Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Maples Investments is the only venture investor I know who has oriented their entire strategy to lean startups. Steve and I worked to find a metaphor that would help explain the power of lean startups, and why they have a serious competitive advantage, especially in these challenging economic times. you get the idea.

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home Events Calendar Job Board Startup Resources Archives About Contact Interested in an Open-Data Contest in Baltimore? Each of those ten people have great ideas and passion for their ventures but they are lacking a technical cofounder or the money to hire a programmer. Start here. Start an event or project. 6 is also a good point.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

The projects under the Wise Labs umbrella So far I have developed several experiments and projects to help me better understand the size of the challenge. Motivation can easily be swept by a challenge or simply by erosion of time. Another successful concept is the 30 day challenge tool.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 23, 2010

The projects under the Wise Labs umbrella So far I have developed several experiments and projects to help me better understand the size of the challenge. Motivation can easily be swept by a challenge or simply by erosion of time. Another successful concept is the 30 day challenge tool.

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? Are you inventing new technical solutions to a problem? They were all completely new technologies or applications of technologies.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Another reason for stressing the point using diagrams is that many entrepreneurs have realized that since the web provides some amazing new ways to acquire customers at low cost, several new businesses have become possible. A common scenario is an entrepreneur that has dreamt up a cool new service that they can offer via the web.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Roberts is in the news this week because of his high-profile critique of Angellist , the hot new investment network Robert Scoble has called the new Silicon Valley hype machine. Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. Please change it. startupcto

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

By unusual coincidence, this week I had a number of different folks ask me to sign NDA s about the new projects theyre working on. Its great that were in such a fertile phase for the tech industry that lots of people have new ideas, and Im very flattered that people value my input or ideas enough to want to share their projects with me.

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www.chancebarnett.com

MAY 10, 2011

With the theory and insights and tips I gave about Positioning your business, finding your market online and “framing” your product to a hungry crowd… when it comes to actually sitting down and deciding what’s on your landing page, it can be a challenge knowing where to start. Traditionally this is a headline, image or tag line.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

He noted that Chris Dixon ( @cdixon ) of Hunch tweeted, “New early-stage start up trend: get big quietly, so you don’t tip off potential competitors.&# Every new thing you take on requires time and effort. People are curious, especially about new things. link] New Thoughts on Stealth Mode [.]

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Software By Rob

DECEMBER 10, 2008

Realize it’s only temporary, and a better way to spend your time than looking for a new job. I recently wrote about the challenges of launching a microISV , but I’ll be talking more about how to get past these difficulties in a future post. I get new requirements everyday. 2 Kevin Jenkins on 12.11.08 at 3:47 pm [.]

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2009

I Love Business Plan Competitions I had a breakfast with a friend who has founded a few companies in Thailand and started the New Ventures Program at one of their universities. Local venture investors and/or companies offer cash prizes for the winners. I hate business plan competitions. to compete.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

If I did go to social events, all I would talk about was my new company. I had thrown myself into a startup because work was an exciting technical challenge with a fixed set of end points and rewards. I’m certainly not there yet, but my new definition is that success equals the quality of my relationships.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If you are an entrepreneur seeking funding, try our free Funding Recommendation Engine to identify a list of angels, venture capital and state grant programs that best match your business. before finishing the new product (ACS 4.x); before finishing the new product (ACS 4.x); Think of it as 7 bonus post-mortems on the house.

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Altgate

JUNE 26, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← F the Banksta! Over the past few months I’ve been spending time with a team of folks that is involved in various parts of this initiative helping them think about new commercial initiatives evolving from i2b2.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

I was hired as a training instructor to teach microprocessor system design for the existing Z-80 family and to write a new course for Zilog’s soon to be launched 16-bit processor, the Z-8000.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 20, 2010

You want people to use your applications and come back so you use addictive gaming techniques (level up, competition, community, challenging yet achievable rewards, etc…) but you know that some of your users abuse your game and set up an alarm in the middle of the night to go and attack their friends in your game. Let me explain what I mean.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

but if you don’t have traffic, I would venture to say that your website means NOTHING. There are many ways to do this, and there isn’t a shortage of people that would venture to give you advice. Being a biology teacher myself, I know how challenging it can be to find good videos to use in your lecture presentations.

