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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 attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. Cash is tight.

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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 I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity? As a boot-strapped founder aka our biggest investor, one of the things I leaned into uncovering was the unknown. Lean into it.

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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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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

online.wsj.com

When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs. Engineering & Accounting Svcs.