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Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out – The Startup Genome Project

Steve Blank

Founders that learn are more successful : Startups that have helpful mentors, track metrics effectively, and learn from startup thought leaders raise 7x more money and have 3.5x Founders overestimate the value of IP before product market fit by 255%. . Filed under: Customer Development , Teaching , Venture Capital.

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Data Discrepancies in Google Analytics: What Can Go Wrong, Why, & How to Fix It

ConversionXL

Don’t choose metrics that are similar but not the same. In most cases, fixing discrepancies requires some work by developers, analytics implementation specialists, or other experts. Exclude office IP addresses using Google Analytics filters. Every tool has its own methods for various metrics. Why does it happen?

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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StartupRoar - Great Content for Startups

SoCal CTO

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Fear of Failure and Lack of Speed In a Large Corporation

Steve Blank

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. There are financial metrics (Return on Investment, Hurdle Rate, etc.) Lessons Learned.

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The Lean LaunchPad – Teaching Entrepreneurship as a Management Science

Steve Blank

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) Therefore we developed a class to teach students how to think about all the parts of building a business, not just the product. to optimize this search. What’s Different About the Class?

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 8: Key Resources, Activities and Expense Model

Steve Blank

Any IP you need to license? What are the key financials metrics for costs in your business model? We taught them theory, methodology, and practice using Customer Development and business model design. Any hardware or software you need to buy? How much money do you need to raise? Importance of cash flows?