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Steve Blank

MAY 15, 2009

I didn’t need to look much further than the “new building&# debacle I had a hand in. The new building needs to reflect that we’re a successful and established company. Lets get comfortable chairs and great new desks for everyone. The exec staff started meeting about the design of the new building.

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www.pakman.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Share this: Tags: consumer web , social media , social web , traffic. News is in the “informational” category. You can see the challenges with building big businesses online around general news. Notify me of new posts by email. Disruption: David Pakman's Blog. Contact Me. 26 September 2012.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Startups , Early Stage Startup , Tips for Startups « The Curse of a New Building Going to Trade Shows Like it Matters – Part 1 » 33 Responses William , on May 18, 2009 at 5:44 am Said: Heh.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Venture Hacks Good advice for startups. SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. Reply # TChan · Nov 14, 2009 Wow, you have perfectly describe the problem with my past venture.

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

Examples could be (a) experience building Facebook games under the new notification rules or (b) knowledge of how to build exceptionally secure e-commerce sites. This post is primarily for new entrepreneurs with no product or dev team. link] Flow » Blog Archive » Daily Digest for March 8th – The zeitgeist daily [.]

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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 22, 2012

Since we had the kids a shortage of hours in the day has become one of my biggest challenges and I’m now a total sucker for a bit of productivity pr0n , and Ryan Carson’s blog post of yesterday gave me a good thrill. I use tags in Gmail for this. Archive them all. Note: This means you won’t answer every email you get.

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Agile VC

MAY 10, 2012

NextView is thrilled to have co-led this round along with our friends at SoftTech VC and Farmeron’s existing investors 500 Startups, Seedcamp, and TAG. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Farmeron announced the closing of its $1.4M seed round today. feedstocks). Read More ».

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Maybe you’re facing the same challenges as James; he’s got a great idea but doesn’t know where to find a technologist to help build it. I’ve managed to contact two serial entrepreneurs by email, give them the pitch, and both of them agreed with me but commented that it would be a challenge to set up.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 10, 2009

ELINT operators on each flight were tasked to gather basic data about the characteristics of the radar: is this a new type of radar or an existing one? This was a two-pronged challenge: the U.S. Again Stanford technology would solve these challenges. Were there holes in their radar coverage our bombers could sneak through?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. Alternatively, follow me on Twitter ( @sethjs ) where I’ll mention when I put up a new post. The New MacBook Air Is That Good. The New MacBook Air Is That Good. Johnny Good post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But its exponentially more engaging to have each person tag their friends in each picture, because the notification is so much more interesting: "youve been tagged in a photo, click to find out which one!" And they dont need to prompt you to tell your guild-mates about the new epic loot you just won. What do they get out of it?

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← I’m in a Book! Most developers start as salaried employees, slogging through code and loving it because they never imagined a job could be challenging, educational, and downright fun.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 6, 2009

Terman’s Systems Engineering Research Lab at Stanford would develop microwave power tube s that offered a solution to both challenges and would be a a game changer for electronic warfare at the time. This was a critical development to support the new tactics of single bombers penetrating the Soviet Union. More in the next post.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP » 67 Responses Michael Curry 2.0 , on June 18, 2009 at 6:08 am Said: Steve- Many thanks for your last two posts.

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Altgate

APRIL 22, 2009

  The biggest challenge in building this tool is that each branch in the question tree is associated with unique verbiage.  ← There is Too Much Venture Capital…Not Too Little 2009 Startup Executive Compensation Survey Opens → [link] Are You In Need Of A Payday Loan Now? Bookmark the permalink.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

3: Hire Your Boss : Make sure you hire people that you would want to work for, who challenge you and you can learn from. There is nothing like a new junior developer who runs circles around everyone to get people hyped up and raise the bar! Venture capital mean board meetings, which is a huge sap on time and resources.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Or, perhaps theyll create an opening for another web platform to start a new cascade. If that happens, I expect youll see some of these attributes in that new challenger: Speed of iteration , thanks to reload-pages-every-time. This allows new people to get integrated into an existing PHP project faster. New development?

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Secondly, ease of use and quality interface design go hand in hand to attract new customers and users. Posted by: Warren Benedetto | September 9, 2009 4:48 PM @Warren - I would almost venture to say that MySpaces horrific design is the reason for its success. Its the ultimate challenge.) A similar sentiment was Barretts opinion.

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