Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

By doing a "soft" product launch first, we were able to quickly identify any remaining bugs before they upset too many users. Great blog BTW, adding this to my favourites. We used social media to get alpha users as outlined here during Feburary. OH>>> they can, since i have an ezine and blog, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Does this sound familiar?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. Big-time media buying is a complex ecosystem that includes many entrenched players. 1 comments: Desoja said.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 22, 2020

We compiled this blog post with all the lessons learned from running a high performing inside sales department in the past two years. It works great in France and other non-native English markets as well. We also do social media marketing. At Syte, inside sales has always been our focus. visual search technology. Partnerships.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# Feel free to follow me on Twitter to get notifications of later posts on this topic, both here and on the Meebo Blog. But at the end of the day, it is about a product being accepted.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

As this is a new initiative for this blog, we especially welcome your feedback. Meanwhile, individuals and smaller companies emailed by the hundreds to say that they wanted the features of custom channels, but the sales model—arranged like a media buy—didn’t make sense to them. Did you find this post useful?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

The first event is January 21, and is being put on by Dealmaker Media as part of their Strategy Series events: In the Trenches: Cutting Costs in a Tight Economy. Get in touch: Twitter Email Facebook Linkedin Additional resources Startup LessonsLearned, All Seasons : Every post from the blog, in one 600+ page PDF.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The customer is unknown, the product is unknown, and startups must be built to learn. It represents the triumph of learning, over the naive startup creation myths we read about in the media. Startup Lessons Learned season one : Every post from the blogs first year in print form. IMVU learned to learn. Please do try this at home.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Ill also reveal the Net Promoter Score for this blog, based on the data youve given me so far. Calculating the NPS of Lessons Learned I promised that I would reveal the NPS of this blog, which I recently took a snapshot of by offering a survey in a previous post. Eric, I love your blog and Ive learned a lot from it. Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. On the App Store, the same dynamic is in play.

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