Steve Blank
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
While our teams have mentors, socialize a lot and give great demos, the goal of our class final presentations is “ Lessons Learned ” – about product/market fit, pricing, acquisition/activation costs, pricing, partners, etc. In the first 4 weeks, our team got out of the building and spoke with employees at 42 different companies.
Austin Startup
MAY 7, 2017
Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At Capital Factory at 10:00 am.
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Startup Lessons Learned
MAY 19, 2011
Can an established organization with a recognized brand, proven revenue stream and an employee count in the hundreds or thousands embrace these principles? TheLadders’ subscription model has proven to be successful and the company has enjoyed solid growth with the employee count crossing 400 recently.
siliconflorist.com
DECEMBER 22, 2012
I saw David at the recent Microsoft Accelerator Demo Day and was reminded to go back and reread both of these posts. 6) Advise as if you were an employee. Personally, I take this from the vantage of an employee or consultant advising his or her superiors. Senior Systems Engineer. Front-End Engineer. 7) Be honest.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
If you just need a demo to work to show investors or you’re pivoting what you’re building every week, adding lots of tests provides very little value for how much it slows you down. In fact, you might even have a feature that no current employees understand.
Austin Startup
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
If you just need a demo to work to show investors or you’re pivoting what you’re building every week, adding lots of tests provides very little value for how much it slows you down. In fact, you might even have a feature that no current employees understand.
Rob Go
SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
Large Tech Meetups: Web Innovators Group : Quarterly Demo-Style meetup in Cambridge draws over 1000 members of the startup community each time. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Wayfair - $350M + revenue, 300 employees. The Grand-daddy. Hack/Reduce – Big Data Hackspace. Ruby specialists.
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