Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 5, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. But I have a special sympathy for the "product manager" in a startup that is bringing a new product to a new market, and doing their work in large batches.
Cracking the Code
OCTOBER 10, 2008
Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. When we first published Bessemer’s Top 10 Laws for Being "SaaS-y" in early 2008 in conjunction with our annual invitation-only SaaS CEO Summit, we were overwhelmed with the positive response and feedback we received.
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Tim Keane
OCTOBER 8, 2008
'Startups and angels: Along the way to success. By Tim Keane, Angel Investor, Golden Angels Investors, LLC. Home. Archives. Profile. Subscribe. « The Whitehorse Daily Star - good advice for entrepreneurs | Main. | Forward to the past: The (re) rise of direct marketing » October 08, 2008. Being The Best You Can Be. Last week, our angel group reviewed a business with an online lie detector technology. We've all seen The Sharper Image catalog voice stress analyzers and i supp
BeyondVC
OCTOBER 9, 2008
The alarm bells are ringing in Silicon Valley and start-up land today with Sequoia Capital and Ron Conway telling companies to prepare for the economic meltdown and to raise cash by cutting their burn. This is not new news as being in New York we started to feel the real economic impact in mid-September as Lehman melted down and as Merrill Lynch was bailed out by Bank of America.
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
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 4, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. Ive updated the "official" conference bio below but otherwise the text remains unchanged from that original essay.) The most common feedback Ive heard from readers has been that I should provide details on my background.
Eric Friedman
OCTOBER 8, 2008
Want to see 12 guys who took home over $1 Billion since 2003? The NYTimes has a great chart showing the breakdown of compensation. (Source: NYTimes ). I was linked to this article from my friend Fazal (he should be blogging!) that points out the detail of a compensation package in the hundreds of millions over just a few years. I point this out as the attention funnel is moving from many regular topics to the economy for most people.
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Seeing Both Sides
OCTOBER 9, 2008
Every start-up board is having the same conversation these last few weeks: how will this economic crisis affect us and what should we do in our own business? We had our annual investor meeting this week and warned our investors that it was going to get ugly over the next year or two (surprisingly, they indicated that some of their other VC investors had sounded positively pollyanna during this annual season).
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 6, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. When I have the opportunity to meet startups, they usually have one of these aspects down, and need help with one or two of the others.
Eric Friedman
OCTOBER 6, 2008
I recently participated in a feedback session with Joffrey’s coffee to come up with a new coffee specifically for bloggers. My suggestion to call the new blend “Coffee 2.0″ seemed to resonate and they have launched the new coffee. My career in naming products is clearly growing. Coffee 2.0 is the perfect fuel for blogging, coding and gaming and is a great gift for the Web lover in your life.
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. As the gold rush drives thousands of apps onto the platform, its getting harder and harder for new entrants to get oxygen. Take a look at The App Store after the gold rush - FierceDeveloper : According to a recent BusinessWeek feature , the flood of new games, productivity tools and related iPhone software is making it difficult for the
Eric Friedman
OCTOBER 7, 2008
Gmail came out with an interesting feature today called Mail Goggles which forces you to solve simple math problems before an email is sent out to delay sending email you would later regret. My favorite part about this feature is when it is actually active by default: …Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you’re most likely to need it.
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