Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

This post describes how following the traditional product development can lead to a “startup death spiral.&# In the next posts that follow, I’ll describe how this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – offering a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

One of the greatest threats to long-term success is when companies aren’t vigilant enough about responding to the changes in their market—whether it’s by failing to spot product or channel fatigue, acknowledge new competition, make needed updates to products or marketing adjustments in a timely fashion, or embrace new technology coming online.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Detractors – who are unhappy users that may damage your brand through negative reviews. Explore sales figures to customer interactions with various web pages and so much more. Agility, Adaptiveness, and Responsiveness. Your startup may need NPS software to gather accurate customer feedback in a timely, low-effort fashion.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 4, 2024

For instance, if you’re in the tech industry, your vision might be to revolutionize how people interact with technology. Examples of Goals Increase Market Share: By expanding your product line, aim to capture 10% more of the market within two years. Embrace new technologies and be willing to pivot when necessary.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

What are the industry and technology trends that are fueling the need for these skills? Those working in data-centric tech organizations probably don’t find this idea out-of-the-norm. With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Image Source.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. First of all, why split-test? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Playing with new technologies. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. We also try to communicate the initial due date with as few people outside our company (investors, customers, etc) as possible to avoid losing credibility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. There are too many products clamoring for attention. I’ve met a lot of gatekeepers in the past few months.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

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. This stage is used to determine the viability of your product and confirm when it should go to market. Image source. Rapid skimming.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Others in that cohort included Zviki Shimon (CFO), Yair Areli (senior VP of global sales), Nir Mandel (VP of product management), and Aviv Canaani (VP of marketing). The promotion signals the importance of product development for the company’s growth roadmap.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It should go without saying that this post is not advice, nor is it recommendation of what you should do, it’s simply my observation of how companies using Customer Development positioned themselves to successfully raise money from venture investors. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

In the tactics section, list your sales channels and describe how you will be selling your products. While it’s useful to be able to have a sales forecast and expense budget early on, it’s not something you need until you’ve validated your idea. Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. When a startup encounters difficult technical problems, this is the guy you want solving them. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. All is not lost, though.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Their products are over-priced, buggy, lacking features, and every experience I've had with their tech support has been atrocious, but man their stuff looks and feels nice!

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 22, 2019

Companies are investing in innovation training, mostly learning frameworks like Lean, Agile, or Design Thinking. Nearly all that training is for dedicated innovation teams , or employees who are focused on new product development. Engaged support for strategic and tactical innovation initiatives developed by others.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 26, 2012

Keep the team small, agile and up-to-date. Develop a strong backbone. The backbone of your technology company revolves around a well-organized, up-to-date, specific and documented vision, brand-key, business plan, intellectual property rights, contracts, financial administration, NDAs and bylaws it can rely on.

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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?). Facts don’t change minds – true for both sales and customers. Offline sale – typically. Long sales cycle – 18 months or more. How to do shorten a long sales process?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 30, 2010

These can be research tasks, like finding every tech blogger who blogs about cats, repetitive tasks like creating 100 affiliate links for products in a Word document, or ongoing tasks like monitoring a handful of job boards and posting new jobs to your website. Agile Development, meet Agile Business.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

The reasons why I am not a big fan of development shops are too numerous to go into here. In brief, startups succeed because there is strong alignment of interests among all parties, especially with the people who are actually building the product. Actually any shop that does agile development with daily and weekly releases should.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

And let’s suppose you want to allocate just a little time for career development. After all, if you expect to hire and retain great people, they need time to keep learning, stay in front of the latest technology, and just have fun. The usual story is: We built this product because we needed it ourselves.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Part of this is due to their determination to overtake us, but part is due to structural changes in the nature of entrepreneurship. For example, over 25% of the technology companies founded between 1995-2005 had a key immigrant founder. But today, it is getting harder and harder to maintain. Expo SF (May.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Most people want to visit your site, do some research, go away, visit other sites, come back to yours, get more confidence about your brand, go back to Google and compare reviews/prices, come back to your site and add the product/service to the cart, go and ask their spouse/boss for permission, come back and buy from you (or the other site).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2019

Go beyond standard sources of voice of customer data ; better options are: Interview founders (the original “customers”); Thank-you page surveys; Usertesting.com; Mine sales calls; Mine support tickets; Mine Facebook comments ; Mine online reviews. Decision making: What is the technical complexity and debt you’re adding?

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Seed Startups. Customer service.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2018

The growth system is broken: product, marketing and sales are siloed. Sales compensation is a rule. Booking.com: user reviews, location.). Development = rules. Alexa Hubley: The Agile Marketing Playbook. Create your agile process: Map (start at the end). That’s a problem. Pricing is a rule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I think this is one of your better posts this year, because you are addressing a risk that you face AFTER some early success, when your guard is down and you are more inclined to believe that you know what you are doing and therefore do not need to be as diligent at framing your hypotheses and how you plan to verify them. YOU and ONLY YOU.

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