Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Analytics spark more questions and discussion than almost any other aspect of the Lean Startup method. Alistair and Ben, co-authors of the book Lean Analytics, will help you sort it out in our next webcast, Lean Analytics for Non-tech Companies.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

I just spent a day working with Bob, the Chief Innovation Officer of a very smart large company I’ll call Acme Widgets. I suggested the best place to start the conversation is with the 21 st century definition of a startup: A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

Metrics around these efforts. For example, you may decide that a small business needs a widget like yours (hypothesis) so you outbound to 100 of them (goals) with a vaporware deck to see if you could sell some pre-orders. Some efforts don’t have more complicated metrics than just, “Did this work, yes, no, or still in process?”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

You know you have achieved product/market fit when you start getting orders (or users, eyeballs or whatever your criteria for success was in your business model.) Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] Then WHAT it IS? Great work. Order Here.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Unseen Metrics. The same company, didn’t have a system to accurately identify it’s own key metrics. Would you invest in a company that didn’t know it’s own metrics? If I can copy your business by just looking around, then your company isn’t going anywhere anyway. Lean startup (26).

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform. I’ll add more as time goes on.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Small Business tools list. Lean Startup Circle â?? Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Wireframing, prototypes: buil-in widgets and shapes.

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