Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) And what of the product development team? Every board meeting, the metrics of success change.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

We started with the product about three years ago, development, a year later we released it. They have many, many man-years of development and customer development in them. You have your general management meeting and in your general management meeting you talk about product development, about marketing and about finance.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. . Jim lectures at University of California Santa Barbara and elsewhere on the process of discovering successful business models. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 23, 2012

But all that investment in growth and sales force didn’t have a long-term payback, and the actual value of the product to small businesses wasn’t as high as claimed, even though the simplest of customer development reveals this fact (ask any restauranteur).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

No MBA business model would ever come out with, “Hey we’re going to go target the academics.” Everyone comes up now — the VCs, the market – and they say, “Hey wow, that was a beautiful business model. We bootstrapped it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development. Truth: The Lean Startup methodology applies to all companies that face uncertainty about what customers will want. Myth: Lean Startups are small bootstrapped startups.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 8, 2016

No MBA business model would ever come out with, “Hey we’re going to go target the academics.” Everyone comes up now — the VCs, the market – and they say, “Hey wow, that was a beautiful business model. We bootstrapped it. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2016

Nigel : … We’ve done a pretty decent job … bootstrapping with limited resources — trying to figure out different ways to get work done and move the needle without actually spending any money. Here’s how they knew their idea could be a business. Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 22, 2009

At this point in my career I didn’t understand that the goal of getting outside the building was not only finding markets with potential customers to sell to but also confirming the company’s vision, business model and product/market fit. I had done a good job of Customer Discovery but failed at Customer Validation.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

3d - developer, designer and distributor. I have come to believe during my time as an operator, entrepreneur and investor that the balance of these skills is so important to the long-term health of a business that if balance is not achieved early then the impact later can be profound - sometimes terminal. They are many more examples.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Design/Front End: Twitter Bootstrap : Include this in your website, and you are half finished. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers?

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? The driving force helps shape technology choices, importance of design, market segment, and business model as well as company culture, growth plan and exit strategy.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

I don’t know any developers. When I point out that they’re all business people, and wonder who’s going to build the product, they almost always fall back on “we’ll get a couple of undergrads to do it,” or, “we’ll outsource it.” How do you know which designer/developer to choose? I need money for the servers. How To Get There.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Heres the pitch: a group of 10 companies would meet once a month for six months to develop their capacity to run lean. Each company would enroll two leaders in the series, one on the technology side, one on the business side. I love the business model. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

You can bootstrap your way into existence. Making Money From Social Games - ArcticStartup , August 23, 2010 Games Developer Conference Europe 2010 (GDCE) took place last week in Cologne, Germany. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e. Develop your business plan.

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