Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Continuous deployment and continuous learning At long last, some of the actual implementers of the advanced systems we built at IMVU for rapid deployment and rapid response are starting to write about it. I find these on-the-ground descriptions of the system and how they work so much more credible than just theory-type posts that I am excited to share them with you.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Expenses You Don’t Think of When Starting a Business Something Big is Coming… → Marketing is Design: Three Words that Increased My E-commerce Sales 1000% Overnight Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Ashlee Vance from the Bits Blog has a nice piece on why Cisco raised another $4b of cash through a debt offering yesterday even though they have $30b in cash.  "As word of Cisco’s debt sale hit Wall Street, the standard chatter surrounding possible targets began anew. As usual, companies like EMC, NetApp, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat and BMC were discussed as desirable properties." Regarding Cisco I have heard the same acquisition rumors.  On the smaller private company side, my

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Yesterday I met with a cool company named Slide Rocket that has a very slick product. Based on Adobe Flex, SlideRocket has built a web based PowerPoint alternative that some equate more to Apple’s Keynote (plus it has collaboration built in). One reviewer even said: ”The entire interface is, dare I say it, gorgeous. It’s slick, smooth, gentle on [.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. But Im going to share it anyway, because it feels like the right thing to do. Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Charles Teague and I were riffiing today on entrepreneurial opportunities around the iPhone, location-based services, and other areas. A recurring discussion theme was: sometimes technology disruptions don’t lead to NewCo opportunities. Why? Consider the hype around Web Services from years ago. There were dozens (perhaps hundreds) of companies funded, but today, can you name a single durable, sustainable, profitable, value-creating Web Services company?

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

In that 1984 classic, Revenge of the Nerds, a group of outcasts and misfits fight back against their better-looking, "cool" rivals, ultimately winning the girls and glory. I was reminded of the movie over breakfast this morning with the CEO of one of the major ad agencies. Just as you'd expect a high-powered agency executive to be, he was smooth, smart, suave and urbane.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 9, 2009 The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help) Ive been asked to speak this year at the Web 2.0 Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

I sometimes use JDarkroom for writing. It blanks out the screen, giving only monospaced text, letting you focus on words (not formatting, the clock, the weather, email, surfing, or blog reading). But when I need to think , turning off the computer entirely and writing on paper seems to work best (I like the large squared Moleskine notebooks). It goes everywhere, boots instantly, and never crashes.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Armageddon Averted? Viridus Launches Green Business News Aggregator → Members of Congress on Twitter Posted on February 11, 2009 by fnazeeri The Electoral College is incredibly obsolete but still remains.  Many institutions in government are slow to change, but one thing I find fascinating is incredible changes in how candidates and politicians communicate. 

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 You buy virtual goods Jeremy Liew has a great piece in the WSJ about the central mystery of businesses that make money selling virtual goods: Why do People Buy Virtual Goods? - WSJ.com : "My theory is that people buy digital goods for the same reason that they buy goods in the real world; (i) to be able to do more, (ii) to build relationships, and (iii) to establish identity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, February 12, 2009 What is a market? (a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Members of Congress on Twitter Greed is Good → Viridus Launches Green Business News Aggregator Posted on February 13, 2009 by fnazeeri This is a shameless plug for my company ( Viridus ) which I try not to do much on this blog.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← An Engineer’s Suggestion For the Stimulus Plan Members of Congress on Twitter → Armageddon Averted? Posted on February 10, 2009 by fnazeeri I saw this story that’s making it’s way around the InterTubes that, if true, is probably the scariest thing I have ever seen.

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Altgate

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Bill Gates Releases Mosquitoes At TED While Talking About Malaria & Education An Engineer’s Suggestion For the Stimulus Plan → But What Does It Mean? Posted on February 8, 2009 by fnazeeri I saw this chart when someone on Twitter pointed it out.

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