Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts for SaaS companies planning their 2009 budget. A few days ago, Bessemer West Coast SaaS Practice - David Cowan , Byron Deeter and myself, hosted a CFO Dinner for our SaaS portfolio at John Bentleys in Redwood City.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 14, 2008

Software by Rob Passionate about Startups and MicroISVs Lessons Learned by a Serial Entrepreneur home about press micropreneurs archives ← Book Review: Finding a New Career that Values Your IT Knowledge The Software Product Myth → I’m in a Book! Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets About this Blog If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place.

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Professor VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

ProfessorVC. The last blogger in Silicon Valley. Thursday, November 13, 2008. Man Camp. Just returned from a golf trip to Bandon Dunes , Oregon. We played a Ryder Cup style tournament with 16 guys (the motley crew to your left) over 3 days and 72 holes, with a few drinks mixed in. Waking up Monday morning with a golf hangover, I remembered I hadnt had time to prepare for my class that afternoon.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? Those of us who have had the privilege of working in the premier startup hub in the world often take its advantages for granted. Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

Links roundup for the middle of the week on 11/12/2008 – Enjoy! Blackberry vs. iphone vs. treo failure rate. Social Media is like the Matrix – Because you have to USE social media to understand it. No more windows 3.x - the end of an era. Ways to fail and come out on top. Are holographic reporters going to become the norm? I hope not… Things you wish you knew when you were younger.

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Andrew Payne

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I can never be a politician; I’m way too good at verbal gaffes. In an attempt to be funny or witty, I frequently manage to blurt out something wildly inappropriate, embarrassing myself and everyone around me. But there’s no a tape or video recorder to memorialize the moment. The Internet is a different story: every blog post you write, picture you post, Facebook wall you write on — it’s all there “forever” As time goes on, we’re all sharing more, bu

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. After reading it, you might not even realize that there are cars involved in Toyotas business.

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Eric Friedman

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

I recently interviewed Motoko Hunt of AJPR for Search Engine Strategies Chicago where she will be speaking in the Search Around the World: Europe, Asia/Pacific & Latin America panel. Motoko Hunt. 1. What is your background and what do you do for www.ajpr.com ? On my first “real” job, I was a corporate interpreter/translator. Then I got into marketing, and worked as Senior Marketing and Procurement Manager at Japanese trading firm in California.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

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Andrew Payne

NOVEMBER 9, 2008

There is some big news buried under Obama’s election win: the FCC has adopted rules allowing for unlicensed use of some TV spectrum. This is HUGE news. Spectrum is a finite resource, and it’s availability (or lack of) is a limiting factor in satisfying growing demand for new services. Most spectrum use requires a license, and incumbent license holders are quite adept at forming barriers against new competitors (good luck trying to start a new cellphone provider, for example).

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Seeing Both Sides

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Alan Blinder (former vice chairman of the Federal Reserve) is one of my favorite economists. His book, Hard Heads, Soft Hearts , outlines a compelling philosophy in economic policy - whereby a tough-minded, analytical approach is applied to solve difficult social issues. Thus, I read his recent NY Sunday Times article on the central role that trust plays in capitalism with great interest.

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VC Adventure

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

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