Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. More on that in a moment. They are close to breakeven.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Successful product launch campaigns have a strong value proposition, multi-channel distribution, supporting content, and other trappings common to every marketing campaign. Hugo Woodhead is the founder of Pilcro , which sells brand management software. Product launches are one phase in the product lifecycle. Image source ).

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Rob Go

JANUARY 12, 2015

Your product may have gotten traction due to some distribution hack or novelty factor, both of which may not lead to sustained usage and growth. Great teams fail to build a product and get early distribution successfully all the time. Great companies are often founded by first time founders who don’t seem obviously special.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 13, 2015

Great teams fail to build a product and get early distribution all the time. Great companies are often founded by first time founders who don’t seem obviously special. The observation here is that founders of great B2B companies more often than not have some demonstrable track record as operators or entrepreneurs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. 2001 – 2010: Back to Basics: The Lean Startup. VC’s went back to basics, to focus on building companies while their founders worked on building customers.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Normally, when I am talking to the founder of any startup trying to figure out what they need to do, one of the things I always try to do is understand their business at its core. channels (search, social, viral, new media), cost-efficient distribution He also points a fair bit to Eric Ries – The lean startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

There has never been a viral outbreak of such magnitude before. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy. Eric Ries, the founder of theleanstartup.com , states that the lean startup philosophy“provides a scientific approach to creating and managing startups and get the desired product to customers’ hands faster.”.

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Up and Running

JULY 26, 2016

This is what our hiring landscape looked like over the past year: Pre-2015, we hired three founders: 1x hustler in charge of strategic growth hacking. Lean marketing. There are a number of other variables here like virality (the chances of a user referring another user), but I don’t want to overcomplicate things.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 21, 2013

Lean Analytics is the latest addition to the Lean Series. If you're working on the Sticky Engine of Growth , you're focused on very different metrics from those that you care about in the Viral Engine of Growth. More people means adding users, ideally through virality or word of mouth, but also through paid advertising.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Solve a problem you can relate to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 7, 2008 The App Store after the gold rush I wrote earlier about the issue of distribution advantage on the iPhone. I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. So what can you do? Expo SF (May.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

The chart above shows age distribution within major social networks and online communities. Lean Business: Capacity Management, Overhead, and Your Business – [link]. Money matters: why women founders struggle in Silicon Valley | The Verge – [link]. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Russell Rothstein, Founder and CEO, IT Central Station , a product review site, said, “We see VCs on our site very often. 3) Raise capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem) Lean startups don’t optimize. The Lean Startup methodology does not advocate using optimization techniques to make startup decisions. Or should you focus on user engagement or virality? That’s right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His new book on this subject, “ The Lean Startup ,” lays out how today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses. Many founders envision their solution as a platform for future products, but don’t have a single killer application just yet. Platform pivot. Business architecture pivot.

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

Successful channels leaned into one (or more) of these five options: Educational authority; YouTube-friendly product; YouTube-friendly industry; The “face of the company”; A higher mission. Reddit has worked as a distribution path for other YouTube channels. How should you position your brand on YouTube? There is no one right way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. Knowing these will help a founder position her pitch to get investors’ attention. Founders need to keep their eye on the prize — not just the next funding round. Business Model.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 7, 2016

When investors interrogate founders, these interrogatives arise, but with a twist: Adding the word “why” in front of each. But also you de-risk by aligning the solution to the founder’s existing abilities, for example in using whatever language/framework the founders are already adept in. When → Why now?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

There's a good enough vaccine to get the virality rate below one. I just saw a friend of mine who's a finance person temporarily pause his job and volunteer to be the CFO or investor, whatever investor relations person for a startup was trying to work on a cure so that the founders could have more time to do the science.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 3, 2012

His popular book on this subject, “ The Lean Startup ,” lays out how today's entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses. Many founders envision their solution as a platform for future products, but don’t have a single killer application just yet. Platform pivot. Business architecture pivot.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

His popular book on this subject, “ The Lean Startup ,” lays out how today’s entrepreneurs use continuous innovation to create radically successful businesses. Many founders envision their solution as a platform for future products, but don’t have a single killer application just yet. Platform pivot. Business architecture pivot.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

See, when people lean on NPS like it’s a magic number, it doesn’t do much good. Instead of distributing bulky customer satisfaction surveys, where even your managers don’t know what to do with the results, you have only one question, one metric to deal with. Unfortunately, the real world is a little more nuanced. Image Source.

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