Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

She has a separate team, with its own culture and office, and a mandate straight from top management to innovate without regard to the company’s historic products, channels, or supply chain. Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. So far, so good.

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Again, its critical to focus your marketing launch on those publications, venues, and channels that your potential partners are paying attention to. Do some Customer Development instead. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. You cant really anticipate what the customer will like or not.

San Francisco 168

San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Each of these four currencies represents a way for a customer to “pay&# for services from a company. Constructing a working business model is a form of ecosystem design. A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience?

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

In fact, you cant go through traditional channels at all. One can see how it ripples through the entire business plan. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Expo (and a call for he.

San Francisco 89

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Ruby Lean 89