Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

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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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

1871 Ranks 9th In The World In Survey Of Business Incubators – crowdspring.co/Xe1N6Y. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. Six Things Physical Product Development Taught Me About Experience Design | UX Magazine – crowdspring.co/X7NCjD.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

Lean LaunchPad class developed for Stanford. The easy part is, “Let’s have an incubator.” Other classes were on how to prep for VC pitches or develop the five year income statements, balance sheets and cash flows or read case studies. Worth a read. Teaching basic entrepreneurial appreciation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

Then he started a company called PostEra, which uses machine learning to identify promising compounds for new drug development. They've collected and sorted thousands of possible compounds, and now have multiple drugs in development in a lab in the UK. As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

My primary mission was to learn from the impressive entrepreneurial ecosystem in Austin and draw lessons for developing the entrepreneurship education program for Beetroot Academy. Tim O’Reilly, Founder at O’Reilly Media and promoter of open source and Web 2.0 Similarly, Techstars Austin is a force to be reckoned with.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost).

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Over a few months we developed the online lectures, then tried it as a stand-in for me on the NSF videoconferences, and found that because of the animations and graphics the students more engaged than if I were teaching it in person. We opened source our teaching guide we use in the classes here.). Lessons Learned.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2013

I read a ton of existing literature and came up with a formal methodology for search I called Customer Development. Berkeley asked me to teach a class in Customer Development at Haas business school. Eric’s insight was that traditional product management and Waterfall development should be replaced by Agile Development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. This means developing new and innovative ways to think about, organize and build diplomatic strategies and solutions.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Nearly all have abandoned hope in the "sure thing" and are stepping into what has traditionally been the Angel role of incubating startups. View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and. Ed Helms and Celebrity Friends Fight. JoinSquare at Square, Inc.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 16, 2010

View Comments Watch Facebook, Groupon and Quora’s Founders Speak at Startup School [VIDEO] View Comments Mashable Weekend Recap: 19 Stories You Might Have Missed View Comments Groupon’s Founder on How to Get Super Rich View Comments PHP, MySQL & AJAX Developer at Comentum Corp. Companies like GrowPublic, Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Business accelerator.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 4, 2016

State Department and asks students to use Lean Methods to test their understanding of the problem and deliver rapid-fire innovative solutions to pressing diplomacy, development and foreign policy challenges. This means developing new and innovative ways to think about, organize and build diplomatic strategies and solutions.

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Gust

JULY 8, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! View more jobs » Daniel Stoica Awesome Post! this.hearts.on.fire. has anyone covered the pros and cons of corp vs llc??

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Foundups : Michael Trout, from Fukui, Japan, pitched Foundups , which he claims will be a platform for open corporations. He talked about everything from raising funding for pre-seed entrepreneurs to get them to the seed stage, crowd funding, social media marketing and open source. You can't tell what the company does.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 31, 2010

View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! work with the world’s leading pharmaceutical, bioscience, and medical device com. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and.

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mashable.com

JUNE 8, 2010

There’s also a searchable service section with advice on logo design, website development and a service request board if you prefer that providers come to you. Pros: The site claims to be “the world’s BIGGEST source of small business clients.” View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly ", they are aimed at convincing companies to use open source software.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The number of startups being created has increased by an order of magnitude.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Not only the theorists but constituents for customer development, or with Main Street businesses and local constituents. We need to know what sweet spots for customer development work best with zoom and that don’t work best with zoom. That access is really pushed out to everybody now, to a much, much increased attendance. Main Street.

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Seeing Both Sides

APRIL 30, 2012

With advances in cloud computing, open source infrastructure, development tools and general "Lean Start-Up" techniques, entrepreneurs need less capital than ever before. Hence, the rise of angels, super-angels, incubators, accelerators, micro-VCs and VC-led seed programs. And when entrepreneurs' needs change (i.e.,

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Share this: net c# development django java language php software Were often asked by entrepreneurs which language their startups should adopt when developing their technology. Attending events around London, or talking with some of the development agencies present at the events, one might hear a startling set of opinions.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). We not only told everyone what we did, we posted the source code and the blueprints online. Our value is built on the non-technical stuff, which relies on a network of people and resources that have taken years to develop. Nobody ever stole our ideas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2009

In almost every case, people who ask me about the MVP already have a product in development - and it is plenty good enough to start getting feedback. Whats the best open source platform to design 3d avatar environments for a webapp? ( The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

If you don’t want to read that post, the summary is: Open source computing drove computing costs down 90%, which spurred innovation in technology. Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. The Blurring of Investment Lines. The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Twiggle (2014) – Twiggle develops next generation e-commerce search leveraging advanced techniques in data science, artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). Source text is analyzed against category taxonomies generated via semi-supervised machine learning. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 16, 2016

It drives me a bit mad to see a headline that says “ It’s not that people working together are never good, it’s just that the technique that Osborn developed was lousy.” CPS is not a static framework, it’s an open source system and people are adding new tools all the time. ” Mercy, what tripe!

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. Open Source Lists. Programming and Web Development Lists. Share on Tumblr email share Share on Tumblr email share. You can follow Joshua on Twitter @joshuabaer. Maps Lists.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Kapor is the original designer of Lotus 1-2-3 and former CEO of Lotus Development. “I pre-stage my investments by developing my own ideas of great business models & frameworks — when I meet a founder doing something similar I can make a quick decision,&# says Craig.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

When we started Flybridge over thirteen years ago, we developed a firm mission statement that we would treat early stage founders as our valued customers and have lived by this mission throughout our history. In our experience, great entrepreneurs don’t want to be hatched, incubated, promoted or optioned.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Thinking of applying to one (or all) of the summer accelerator/incubator/angel/mentoring programs like TechStars , Joystick Labs , or any of those found on this comprehensive list ? That’s one of the things we might develop during the summer program. We collectively get thousands of submissions, but only 1% are selected.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

She hosts technical and networking events for developers and designers in Austin and also facilitate partnerships with local tech companies. He later launched Cofound Harlem, a non-profit incubator in Harlem, and currently serves as a Managing Partner at Harlem Capital, a diversity-focused early stage VC firm. As the third U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link]. 18 free online tools useful for web designers and developers – [link]. Global Warming Has Opened A Huge Mining Opportunity In Greenland – [link]. San Quentin prison has a startup incubator for inmates?

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