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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. Growth - when you have existing customers, the pressure is on to grow your key metrics day-in day-out. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

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The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. It’ll be nearly two years before the concept of “Web 2.0″ ″ is popularized by Tim O’Reilly (the first Web 2.0 is the leading consumer internet company with Terry Semel as CEO.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. Come to TS in Boston! The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Tickets are available now and include dinner. Stay tuned for more details.) Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Is there s choice?

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.