Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers.
Pascal's View
NOVEMBER 1, 2008
We have some engaging and topical new content on our VC-InsideOut podcast program– Episode 7 in our Governance Series, "Best Practices for the High-Performance Board" This is a first for VC InsideOut as we recorded a live, 92 minute program at the Pillsbury Winthrop law firm this past Thursday morning. Allison Leopold Tilley, Danial Faizullabhoy, Chris Rust, Pascal Levensohn The panel consisted of Chris Rust, General Partner of US Venture Partners , who sits on the b
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Eric Friedman
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
I wanted to link to a great article I read today detailing how difficult it can be to tell someone something. Sometimes no matter how much you explain something the final result is much easier to understand. I know first hand that a phone conversation about an idea can torpedo the real information because there is nothing in front of everyone to reference.
Andrew Payne
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
Schools need to teach “how to find answers to questions on the Internet”, starting at a fairly early age (like middle-school). We’ve shifted from “knowing it” as the key skill, to “being able to find it” And I’m shocked at the range of ability (even with adults) on translating a given query to a Google search, refining the query, using Wikipedia where possible, and sifting through results to get a consensus answer.
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
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Maples Investments is the only venture investor I know who has oriented their entire strategy to lean startups.
Pascal's View
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
Vivek Wadhwa, currently a Wertheim Fellow at the Harvard Law School and a successful tech entrepreneur, wrote a constructive article in Business Week , " Startups: The Upside of a Downturn" , providing advice and encouraging entrepreneurs not to wait to start a business during a recession– on the contrary, he identifies a recessionary environment as supportive of well-crafted new business opportunities. For a link to the full article, click here. I've exce
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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 6, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about.
Pascal's View
NOVEMBER 5, 2008
VentureBeat has published a guest column that I wrote on this topic "Recession: A Good Time to Trade Money for Power?" based on new research analyzed by Professor Noam Wasserman of Harvard Business School (HBS). On October 23, 2008, I moderated a panel on. normal"> Effective Board Leadership for Long-Term Success at the Forum for. Women Entrepreneurs & Executives at the offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR) in Palo.
Eric Friedman
NOVEMBER 3, 2008
Image via Wikipedia. MTV soft launched their MTV videos site making it an easy place to view and embed your favorite music videos. I have been waiting for a site like this to highlight music videos from yesteryear and also find a better way to embed the videos without the possibility of them being taken down. The player is easy to use but the embed codes are a little hidden on the lower left of every video.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 5, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. At first glance, this makes a lot of sense. Everyone knows that millions of dollars that are currently spent on television need to eventually migrate online, as TV viewership declines and overall media attention is fragmented.
Pascal's View
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
I feel particularly optimistic tonight, and I see sunlight in America's future. Gathering with my family in front of the TV, and listening to Senator McCain's gracious concession speech, my greatest hope is that a sense of bipartisanship, motivated by the desire to act in the best long term interests of America, will drive our country forward to a truly better place through the difficult times that remain ahead. It is easy to be cynical about politics and elections, but the demogr
Eric Friedman
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
My friend Seth has a great post today about voting and its importance to him. I agree with his sentiment and think you should get out and vote today. Below is a interactive widget showing the progress from MSNBC. Below are some logos from some sites on November 4th 2008.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 5, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail I had the privilege of volunteering for the Obama campaign in swing states for a few weekends during the final push towards victory. Im quite confident I got more out of the experience than the campaign got from me. Zillions of stories are being written about why Barack Obama won, and I will try and avoid repeating the obvious.
Eric Friedman
NOVEMBER 1, 2008
Image via Wikipedia. I wrote a month ago that I would try to start writing every day. So how did I do? I wrote almost every day – 24 posts in all. Not bad considering the archives. Allocating specific time to write definitely helped. without going through boring hard numbers I increased feed readers, increased email subscribers, and got more comments than any other month.
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