Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Here's what entrepreneurs predict for business in 2022. #1- To overcome these challenges, leaders will need to keep people at the center of our conversations, and organizations will need to help their employees build emotional intelligence and expert people skills. 1- Use of real-time payments. Photo Credit: Ernests Embutniek.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 17, 2021

Accomplished entrepreneurs often pride themselves on being able to spot a gap in the market from a mile away. An online business analytics masters can be done from the comfort of your own office, bedroom, or possibly anywhere you happen to be that boasts a sturdy internet connection. Setting an Example for Your Employees.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners who are their favorite disruptors and here are the responses; #1- Elon Musk. One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. He is a serial entrepreneur and has started several successful companies. 2- Dropbox.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2-billion dollars in the bank, they plan on jumping right in. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. It’s the antithesis of the Lean Startup. And it may work.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

It may sound counterintuitive, but in an attempt to save money and keep their company afloat, many entrepreneurs have actually ended up misspending their funds. When paying employees becomes too expensive, many companies either lay people off or keep their workers but reduce salaries. Have you been making the same mistake?

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Genuine VC

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are a couple classic archetypes of internet/software founders, including the genius college student cooking up something quirky but ultimately disruptive in his dorm room who launches his company straight out of undergrad. Reactions when I told people I was an “internet entrepreneur” ranged from smirks to blank stares.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 6, 2018

It seems as though in many categories, especially in consumer internet space, a handful of startups pursuing quite similar or even apparently identical ideas launch within months of each other. competing entrepreneurs, VCs, and tech journalists others sometimes privately/publicly accuse and dismiss other groups of copycat tactics.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Not so long ago, business leaders operated behind the scenes, and even long-time employees rarely heard from them or saw them in the news. Today, with the Internet and social media, if you aren’t visible in a positive way to everyone, including customers, your leadership efforts will be lost.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I used to give copies of Four Steps out to my employees, in the hopes that it would instantly indoctrinate them into the methodology of Customer Development. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Employees should be masters of their own time Every startup should have a culture of learning. The rule is simple: every employee is 100% responsible for how they spend their time. The suggestion is that you implement one single company-wide rule. I asked why.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2010

Moving on … My second post was directed at employees. If you’ve done it for a long time then I usually advise hiring managers to hire you as contractors and not full-time employees. That is when no customers wanted to work with Internet startups because we as an industry had burned so many customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 26, 2014

Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee. Most entrepreneurs think first of bank loans as the primary source of money, only to find out that banks are really the least likely benefactors for startups.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Could create and introduce new and disruptive products and/or services for new markets. To make this happen the Outpost’s first employees must be technology connectors – people who understand the parent corporation’s strategy and can execute it tactically. Startups, entrepreneurs, and management teams.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners about the technologies that will have the biggest impact on technology and here are the responses. #1 As a result, internet entrepreneurs should prioritize privacy above everything else. A good example is the emergence of chatbots that help in the instant messaging of customers/clients.

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Up and Running

APRIL 12, 2018

Creating financial forecasts and budgets are not typically how many entrepreneurs envision spending their time, but these tools are incredibly necessary. Employees (include salaries and benefits, like insurance and retirement contributions). Communication (telephone, internet). Examples of known expenses include: Rent.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Insist on the incredibly high-IQ employees and hold them to incredibly high standards. Build a truly mainstream product. It never generated positive returns for its investors, and most of its employees walked away dejected. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. Mission accomplished.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. Entrepreneurs, faced with an early defeat, might lose their commitment to seeing their vision through.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Good short read dispelling productivity myths about employee performance – [link]. Design with Internet: 101 patterns for influencing behaviour through design (PDF) – [link]. Legal Contracts for Software Developers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template tco use today) – [link]. Fuck That Noise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Ever since that time, I have struggled to explain how the feedback loop in customer development should interface with the feedback loop in product development. In a project like that there are lots of big questions that need to be answered in order to build a working product. Thats pretty clear.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 24, 2012

And you are either selling to customers or investors or to staff, future and current employees. MJ: It goes without saying now that the mobile industry has completely transformed the way we interact with the Internet. Until recently, we had mobile as an extension of desktop Internet, a mini version of a website.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. He wrote it in 2000, and as far as I know has never updated it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

For example, I often cite a real example of a problem that has as its root cause a new employee who was not properly trained. I pick that example on purpose, for two reasons: 1) most of the companies I work with deal with this problem and yet 2) almost none of them have any kind of training program in place for new employees.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. So much for timing. hey eric, love the blog.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 6, 2013

Every startup needs access to capital, whether for funding product development, for initial rollout efforts, acquiring inventory, or paying that first employee. Most entrepreneurs think first of bank loans as the primary source of money, only to find out that banks are really the least likely benefactors for startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Heres the catch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Rebekah Radice is an accomplished entrepreneur with a marketing experience of over 20 years. She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. And what of the product development team?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

We eventually discovered (via five whys ) that we also had to get each new employee acculturated to a fearless way of thinking. Because this was such a big cultural change for most new employees, we didnt leave them to sink or swim on their own. For one, it required us to keep our developer sandbox setup procedure simple and automated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

It’s common, perhaps the norm, for startups to pivot like that—to discover that a product is catching on in unintended ways worth pursuing. Yet there’s a lot of mystery around pivots, and entrepreneurs ask all the time how you know it’s time to commit to a new direction. Thus far the results are encouraging.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

On the one hand, it gives you insight into what kind of employee the candidate might be. The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. Every two months, the company would have a big end-of-milestone meeting, with our Board of Directors, Business Advisory Board, and all employees present. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Combining agile development with customer developm. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs. Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0

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