Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back, it is relatively rare. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 128 in 2012 (compared to 675 in 1996). business entrepreneur exit founder IPO startup' Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Today the rate of startups going public (IPO – Initial Public Offering) is at an all-time low, and most entrepreneurs avoid this option like the plague, knowing the process is painful, and public company executives are seen as greedy sharks. In developing countries, like China and India, the statistics are reversed. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Even though the Initial Public Offering (IPO) alternative for a successful startup seems to be coming back into vogue, it is relatively rare. IPOs in 2008, the market was up to a still trivial 159 in 2011. Consider the recent example of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg. After a record low of 39 U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 4, 2021

This will be Version One’s first prospective IPO! For instance, their latest is a magic wand which lets you change web copy without asking a developer. . Let’s ride this momentum into 2021! . Announcements. Coinbase submitted their draft registration statement on Form S-1 with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2017

One example, Singapore’s Zilliqa , is developing a high through-put DLT platform to handle the thousands per second capacity required by a Visa but with much lower merchant fees, and with plans to scale further. This limits positive ROI DLT installations to lower volume/intermediated environments. Compliance.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The NYSE recently published a book – The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap – From Concept to IPO that I’ve been involved in. The book covers a variety of stages of company development, including: The Seed Stage: Starting a Company. The Growth Stage: Scaling the Business. The Exit: Strategies and Options.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 15, 2010 Some IPO speculation Inspired by Steve Blank’s post today about the “lost decade&# of IPO’s , I’d like to make some predictions. The fact that IPO’s are disappearing makes intuitive sense to me. Let me be clear: Steve is the historian.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2021

Lazarus has developed a reputation in the Melbourne and Sydney business communities as a consultant who is brutally honest yet caring and highly effective at the same time. He places a strong emphasis on branding and how it positions his clients to start earning revenue shortly after opening their business.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Cheap, mobile, social, global, massive, always-on, one-click-purchase has led to the most successful companies of our era hitting unprecedented scale early in their development and has massively shifted the value captured from post-IPO investors to pre-IPO investors as is demonstrated in the chart above.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

On top of all this it was considered very bad form not to have at least four additional consecutive quarters of profits after an IPO.) The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down. Tech acquisitions went crazy at the same time the IPO market did.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Looking ahead at 2021, with vaccines being rolled out (slowly) in the developed world, it feels like we have a grip on what the year ahead might look like – the new normal. Streaming, gaming, ecommerce increased adoption rapidly, advancing 10 years in the space of a few months.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 11, 2022

To this end, we are excited to announce two big developments for NextView. As someone who has seen multiple companies go from concept to $1B scale (and IPO), her experience and insight will be invaluable to the founders we work with. The first is that we are welcoming Stephanie Palmeri as the newest Partner at the firm.

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prosperati.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Prosperati HOME BLOG ABOUT CONTACT Blog Can A Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 2 Posted 07.15.2009 in Blog In my previous article ( Can a Startup Do OffShore Development? Part 1 ), I talked about alignment of interest and trust as being the two most critical aspect when starting a new offshore development team.

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Start Up Blog

MAY 13, 2019

Last Friday night, I did a TV interview on ABC regarding Uber’s long awaited IPO. An IPO is when a company first becomes a publicly traded stock that anyone can buy and hold. Amazon IPO 1997 – 2 years after it was founded. Google IPO 2004 – 5 years after it was founded.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2021

Then there is the pressure to go public ( IPO ), and open your investment to thousands, maybe millions, of small investors. Switch your focus from product development to sales. Now is the time to start buying your competitors, rather than just crushing them, or trying to develop enough new products internally to overrun them.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2022

It is here that the groundwork is laid and the business model developed. The journey commences by finding a solution for an everyday problem. At this stage, the idea is pitched mainly to family and friends. 2) Laying out the genesis of the company. A business plan is drawn up to attract investors and partners. 3) Company formation.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 18, 2019

One of the many great things about the Governor of Colorado is that he’s an entrepreneur, having started multiple successful technology companies, including BlueMountainArts.com (acquired by Excite for $800m) and Provide Commerce (IPO, then acquired by Liberty Media for $500m).

