Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? Often times, it seems like people are thinking its synonymous with "that guy who gets paid to sit in the corner and think technical deep thoughts" or "that guy who gets to swoop in a rearrange my project at the last minute on a whim.
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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
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Cracking the Code
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. Death Sentence for SaaS.or for Lawson? In a very entertaining interview published by Zdnet Asia last week, the CEO of Lawson, the ERP software company, forecasts the collapse of the SaaS market in two years - at the same time the recently published report from Deutsche Bank on SaaS ("SaaS and Cloud Computing" by Tom Ernst, June 2008) cl
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Found this via Ben Kuo - The math behind Internet advertising businesses The advertising equivalence principle? So if we assume that a $1 CPM is about right and figure out what audience is required to build a $100MM annual revenue business, we find out that we need 8.33 billion monthly page views and over 300 million monthly unique visitors creating 25 page views per user.
Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic
Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 29, 2008
The damning New York Times headline, “ SEC CONCEDES OVERSIGHT FLAWS FUELED COLLAPSE ,” from a September 26th article by Stephen Labaton, will hopefully end up as more than a footnote in the long list of misdeeds by the ’stewards’ of the American economy that have brought American capitalism to the precipice of systemic financial collapse.
Professor VC
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Tuesday, September 16, 2008. Brickbreaker - Mindless Amusement or Viscious Addiction. I am not sure how this relates to venture finance or entrepreneurship, but Im sure Ill find some connection along the way. Perhaps, its that old joke: Q: What two industries call their customers "users"? A: Technology companies and Drug dealers While the fall semester is in full swing, summer doesnt officially end for another few days.
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Seeing Both Sides
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
Every year, Microsoft bigwigs trek down to Silicon Valley and brief the VC community on their view of the world and plans for the future. They are kind enough to invite East Coast VCs, not just locals, and so I flew out last week to partake in the annual event alongisde a few hundred of my VC brethren. Just as when I had attended the event in the past , the highlight was Steve Ballmer's address.
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
I get a lot of emails with questions, atleast 10 to 15 each day. Some are easy, others hard, and some mind boggling (due to their length, complexity or audacity!). "Dear Avinash" is an occasional series where I share some of my answers that might benefit the greater ecosystem. I'll only share the questions that might be universal, and ones where the source would be impossible to identify (to preserve confidentiality).
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Fantastic post by Dion Hinchcliffe - Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know. Raises some interesting points, but the general theme is: just figure out ways to get it to happen.
BeyondVC
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Being in New York, it is hard to escape the realities of the ailing financial sector. When I took the train into the city this morning I could see the somber look in people’s eyes knowing what had just happened to Lehman Brothers and the uncertainty of the financial markets and economy. Given this state of play, it is clear that capital is becoming scarcer by the minute and that we don’t know when we may come out of this mess.
Tim Keane
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « The Lessons of Experience | Main. | Being The Best You Can Be » September 15, 2008. The Whitehorse Daily Star - good advice for entrepreneurs. I hope this isn't taken as a political comment.
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. In this post I hope to talk about how to do it well, in terms appropriate for both audiences.
Eric Friedman
SEPTEMBER 8, 2008
I learned today that the Esquire magazine with video on the cover is now out. Reminds me of the quote. The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet. It certainly makes you wonder how long before newstands get special copies with video for their windows, or all magazines simply get this built into them. Here is the inside cover of the magazine with a Ford Flex ad.
Professor VC
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Friday, September 26, 2008. CFOs - More Guardian, Less Angel? Just received this months issue of CFO Magazine (yes, I know, it should be a very exciting weekend) and found an article I was interviewed for a couple of months ago. The article, " More Guardian, Less Angel " discusses how CFOs add value to angel groups by helping to kill deals.
