an opportunity to try and frame it for a general business audience. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

You’re also wasting less time because selecting a micro-influencer means their audience is made up of potential target customers. Digital businesses have the capacity to reach broad audiences. It will be easier to become an entrepreneur that caters to a global audience, not limited by their physical location. 23- Very versatile.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2013

by Mike Broderick, co-founder and CEO of Turning Technologies. My team and I built our company, Turning Technologies, into the world’s largest audience response software enterprise using this principle. TurningPoint allows presenters to instantly receive audience responses via keypads or smartphones in real time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Expo SF (May. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Austin Startup

MARCH 5, 2019

Boost Biomes CEO and co-founder Jamie Bacher The Forrest Four-Cast: March 5, 2019 Fifty diverse startups will aim to impress a panel of judges and a live audience with their skills, creativity and innovation at SXSW Pitch Presented by Cyndx. We trade off resources for agility, which I love, and the need to be resourceful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs. You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away. I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, March 25, 2010 Speed up or slow down? Labels: product development Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Kent, a veteran programmer, a founder of the Agile method and the creator of Extreme Programming, came armed with anecdotes and lessons from his own experience, as well as a few questions for Eric. Eric’s chat with Kent Beck was among our most entertaining webcasts ( video ; iTunes ; SoundCloud ).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Im looking for a few people to run ideas by, give feedback, and generally help craft ideas so that they can have the biggest impact on this audience. Expo or have attended one in the past.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Luckily, the amazing Lean LA meetup group has organized to do this in front of an audience, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. That evening, there will be a casual talk followed by a book signing at Town Hall Seattle (co-sponsored with Lean Startup Seattle). By learning to be rapidly responsive and agile. Register here.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

In other words, you need to make sure your audience is just as excited about the idea as you are. You will also likely need help along the way, whether it comes in the form of a co-founder or a product team. Get your target audience (see step two) to pre-buy the product. This type of agile thinking is what matters.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 4, 2017

You have traffic, and I pay for placement in front of your audience. Though, increasingly, you can target with great granularity (especially on social) and set up custom audiences to create a holistic full-funnel paid strategy. In addition, display allows you to target niche audiences based on interests. Social and Display Ads.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. I was fortunate enough to speak with co-founder Allyson Cote, and hear the Maternova story, as well as some of its exciting plans for the future. Maternal health is a concern the world over, especially in developing nations. The quirky and cute Maternova offices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. For example, you often hear eBay or Neopets described as having viral growth, but I dont think thats correct.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , listening to customers 3comments: hauteroute said. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Split-test experiments that go on forever? Great points Eric.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive. “We had to ignore them, because they weren’t our target audience – and were never likely to become customers.&# Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. In other words, they have learned to grow renewable audiences.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My Mama, the founder of Yuca’s Hut in Los Feliz, CA, didn’t allow a lack of college degrees or a business plan to deter her from launching her dream. Larry Page, Google co-founder.I I am co founder of GreenPal which has been described as Uber for lawn care. Image Credit: Dora Herrera. — Bryan Eisenberg.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

In almost all Agile Development systems, thousands of automated tests are run against every change to the software. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

And, as usual, I wanted to share some of the audience reaction with my commentary. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. These quotes are, as is my custom, straight from twitter. I was really overwhelmed this time. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Thats an important job, for sure, and Ive been called upon to do it from time to time. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In this post I hope to talk about how to do it well, in terms appropriate for both audiences. It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post. First of all, why split-test? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I know plenty of people who prefer more advanced source control system, but my belief is that many agile practices diminish the importance of advanced features like branching. Its not that the idea behind them is wrong, but I think agile team-building practices make scheduling per se much less important. Youd better. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Beware The Need for Critical Mass I’m going to lead with a quote from Seth on this one: “Failing for small audiences is a loud cue that you will fail even bigger with big audiences.&# Update : bonus thought from Dharmesh Shahs 8 Startup Insights Inspired By The Mega Mind of Seth Godin: 6. That’s all fine and dandy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Today, when I talk to startup founders, the most common answer I get to the question "do you talk to your customers?" ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, This will be an in-depth discussion with a handful of entrepreneurs and founders that have been pre-selected. Now that you've been to Austin (and I sat in the audience), I can comment on the high quality of the presentation. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

If you’ve tried to slog your way through my book on Customer Development you know that I’m insistent that the founders need to be the ones getting outside the building (physically or virtually) to validate all the initial hypotheses of the business model and product. Others say Larry Spitters & Co. So, here is my assignment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

But these students completely failed to address the one and only question on their audiences mind: can you three guys really build the robots of the future? Most important slide: about the founders In a pitch meeting, try to spend as much time as possible talking about the key questions for your pitch. is this team the one to back?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

He started the Stanford Honors Co-op in 1954 which allowed companies in the valley to send their engineers to Stanford graduate engineering programs. And in hindsight, we seemed a bit more agile and innovative in WWII.) Leo Beranek led the EAL and went on to co-found BBN. How was this possible? Few writers do it well.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

#leanstartup #goap It was great to be in an audience of entrepreneurs who recognized the value of iteration and speed. benjaminjoffe : early adopters of buggy product are visionary customers, sometimes smarter than founders! Many founders dont like to hear that visionary customers are as smart, maybe even more so, than they are.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

The agile software movement has made numerous contributions: continuous integration, which helps accelerate feedback about defects; story cards and kanban that reduce batch size; a daily stand-up that increases tempo. At a recent talk, an audience member asked me about the impact of continuous deployment on morale. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Expo SF (May. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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