Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Get product into customers’ hands. More on that in a moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" I am very impressed and will use this and a direct reference many times. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. Of course, readers of this blog know that the lean in "lean startup" doesnt refer to cost, but - rather - to Lean Thinking. Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. Financial leverage refers to investing that is supplemented by borrowed money. Similarly, product development leverage refers to situations in which our own work is fortified by the work of outsiders. Technical debt only refers to the latter.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? September 27, 2010 | View Comments This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Hire a programmer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

One is used by engineers to refer to the process of getting code fully integrated into production. Another is used by marketing to refer to what customers see. In traditional batch-and-queue development, these two concepts are linked. All customers will see the new software as soon as it’s deployed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Two years ago I moved to Beijing, where, as the founder of SoHelpful.me, I take calls from all over the world, talking entrepreneurship and innovation with people in 30-minute intervals. Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Excepting for cosmically co-incidental success stories, the fuzzy requirement stuff never congeals as a holistic engineering exercise. The time, money and quality dimensions are referred to, in the project management world, as the triple constraints. Some people refer to scope as effectiveness, Units, availability or quality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

There are a lot of advantages to piloting, but the one that bears on datablindness is this: it’s extremely difficult to argue that your pilot program is a success without referring back to the expectations that got it funded in the first place. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

My co-hosts were Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley , hosts of the well-known Startup Success Podcast. Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. How cofounders can collaborate without going crazy.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. Maple Butter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

To be clear, though, this diversity refers only to diversity of opinion, not necessarily to demographic diversity. After all, if you already have an all-male startup, you’re already at a disadvantage when it comes to hiring the very women that could fix that imbalance. Beyond hiring, our actual work process matters, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

First OODA reference: Ideas. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0 No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

A common question I get asked is "do you know someone amazing that we can hire?" I do my best to play matchmaker, but as those of you who have ever tried to fill a job in a startup know, the most important and elusive quality for a startup hire is fit. Great startups are always hiring, if the fit is right.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Find Questions, Topics and People Add Question Add Question Non-Technical Co-Founders Co-Founders Technical Co-founders Finding Co-Founders Startups & "How Important Are Ideas?" " Web Development Startups Solo Founders I am a creative guy with a startup idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

You refer to an anonymous Valley-based MMORPG that consumed years and tens of millions in development, but got little commercial traction. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I've started a Wikipedia page for the Minimum Viable Product to burn it into my brain.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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www.aaronkharris.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

I was told that finding a CTO/technical co-founder in NYC was about as easy as climbing Everest with one leg, no O2, and carrying a dead elephant. Get your pitch right Remember that the developer you want to hire most likely does not think the way venture capital thinks, or the way that your customers think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

It would make article more approachable initially, and easier to scan when I go back to reference it. " paragraph have the heading "Training New Hires", above the "Returning to the meeting itself." The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

Now he really thought I was nuts, replying "from the recruiter who hired me, of course!" If youre hiring creative, resourceful and smart people (and you are screening for that , right?) post) is very similar, I think the key is to hire smart people first, though. Are you hiring sysadmins? It was my turn to be dumbfounded.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

So, for reference, I am Adam, of [link]. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. What were you referring to? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 27, 2013

Especially when you’re trying to get a small business off the ground, it’s easy to get caught up in pursuing the “big” goals: growing your company, expanding your client base, hiring more employees, and making a profit, for example. Clients will trust, respect, and refer you, and your own life will become easier.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

And in MMOs, of course, it was a fiction-derived term for parallel servers which has managed to stick (many people refer to parallel VW servers as "shards" now). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? which came of course, from an MMO project (Game Neverending).

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Up and Running

JULY 14, 2015

Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Peter: Yeah, that’s a perfect question for a recent article we posted called Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. The second reason is actually still a part of team but it’s the single founder. Where do I go?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

I know you probably can't say exactly which issue you were referring to, but was this issue 'behind the doors' so to speak or was this a public issue that up-to-date IMVU-ers would have been familiar with (and thus actively uneasy about)? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Take this fictional example of a Seedcamp attendee (actually a composite), which I will refer to as Hairbrush 2.0. Take this fictional example of a Seedcamp attendee (actually a composite), which I will refer to as Hairbrush 2.0. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

To wit: achieving product/market fit , getting customer validation , making something people want , things that matter , and of course the many excellent books on the topic, of which Ill mention just two of the best, Crossing the Chasm and The Innovators Dilemma. Is a market a set of paying customers? There are four: Existing market.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 20, 2009

Heres an excerpt: Read the stories of successful startups and, if the founders are willing to be honest, you will see this pattern over and over again. In a presentation you gave to one of Steves classes you mentioned how common sense all this customer development stuff seems in theory, but is relatively difficult to pull off on in practice.

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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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JULY 8, 2011

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. It was really the community who built that product.&# " I couldn't agree more.

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