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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Sounds like a no-brainer, but I’d like to try and convince you that it’s not. All things being equal, of course, you’d rather have more revenue rather than less. But all things are never equal.

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Growing your business in a recession

BeyondVC

I read a great article by James Surowiecki in the New Yorker the other day titled " Hanging Tough."  In the piece, James gives a historical perspective on companies that thrived and grew during previous recessions by increasing spending on on advertising and R&D.  While I am not advocating that companies go out and blow their cash on ads and spending on far-out development projects, I do want my readers to understand that it is possible to gain market share during difficu

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The Social Web Helps Content Live Forever

Eric Friedman

I was recently reminded of a survey I created at SocialToo.com which is a service I use to track followersunfollowers on Twitter as well as do short surveys that live on the web. I noticed someone responded and reshared this survey thus prolonging its life further into the black hole that is the Internet. It turns out that it has gotten over 1K+ responses (last time I checked it was less than 100).

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A business based on anonymous confessions

Sophia Perl of Wisdom

I’m sure most of you have heard about PostSecret in which people send in postcards with your confession. I came across another website called TruuConfessions.com targeted towards women. I thought it was interesting actually in that women definitely do love their gossip. When I read the About Us section which I always do on new startup websites, the founder talked about anonymous confessions as being therapeutic.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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

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Redeyes

Andrew Payne

I’m wondering if in-flight Internet is going to lower demand for redeye flights, since you can get a “working day in the air”

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L'homme-dé, ou comment réapprendre à sortir de la monotonie.

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks L’homme-dé, ou comment réapprendre à sortir de la monotonie by Aymeric on April 14th, 2009 Mon ami François m’a conseillé de lire le livre “the dice man” de George Cockcroft.

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Sam Zell at CU! | Seth Levine

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Story Behind “The Secret History” Part IV: Library Hours at an.

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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L'homme-dé, ou comment réapprendre à sortir de la monotonie

Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

Skip to content Follow: RSS Email Twitter Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli On building profitable web applications Home Contact me Creations Blog Books Entrepreneurship & Startups General Online experiments Programming tips and tricks Startup tips and tricks L’homme-dé, ou comment réapprendre à sortir de la monotonie by Aymeric on April 14th, 2009 Mon ami François m’a conseillé de lire le livre “the dice man” de George Cockcroft.

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For Entrepreneurs "Financial Exit" is a Dangerous Misnomer

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supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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Change We Can Believe In - Reinventing the US Auto Industry: Open.

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico