Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2014

When you look through the list , you’ll see big names that we’re very pleased we landed, epic companies we really want to hear from, and people we’re particularly excited to present because they have incredible stories to share--and you won’t hear them anyplace else. For example: Mitch Kapor was a founder of Lotus.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 16, 2018

It is all about how you hire the best and the amazing impact doing so will have on your culture. You must test those that you want to hire. At the time I applied, Wharton’s MBA program was ranked #1 in the country for the prior six years. But they were wrong 50% of the time, six months later. The answer to this?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Web Startup Lessons Advice from a CTO and Entrepreneur Home About Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO There are not many to be found. He or she might call himself a “consulting CTO,&# “freelance CTO,&# “on-demand CTO,&# “CTO on call,&# “CTO for hire,&# or just a “technology strategy advisor.&#

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

by Andrew Ostashen, co-founder of Vulsec. This includes creating the Information Security Program, training on secure development of products, and/or implementing the security architecture of their infrastructure. Business continuity steps, incident response plans, and disaster recovery policies should be the nucleus of this program.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Keep in mind the difference between marketing and sales: to present the product and encourage sales vs. the selling of the product. You should be able to present your ongoing progress to others. Learn the prerequisites entering their programs. Your initial marketer needs to focus on both aspects.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. WordPress - we spent quite a bit of time talking about how you could do a lot with WordPress to provide simple forms of lots of functionality. It had a passionate group of 50 people attending.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Choose one.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

What key hires do you need? The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event takes place within the Startup & Tech Sectors track of programming. Our Chairman and co-founder Alex Allegue pitched Pawame in the global finals of last year’s Harvard Business School New Venture Competition, Pawame having already won the Africa category. The founders?—?Alex

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Startup Company Lawyer

MAY 4, 2009

Adeo Ressi , the founding member of TheFunded , recently announced the establishment of TheFunded Founder Institute. The Founder Institute helps founders launch innovative companies by providing training, services, and company-building assignments, such as incorporating the business, filing provision patents, and setting up books and records.

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Sophia Perl of Wisdom

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

What key hires do you need? The business model for residential solar panel company: contract with customer, local rebates, and tax benefits. A lot of entrepreneurs attended the event as evident by business cards with “Founder&# listed. Presenter: Jennifer Bonnett (Founder & CEO, Nexpense).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Steve Blank was very impressed by this presentation and mentioned it when he spoke at TiE on Wed-Sep-19.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Im one of those people whos been programming since they can remember. Would love to get in touch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. Andy Mathieson, a founder and managing member at Fairview Capital , was particularly supportive. “Everybody felt the burden of supporting all those transactions every day,&# says Pascal-Louis Perez, kaChing’s CTO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Eric -- I was very impressed by your two part video series, which rarely occurs these days.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Chris and I had the opportunity to present on our approach this past spring at the MySQL Conference. You can also download our presentation, " Just-In-Time Scalability: Agile Methods to Support Massive Growth." Update: PDF version for "lazy linux users" and others who love freedom. for Harvard Business Revie.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

They seized the opportunities presented by open APIs, and they rode the ongoing shift to mobile devices. MyFitnessPal still integrates data from wearable devices and other health apps through its popular application-programming interface , which is one of the most widely adopted tools for other fitness apps to share calorie data.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

There was a lot of passion in the room last week when I presented Working with Developers at the Stubbs Precellerator. I guess it should not be a surprise that Founders have lots of challenges working with developers. Developers (and Founders) are challenged to know how much is okay in terms of bugs. Go watch a few episodes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Giving rise to three verbs: Implement (programming!) ► 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. Were a software company, so what we do everyday is turn ideas into code.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

► 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. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

► 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. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Today, when I talk to startup founders, the most common answer I get to the question "do you talk to your customers?" ► 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.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Posted in Franchises 30+ days ago Ask a Question Ask Your Question Here Magazine On Newsstands: October 2011 Current Issue Past Issues Startups Magazine Startups Archive Subscribe Cover Story The Top 50 Entrepreneurship Programs Feature How to Buy a Fleet Vehicle for Your Business Video. What is Sweat Equity Worth?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

► 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. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

To confidently answer no, co-founder of Strategyzer Alex Osterwalder told our attendees, “What you really want to do is work more like Amazon. … LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. When it comes time to grow your team, Jeff Jordan and Eric pointed out three hiring mistakes to avoid. They’re qualified.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

► 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. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

So one of the first things we did was to hire an Oracle expert and get to work. ► 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. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The leadership art is to balance the needs of the present with the needs of the future. Too often, startup founders talk about how they are pushing to get to “critical mass&# and how “economies of scale&# are going to kick in. I’ve been in the software industry for a long time. That’s all fine and dandy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

► 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. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He begins by explaining how he arrived at his conclusion: I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder – a software engineer who works for no cash – to help me build my dream website. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

► 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. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

► 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. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Joel is focused on the fact that in many environments, programmers are considered "just the hired help" akin to manual labor, and not treated properly. But increasingly we can move to a world where teams are chartered to accomplish results instead of tasked with creating work on spec. Do programmers have quiet working conditions?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

► 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. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you? Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

As a shoestring entrepreneur with a SaaS (well, not really, but sort of) offering that we present to very large companies (think 10K+), I love your common sense suggestions about metrics and testing. I subscribed after this post. September 24, 2008 12:12 AM Andrew Meyer said. Eric, great blog. for Harvard Business Revie.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. Before I get into the details for founders, let me talk about options-hungry employees. m the f%*kin’ boss.”. Dying at 70? The Dry Run.

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