Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

What matters is proving the viability of the company’s business model, what investors call “traction.&# Of course this is not at all true of many profitable small businesses, but they are not what I mean by startups.) In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 You can see the design of the program here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

And because both small businesses and startups have a high mortality rate, sometimes these images lead us to believe that any small business is a startup. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

interesting post March 20, 2009 5:26 PM Small business web site design said. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

It takes advantage of the idea, which I owe to Clayton Christensen , that customers buying a product are really "hiring" it to do a specific "job" for them. Its as if every customer, whether they are an enterprise, a small business, or an individual consumer, is actually an employer who wants to get things done. Remember Java?

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