Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail I had the privilege of volunteering for the Obama campaign in swing states for a few weekends during the final push towards victory. Im quite confident I got more out of the experience than the campaign got from me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Start an AdWords campaign. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I used to use $.05,

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai This is John Jansen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. Jeremy Howard : I'm Jeremy Howard, a research scientist at the University of San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

My first AdWords campaign was limited to five dollars a day, and we were buying clicks at five cents a click. We ran ad campaigns against every single product we could think of in an adjacent market space to ours. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Think of it as micropayments for beta testers. Bring your questions.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

It’s a San Francisco Bay Area forum for networking, jobs and education for over 500 Product Management professionals. 5 great viral marketing campaigns (and what small businesses can learn from them!) How To Pick A Co-Founder , by Naval Ravikant (Venture Hacks). Except they won’t be called Product Managers.

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abovethecrowd.com

JUNE 2, 2021

Paypal famously offered customers $5 to invite a friend, who would then also get $5 as part of a highly successful viral marketing campaign (they actually started at $20, and then reduced it to $10 and then ended at $5). Sounds too good to be true? They all simply ignore it. The desired allocation of the “hot IPO” is proof all by itself.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How founders find the determination to push through tough times was the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jacqueline Ros. Christina Stembel.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The Founders Lie About Comfort Zones – [link]. Investors Need to Lose Their Egos and Founders Need to Gain Some Confidence – [link]. Go west, young MBA: Important rules for building wealth in San Francisco – [link]. 10 adjustments to make when working for a Big Co. Dave McClure – [link].

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Adam Hertz, a cable company executive in San Francisco , and his wife, Joan, have enthusiastically embraced the movement. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Thats real money."

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 20, 2023

He is co-founder of Monograph Capital, a life sciences venture firm in London and San Francisco, and was previously CEO of the Rhodes Trust in Oxford. Recent, an episode featured Max Novak, the founder of Nova Cast, where he talked all about how podcast booking campaigns create value for listeners and for brands.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

After volunteering for the Obama campaign last year, a friend of mine insisted that I write a letter to our new President telling him what I thought he should do. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Ill explain in a moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse. My experience is that many founders actually have a deep anxiety that maybe they are not succeeding. Start with a five-dollar-a-day SEM campaign. Dont scale.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Jamie is the founder and managing director of Bottleneck Distant Assistants. My guest today is Jamie Jay he's the founder and managing director of bottleneck distant assistance, a business he founded in 2016. We had the big wigs coming from San Francisco to visit our little radio station in central valley, California at the time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? Founders struggle with this question. In an entrepreneurial situation, this is hard, because artifacts that we are creating (products, code, marketing campaigns, even revenue) are of secondary importance.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 25, 2014

by Bobby Emamian , co-founder and CEO of Prolific Interactive. When the chain realized customers hated its pizza, it responded by launching a marketing campaign that brazenly showcased its worst criticism. Scalability. Disruption. It’s amazing how quickly an idea can go from buzzworthy to buzzword.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 19, 2013

Mikita Mikado is a software engineer and entrepreneur from Belarus, now based in San Francisco. He is the co-­founder and CEO of Quote Roller and PandaDoc. However, figuring out the way your startup should make money could be challenging, especially for us left­-brained founders.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Important insight – Harsh Realities From 500 Startups Founders – [link]. Mike Samson, Co-Founder of @crowdSPRING on Community Building & NO!SPEC SPEC Campaign [link]. Way to go San Francisco! Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

I apologize for the audio quality – we did this in a rush because we found a last minute studio and recorded in San Francisco. Finally, I do want to mention that Mike was the founder of DogPatch Labs , which has facilities in Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. Founded 2007 in Boulder, CO.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 10, 2016

How founders find the determination to push through tough times was the focus on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Jacqueline Ros. Christina Stembel.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And if you actually want to respond to shifting customer behavior by running a new marketing campaign (ads, email, etc.,) Over time one of our hypothesis was that our product should be a great fit for companies who had lots of customers, tons of data on them and wanted to quickly come up with new marketing campaigns. Founder Too.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I spent some time with some startups in San Francisco proper, as opposed to the heart of Silicon Valley (see Note 1). But more broadly than just that,the direct costs of launching a startup have obviously plummeted which makes being a founder more accessible than historically. AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 30, 2012

Young entrepreneurs like Catherine Cook, co-founder of MyYearbook.com , Ashley Qualls, creator of Whateverlife.com , affiliate marketer Paul Bourque and Harrison Gevirtz, who has started online companies, are commanding growing attention for their endeavors.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

I managed to convince myself that the solution to all of our companys problems were contained in that book, and that if we just faithfully executed a marketing campaign around the principles therein, wed solve everything. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. I co-founded Sarah Nicole Skincare with the mission for it to be a tool in reclaiming confidence.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Each new campaign is a startup where Lean principals can be applied to maximum effect. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook Co-Founder’s Startup Asana Launches Publicly. Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. How Old Spice Revived a Campaign That No One Wanted to Touch. Trending Stories. INFOGRAPHIC].

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 5, 2012

He currently runs marketing at tech incubator QLabs and previously co-founded travel site Wanderfly. A few weeks of organized effort should be enough time to develop a name and gain consensus among your co-founders, but if you’re on a tight schedule, it’s also possible to do in just a few days. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 27, 2012

That’s exactly what Blowfish Sushi in San Francisco did when it put this poster (below) on the door of the Men’s bathroom! DJ Waldow is an email marketing consultant, writer, blogger, speaker, and co-author of The Rebel’s Guide to Email Marketing. Your read that correctly – a QR code on a bathroom door!

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 4, 2012

Double Fine Productions , a San Francisco gamemaker, raised a record $3.3 Double Fine founder Tim Schafer told the San Francisco Chronicle that he'd think about selling shares down the road but notes that giving up equity in return for just $1 million doesn't make sense for Double Fine. Set a hard deadline.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This is the fourth and final post covering speakers’ insights from our marketplace meetup held in San Francisco on October 20. This is why it was so great to hear from Indiegogo co-founder Slava Rubin on how Indiegogo grew by 1) expanding into different verticals and 2) expanding into different products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Whether youre a US citizen or an immigrant, entrepreneur or investor, founder or employee, theres something you can do. If you are an immigrant founder who has helped build a company that has created jobs in the US, we need you to tell your story. I know that sometimes campaigns like this can seem overwhelming.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2010

As bills in both chambers of Congress pick up supporters and co-sponsors, its more important than ever for citizens who care about this issue to call, write, and tweet their representatives. We have a list of ways on the StartupVisa website: Go to our campaign page & tweet your support NOW! (<30 April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

More importantly, we continue to help the community through pro-bono projects, supporting non-profits and charitable campaigns, and giving back where and when we can. I’m an architect turned entrepreneur, Founder and CEO of Cheekd a mobile dating app that makes missed connections obsolete. Thanks to Natalie Harper, Harper PR. #3

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Andrew Breen , vice president of product delivery for American Express’s World Service division. Some of the hardest conversations I’ve had to have (with startup founders) are “Your vision? There’s not that when you’re the founder. …

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

I am the founder and Program Director of a very unique and dynamic community-based outpatient behavioral health treatment facility based in Brooklyn, New York called One World Counseling. We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. Thanks to Linda Passante, The Halo Group. #3

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 8, 2018

He is the CEO and Co-Founder at CoSchedule. One example is we have a feature on our … We make marketing software, and we launched a feature that helps our customers plan marketing campaigns. So, for them, it was really difficult to see, to have single visibility on how this campaign is doing. Transcript.

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