Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. Expo SF (May.

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The Startup Toolkit

AUGUST 29, 2012

If the founding team is non-technical and you can’t figure out whether you are being screwed by your developers or whether your potential new CTO is amazing, a tech advisor can help by joining you in interviews and reviewing commits. You’ll need to keep hiring tech guys. Situations where advisors can add huge value.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the conversation began to get down to how much stock and salary we could offer van Dam, we left the barber to finish his work and went to a payphone to call our CEO to confirm the deal. Wasn’t he a CTO or something? (He Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.]

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. Call it facts for hire. It would be a bit like the hired gun in the old west, but more suited for today’s times. Keep going.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage. If yes, hire a contract developer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. For people we hired from larger companies especially, this was challenging. link] May 11, 2009 9:04 PM Ian Wilson said. May 11, 2009 9:42 PM Artem said.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. If you don’t yet have a team yet, list the roles you need to hire for. The business model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Thats not the goal of a lean startup. As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility | crowdSPRING Blog – [link]. Hire slow, fire fast” is not only overused–it’s also complete b t.” Obama CTO Harper Reed on Keeping Sane in a High-Pressure Environment – [link]. Money on the Mind: Small Biz Financial Stories of the Week – [link].

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

These categories came from Yonder conference , a conference held to discuss just such challenges and solutions: hiring and onboarding. In short, these are the top 10 remote team management lessons I have learned: Find a way to meet at the same time. Hire those you trust. Biggest future challenge: hiring. legal issues.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

However, valuing the intangibles of time saving, expertise, network, etc. on top of that often results in conversations and incentives that are difficult to overcome, especially early on in a company. He writes: The premises of this conversation are very complicated. HappyFunCorp employs 80 engineers and product architects.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

When we were left to our own devices in that conference room, our CTO and I wrote down our goals, our aspirations, our fears, and everything in between. We wrote things like what five traits a new hire should have, or values everyone in the company should act on. Core values vs. culture code — what’s the difference?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like. Like I said, forget everything else and just get your product out the door.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Content marketing, and under content marketing we’re tracking uniques, time on site, bounce rates, open rates, click-through rates, conversion rates, these are the things that if we don’t know what these things are, we could end up in trouble. It was interesting to me, so we had this whole conversation about the type of people.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Update: The end is near, Expensify is hiring a.NET programmer! As you might know, we’re hiring the best programmers in the world. If you are a startup looking to hire really excellent people, take notice of.NET on a resume, and ask why it’s there. Expensify Blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck. Sjoerd Franken.

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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? The former focussed on biz.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2021

In this conversation Eren and I talked about his journey from a small town in Turkey to founding the education startup Udemy, also quite successful, to Carbon Health and eventually Carbon Health's vaccination efforts. Here's my conversation with Eren Bali. His number one takeaway is one we have heard again and again. EB : Yeah.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Increasingly powerful systems cracked open the door for real-time predictive analytics. A world of real-time predictions. For some, the age of “real-time” predictive analytics is here. A simple predictive analysis is your arrival time in Waze. which leads will convert—however you define conversion. customer churn.

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