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Hunter Walker

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It might ‘exit’ again at a later point (anything from a sale to an IPO), but it’s no long dependent on VC funding. Our goal is to develop innovative products and features that help make recruiters jobs easier, emphasizing the importance of humans making decisions in hiring.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 21, 2009

Projected IPOs for 2009 are an embarrassing 10 total deals, down from 86 just 2 years ago (it was 265 in the go-go years of 99-00) but at least up from 6 in 2008. They have data from surveys they did with corporate development officers (e.g. Montgomery expects M&A to rebound to the normal recent levels at 450 deals by 2010.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This huge increase of capital is really just money that used to be invested post-IPO, so more value is captured by VCs who traditionally sold post-IPO In a way we see this late-stage capital as a different market segment than traditional venture capital but it gets lumped into the same classification. trillion in value.

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View from Seed

MARCH 24, 2021

” Below are our favorite pieces from the past few years, divided in to a few key categories: fundraising, company building, product development, industry trends, and the life of a VC. Developing Your Product. Why Do Consumer IPOs and B2B IPOs Get Treated Differently? ” (Melody Koh). ” (Melody Koh).

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

When he founded Netflix as a DVD rental service in 1997, Hastings had already led one company, Pure Software, from its birth to an IPO. It was just such a joy to develop things. Then in 1991 I came up with a product for developers that turned out to be important enough to build a company around. You’ve IPOed two companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

As an early stage investor in the world of gaming and metaverse technology at Remagine Ventures, I find these companies have the potential to set the agenda, become the potential platforms for developers building in this space and future acquirers/consolidators of startups building the next generation of the Internet. Here we go! Epic Games.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 6, 2019

According to Lee M Von Kraus, PHD and a mentor at Clarity.fm, “Early stage startups are usually pre-money startup that are bootstrapping the early development of a product.”. Product development. Now that you have a refined product idea and a team that can turn this idea into reality, the product development stage will start.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 21, 2017

Once you get the first few pilots implemented and convert to paying customers, I would consider bringing someone onboard who can get customers up and running successfully without taking away from executive or developer resources. The post Thoughts from Mulesoft and AppDynamics IPO Filings appeared first on BeyondVC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 17, 2022

VCs tend to carry their partners much longer, in hopes of a big public offering (IPO) that could produce a windfall. Yet, it is important to remember that the most optimistic super angel is looking for a proven business model, rather than research and development, or just an idea. Super angels sometimes drive up valuations.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 10, 2018

You’ll find exceptions to this rule, like Snapchat, which was operating at a loss at its IPO, when it experienced high initial trading prices due to its huge popularity and untapped monetization capabilities. Develop a Plan to Separate You From the Business. Few buyers will get excited about a company currently operating at a loss.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 24, 2017

Snap Inc’s stock SNAP increased 44% from the initial IPO rate on the first trading day. Expect these developments to have a positive impact on Snap Inc’s stock in the long run. Profits should rise to 7% this year, up from the 4% of the last two years. The public offering started at $17 per share, more than the expected $14-$16 range.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

This includes creating the Information Security Program, training on secure development of products, and/or implementing the security architecture of their infrastructure. Do we have offshore developers? When are we looking for funding, investors, or going IPO? Do we have an internet connected product/app?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 25, 2011

Interesting perspective on LinkedIn’s IPO – arguing that the IPO price was reasonable – [link]. And here’s another side – suggesting that LinkedIn shareholders might have been scammed in the IPO – [link]. Excellent tips for startups on hiring product managers – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 23, 2014

Corporate business development and strategic partner executives are flocking to Silicon Valley to find these five types of innovation. VCs like acquisitions as much as IPOs because the acquiring companies often can rationalize paying large multiples over the current valuation of the startup.

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