Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) 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. Looking forward for your future posts.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." In this model, you take some fraction of the lifetime value of each customer and plow that back into paid acquisition through SEM, banner ads, PR, affiliates, etc. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

Roominate , one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams came out to the ranch last week for a strategy session. Alice and Bettina had taken an idea they had tested in the class – building toys for young girls to have fun with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and started a company. Hiring PR Agencies. They learned a ton.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. We then set out to build these features as quickly as we could. Back then it seemed foreign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2014

Guest post by Sarah Milstein , CEO of Lean Startup Productions The 2013 Lean Startup Conference was a hit on several levels, with many people telling us it was the most valuable business conference they’d ever attended. Quick Consulting , an evening event on March 27 in San Francisco. Quick Consulting.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2014

Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Agile UX vs Lean UX, which should you choose? Stanford engineer invents safe way to wirelessly power deep-tissue micro-implants in body shar.es/VyHov. Legal Contracts for Graphic Designers Who Hate Contracts (w/free contract template to use today) – [link].

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

The invite-only event was attended by 300 of the area’s best tech leaders, founders, product managers, designers, developers, investors, engineers, salesmen and women, and more, all of whom are hard at work in consumer tech. bijan : there’s a danger in leaning on pattern recognition. At NextView, we invest across the US.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

To do that we will create end-user demand and drive it into the sales channel, educate the channel and customers about why our products are superior, and help Engineering understand customer needs and desires. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Hiring startup engineers? Busting the Lean-Startup Myth – crowdspring.co/1ozOXHA. This Invaluable Lesson Will Keep You From Making Catastrophic Hiring Mistakes - crowdspring.co/XeV4JS. Talk about challenge, not pay | VentureBeat by Kieran Snyder – crowdspring.co/1wpHRKP. Ways to think about watches – crowdspring.co/1wpIpQT.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 3, 2013

Roominate , one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams came out to the ranch last week for a strategy session. Alice and Bettina had taken an idea they had tested in the class – building toys for young girls to have fun with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and started a company. Hiring PR Agencies. They learned a ton.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Since no benchmarks existed, we enlisted our engineering department in a serious software development effort and wrote our own. Now as VP of Marketing, I could have sat back and let my PR agency handle the press. The head of the PR agency agreed that we would work together as a team. Theoretically, that’s why I hired them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." 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. Expo SF (May.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

Or Salesforce.com who rose to prominence in this same period where they were ramping up PR and shouting from mountain tops when everybody else in the market was mute. I’m looking for ones that understand that in order to build huge, meaningful companies they’ll need to likely build through these boom years and some lean ones.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

How a 1-Page Business Model Will – and Won’t–Help Your Lean Startup | by Kevin Dewalt – [link]. Reverse Engineering Your Startup’s Success - [link]. 6 Interesting Facebook Tricks You Might Not Know | Search Engine Journal – [link]. It’s difficult to fake corporate culture | Business Insider – [link].

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Engineering/QA. PR/Marketing. For startups, PR firms are a waste of money. After friends/family, there are professionals that can make a huge difference. Start a blog.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

9- Focusing on lean operations. While we ramped up our content this year and increased the number of posts on our blog, we’ve realized that it’s also important to make a pivot now, and ensure that our content is optimized and will begin to rank on search engines. Thanks to Lindsey Wander, WorldWise Tutoring LLC ! #9-

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity. VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

John (Shuo) Yang is our Senior Software engineer and one of the smartest people I have ever met. Adriano Marques is our wonderful Brazilian Software Engineer, recently immigrated to the US. Diogenes Herminio works for us as a Software Engineer, but does it from his home in Brazil. Thanks, guys! Plus he likes Legos.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Its a key lean startup concept. That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers. For example, I recently created a customer validation exercise around the Lean Startup Workshop. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

But in Menlo Park, every commute is highly variable, no matter how short, and so I often found myself sitting in traffic, bored, and eager to get to my desk to work on whatever engineering problem I was obsessed with. We'll be discussing the Lean Startup movement, the upcoming conference, and whatever else you decide you want to ask about.

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Where to Play

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Managers are looking for systematic tools to help them find new growth engines , make informed strategic choices, and align their teams around a clear roadmap. . This includes a detailed Consultants’ Guide, ready-made slide decks, and a PR package for your social media. 2) Join a network of like-minded experts.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

But while you are small and lean, take advantage of everyone skills; if someone on your team is a great writer, have them take charge of your press releases and marketing content. Developer – Most likely your product requires some engineering. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

So, if you’re anything like me, your first startup will need to be self-funded and operated with a very lean budget. Of course, in the internet age, that means reading a ton of current articles and online blogs covering Search Engine Optimization (SEO), content marketing, and social media marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? How to build companies that matter (the lean start. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 24, 2009 The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Image by Jessica_Mah via Flickr Last week I had the opportunity to lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at Haas, which is always a great learning experience - for me at least! Nice talk, thanks for sharing.

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Steve Blank

JULY 28, 2016

And that the Lean Innovation tools we’ve built to deal with disruption and create continuous innovation for large commercial organizations were equally relevant here. all with their engines running. It’s clear that the public affairs office has a finely tuned PR machine. The Carrier. Then it was off to be catapulted back home.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

We didn’t have a PR company or a bunch of contacts, hence we needed to start from scratch. 36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage | Traindom Blog (tags: startup pr) [.] 36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage | Traindom Blog (tags: startup pr) [.] Here are my lists.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. This is also why I get so outraged when people treat Lean Startup like a religion. You can test theories like Lean Startup in your own practice, and discover if they deliver the outcomes they predict – and you can do it in small batches.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Not only does that give you a reason to publish some PR, it shows that your company is changing and evolving. Optimize your site’s search engine listing. Schema is a way to tell search engines what your content means, not just what it says. Don’t forget to celebrate these events with your customers and the community.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 20, 2017

Not only does that give you a reason to publish some PR, it shows that your company is changing and evolving. Optimize your site’s search engine listing. Schema is a way to tell search engines what your content means, not just what it says. Don’t forget to celebrate these events with your customers and the community.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Finally, I’ll write about how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. The meaning of alpha test , beta test, and first customer ship are pretty obvious to most engineers. What plan says that?

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. Combined with product costs, an engineering budget, and schedules, this results in a spreadsheet that faintly resembles the first financial plan in the company’s business plan.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

The problem with a Lean Startup: the Minimum Viable Product | Paul Kortman – [link]. Must-read for marketers … Reverse Engineering Facebook EdgeRank – [link]. Ad Nauseum Leadership: Use Repetition to Reiterate What’s Important – [link]. Brilliant analysis.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

In what is likely the last film in his illustrious career, Hayao Miyazaki tells us the true story of Jiro Horikoshi, a famous Japanese aerospace engineer who designed the WWII Zero fighter. Based on the New York Times bestselling memoir, Wild (starring Reese Witherspoon) is a great story that demonstrates lean planning in action.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

My engineers say our website is old school, and we need to be on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, my VP of Sales says we’re wasting our marketing dollars not targeting the right people and my board keeps giving me their opinions of how we should describe our product and company. How do I sort out what to do?”. Here’s how. they’ll win.).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Startups in both programs will receive six months of free co-working space, access to MassChallenge’s corporate partner network and more than 2,300 alumni startups who have “been there, done that” to lean on for advice, support and connection. That’s not all, though.

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