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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. I think this idea is particularly appealing to those of us from an engineering background. By reducing the decisions we have to make to a series of quantitative questions, we can avoid a lot of real-life messiness.

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Faith-Based versus Fact-Based Decision Making « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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Occam's Razor and the current state of venture

BeyondVC

I have made many posts in the past about focus and doing more with less, and as I continued on this path it reminded me of Occam's Razor , the idea that the simplest explanation to any problem is the best explanation.  Of course Occam's Razor can get more complex but over the years it has been associated with the idea that "less is more."  And when I apply this philosophy to the current state of venture, I can see many applications of this theory.

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A Really Interesting Online Education Company in Korea: Megastudy

abovethecrowd.com

Today’s New York Times has half page article on a billion dollar (US$) public Korean company named Megastudy. My partner Peter Fenton and I had the luxury of meeting with this company a few years back, and I always had hoped to find the U.S. equivalent. Truth be told, Business Week profiled the company two [.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

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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Dropping Friends

Andrew Payne

I’m taking a lead from Bijan and Fred and am starting to trim my Facebook friend list to “real friends”: people I know pretty well, old friends from school, etc. I’m starting with the folks I’ve never met, or only met once. (If you’re on the “cut list”, sorry!).

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Vertical Markets 3: Reducing Risk in Startups « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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Bill Gurley’s Comments on the IPO Market on CNBC

abovethecrowd.com

Last Thursday, while attending the Wall Street Journal "D" conference, I was asked by Scott Wapner at CNBC to share my thoughts on the current IPO market. Here is the link to the video. If anyone knows how to embed these CNBC/NBC videos in WordPress.com (the SAAS web version, not the software package), let me know. I [.

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Email, Evolved

Andrew Payne

I have a long-running discussion with a number of friends: what’s next for email? After all, email hasn’t changed much in the past few decades. Email readers have gotten slightly better over the years, with improved multimedia handling, searching, threading, calendar integration, etc. In a lot of ways, email clients have been just good enough (e.g.

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@altgate » Blog Archive » Directory of Blogs by Entrepreneurs

Altgate

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← “What’s Next in Tech&# Event in Boston Entrepreneurs on Twitter → Directory of Blogs by Entrepreneurs Posted on June 1, 2009 by fnazeeri This post was inspired by Fidelity Ventures Partner Larry Cheng who recently compiled a list of VC blogs and ranked them in order of Google Reader subscribers.  I have a few hundred feeds that I follow in Google Reade

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Rocks in the Rocket Science Lobby « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Home Books for Startups Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Resources Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Categories Air Force (9) Ardent (9) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (29) California Coastal Commission (3) Conservation (2) Convergent Technologies (1) Customer Development (98) Customer Development Manifesto (22) E.piphany (6) ESL (7) Family/Career (21) Market Types (9) Marketing (17) MIPS Computers (1) Rocket Science Games (7) Secret History of Silico

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New England's Top 10 Innovators

Seeing Both Sides

June is innovation month in New England and it has started off with a bang. A few weeks ago, Business Week named Boston the 3rd most inventive city in the world. This week, The Deal declared that Route 128 is well-positioned to continue its leadership in innovation, despite the economic crisis, due to its diverse economy and robust enterpreneurial environment.

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Hulu Desktop & Boxee: Temporary Solutions

Andrew Payne

Hulu Desktop just came out: it’s a client-app (Mac and Windows) that provides a “lean back” UI for Hulu video content. It integrates remote control inputs, so it works well for folks plugging computers into the living room TV. I’ve written before about the evolution of Internet TV: Hulu Desktop and Boxee, as client apps, are just temporary, intermediate points.

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