Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2010

If you don’t know of Eric, he’s a software entrepreneur who over the past few years has been developing and evangelizing the idea of the Lean Startup. The overview of the event follows: Startup Lessons Learned is the first event designed to unite those interested in what it takes to succeed in building a lean startup.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Ian Hathaway and I are hard at work on a book called The Startup Community Way, which is modeled after Eric Ries’ evolution of The Lean Startup to his recent book The Startup Way. If you are a fan of Startup Communities , there’s a lot going on around new initiatives on this front.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

Rally’s product development team is devoting their talent and energy to participate and host the Boulder, Denver, Seattle, and Raleigh event ( join up at these locations.) Rally is also donating three seats to their Enterprise Lean Startup training course to this effort.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 6, 2011

In lean startup language, they’ve got a minimal viable product. The second is to use the prototype to continue to explore and understand the specific customer fit while building a production version from scratch that incorporates much of what they learned during the prototype development. However, they are faced with two choices.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 10, 2013

It’s very nicely linked to the Lean Startup methodology (without realizing it). Clay very deftly uses business concepts to set the stage for a deep discussion of how to think about your life, your values, and how you operate. The one I liked the most was his discussion of the theory of good and bad capital.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

Talking heads discuss the ins and outs of everything from product development to investment theory. Gurus wax lyrical about vision and lean, focused execution. Management books delve into every nook and cranny of strategy and tactics. But there’s one critical piece of entrepreneurship that these experts miss.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 22, 2012

In parallel, there’s often a Lean Startup methodology going on that does more quantitative tests of the specific product. He has a great chapter in Do More Faster where he wrote about how he “Looked for the Pain” as a developer, found it in sending transaction email, and created SMTPAPI (now SendGrid) to address it.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

There are a number of great ones coming that seem to have been kicked off by Eric Ries’ dynamite The Lean Startup. Four years later Startup Weekend is an international phenomenon that I believe is one of the key activities required in any entrepreneurial community that aspires to grow and develop of a 20 year period.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2012

This past summer, I worked with David Cohen, Tom Chickoore and the great people at TechStars to develop and organize a startup boot camp for Veterans. Much of the perception comes from the political lean of Boulder. …”our Boulder. The program was a great success, however, a theme arose that startled me.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 1, 2012

This is a negative leaning book, but there is some positive and constructive stuff in it. As I continue to grind through writing Startup Communities: How To Create An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City, I’m trying to maintain a steady diet of complementary books. The Titan’s Curse - Rick Riordan: Book #3 of Percy Jackson.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Todd and I were at one end of the table and couldn’t really hear the conversation very well without leaning over so we ended up just talking to each other for a little while. That little while turned into a really intense conversation. Todd made the assertion that something happens to guys between the age of 47 and 50.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2013

NEXT by Startup Weekend is a wonderful next step for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their idea or early business, while heavily leveraging the Lean methodology. We learned how to take an idea and turn it into a company the right way using the Lean Startup process.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2014

The Lean Startup approach is super helpful here. Don’t spend six months developing a business development relationship. Sales big companies business development Entrepreneurship' Start by coming up with a hypothesis about what you are going to do to help BigCo be successful. Then, test this hypothesis.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2014

The Lean Startup approach is super helpful here. Don’t spend six months developing a business development relationship. Sales big companies business development Entrepreneurship' Start by coming up with a hypothesis about what you are going to do to help BigCo be successful. Then, test this hypothesis.

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