Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn. Of course, many startups are capital efficient and generally frugal.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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 16, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 16, 2008 How to Usability Test your Site for Free Noah Kagan has a great discussion of usability testing which can help get you over the "thats too hard" or "thats too expensive" fear. At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. At Mint , Aaron (CEO) was very very methodical and even flew in his dad who is a usability expert.
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 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.
Pascal's View
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
Dave Barry, Managing Editor of Dow Jones Financial Information Services , has invited me to join a panel of M&A experts on September 26 to discuss best practices and some of the key challenges currently facing VC-backed company boards involved in mergers and acquisitions. Joining me on the panel are Jeff Laborde, Vice President in Goldman Sachs’ Technology Investment Banking Group , who represented our portfolio company Rapt earlier this year in Rapt’s acquisition by Microsoft.
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