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Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 25, 2011
The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places. Bring your tough questions – Brad and I will be having a conversation on stage and you’re invited to join us. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 25, 2010
This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. 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.
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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. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. 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.
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.
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.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. Whatever its purpose, try measuring it only at the level that you care about.
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