Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I spent an entire hour watching the sales video for a new product you probably have heard of, it’s called… Kajabi You can watch the video for yourself right here – What Is Kajabi? Rather than me go through the entire set of features, you’re better off watching the video if you want a more in-depth look.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

He shows how the actions of people inside traditional systems are motivated by their rational assessment of their own economics. Reinertsen does not speak about startups specifically - his book is meant to speak broadly to product development teams across industries and sectors. Wow, great review! Expo SF (May.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. The fourth spec exists only in these emails, which are changing the design in an ad-hoc fashion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

You constantly assess the situation, looking for hazards and timing your movements carefully to get across safely. Whenever someone decided to buy a ticket, I got an email immediately letting me know. Yet, when I tried other forms of promotion, I’d have to accept their failures when the emails failed to come.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Heres the catch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Up and Running

JUNE 12, 2015

Tweet or email us with your answer. Email marketing: MailChimp. Collaborative documents, email service provider, etc.: Tweet or email us with one we should check out. I think you and this is … Not to get too mad at here, but you is you the entrepreneur, you the CEO, the business owner, so you the listener.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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thenetsetter.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Archives Team Badges & Banners Netsetter Directory Twitter Updates Email Updates Rss Updates Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup? Blogging tools, video hosting services, image hosting services and the like, all make this a very accessible place to start up. But it sure does seem to help!

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

Each week we discuss the latest news, resources and advice for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Send us an email: Bcast@Bplans.com. The marketing team wants this video. I think two-thirds of emails are opened on mobile. Welcome to the Bcast, the official podcast of Bplans.com. What does the user want?

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Neil Patel, a very smart entrepreneur, also has an excellent recent post that you may want to check out: “Beginner’s Guide to Finding the Right Business Partner” (see [link]. I know a lot of people who want to be an entrepreneur but many do not have what I call the “survival gene&#. If you like it, check out his blog and Twitter.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And make sure to read our recent posts with advice from Mint CEO Aaron Patzer on his advice to entrepreneurs as well ( here and here ). link] Michael Arrington yep, this stuff is gold for entrepreneurs. Ryoma Ito Any of you bizdev types located in the valley looking to team up with a tech guy? If so, drop me an email at s10.oleynik

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked. Very useful post.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Feel free to include your URL and email for anyone to contact you. Dont aim for the lowest bid.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Its objective is to help your developers understand what information the system should capture, when it should be displayed and what it should do when the user "does stuff" on your site. To give you an idea of how it should look and feel, I’ve created a small mock-up of an email service for you to peruse.

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

If I email someone at a publicly facing company, I expect a response somewhat quickly. To be fair, writing an email to very public companies like Expedia is like throwing rocks into a well. It’s not the inbound customer emails that are time consuming; it’s all the other inbound communication that is. Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. A project usually has an absolute duration and budget whereas the time and money dedicated to development within the project is where the tradeoffs are made.

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