Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 27, 2009 Cash is not king Cash on hand is just one important variable in a startup’s life, but it’s not necessarily the most important. What matters most is the number of iterations the company has left. While some cost-cutting measures reduce that number, others increase it. In lean times, it’s most important to focus on cutting costs in ways that speed you up, not slow you down.

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K9 Ventures

MARCH 22, 2009

We (me and presumably anyone who reads this post) are startup people. That’s what we do. Day in and day out. I think about startups every day, 7 days a week — even though I know I probably shouldn’t. The Valley is a fascinating place for startups. Honestly, you absolutely cannot find a better ecosystem than what exists here. I realized this only after being here and seeing what it is like everyday.

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 26, 2009

Recent discussions about bailouts and regulations have got me thinking. Corporations enable capitalism. The main feature is limited liability, which limits owner’s losses to their original investment and employee’s to losing their jobs. In other words, if a corporation has obligations it can’t fulfill, the owners (stockholders) and employees aren’t on the hook.

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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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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. You can learn more about the event here. Its hosted by Kontagent and sponsored by Intel. Most of the content for my presentation is drawn from my original article on engagement loops , with new diagrams courtsey of my friends at Kontagent and a few new examples.

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 27, 2009

As we give up land-lines for cell phones, there’s still one useful purpose for the plain-old telephone: providing a number for the entire “household” There are a bunch of cases where a household number is needed: giving an emergency contact number for school/camp/etc., having a contact to give the power company/cable company/bank, etc.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 22, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. Who knew? In order to reduce my incredible ignorance about other such hubs, Im heading to Vancouver. In keeping with my recent theme of blogging about upcoming events, Im happy to announce that Ill be speaking at Agile Vancouver on April 21.

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Jason Ball

MARCH 24, 2009

Step 1. Get Spotify. Step 2. Sign up for an account at last.fm. Step 3. Enable scrobbling inside the prefs pane in Spotify. Step 4. Check this site to find new artists based on your las.fm recommendations [link]. Step 5. Enjoy your new found music nirvana. Tags: Music.

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 25, 2009

The venture capital business is in the middle of a shakeout. For too long, venture’s been over-funded and over-staffed with homogeneity: the same kinds of partners, operating with the same fund model, looking at the same investments, in the same markets. It took an economic meltdown for LPs to finally realize they were putting money into an asset class that wasn’t generating a return commensurate with the risk.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 23, 2009

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 23, 2009 Venture Hacks interview: "What is the minimum viable product?" I recently say down with Venture Hacks for an interview. Part one is up on their site today , in text, audio and slide format. Here are some topics and excerpts of what we covered, edited lightly for how I wish Id said it at the time. To hear full audio and a complete transcript, click through to Venture Hacks.

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Altgate

MARCH 22, 2009

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 26, 2009

With the proliferation of public computers (e.g. libraries, hotel business center, etc.), we need a browser with a lockable “public computer” mode, unlockable only by the computer administrator. In this mode, no passwords are stored, and auto-complete for form fields is turned off (or quickly expired). Any open windows would close automatically after some period of inactivity, and the browsing history is quickly expired.

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 23, 2009

Why do we need Twitter and Facebook? (esp. after Facebook’s redesign, making it much more Twitter-like). One reason: tweets are 100% public, Facebook status updates are (generally) not. As such, the collective tweet-stream is a great source of near-real-time information. Lately, I find myself searching more than tweeting, mostly to find current info or if others are sharing my current problem (e.g. “EC2 down”).

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Andrew Payne

MARCH 23, 2009

I thought Douglas Bowman’s recent post about his departure from Google was interesting. As a visual designer, he felt Google’s data-driven culture was “paralyzing the company” and “preventing it from making any daring design decisions” Ten years ago (before I blogged, and therefore could prove this claim), I opined the future of user interface design would be a combination of visual design and direct marketing analytics.

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