Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: Hey Someone else who is extending the agile/lean approach beyond just developing software.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Think Again How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen How Much Stock to Ask For When Joining a Startup - Startup Professionals Musings , June 20, 2010 Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 Eight Tips To Successfully Bootstrap Your Business Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 6, 2013

How to Turn Your Startup Into a Lean, Mean Marketing Machine – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet – [link]. 4 A/B Testing Mistakes That Can Kill Your Business – And How to Avoid Them | KISSMetrics Blog – [link]. Lean Business: The Very Model of a Modern Spreadsheet – [link].

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

In other words, you must start bootstrapping an online startup , because the future of the global business world is online. Before we look at ways to bootstrap a startup, let’s consider a comprehensive definition of what a startup is. Ways to bootstrap a startup. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy. What is a startup?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2010

My experiments in lean pricing - Venture Hacks , February 16, 2010 Ash Maurya, a lean entrepreneur who runs a bootstrapped startup called CloudFire, discusses pricing issues for first versions (Minimum Viable Product – MVP). This post looks at the implementation details of HTML 5 video. Good stuff from Jason.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. We’re dedicated to making The Lean Startup Conference unlike other entrepreneurship conferences. As Lean Startup takes root around the world, we’d like to learn from and help people working in geographically diverse areas connect with each other.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 21, 2013

Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. Lean Business: Save Money, Save the Environment – [link]. 13 Resources to Design for Bootstrap | Vandelay Design Blog – [link]. 30+ Free Flat UI Icon Sets | Blog of Francesco Mugnai – [link]. Forget the coasts.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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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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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

What about bootstrapping? Nelson notes that in two studies, both from Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In and from a Harvard Business School study , when it came to judging women’s work less favorably, the women involved in the study were just as biased as the men. ” Nelson says. Look inward. And as such it can be changed.”

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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. My aspiration with the Lean Startup methodology has always been to provide such a framework, so that we have more intelligent conversations about what works and what doesnt for 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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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible. Looking forward to more of your posts, this blog is a favorite of ours right now! Thanks to Twitter, I just discovered your blog. Great post! Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Bootstrapped, Profitable, & Proud: Braintree – [link]. Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business – [link]. The original post is in the Random Fun section below. Good post about the pitfalls of code refactoring for startups – [link].

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

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 I also blog at www.bp-3.com/blogs.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Whereas a blog post needs just a computer to type, a video requires an understanding of lighting, audio, storytelling, editing, and community building. We’re a bootstrapped company that started with more time than money. So, from day one, we invested heavily in YouTube, our blog, Tumblr, and Reddit. lower views) in our data.

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Up and Running

JULY 10, 2017

Another friend of mine, multipreneur and CEO at Ritekit Saul Fleischman, has actually found the freemium model beneficial for some of his SaaS products: “With forever free users, they blog about us, and we get to market to them. Having that much said about freemium pricing in its conventional form, let’s move on to other pricing strategies.

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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. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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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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Up and Running

MARCH 8, 2016

At Palo Alto Software, we use a lean planning process to determine whether or not an idea is likely to succeed or to fail. Typically, domestic cleaning business operations need very little upfront investment and as such, can bootstrap their business idea, or get started as a part-time operation. You know enough to validate your idea.

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The Startup Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

But we have made it this far and are ever the more energized to keep bootstrapping and tenaciously fighting to nurture and grow our fledgling business. This may be a spouse, a relative or a good friend, we all need that emotional support, that believer, that rock to lean on when things invariably get tough. I must be mad.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 18, 2011

Coming from the financial world to the software world taught us a lot about bootstrapping and finding valuable outsourcing tools. There is so much to manage for an enterprising small business that it makes sense to lean on experts like the one’s crowdSPRING provides for the things like graphic work.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 26, 2014

I’m a big fan of bootstrapping a business instead of beginning with seed rounds. There are amazing groups like Startup America and Lean Start Up that hold meet-ups for entrepreneurs to network at and collaborate. Consider working part-time as a transition into entrepreneurship. Have an original idea. Plug into a community.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

When we launched our public beta in April, the first thing we wanted was some coverage on different startup blogs and websites. Sociable Blog 20. Tweet Tagged: blog coverage , get coverage , startup review , startups , submit startup Enjoyed this blog post? Traindom blog is maintained by Peep Laja ( @peeplaja ).

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You could start a blog all about your idea and the struggle to bring it to fruition. Right now you could sign up for a Twitter account and search for every person in MD, DC, VA, and DE who has the words “software&# or “programmer&# or “hacker&# in their bio. Elizabeth Eadie: Super fun! But.where are the ladies? Catchy tune.

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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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Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

Four years after founding and bootstrapping Mucker Capital , we are pleased to announce the close of a new $45 million fund, Mucker III. How can we tell founders to stay lean, keep focused on their customers, and keep burn rates low if we cannot walk the talk and eat our own dog food? Mucker is for them.

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ConversionXL

MAY 12, 2016

I mean, seriously, nearly every blog uses that two-column layout where the content takes up 2/3 of the page and the right has promotions on the other 1/3.”. Templates can be a wonderful way to accelerate delivery, working with the lean practice of done is better than perfect. HubSpot has over 1,400 website and email templates.

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The Entrepreneurial Mind

JANUARY 11, 2011

One of the limitations of Osterwalder's canvas for business modeling is that is can get a bit clumsy for lean start-ups that are bootstrapped. Maurya offers his own variation of a business model canvas that he has found better suited for his lean web-app start-ups. and specifically my type of business - web apps.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Attend networking events, trade shows, participate on blogs, @ people on Twitter and hit people up on LinkedIN offering to shout them coffee’s in return for their time. . How do bootstrapped companies hire talent? How much should it cost for a bootstrapped, lean startup to incorporate (or form an LLC)?

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It endearingly represents the ingenuity and collaboration required to bootstrap a project. Based on the New York Times bestselling memoir, Wild (starring Reese Witherspoon) is a great story that demonstrates lean planning in action. The post The Year’s 10 Best Movies for Entrepreneurs appeared first on Bplans Blog.

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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. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 4, 2014

This is true whether you’re a bootstrapped startup that’s funded with credit cards and loans from friends and family, or the next darling of Silicon Valley that’s sitting on a war chest of millions in venture capital funding. appeared first on Bplans Blog. How have you vetted business ideas in the past?

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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. Why the obsession with raising money, what if you don’t want a huge company, what if you want to bootstrap, don’t you know raising money isn’t a measure of correctness or success, … I agree! That’s shitty!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. We had some radical thoughts how companies were going to have change to remain competitive in the 21 st century in a blog post.

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