Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

But be philosophically consistent: periodically take the time to question your own expertise and that of your friends, partners and investors. But be philosophically consistent: periodically take the time to question your own expertise and that of your friends, partners and investors. Make the effort to test your assumptions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. Some of the mentors are based in Boulder, but many are not. I was really overwhelmed this time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Thanks for an enjoyable evening. June 3, 2009 8:16 PM Tom Gimbel said. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. There are lots of good reasons why I can’t have instantaneous access to this data, and each partner has their own.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 20, 2023

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 1, 2009

I see that as a great way for my product to grow, but while Ive partnered with companies in my consulting business, its not something Im as familiar with now that Im on the product side. I question what numbers I would need to be considered respectable and/or worth a potential partners time. Expo SF (May. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Establish credibility with potential partners. In some businesses, especially in certain industries like traditional enterprise software, you simply cannot bring a new product to market on your own. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Were doomed! Or the press. Or to some passionate customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It exists to serve the needs of customers, and it does this by offering its capabilities to other functions in the company, and partnering with them. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. I am basically a one-man shop. Expo SF (May. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. Each of these four currencies represents a way for a customer to “pay&# for services from a company. And this is true outside of games.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, New York never went through a phase as a suburban startup hub… basically just an urban boom as Silicon Alley 1.0 I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

What about companies, like Siebel, that started with partner distribution first? What about companies, like Siebel, that started with partner distribution first? It is highly context-dependent, which is why different startups take dramatically different paths to success. Should you charge from day one, testing the revenue model first?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

– Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service]. – Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service]. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Sure, when entrepreneurs create startups that grow up into mature companies, they become part of an established industry, with its own ecosystem, norms, partners and best practices. Re-reading it recently, I was struck by an idea that I dont think is too widespread yet: that entrepreneurship is an industry. Expo SF (May. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. So we had to start enforcing new content policies that restricted what kinds of virtual goods could be bought and sold on IMVU. Eric, I am not only a member of the IMVU community, but I am your business partner.

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