Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Each team of innovators is supported by a broader community of interested citizens throughout the country. The 1st round of five projects – MyUSA (formerly known as MyGov), RFP-EZ, Blue Button, Better Than Cash, and Open Data Initiatives – launched in August 2012 with 18 inaugural Fellows.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 25, 2010

He has seventeen zillion Twitter and blog followers, most of whom are themselves active in the WordPress community. He knows all the major players in the industry including the key folks at WordPress.com, BZ Media (the CopyBlogger media group), ProBlogger, and members of the press at Mashable, TechCrunch, and others.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Twitter about it or post it to a social media site? Im open to being the coffee and snack technician :-) On another note, I live in Atlanta and believe that we have a strong enough start-up community that would greatly benefit from your lessons learned. Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog?

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startupbaltimore.org

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Baltimore’s startup community has plenty of room for new leaders. Get involved in social media. There are a ton of programmers in this region and a lot of them are toiling away outside of the communities I highlighted in #2. Start an event or project. They won’t even hear about your efforts with #3.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 11, 2022

I like to group client referrals into four main types; direct, implied, tangible and community. You can also publicly thank them through your newsletter or on social media. For example, you could produce easily shareable content for you internal team to re-post on their social media platforms.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

32:35) Jen on social distancing, locking down, and flattening the curve. (33:59) 35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) It was my mother's birthday and I was seeing her before I was supposed to go down to DC for the Code for America summit. She, by the way, was busy on social media.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 15, 2010

Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community. However, as a venture capitalist I believe that it’s incumbent on me not just to be a member of the entrepreneurial community but also truly participate in and contribute to it.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

was born on a train from NYC to DC in 2008 when I was reading an article by Annie Prolix in Amtrak magazine about Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat Pray Love.” When you work with Twelve31 Media, you get a fresh start. Geiger, Twelve31 Media, LLC ! #21- Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Photo Credit: Hope Gibbs.

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Genuine VC

JANUARY 15, 2010

Every couple months, 700-1000 web & mobile entrepreneurs, techies, startup junkies, and investors gather for one big meetup of the community. However, as a venture capitalist I believe that it’s incumbent on me not just to be a member of the entrepreneurial community but also truly participate in and contribute to it.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 2, 2016

Significance of the business as part of a community online and off. These can be business and industry associates, a loyal clientele, links to community organizations and a well-structured plan of public relations. This shows the local business community the extension of each related business to the wider range of business potential.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. Once I knew I definitely wanted to start a fashion boutique, I started talking about it to people and on social media platforms like Facebook, so people could hold me accountable. Image Credit: Shelia Fitzgerald.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Media Optimizations 2. Identifying which model to use to attribute credit for a single conversion across multiple media channels is immensely difficult. DC, DR & DA are three key components of any analytics practice. In the model there are three clusters: 1. Content / Website Optimizations 3. Product / Company Optimization.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Just how would one cope with a moment when the media are portraying aspects of your character to a very large audience with an agenda of dramatic effect and political grandstanding. It keeps us on task when creating ad campaigns, posting to social media, and promoting programs and services. 2 – Coping with the Moment.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. I grant you, it’s not like Coupa Cafe in Palo Alto – but there is a burgeoning tech community much as you’d find in NYC these days. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services.

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davetroy.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If there’s no speaker, make sure there’s a focus or targeted community you want to understand better. Find a way to present to a community you care about. They’re run by their respective communities with the goal of getting teleworkers out of the house and making friends. Be the speaker. Be authentic.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 22, 2020

Once I had created the list I then checked the availability of the name for a website and all corresponding social media sites. The criteria I used here are all names available as www.com and if the full name was already taken on social media a good acronym that I could use consistently. 16- Focused on three elements.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 16, 2010

Young people are actively seeking ways to make a difference on campuses, in their communities and in the world. After a year of working remotely, with people on both coasts from CA to DC, we decided to spend a week together in Kauai, where we could interact face-to-face and create a marketing plan for the Foundation.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 16, 2010

Young people are actively seeking ways to make a difference on campuses, in their communities and in the world. After a year of working remotely, with people on both coasts from CA to DC, we decided to spend a week together in Kauai, where we could interact face-to-face and create a marketing plan for the Foundation.

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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. Even if you have a very large community, I dont think this number needs to be higher than 100. In other words, we committed the one cardinal sin of community management. Heres how Ive set it up in the past.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

I know that every day when I wake up for work, I am making a positive difference in the lives of my customers and community while answering to no one but myself and my customers. My business combines innovative positioning and investment strategies to create sustainable solutions for communities and companies. The greatest downfall?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

At the time, he was advising the campaign while also serving as Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Revolution, a DC-based VC firm created to fund startups led by diverse founders all over the country. The media, our leaders, people on social media keep mentioning this idea, as if we've never seen anything like this before.

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