Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Ive been blown away by the level of demand you all have expressed in having a forum for the whole community to come together and share what were learning. My hope is to create a one-day event in San Francisco sometime in the spring. My hope is to create a one-day event in San Francisco sometime in the spring.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2010

On the founder’s side it’s about taking money off of the table and / or having strategic reserves for big acquisitions. Stitcher - San Francisco-based service that lets users customize talk radio programming on their mobile devices. That said, the founder is Stewart Butterfield , who co-founded Flickr.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 20, 2014

When Customer Development and the Lean Startup were just a sketch on the napkin, Dino Vendetti, a VC at Bay Partners, was one of the first venture capitalists I shared my ideas with. Over the years we brainstormed about how Lean entrepreneurship would affect regional development. Founders Pad. Entrepreneurs in Bend.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

With the theme “Build Back Better” Jerry Engel , Pete Newell , Steve Weinstein and I co-hosted nearly 500 Lean Educators from 63 countries and 235 universities online for a three-hour session to share what we’ve learned about educators on how we can help our communities rebound, adjust, and recover. Here’s what we learned. — Background.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Returning to our example of the beleaguered founder who still has the pager, before hiring an operations guy, try promoting someone from within to take on the job. If you find yourself now spending time with customers, learning and guiding the learning of your whole company, you were probably right that the pager was getting in the way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers. Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

You can still see these early manifestos thanks to the wayback machine: [link] [link] We did that not just out of principle but because it served a very specific purpose: giving early adopters in our community a reason to invest in our success and give us strong feedback. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Your mileage may vary.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 3, 2012

Have you ever wanted to get first-hand advice from the founder of a successful startup? But would you pay for the privilege of "renting" a tech company founder? And what if the founders came from high-profile startups like Reddit, Hipmunk, Scribd, Parse, Sincerely, and Exec? So how much does it cost to talk to a founder?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. You can find the origins of many successful companies in these early lessons.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We also cavalierly lampoon the “suits” that get brought in to run startups after the founders are fired by callous VC’s. They have the ultimate responsibility in a venture-backed company of deciding whether to fire the founders and bring in “professional management.” I also frequently see the reverse. And there’s a worse fate, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

A similar kind of datablindness happened in the US intelligence community in the decades following the launch of photoreconnaissance satellites. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? 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. There are and we do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Your creators should always have a simple way to talk to current and potential customers in any segment. Make it easy to “pilot&# new work with a test community of actively engaged readers, and provide a mechanism for measuring the impact of these pilots. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

We were building a community, open to anyone who shared its values, and that mission inspired volunteers and staff to try and reach out to as many people as possible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Our customer-first, rapid trials-rapid discovery ethos is adaptable to all varieties of mission driven, enterprise, and startup companies around the world. 16-19 in San Francisco, innovative thought leaders from around the globe will offer examples of the remarkable changes they’re making across industries using our simple methodology.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2012

What I saw yesterday is further evidence of this – 13 teams spent from Friday afternoon to Sunday afternoon using the Lean Startup Methodology, the concept of customer development, and the lean startup canvas to go from idea through a series of validated learnings to get to a better idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

As the size of your community and economy grows, youll be able to solve them as they arise, as long as you know what to look for. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. What makes a particular decision key? Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

The next couple of days are going to be amazing, as the Lean Startup community converges on San Francisco. If you can't make it to San Francisco, I'll also post an updated list of simulcast venues below. Product management and customer development, KISSmetrics. Co-founder, Backblaze.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Labels: customer development 3comments: Anonymoussaid. 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 April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Cross posting is good.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

► 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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We'll have IDCEE conf on October 28-29, [link] If you could come any other day we'll organize small event at #kievstartup community. 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

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

We were excited by the response at last year’s Lean Startup Conference to Diane Tavenner’s eye-opening talk on her experience implementing Lean Startup methods at Summit Public Schools, the California charter for which she is CEO and co-founder. Join all four speakers at The Lean Startup Conference , December 9 – 11 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. In between sessions, this cohort of companies would have the opportunity to act as a learning community, sharing what theyve learned and supporting one another as they try to put the techniques into practice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

For founders, I think it also has another big attraction: the ability to avoid a lot of " free vs paid " arguments. We're keeping ourselves free for the community that has helped us build our product; premium vs basic seems wrong to us. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). 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 April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Theres a lot of controversy surrounding NPS in the customer research community, and I dont want to recapitulate it here. Collecting the answers Once you have the survey up and running, you need to design a program to have customers take it on a regular basis. Pick a target number of customers to take the survey every day.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

► 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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

I would recommend periodic surveys, along with some kind of forum or other community tool where the most passionate customers can congregate. Im Community Manager at VenCorps, co-host of commandN. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Hi Eric, Will Pate here.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Whats is the best way to find a co-founder for your startup? However, one of my co-founders doesn’t seem to be as motivated as the rest of us. Create a strong brand, solid social community, sell advertising. However, i need a technical person (web developer) who can bring my vision to life. you can hire for those.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Startup Culture Lessons From Mad Men - OnStartups , July 26, 2010 The following is a guest post by Brian Halligan who is my co-founder and CEO at HubSpot (which means he gets to do most of the really hard work).

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