Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

The Lean Startup movement has made tremendous progress in the past year. If you recall, around this time last year we were still fighting various myths , such as “ lean means cheap ” or that we don’t support having a big, world-changing vision. This year, the word pivot has become over-hyped ( even on TechCrunch ).

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

"We knew that if we wanted immediate action, the only way to do that was with private money," Lenore Estrada explained to me as we talked about why she founded SF New Deal in the days after being forced to lay off most of the staff at her San Francisco bakery, Three Babes Bakeshop.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

How to build regional entrepreneurial communities has just gotten it’s first “here’s how to do it” book. There’s probably no one more qualified to write this book then Brad Field (startup founder, co founder of two VC firms – Mobius and Foundry, and founder of TechStars.). Leaders and Feeders.

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The Next Web

JULY 29, 2013

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Christian Reber, CEO and co-founder of Berlin-based 6Wunderkinder. You can find the Part 1, Dream Big and Start Small , Work to Learn, Not Earn , and Join the Community , here. When I started my first company in Berlin, I lived and worked in my apartment with one of my co-founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I have a lot of good news to report on this front. You can click here to learn more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people. Thanks to thousands of donations, the people who are dedicated to feeding their communities have the opportunity to serve their food to the people providing critical healthcare. In every case, they've simply been asked to take on work and said yes.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Scoring Founder “Dates” On My Own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. Our fall webcast series concluded on a high note with three extraordinary conversations about the origins and implications of Lean Startup. And so I can see many more cycles through the loop of how software evolves, how innovation disperses in a community, and so on."

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

They had their own private forum, and a company founder (aka me) personally ran the group in its early days. And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. Passionate online communities are real societies. Here’s what it looks like.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Another topic we debated early in the program was “lean startup” vs. “ fat startup ” where we both took the obvious hedge and said “it depends.” But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. Time will tell.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. My aspiration with the Lean Startup methodology has always been to provide such a framework, so that we have more intelligent conversations about what works and what doesnt for startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, January 2, 2010 Towards a new entrepreneurship When I started writing about the lean startup , my aspiration was to do more than just share a handful of tips and tricks that work for consumer internet startups. This belief led me to the lean startup, and to an amazing 2009.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Beyond the quality of the candidates themselves, Ive noticed three big effects of hiring out of free software communities: You can hire an expert in your own code base. Once youre part of the community, a big question is who to try and hire.

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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

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. We cultivated a passionate community that nurtured a skilled set of developers. Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? Founders struggle with this question.

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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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2012

I judged Lean Startup Machine Boulder yesterday afternoon. I’m a huge Eric Ries / Lean Startup fan and believe that the methodology can be quickly taught. It’s not a coding / hacking weekend – it’s an applied process of the Lean Startup Methodology.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Companies from San Francisco to London are recruiting growth hackers. Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community? Growth hacking has resonated in the startup community due to today’s growth challenges: new channel creation, channel saturation, the “best product” fallacy and “product-growth” fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

They were providing low-cost healthy meals for schools across the country and, before the crisis, were delivering two million federally reimbursable school and community meals per week nationwide. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods.

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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. ► 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. . Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 19, 2019

We’ve spent a lot of time this past year running Lean Startup tests on our annual flagship conference to really nail down what you’re most interested in. The results have helped guide our planning and I’m really excited about all the new options and sessions we’ve come up with for the October 23-25 event in San Francisco.

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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. — Background. Students/Teams.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Its a key lean startup concept. 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. Even as "just a user" you make the community better by adding momentum. Yeah, weve got that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. For a lean startup , this lack of discipline is anathema. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Guest Post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co., Here’s the thing about The Lean Startup methodology. At The Lean Startup Conference on Nov. The Lean Startup method helped Rocio and her co-founder get their idea off the ground, and to continue to grow this important business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 23, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Contributing Editor of Lean Startup Co. Lean Startup Week has it all: keynote talks, hands-on workshops, networking opportunities and lively flashes of inspiration from our extended community in the form of Ignite Talks. 6, 2016 in San Francisco for Lean Startup Week.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 20, 2016

Guest post by Kirsten Cluthe, editorial director of Lean Startup Co. Speaking at Lean Startup Week offers renowned and emerging industry leaders the opportunity to share their stories with our global community. If you’re interested in presenting at our flagship conference during Lean Startup Week Oct.

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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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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. Entrepreneurs in Bend.

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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. California Dreaming.

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