A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
APRIL 5, 2010
We're "lean" but we're not stirring hearts. I'm as excited as everyone else about Lean principles gaining traction, and sure most companies are erring on the side of too little objective feedback rather than too much. Some developers wrote in asking how I was able to render it so efficiently. We're effective but not playful.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
AUGUST 29, 2011
The following week she sent me this email (my emphasis): Ever since accidentally stumbling upon lean startup 1+ years ago, I’ve struggled to implement the principles correctly. And whenever an assumption is kicked out from under you, that’s when you learn the most. This is wrong for a number of reasons.
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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 13, 2011
Modern Lean Startup theory blares out from the red-tiled rooftops of Stanford: Seek the Data and Ye Shall Find! But as much as I respect and follow Lean Startup theory, objective measurements aren’t the only things that matter. I was embarrassed when referring you guys to friends.&#. But hold on. They were still customers.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MAY 31, 2010
What if a huge company with a hundred software developers and a million dollars in marketing budget decides to copy my idea? At Smart Bear we make a peer review tool for software programmers; you don't have to be a geek to know that any software development tool company shares the following fear: "What if Microsoft copies us?"
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JUNE 12, 2012
Here are the details of both of those customer development experiences. ” Food on the Table — a now-famous lean juggernaut in Austin run by IMVU alum Manuel Rosso — talked to 120. I talked to 30 people before I realized that a certain idea of mine was a crappy idea, and about 40 people before starting WP Engine.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
MAY 15, 2012
But even so, it could be a report that’s vanity and you know that, but you’re not going to train them on lean start up, are you? Just like you take a resume and you don’t look at it and go, “Wow, you were in software development for five years. That’s fantastic.”
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
FEBRUARY 5, 2013
Modern PM tools are too simplistic because they follow the 37signals and Lean Startup mantra of building the simplest possible thing. Or if you’re still in the ideation stage, it gives you the basis for customer development, both in finding potential customers to call and in what you’re verifying when you get them on the phone.
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