Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices. The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places.

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 1, 2010

You know, if I was the kind of guy that pimped out his own firm's newly redesigned website on a weekly community newsletter that goes out to over 1,000 people, I might include a link to the new FirstRound.com. These unique awards are for the Twitter community, by the Twitter community. Tuesday, March 2nd. RSVP: [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

44:25) Parallels between the pandemic and previous crises, and Carl's thoughts on some of the new norms that will arise. (45:28) I was the division president for the northeast division on 9/11, and all the stores in New York and New Jersey and, obviously, all the east coast stores for Circuit City were mine. Let's go."

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. It felt like I was watching a new startup hub in the process of being created. I was really overwhelmed this time. Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Opinion Column: The Sad State Of The Web Design Community – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Forbes covers the *secret* meetings today by Twitter developer community, a Groundswell surge vs Twitter – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 13, 2010

Opinion Column: The Sad State Of The Web Design Community – [link]. Why Startups are Agile and Opportunistic – Pivoting the Business Model – [link]. Forbes covers the *secret* meetings today by Twitter developer community, a Groundswell surge vs Twitter – [link]. Why you should have a co-founder – [link].

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. But we had some super-active customers who would act as editors, collecting feedback from all over the community and synthesizing it into a report of the top issues. It was absolutely worth it.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Actually any shop that does agile development with daily and weekly releases should. Scissor.com is another agile option. Agile dev shops should bring discipline and quicker results. Agile dev shops should bring discipline and quicker results. link] When You Should Hire a Dev Shop (other than “never”) | startup … [.]

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

Many angels are entrepreneurs themselves, or executives and business or community leaders. Dan Nainan, Angel from New York City, NY | Website | Twitter. An angel investor is a high net worth individual who invests their own money into startup companies in the hopes of gaining a return on their money. Tweet This Tip.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Beyond the quality of the candidates themselves, Ive noticed three big effects of hiring out of free software communities: You can hire an expert in your own code base. Once youre part of the community, a big question is who to try and hire.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

Latest technology We met many interesting people at SXSW and one of them was the head of digital innovation at a major performing arts organization in New York, where he focuses on digital strategy. Is the answer a community portal? How can they engage directly with their customers? A guide on how to use their products best?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Make sure that new hires understand your rate of innovation. You are small and agile, which means you have a high rate of innovation and growth, and with that comes work! Not Embracing Agility. "If is the largest independent online news site dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Im open to being the coffee and snack technician :-) On another note, I live in Atlanta and believe that we have a strong enough start-up community that would greatly benefit from your lessons learned. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort. Even as "just a user" you make the community better by adding momentum. Yeah, weve got that. Leverage is work, though. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

You can still see these early manifestos thanks to the wayback machine: [link] [link] We did that not just out of principle but because it served a very specific purpose: giving early adopters in our community a reason to invest in our success and give us strong feedback. Combining agile development with customer developm.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

A warm intro from a friend or participating in events and communities that specifically frame “finding a co-founder” (not just “startup happy hour”), you will — and I did — have better results. They are building more functionality into the site, a great community resource! Community Service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

The Hacker Chick Blog ended up becoming one of the top agile software development blogs on the Internet. We started Markets of Sunshine in 2010 to some day retire my husband from his full time remodeling business and spend more time together fulfilling our dream to travel around the country and volunteer in the community along the way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. By creating a space for your startup community to congregate and share new ideas, youre enabling a new kind of economic growth. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2015

This can help you spot trends more quickly and see search indicators you hadn’t considered before, allowing your brand to react with more agility and better adjust to your users’ needs. But if your company has its own social channels, you benefit from knowing exactly what is being said about your company at any point in time.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

He was wrapping up GrabCAD’s participation in the Seedcamp accelerator program, and the Seedcamp startups were in the US to visit potential advisors and investors in Boston, New York, and SF. Companies like GE, ABB, and others are also using Workbench or have tapped the GrabCAD community for outsourced design work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Ive been blown away by the level of demand you all have expressed in having a forum for the whole community to come together and share what were learning. Ive been blown away by the level of demand you all have expressed in having a forum for the whole community to come together and share what were learning. Details soon, I promise.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A finalist in the Enterprise and Smart Data category, which will pitch at 12:30 pm Saturday, March 9, Novo is a banking platform that provides better business deposit accounts to today’s companies and is powered by a network of FDIC-insured community banks. Novo is based in New York City. What is your competitive advantage?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Few consider opportunities to make the world safer with the State Department, Department of Defense, Intelligence Community or other government agencies. These solutions, called Minimal Viable Products (MVP’s), are what allow the teams to become extremely agile and responsive. This post is a continuation of a series. And the U.N.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

A similar kind of datablindness happened in the US intelligence community in the decades following the launch of photoreconnaissance satellites. In May of 1998, India detonated several nuclear weapons at a test site near New Delhi. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

MUDs made the essential truth about software into a powerful metaphor: that code is magic, giving those who wield it the ability to create new forms of value literally out of thin air. We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Schwartzfarb set out to create a guide for anyone interested in starting, growing or leading a modern startup so that they can hit the ground running with a solid plan and foundation with agile and effective sales teams, so that they can avoid and manage the hazards all startups face. New York City, NY Sept. New York City, NY?—?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? The new administration has helped some of their ranks to cross over into the Federal community too. Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0 Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Not being caught up in a corporate management structure gives me the freedom and agility to be at the top of our game. 11 – Entrepreneur Community. I used to practice law and now that I’m an entrepreneur I am constantly struck by the “entrepreneur community” that I did not even know existed before.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. I pay monthly subscriptions for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, The New Yorker and National Geographic. You’ll see three consistent patterns in the thinking expressed below.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The scene is the siren song of the innovation community. Meet the New Enterprise Customer, He’s a Lot Like the Old Enterprise Customer - Ben's Blog , November 15, 2010 Meet the new boss. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. The scene will kill you. same as the old boss. The Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

The reality is a startup career path entails a variety of sacrifices, but I don’t believe it should preclude a rich family life, involvement in one’s community, or otherwise seeking a well-rounded human existence. Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Lee’s personal blog, Agile VC.

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