The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Amazed at all the beautifully designed products that came out of only 76 hours. Four books helped me out a lot over the last few years: Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank, Running Lean by Ash Maurya, The Four Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferris and Rework by Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson. You’re not alone.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. The relative size of the development effort will make a big difference in your strategy.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

They communicated this to product management who looked at all of the internal requirements we had generated (e.g. and product management worked with me to decide what to build & when. I spent time with the folks (Klaus Schauser and Brian Danahoo) at AppFolio before they ever launched their products. They recorded it.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. " and start leaning to prompt them to start walking with you. The relative size of the development effort will make a big difference in your strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

And the same is true in reverse - a lone brilliant coder can build a great widget, but it takes a system of people working well together to produce consistently great results. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

2) Making high-quality products available to the public. Products that have in the bottle what they say on the outside with 3rd party testing to prove it. My gifts lie in film and television production, so honoring Him through faith-based movies and television shows is the best way I know to reflect His glory in business.

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David Teten

AUGUST 5, 2013

I haven’t been an active coder since I was in my late 20s, but there’s no question that my experience learning how to code when I was 12 and teaching children and adults how to program has changed the way I think about every aspect of my life. The Lean Startup movement draws from this same philosophy. Posted this morning at Xconomy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. It took me a long time to understand that benefit of our product. This probably sounds illogical.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But my coders will beat up your coders, any day of the week. No offense, but I honestly think you have no idea what you’re talking about, and your irrational language biases are probably making you lose some really good coders. ” So, essentially you want redneck coders that will kill it and grill it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 1, 2009 Lean Startup webcast post-game Wow, what an incredible turnout for webcast this morning, right on the heels of a phenomenal crowd at startup2startup last night. Its been a great twelve hours for the lean startup! wogsland : Still not understanding the "lean" aspect. What a thrill.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. He observed that most startups that succeed aren't lean: their goal is to have an exit rather than a scalable business. Instead, their goal is to create a promising product.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

If you’re a visiting dignitary whose country has a Gross National Product equal to or greater than the State of California, your visit to Silicon Valley consists of a lunch/dinner with some combination of the founders of Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter and several brand name venture capitalists. And of course go to a Lean Startup Meetup.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2014

Every member of your team, whether it is a front-line cashier or a back-end coder, needs to understand your offering and be able (and willing) to help any customer. The best thing you can do to help your team to better connect with customers is to help them to know your product. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Is it the quickest and easiest tool to get a minimum model product out the door and get some kind of product market elevation. WordPress just happens to be at the core of those solutions, but they are looking to add as much value to that business owner as possible rather than just being a coder for hire. It kind of depends.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

So for this first post, here’s the best advice I can give you: join an awesome founding team and get your product out the door ASAP. But six months in, you’re gonna cry when you see someone else put out that same product you’re pitching me right now. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Team Configuration 500 Startups Guerilla Marketing Organizations Entrepreneurship Startup Founders & Entrepreneurs Startups Startup Incubators and Seed Programs Seedcamp Y Combinator TechStars Lean Startups What is the perfect startup team?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Take a look at The App Store after the gold rush - FierceDeveloper : According to a recent BusinessWeek feature , the flood of new games, productivity tools and related iPhone software is making it difficult for the vast majority of apps to crack the consumer consciousness. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Building Product 2. Or should I launch products and a startup for each of them, focusing on only 1 product at a time?

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

When you bring a solution(s) along with the problem, in addition to demonstrateing empathy, you've gifted your boss some starting points for a productive conversation. I still encourage you to take a leaned-in posture towards investing in yourself. They tell a coder how to write advanced code.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

In the article, Andrew describes growth hackers as a cross between marketers and coders. September, 2012 – Andrew Chen, who currently does growth at Uber , writes You don’t need a growth hacker , which encourages companies to really consider whether they have product-market fit before hiring a growth hacker.

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