Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Heres an excerpt: The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Every startup that achieves success eventually faces a critical moment — whether to speed up or slow down. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Most of the time, the experiments you run will have a zero percent conversion rate - meaning no customers were harmed during the making of this experiment. I would aim to get no more than 1o0 clicks per day - over the course of a week or two, youll get pretty good conversion data. Measure conversion rates. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

The Five Whys for Start-Ups - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Root cause analysis and preventive maintenance are concepts we expect to see in a factory setting. The Five Whys for Start-Ups - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Root cause analysis and preventive maintenance are concepts we expect to see in a factory setting.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

I had really debated about whether there was any value in spending the time and money to fly to San Francisco when there was a perfectly serviceable simulcast going on in Cleveland. All I can tell the folks who attended the simulcasts is that I’m not missing either the time or the money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Id be honored to have you join the conversation. The Conversation - Harvard Business Review For most of us, the phrase management science conjures up a decidedly non-entrepreneurial image, and for good reason. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Id be honored to have you join the conversation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 21, 2013

This weekend I had the very good fortune to attend Ryan Deis and Perry Belcher's Traffic and Conversion Summit in downtown San Francisco. And this is where events like the Traffic and Conversion Summit are so valuable. Aha” moments were aplenty for all who made the effort to attend.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Conversion optimization is a form of kaizen. Conversion optimization is a form of kaizen. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. I havent seen an equivalent of the systematic elimination of work-in-process inventory in Lean Startups, however. A/B testing is set-based design. 5 Whys is straight out of the Toyota playbook.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

The way forward requires getting everyone together in a room, and having a conversation about where were headed. 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. Thats what this conference is for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Way back when the money was doled out, the team made a compelling pitch about the large market that was going to adopt their new innovative product or service. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Leave a comment or reply to someone else.

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Some startups fail because the founders cant have this conversation - they either blow up when they try, or they fail to change because they are afraid of conflict. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. And how do you pick a new direction? Both are lethal outcomes. Bring your questions. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

Miami doesn’t yet have the venture capital and level of depth in all the entrepreneurial disciplines (internet marketing, venture law, etc.) that cities such as San Francisco and New York have built. We look forward to building a stronger involvement in this burgeoning tech community.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Ive had at least three conversations this week about the relationship between agile methodologies and customer development. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. And credit once again goes to Nivi from Venture Hacks for sharing it with me. Labels: customer development , product development 8comments: Sarah Milstein said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Im excited that well get more than the usual few minutes of Q&A, so come with a healthy appetite for conversation. If you or your company is interested in sponsoring someone with a scholarship to travel to the expo and contribute to the conversation, please leave a comment or let me know. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Diego Basch

MARCH 14, 2013

Here they are: 1) I strongly prefer investing in companies located in San Francisco (city proper, not the Bay Area). I live in San Francisco, and I enjoy driving on Bay Area freeways as much as having a root canal done by a drunken dentist who hates my family. That’s a positive return to me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

He summarized that conversation well, so rather than re-tread that material, Ill quote it here: One thing that I was surprised to learn was that IMVU started out with continuous deployment. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. But where do those ideas come from in the first place? You can use it to test out large changes as well as small.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. But to help with the explanation I’d like to put down some markers of typical Internet pre-money valuations done in major US markets (San Fran, NY, LA, etc.)

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Shortly after we sold Opsware to Hewlett-Packard, I had a conversation with the legendary venture capitalist Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital. Not only does the country have a higher percentage of homes with high-speed Internet than the U.S. Kanye West. Want to start up in France? " Listen. Good Design = Beautiful/Cool Design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

If you find yourself getting asked non-key questions, try to use your answers to steer the conversation back to the key questions. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Most important slide: about the founders In a pitch meeting, try to spend as much time as possible talking about the key questions for your pitch. Amazon PostRank

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Adam Hertz, a cable company executive in San Francisco , and his wife, Joan, have enthusiastically embraced the movement. TaskRabbit has (people) making over $5,000 a month in San Francisco," says Craig Shapiro, founder of Collaborative Fund, a venture-capital fund specializing in sharing sites. Thats real money."

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU. After a few months of early beta at IMVU, we discovered that our actual conversion rate was about 0.4%. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Even that early, it became clear that 4% was not an achievable goal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Given that most recruiting channels are pay-for-performance, its usually cheaper, too, because it has a lower conversion rate. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. If you want to expand your pool of available passive candidates, give a site like NotchUp a try. Bring your questions. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Most importantly, if you know a high-quality entrepreneur who you think would add to the conversation, would you be willing to try and convince them to attend? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Would you be willing to link to the Master Class info page from your blog? Twitter about it or post it to a social media site?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Bring your questions. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Whats the right set of materials, conversations, etc. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The first of these discussions was about a new social media marketing platform called Stanzr, from San Francisco-based Voluble, that we are using at 1M/1M. During today's roundtable, we had some excellent discussions of product marketing for a couple of different concepts. The 1M/1M Channel on Stanzr. I thought that was brilliant.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

Join the conversation by adding Mashables Pete Cashmore to your Circles on Google+ Close Welcome to Mashable! Not surprisingly, San Francisco was the top startup region, with New York City in second place and Boston in third. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Split-testing is great for linear optimization; making our landing pages, conversion rates, and retention metrics incrementally better day-in day-out. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Remember that we can use split-testing for both the problem team and solution team, and that causes a lot of confusion. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

We tried and tried to boost our conversion numbers, each time analyzing what worked and what didnt, and iterating. We were excited by each new discovery, and each iteration we managed to move the conversion needle a little bit more. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. " And, as I tried to outline in the article, process improvements that reduce overall batch size might be a better choice. July 30, 2009 1:29 PM jkorotney said. " It all seems so clear to me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Conversely I have seen many teams loose productivity by having team members slip into a "low energy state" where they just do the minimum necessary, lost in their own little world with little interaction with others, low accountability and perhaps most importantly no clear line between what they are doing and the success of the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

I thought we were having a successful conversation. Back to my conversation with the company I met recently. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Most of all, I encouraged them to start talking to their most passionate customers and running some big experiments based on that feedback. Bring your questions. Amazon PostRank

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 26, 2016

Started as Zimride, a way for people in Palo Alto to share a ride into San Francisco and vice versa. In picking your market you should focus on “deflationary economics” or lowering the price, functionality and margin of your business but targeting ever-increasing market sizes afforded by Internet scale. And so forth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

In the time since our conversation, data and science have shown again and again that wearing masks is an incredibly effective, low-cost and simple way to prevent viral spread. You can listen to our conversation on Apple , Google, or wherever you like to download podcasts. Here's my conversation with Jeremy Howard.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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