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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Cash is tight.

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6 ways to monetize a user-based business model

The Next Web

This is common in B2C apps (Facebook, for example), but it’s still new in B2B apps like Wave Accounting. Because we bootstrapped, the biggest challenge right out of the gate was getting customers on board fast. We focused on drumming up initial interest and building a lean, yet functional product.

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Tortoise vs. the Hare

Austin Startup

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along Stanford’s CS183c?—?Blitzscaling

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Hopefully this will get more bootstrapping entrepreneurs focusing on making money instead of raising money. They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Progress is the same.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

and * on a bootstrapped budget* : We first engaged in customer surveys and validated a huge problem?—?several As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it. If you can bootstrap your business, it’s not a true venture-backed business.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. Those who didn’t have a product or much of a product used a concierge model of sorts ala Lean Startup philosophy to start running their business.

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How I invest as a pre-seed investor?

Hippoland

V4: Helping directors of marketing at series B B2B SaaS companies who have previously bought ads in email lists get customers profitably. Those who didn’t have a product or much of a product used a concierge model of sorts ala Lean Startup philosophy to start running their business.