Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Then, in each development cycle, use the insights gained by studying customers to make improvements. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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APRIL 17, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. And companies crave positive PR and control over their message – all for rational reasons. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. It sells newspapers and magazines.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo SF (May. .

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

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MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. Do some Customer Development instead. First off, what does it mean to launch?

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JULY 9, 2009

We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. talking about web based business) July 9, 2009 9:08 AM toivotuo said. Dear Eric, I'd like to invite you to speak at a European Web startups conference I'm organizing in October. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. Customer Development : a disciplined approach to finding out if there is a market for your product before its too late. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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APRIL 7, 2010

In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. When we’re optimizing, product development teams encounter similar situations. Recall that the biggest source of waste in product development is building something nobody wants.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. That’s what you pay PR firms for: to get an article written that is entirely factual and yet still provides positive spin for your company. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.)

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DECEMBER 16, 2008

I wrote about this challenge for iPhone developers, in an essay on retention competition : the battle over what icon the user will click when they go to the home screen. You could try and drive home that positioning with an expensive PR campaign, superbowl ads, and whatnot. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

At a certain point in IMVU’s development, we faced a difficult choice. It is a hangover of other days, of thin-skinned geeks who cannot still be heeded on the big, wide web. I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. Let me give an especially painful example.

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