Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

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Steve Blank

JUNE 6, 2016

Srivastava leads Verizon’s innovation outpost (their Silicon Valley R&D center) in Palo Alto focusing on building products and services powered by big data and analytics. Today Evangelos invests in early- and growth-stage companies focusing on the enterprise in the areas of data and analytics, SaaS applications, and mobility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 11, 2011

The Lean Startup Machine looks a lot like reality television for startups. I have written previously about how powerful the these events are as a teaching tool for Lean Startup principles. Below you will find the final presentations of each of the Lean Startup Machine NYC teams, including SnappSchool, who was judged to be the winner.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. With case studies like this, we aim to illustrate specific Lean Startup techniques through the stories of current practitioners. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail. Product Development – Getting Funded as The Goal In a traditional product development model, entrepreneurs come up with an idea or concept, write a business plan and try to get funding to bring that idea to fruition.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 2, 2013

We talk a lot about Customer Development, but there’s nothing like seeing it in action to understand its power. But the big payoff came when their discussions with medical device customers revealed an entirely new way to think about pricing —potentially tripling their revenue. His teenage daughter has Type 1 diabetes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 18, 2010 Four myths about the Lean Startup Myth: Lean means cheap. Lean startups try to spend as little money as possible. Truth: The Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Myth: The Lean Startup methodology is only for Web 2.0/internet/consumer

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2009

It’s a useful read to explore and challenge analytical arguments and mind-sets. BTW, I don’t know to be hopeful or concerned that that this is the state of the art of analytical thinking at this agency. Customer Analytics – From Those Who Should Know « Steve Blank (tags: reasoning philosophy Thinking) [.]

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Instead you will be getting your hands dirty talking to customers, partners, competitors, as you encounter the chaos and uncertainty of how a startup actually works. What are the 9 parts of a business model?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 16, 2013

Andreas Klinger Customer Development Earlyvangelists Lean Analytics Mom Test Product-market-fit Wantapreneurs 4 steps to the epiphany contagious customer development earlyvangelists landing pages Mom test Product market fit Rob Fitzpatrick SEM seo spent the power of habbit The Referral Engine'

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

We’re going to test this hypothesis by teaching a Lean LaunchPad class for Life Sciences and Healthcare (therapeutics, diagnostics, devices and digital health) this October at UCSF with a team of veteran venture capitalists. Filed under: Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Science and Industrial Policy , Teaching.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 11, 2012

———– The Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation (NSF). Over the last 6 months, we’ve been teaching a version of the Lean LaunchPad class for the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps. In an incubator, the Lean LaunchPad develops angel or venture-funded startups.

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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. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Asking imposes overhead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. Read more at How to Usability Test your Site for Free | Noah Kagans Okdork.com Labels: listening to customers 1 comments: HKagan said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

I need to look at working in Market Types, however, since the cost of market share acquisition differs drastically, even if the cost of customer acquisition were the same. I am starting to execute an eerily similar approach in the Big Data analytics market. What part of this blog should I read if I am also reading the book?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. If they don’t, there are a new breed of lean startups who understand this deep in the bones ready to take their place. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Localytics – Mobile Analytics (backed by Polaris). General Assembly – Boston branch of tech classes and workshops started in NYC. Great for recent grads or career switchers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 30, 2018

Parse.ly – Parse.ly aims to provide clear audience insights to the web’s best publishers through an intuitive analytics platform. Javelin – All-in-one lean startup and customer development software. These are my weekend favs, I would love to hear about some of yours – Tweet me @ducttape.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. As this is a new initiative for this blog, we especially welcome your feedback. How are we doing?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 1, 2009 Lean Startup webcast post-game Wow, what an incredible turnout for webcast this morning, right on the heels of a phenomenal crowd at startup2startup last night. Its been a great twelve hours for the lean startup! wogsland : Still not understanding the "lean" aspect. What a thrill.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We'll be discussing the Lean Startup movement, the upcoming conference, and whatever else you decide you want to ask about. Remember, radio programs get no realtime analytics, no click maps, no funnel reports. Throughout the hour (from 10am-11am) we'll be picking people to win free tickets to the Lean Startup Conference on December 3.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase. Analytics You need to understand your customers/users better. I am slowly going away from Google Analytics in favour of Clicky (although this is an affiliate link, I genuinely recommend this tool). which sources send better traffic?

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

I tell these stories to lay the groundwork for what I am going to call Revenue Development. We’re all familiar with Product Development, and thanks to the amazing Steve Blank and Eric Ries , Customer Development has become the mantra for so many startups. In a nutshell, Product Development is about building something.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

JULY 1, 2010

You will find here a list of tools you can use during the customer discovery phase. Analytics You need to understand your customers/users better. I am slowly going away from Google Analytics in favour of Clicky (although this is an affiliate link, I genuinely recommend this tool). which sources send better traffic?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

How do we know how much energy to invest in analytics vs. doing real work? How do we know how much energy to invest in analytics vs. doing real work? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. .

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Additionally, he is the co-founder of ConnectYard , a social analytics platform for e-learning platforms. The other piece was that my partner had some of the Lean Startup process down cold. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. We couldn’t afford (to waste time).

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Steve Blank

MAY 16, 2016

Now they’ve realized that the SAR data and analytics is the business. Aqualink started the class working to give Navy divers in the Naval Special Warfare Group a system of wearable devices that records data critical to diver health and safety and makes the data actionable through real-time alerts and post-dive analytics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 3, 2009 Minimum Viable Product: a guide One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product. I was delighted to be asked to give a brief talk about the MVP at the inaugural meetup of the lean startup circle here in San Francisco. Thanks Eric.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

I reminded her that all the Lean tools she learned in class–Customer Discovery, business model and value proposition canvases– contained her answer. In addition, the audience > message > media > messenger cycle seamlessly moves this learning into getting, keeping and growing customers. Here’s how.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. The Ultimate Combination of Startup Business Development Methods - ArcticStartup , November 16, 2010 I've been a huge fan of Steven Blank's Customer Development methodology for a long time. Where is it?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Over 10 weeks each team gets out and talks to 100 customers. Those days are over.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. With five days remaining before The Lean Startup Conference , we wanted to lay out what we’re offering that’s unlike any other entrepreneurship conference and explain the different levels of participation available to you.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

It seems like it’s somewhat of a surprise to nontechnical people that development skills are VERY high in demand. An analytical mindset that might be somewhat jaded from past ventures is going to take a hard look at your idea, and their reaction is likely to be sobering.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Slowly, over time, we optimized (or eliminated) each step in the process of becoming a customer by giving us money. In the process, we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system. And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I don't see how aplying Continuous Deployment (CD) to data marts (and the analytic products that depend on them) would be any different to any other online application. Great related post by John Shook at the Lean Enterprise Institute about technical vs. social sides of problems. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Am I a Founder? The other thing it helps clarify is that even at work, it’s the relationships that matter most (collegues, customers, partners, etc). The Adventure of a Lifetime.

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