Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 25, 2019
I’m more convinced that technology merely enables disruption, and changing customer interests and needs really causes it. Other companies keep the focus on their customers, and seem to thrive on disruption, much less survive. They make it their top business priority to understand, anticipate, and gratify customers’ needs.
Startup Lessons Learned
MARCH 22, 2010
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 22, 2010 The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) The Huffington Post published an op-ed on the Startup Visa movement that Ive been working on for some time. The New Startup Arms Race Americas future prosperity depends on our ability to maintain this lead.
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YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 20, 2020
by Daniel Pigg , director of business engagement and an instructor at Indiana State University. Statistically, plenty of startups fail — up to 90% a year. Here are several unconventional ways to generate the fiscal momentum necessary to breed startup success: 1. Would you bet money on an inexperienced horse? Few people would.
YoungUpstarts
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
Customize Standards for the Job. In fact, collaborating to create a custom set of standards for employees can pay off. Sometimes the most important aspects of a job, such as customer satisfaction, are difficult to quantify. How does a company set up performance standards for new hires and effectively communicate them?
OnlyOnce
JULY 14, 2020
I haven’t taken a poll to figure out the overlap between people who read this blog and people that bought the first edition of Startup CEO, but I’m guessing there’s a high degree of it. Startup exits are the important culmination of the startup experience and something that the first edition only briefly touched on.
Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 25, 2020
As a veteran of many disasters in which improvising in the moment to meet an immediate need led to innovative solutions, Carl has been impressed by how many businesses, small and large, have reinvented the way they serve their customers during the pandemic. Then they've gotten to work. It's member-owned.
YoungUpstarts
FEBRUARY 8, 2016
As part of the Lightspeed Venture Partner Summer Fellowship program, I ask guest speakers to come in each week and talk to the Fellows about key topics related to building a successful startup. As is often the case, I was wrong, and they turned their startup, Pushpins (acquired by Ebates in 2013), into a success. Don’t Fear Rejection.
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