Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away. And a special thanks is due to all of our presenters, panelists, and mentors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Ive written about this before in some detail, but this was an opportunity to try and frame it for a general business audience. Ive written about this before in some detail, but this was an opportunity to try and frame it for a general business audience. Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. Im looking for a few people to run ideas by, give feedback, and generally help craft ideas so that they can have the biggest impact on this audience. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast, I catch up with Brian and we just talk about a whole host of things. He is the CEO of Rainmaker Digital, founder of Copyblogger, host of unemployable and curator of further. The right kind of audience has to match what your actual goal is. You don’t want to miss it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

In this post I hope to talk about how to do it well, in terms appropriate for both audiences. In my experience, the majority of changes we made to products have no effect at all on customer behavior. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

I spent most of my time with TechStars, who were my hosts for the trip. And do your customer development. And, as usual, I wanted to share some of the audience reaction with my commentary. These quotes are, as is my custom, straight from twitter. I also did quite a bit of asking questions myself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 28, 2014

A study by Wistia found the average play rate for “ business videos” hosted on their platform was roughly 30%. In another study, Wistia dug into the visitor data for their own homepage video & found that roughly 30% of their video views came from prospective customers. We’re really adamant. It’s not the technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Beware The Need for Critical Mass I’m going to lead with a quote from Seth on this one: “Failing for small audiences is a loud cue that you will fail even bigger with big audiences.&# The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

“We had to ignore them, because they weren’t our target audience – and were never likely to become customers.&# “We had to ignore them, because they weren’t our target audience – and were never likely to become customers.&# Which is a nice story. says Rachleff. Which is a nice story.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

I know some of those compilers are no longer available (some are hosted, others are not), so I took the liberty of putting up a copy of the PHP Greasemonkey Compiler. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Another thought would be to outline who the intended audience for your blog is and the topic areas you will focus on. This is a good sign for you! :) I subscribed because I was inspired by the O'Reilly video, and feel I want to go deeper into the customer development field. September 19, 2008 4:54 PM SkyHammer said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

They know how much it costs to bring in a customer and they know how much money they can expect to make on each one. In other words, they have learned to grow renewable audiences. For more on how this plays into the process of scaling up, see the Customer Creation stage of the customer development model.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

But these students completely failed to address the one and only question on their audiences mind: can you three guys really build the robots of the future? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Through some of these mini-games that my co-founder, Lance, had created, we had a small audience initially. We were hosting a Qualtrics Live event for our customers in New York City in a hotel in the same neighborhood where the trade show had been. We now had 250 New York customers there; the room was full.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? SEM on five dollars a day Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Marc Prensky's Weblog: Cell Phones in Class A new version of the Joel Test (draft) Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your c.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Now that you've been to Austin (and I sat in the audience), I can comment on the high quality of the presentation. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thanks, Alexandre Gomes May 28, 2009 8:59 AM Eric Overton said. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 20, 2010

As a good student of startup theory, especially modern theories of customer development, this time I was methodical and purposeful. If you want a step-by-step, here's a great guide and checklist of how to do early customer development by Ash Maurya. This time, though, it was intentional. And it worked.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

Through some of these mini-games that my co-founder, Lance, had created, we had a small audience initially. We were hosting a Qualtrics Live event for our customers in New York City in a hotel in the same neighborhood where the trade show had been. We now had 250 New York customers there; the room was full.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

At a recent talk, an audience member asked me about the impact of continuous deployment on morale. As luck would have it, one of IMVU’s engineers happened to be in the audience at the time. As luck would have it, one of IMVU’s engineers happened to be in the audience at the time. It’s really a lot of fun.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Join them on November 21 at 9a PT, along with conference co-host Sarah Milstein. In the second, the audience was 8th-grade students and parents. Here are a few highlights of that conversation: Christie, on identifying and knowing your customer: One of the biggest challenges in the social sector in general is around who the customer is.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

leanstartup #goap It was great to be in an audience of entrepreneurs who recognized the value of iteration and speed. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? goap Thanks! ericnakagawa : Show of hands how many in startup here? 40%, How many think they could iterate faster?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

But part was a recognition that we could gain substantial competitive advantage by leveraging a community of like-minded visionary customers to serve a wider (and more mainstream) audience than we could alone. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

There is no reason why all written content that is produced today for those purposes couldn’t be split-tested – at least to a segment of its audience. We have to look at fundamental business questions right from the start: what is the right audience? What is the right revenue model?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2010

The Lean Enterprise Institute , the official keepers of lean, are hosting a free webinar on Wednesday, April 28. This is intended for anybody who is working on new innovations, whether that means continuous improvement at the front lines, or new product development in a mature manufacturing company. Details are below.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2010

They use crowdsourcing to figure out which speakers to invite and what topics are of interest to their audience. It enables rapid customer-centric iteration. Regardless of what the SXSW organizers decide, I intend to host an event in Austin to coincide with the conference. It enables rapid customer-centric iteration.

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