Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Paring down products, target customers, business models etc takes courage, but it must be done to have any chance of success. Eric, As you touch on, the lean venture has been the basic model employed by entrepreneurs throughout history until the past 12 years or so when venturing became institutionalized. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? However, they insisted on using a platform that totally contradicted their business model. I've seen cases where a CEO thinks they know tech.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

You have to know your business model. Most startups launch before theyve figured out what business theyre in. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Would have been nice to have this last year when I started my own business. Dont scale. Gattiker said.

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