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
The Wall Street of tomorrow is going to be a very different place than the one that investors and venture capitalists have known for the past 30 years. How will the continuing fundamental changes in the capital markets impact the model for venture capital investing in America and internationally? The NVCA has brought together a panel of VC’s, an attorney, and an institutional LP to discuss how venture investing has evolved over the past decade from an industry characterized by firms mostly
Jason Ball
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
I agree, the iPhone looks snappy in those Apple TV commericals. I love my iPhone, but it doesn't work *exactly* as advertised. Some guys with too much time on their hands decided to make this comparison video- the "TV" iPhone versus the "Real" iPhone.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Choose one. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although w
aweissman.com
SEPTEMBER 30, 2008
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Sep 30, 2008. Random. CDARS - "When you place a large deposit with a network member, that institution uses CDARS to place your funds into certificates of deposit issued by banks in the network. This occurs in increments of less than $100,000 to ensure that both principal and interest are eligible for full FDIC insurance.
Occam's Razor
SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
The term KPI is one that I hear far more than any other in this nascent field we call Web Analytics. Key Performance Indicators! This is a KPI and that is a KPI and "you don't have a KPI, oh my!" and "look at my KPI it is awesomer than yours!" and. well you've been there. You can empathize. Simple talk in this blog post: Highlight a definition.
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Building alliances between venture capitalists and corporations has never been more important than in today’s extraordinarily volatile capital markets. We may be looking at a Brave New World in finance when markets re-equilibrate (and eventually they will), but knowing how to partner with large corporations– who are both strategic business development partners as well as potential strategic acquirers of emerging companies– will remain a constant for venture capitalists.
Jason Ball
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
My beta invite for Dropbox (funded by Y Combinator ) arrived this weekend - and my initial impression is very positive. I’ve migrated my home mac use to a client/server (MacBook Pro/iMac) set up- with my iMac doing most of the heavy lifting. I’ve tried multiple back up services and even tried to use iDisk as a “dropbox”, but it never worked like it should.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. Please leave feedback!) I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team.
aweissman.com
SEPTEMBER 6, 2008
skip to main | skip to sidebar. aweissman.com. Maximizing the serendipity around you. Sep 6, 2008. More. Lazyweb links: [link] (via kortina ) Dave Cancels invisible web Twitter Counter Daytum - what is it? I like anything that greets one with a "Hello" Recomm.me "a simple Twitter bot with memory" Stevienickshasnever the prison burpee. at 10:53 AM. More.
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. In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 13, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 13, 2008 SEM on five dollars a day How do you build a new product with constant customer feedback while simultaneously staying under the radar? Trying to answer that question at IMVU led me to discover Google AdWords and the world of search engine marketing. SEM is a simple idea. You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability." We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn I like theory too much. But hey, its what helps me think about problems. This simple feedback loop has proven its worth to me time and again. Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Its not always fun being small. When you have an infinitesimal number of customers, it can be embarrassing. Some might look at my tiny "5 readers" badge and laugh. But as long as your ego can take it, there are huge advantages to having a small number of customers.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying. In the very early days, the trick is to find anyone at all who can understand you when you are talking about your product.
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. Many of them have really cool products shipping or about to be released, and I wholeheartedly agree with my friends at the iFund that the next generation of applications is going to be amazing.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 12, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 12, 2008 Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences Growing renewable audiences (a talk at O’Reilly Alphatech Ventures) | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen Non-sustainable: In fact, I’ll describe press and blog traffic as “fool’s gold&# because of the associated emotions that it brings.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployme
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 5, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 5, 2008 Great open source scalability tools from Danga If you are trying to build a scalable LAMP service, its always best to start with the original and still quite relevant presentation, from Brad Fitzpatrick when he was at LiveJournal. You can find the 2005 version here. Youll learn how they pioneered the use of a lot of open source tools at new levels of scale, and even created quite a few more, that are essential scaling aids.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." The mechanical steps, the culture of how its done, how they evaluate success, how they cope with failure. You can tell a lot about a company from their deployment flow. How fast do they iterate? Certainly no faster than the time it takes to release.
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