Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. Combining agile development with customer developm. Some aspects of the vision remain, but often in a significantly modified form. great observation & summary.

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MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc. startupcto

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. That Feedburner page lets you subscribe if you want to give your email address. Combining agile development with customer developm. March 7, 2009 3:31 PM Eric said. Anonymous - thanks for the feedback. Great post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Diversity is not the only requirement for making good group decisions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. 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?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. That’s what you pay PR firms for: to get an article written that is entirely factual and yet still provides positive spin for your company. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. Unfortunately, startup success requires getting them all right. Expo SF (May. Try About the author.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

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. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. But how do we know which metrics to look at?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. And companies crave positive PR and control over their message – all for rational reasons. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. It sells newspapers and magazines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

They don’t participate heavily in the forums, and they don’t send email when they are dissatisfied. They scream, yell and swear on the forums -- first of all out of frustration and secondly because, unlike the help tickets, emails and phone calls, that actually works. Then the reality of our problem hit us. Desperately.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Do you have a way to notify them by SMS or email when something notable happens?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. Eric, Please email me. 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? (a

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

For example, World of Warcraft never needs to send you an email reminding you to log in. Some percentage of them do (A), and these result in a certain number of emails sent (B). Each friend thats tagged gets an email that lets them know theyve been tagged. Its stamped on your emails, landing pages, UI elements - everywhere.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF. Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. If you're interested please send me an email. Unfortunately, I don't see your email address in that comment. I think its wasteful. Instead, lets focus on building companies that matter , on creating real value for customers, and learning.

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