Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Solve a problem you can relate to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

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. Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

” For Lindsay Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Theme Dragon, Inc that opportunity was founding a tech company. She and original cofounder Megan Bradford poured their proverbial blood, sweat and tears into this enterprise. What about bootstrapping? Their latest product, Statdragon, launched just last week. Look inward.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

And despite not going to University, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of the Unicorn Startup Just Eat. Well, you're going to judge it by the team, by the co-founders. Should you bootstrap? It's the founders themselves. Can you find the right co-founder?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Anything you read on popular blogs is also read by everyone else. You don't have an "edge" just because you're passionate, hard-working, or "lean.". 37signals' ranting platform — a blog with 131k followers and a best-selling book — is nearly impossible to build even with a full-time army of insightful writers.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). Well, you're gonna judge it by the team, by the co-founders. And when you're judging it by the co-founders, that's when you have to try and decide, okay, what have they got going for themselves?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Notice that the unit of progress changes as we move from waterfall to agile to the lean startup. Brilliant insights, advice and information on your blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 18, 2010 Four myths about the Lean Startup Myth: Lean means cheap. Lean startups try to spend as little money as possible. Truth: The Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Myth: The Lean Startup methodology is only for Web 2.0/internet/consumer

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. I think another thing you wanted to talk about was the whole keep bootstrapping or raise money question. Jason: Exactly. Jason: Yeah.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. Is design important to lean startups? Or, as Steve Blank put it, Lean Startups Arent Cheap Startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

I talked to Adam Hempenstall, founder and CEO at BetterProposals , who has been using freemium for three years for his SaaS product: “Honestly, I think it was a mistake. What it did do to start with was remove price as an issue so we could focus on getting the product right and usability right. How is your startup funded?

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Andrew Ellis, one of the co-founders of SignNow.com, was so enthusiastic about his company, I’m going to let him do most the talking on this one: How would you explain what you do to somebody’s grandmother? People who need a fast signature only need to upload the document and then sign and send it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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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 mentioned to Mike that I was going to kick this series off over on the Meebo Blog , but he suggested I start it here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program Over the past few months, I have been engaged in another customer discovery exercise with passionate early adopters of the lean startup methodology. So if youre a lean startup earlyvangelist, read on. Great idea.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Based on the list posted on StartupWeekend Resources pag e and the TokBox blog. Lean Methodology Sources. Part 3- Lean Cust. Wireframes.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 14, 2013

This is a guest post by Wade Foster , co-founder and CEO of Zapier, which originally appeared on his blog. You can follow Wade’s writing on his site or the Zapier blog. But since I’m relatively fresh off of the experience I get asked by first-time founders how they should go about raising money for their startup.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2013

An anonymous tech entrepreneur—who at his height in the startup world “hit the top of TechCrunch” and landed a prestigious spot in a startup accelerator—has predicted the demise of his fledgling business, and is blogging the collapse as it happens. I didn’t believe the s**t I was selling investors.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 1, 2012

The results of a serendipitous live experiment were recently published as guest posts on this blog. This is a choice that every startup founder must make , so I’d like to dig in deeper. If a co-founder has a rolodex in the industry — extremely common — then it would be surprising not to find 10 people.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

Capital Factory is fortunate to have many co-founders and some that even joined a few years in. In 2012, when we opened up the coworking space Bill Boebel and Gordon became co-founders and helped establish the model that we have in place today. and some tough times where we had to lean on each other, too.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Many startups begin from a single entrepreneur or a small team that either invest their own time and money until they can begin to generate revenue, or reach small fundraising goals through friends, family, crowdfunding, incubators, or bootstrapping. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet. image credit: Paul Cross.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 14, 2011

It has been very challenging bootstrapping this venture with my financial aid from grad school. Fortunately, Cup o’ Noodles is still around along with some good old Lean Cuisines. Another issue I have come across is securing a co-founder that is both technical and excited about marketing.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

David Daneshgar, Gregg Weisstein, and Farbod Shoraka, the founders of BloomNation.com. But, of course, they need funding—and wouldn’t you know it, one of the founders is a world class poker player. So, from the consumer end, the founders believed they could do better. Creating a better experience for both florists and consumers.

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Up and Running

JUNE 13, 2015

I don’t believe in the myth of the self-made man or woman that you are who you are, and you can achieve what you can achieve really because you believed it hard enough, and you pulled yourself up by your bootstraps to get there. It could be something as simple as tweeting a link to their blog. I’m a fan of hard work.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. This is her core market.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Bokér/1 Next David Sarna with Hendon, Stamford Hill & Co. He should then bootstrap his product development by using the consulting fees. Again, referring back to the Finisar case study I often teach on this topic , bootstrapping using services is a very effective way to build companies. This is her core market.

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