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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. So we got a space in San Francisco, we launched the founders space accelerator, and it just spread from there. John Jantsch (14:46): So Steve, you, you're still in San. So I know what it's like.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo (and a call for he.

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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

Its by far the hardest part of the puzzle of shipping successful products and both recommend that you get a customer in the room and ask them to clarify what they want as you go. Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

These case studies range in size and scope: from pre-product/market fit to already exited, bootstrapped to venture-backed, solo practitioner to large organization. For those who cannot afford the ticket price, who dont think its worth the price, or who cannot travel to San Francisco, there are other ways to participate.

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How to Get Picked as a Speaker for The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Now, “lean” is often used to refer to a company’s financial situation, so it might make you think of a bootstrapped or under-funded organization. But when we talk about “lean,” we’re referring to the processes a company can use, when developing a new product or service, to learn quickly about the questions it has.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

be the manager and product developer). As you grow, think about the right timing for bringing on more people with specific roles, but remember – hire slow, fire fast. As Tony Hsieh of Zappos pointed out during his DCWEEK visit, bad hires have accounted for millions of lost dollars through the years.