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. Of course, the sales folks had new features as their #1 priority.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

ChemChina, a state-owned company formed in 2004 from the former Ministry of Chemical Industry, had sales of $23 billion in 2010 and assets of $29 billion. The Beijing based company also refines petroleum, manufactures rubber and silicone products, as well as specialty chemicals. It operates in 140 countries worldwide.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Similarly, government purchasing is a frustrating series of hoops, even compared to enterprise sales.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? You might also look at Knowledge score 4 or lower for ways to create content that would develop them into customers. Here are some other ideas on how you can use your social media marketing database: Product Development.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? You might also look at Knowledge score 4 or lower for ways to create content that would develop them into customers. Here are some other ideas on how you can use your social media marketing database: Product Development.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? You might also look at Knowledge score 4 or lower for ways to create content that would develop them into customers. Here are some other ideas on how you can use your social media marketing database: Product Development.

Social Media 126

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? You might also look at Knowledge score 4 or lower for ways to create content that would develop them into customers. Here are some other ideas on how you can use your social media marketing database: Product Development.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? You might also look at Knowledge score 4 or lower for ways to create content that would develop them into customers. Here are some other ideas on how you can use your social media marketing database: Product Development.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

This is the first post in what’s going to be a series of blogs on how to go from nothing – no connections, no team, no money and no knowledge of how the startup industry really works – to operating a growing business. I’m taking a 52 week course in how to start up, run, operate, and achieve self employment.

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