Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. Best of all, it’s even considered “ultra-cool” these days to be a lean startup. Technology costs.

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Gust

JUNE 10, 2012

That’s a burn rate of at least $10K per month that can be eliminated if you are handy with computers and Quickbooks. Try Web-Ex, free teleconferencing, and Skype instead of international travel for client meetings. Best of all, it’s even considered “ultra-cool” these days to be a lean startup. Technology costs.

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Mucker Lab

MARCH 8, 2016

We’ve been doing Internet stuff our whole careers, since the graphical web became a mass-market, commercial medium in the 1990s. How can we tell founders to stay lean, keep focused on their customers, and keep burn rates low if we cannot walk the talk and eat our own dog food?

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

How we doubled interactions between users: Just by adding a contact button on the press release web page, that opens an inbox conversation. How we doubled the scrolling rate of the Babbler Newsfeed: by changing the search system, show more stories before scrolling and refreshing the UI. This is usually represented in terms of months.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provide the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. But if you have a web based product the right answer may be 300-500. Thank you, Steve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

In lean times, it’s most important to focus on cutting costs in ways that speed you up, not slow you down. To increase the number of iterations you have left, you can either increase cash on hand (by raising money or increasing revenues), reduce burn rate, or increase the speed of each iteration. Work in small batches.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

I think once we lean on the community, the community really has uplifted us to an even more promising stage. Eric Ries : Do you have any books or other web resources you want to plug, or that you think people should pay attention to, things you want us to link to, anything like that? Alpha Lee : They were great.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

And even worse, wed cranked up the burn rate in order to be ready to handle all those millions of mainstream customers we anticipated. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, How to build companies that matter (the lean start.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

Although it may or may not be in written form, it is reasonably common lore at Stanford that Terman was spider in the web, so to speak, that really set the wheels in motion for both Stanford’s place in “the valley&# as well as the valley’s place as a home to entrepreneurship. to do that.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Post-Mortem Title : Lessons from Kiko, web 2.0 If you are a web startup , you can take max 6 months to release your first version( for something like mint.com).Simpler If you are a web startup , you can take max 6 months to release your first version( for something like mint.com).Simpler startup, about Its Failure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

The passionate early adopters who flocked to the product at its launch could not sustain this outsized burn rate. As we move into a new economic climate, its my hope that our industry will stop this expensive kind of learning and start building lean startups instead. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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