Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

That’s because the model is based on assumptions about customers that are totally unproven. If we already knew who the customer was, how they would behave, how much they would pay, and how to reach them, this wouldn’t be a disruptive innovation. The solution is to change our focus from outputs to inputs. But $10.00?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

While finding product-market fit is important, getting the rest of the business model right is the difference between and a great demo and a great business. He is also a co-founder of XediaLabs , a DC-based incubator that provides training and technical consulting to local startups. What was the value proposition?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. and lean manufacturing to guide the creation of technology businesses that create disruptive innovation. Labels: events 3comments: Alexandre Gomes said.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Over 44 classes have embedded the business model canvas and/or Customer Discovery including a year-long course taken by every single one of its bioengineering majors. We didn’t know it at the time, but with that investment we had paid for front-row VIP seats to witness the origins of Customer Development and the Lean Startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Unfortunately, customers hated that initial product. Unfortunately, we made two critically flawed assumptions: that customers would primarily consume first-party assets that we shipped to them on CD and that they would tend to congregate in a relatively uniform way. How likely will customers ultimately use that feature?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

At VT KnowledgeWorks we screen prospective clients for their Market opportunity, for the Magic that they offer to their prospective customers, and for the Moxie displayed by the start-up team. The latest entry is DayOne Ventures , just opened for business in Southwest Virginia, and seeking applicants. Relationships , I said back then.

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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 replace vision with data or customer feedback.

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David Teten

APRIL 18, 2014

Entrepreneurs who are not initially identified as a VCAP Fellow will work with one of several TMF partners to assist with further developing their business model, management team feedback, product review, and identifying additional talent. Lastly, the most investment-ready VCAP Fellows will also be introduced to early stage VCs (e.g.,

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Let’s begin with the four customer currencies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

I prefer to take the most expansive possible definition of product, one that encompasses any source of value for a set of people who voluntarily choose to become customers. But it is not a startup, because its success depends only on decent execution – so much so that this success can be modeled with high accuracy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2016

This year continued the tradition of fantastical celebration, with major announcements from DC and Marvel, the history making premiere of Star Trek Beyond, a brand new Blair Witch , and a Skype-endorsement from Edward Snowden. DC fight to appreciate this week of revelry. 2) Encouraging an enthusiastic community around that brand.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2015

Yet we all [anyone teaching who actually had founded a company] knew that in all honesty no business plan survives first contact with customers. If your goal is to get the technology out of the lab, it’s never too early to start thinking who the customer for that solution is. … What is M34 Capital?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. Those tools, combined with focused customer interviews, have turbo-charged the company’s ability to learn.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

At the company level, founders learn about the flaws in their initial plans and adjust the startup’s strategy, business plan,and business model. percent) of new firm founders indicated that their business ideas [had] changed between the time they first identified them and the time when they were surveyed about them.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. We have to continually invent new categories of products, new platforms, and new business models – all extremely risky bets. Oh, and by the way, we still have to execute flawlessly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program Over the past few months, I have been engaged in another customer discovery exercise with passionate early adopters of the lean startup methodology. I am now ready to move into the customer validation phase. Great idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 17, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your competitors. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

No business model, either. Instead, lets focus on building companies that matter , on creating real value for customers, and learning. All my products and ideas focus on early cash and a business model that works from the first day. So, the idea of starting without a business model is good ?

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Eric Friedman

MAY 28, 2009

I wasn’t exactly a model student. There were a few occasions in high school and amidst my university days in DC when I might have evoked my inner Bueller and taken a day off. The good news is that listening and talking to customers is easier (and cheaper) than ever. This is how we get, what I call, equilibrium lag.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Initially, IMVU sought to quickly build a product that would prove out the soundness of their ideas and test the validity of their business model. As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. And that was not a lot of fun.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. In particular, a marketing launch can help you do three things (courtesy, as is most of my marketing advice, of The Four Steps to the Epiphany ): Drive customers into your sales pipeline. Do your customers really read TechCrunch?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. The most common need is becoming more customer-centric.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Weekly, bespoke programming : As opposed to the typical ‘one-size-fits-all’ structure you see across most other programs, our weekly programming will be customized to fit the needs of the cohort we assemble come launch day. For this particular track, applicants need not apply with a fully baked business model. Who We Are.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Q: How did your technology background help shape the way you approached DC? We’ve always been production-limited: our wholesale customer waitlist currently exceeds our actual customer list and we always run at max capacity. I think it helped tremendously.

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

They try to position themselves as platforms, while they are only building a smaller feature on top of an existing, extremely powerful, extremely distributed platform run by big companies, with big lawyers and big friends in DC. Like anyone else, they are looking to own the customer data and offer smart loyalty programs. Is that it?

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

There’s some fantastic producers in terms of who the output of those accelerators and incubators have been in Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco. The customer validation phase is critical for that kind of thing. Our business model was Pinterest. Caroline: Number five is not talking to customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

They have a product that has a moderate number of customers. Its well done, looks professional, and the customers that use it like it a lot. Most of all, I encouraged them to start talking to their most passionate customers and running some big experiments based on that feedback. Only pay for benefits to customers.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

MAY 26, 2012

Marcia Moran of Modern DC Business covered the event in a post titled Tectonic Economic Shifts Coming and she discusses specific issues such as crowds ourcing, but also structural shifts and what they mean going forward for entrepreneurs and young, recent college grads.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2016

How did we get to a point where fake news is so widely accepted that a young man, just yesterday, brought an assault rifle into a DC pizzeria seeking to take down a Clinton-sponsored child sex ring that never existed ? Most brands, of course, are operating under a very different business model and offer a very different message.

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