Entrepreneur and Lean

Yes, but who said they'd actually BUY the damn thing?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 9, 2010

You repeat these mantras at Lean Startup Meetings but you're not doing it.? Repeat after me: You are not your customer." — Eric Ries , Lean Startup leader (repeating a conversation with a startup founder). I say "find ten people who say they'll buy." But you're still not listening. We think differently.

Software Review

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When being an “expert” is harmful

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2011

The following week she sent me this email (my emphasis): Ever since accidentally stumbling upon lean startup 1+ years ago, I’ve struggled to implement the principles correctly. For example, I talked to an entrepreneur with years of experience selling a standard medical device to doctors. What did they do before you came along?

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Ballad of The Lean Startup

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Wednesday, Sept. 28th at 7PM in San Francisco. 55% off general admission with code “55OFF.” ” (Powered by LaunchBit ). Tweet. -->. Startup Weekend pep talk: It ain’t the code.

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On the (un?)importance of design

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 13, 2011

Modern Lean Startup theory blares out from the red-tiled rooftops of Stanford: Seek the Data and Ye Shall Find! But as much as I respect and follow Lean Startup theory, objective measurements aren’t the only things that matter. she also authors a terrific blog aimed at the solo entrepreneur.). But hold on. But hold on.

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Design Lean Database Cofounder

A compass is not a map

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JANUARY 29, 2013

An entrepreneur confided in me recently that he didn’t like Lean Startup; did I think that was OK? Or is he not cut out to build a startup?

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Ask your startup question live, Oct 6, 1-3pm Central

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 1, 2011

Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Ballad of The Lean Startup. If you liked that, you'll probably like these too: Episode 2: Smart Bear Live! Special Edition: Smart Bear Live! Vetting a startup (or two): The systematic birth of @WPEngine.

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Smart Bear Live 4: Nick from PinfoB.com at AZ Disruptors

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 15, 2012

But even so, it could be a report that’s vanity and you know that, but you’re not going to train them on lean start up, are you? Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. So just ignore the feature, in a sense; only use it as a foil to get deeper.

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Easy to criticize, hard to create

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

DECEMBER 5, 2011

The goal of the entrepreneur is not to be “right.” The Lean Startup movement also values learning and experience over “being right,” specifically casting this concept as “running experiments.” Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Congratulations.

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When do I stop doing customer interviews and start writing code?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 12, 2012

” Food on the Table — a now-famous lean juggernaut in Austin run by IMVU alum Manuel Rosso — talked to 120. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Here are the details of both of those customer development experiences. But there’s no one “number.”

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Roulette, Startups, and the paradox of the infinite bankroll

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Roulette is a random process; startups are determined by human beings and systematic processes like Lean and AdWords. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. But if you’re chasing the 40x exit — if it’s go big or go home — you’ll probably go home. Keep spinning.

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Permission Follow-Up

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 8, 2010

Too busy to worry about it: This is common for the overworked entrepreneur. The simple fact is that other people usually don't place as high a priority on these things as you do, and you have to lean on them to get things done. It's not about leaning hard or being an asshole. They might have forgotten or gotten busy.

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Which is better: Many customers at low price-point or few at high price?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MAY 1, 2012

Lean Startup tells us that the speed at which theories can be tested is directly proportional to learning; the company who can do that faster and more accurately has a significant advantage. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Now leave a comment about your choice!

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Customer Revenue Acquisition Cofounder

The real pivot

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2013

Guest post by Ben Yoskovitz, the co-author of Lean Analytics , a new book on how to use analytics successfully in your business. Unfortunately, due in part to the popularity of Lean Startup and the concepts it promotes, the pivot has been bastardized to the point where it doesn’t mean much to people anymore. Was it a lazy pivot?

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The fundamental lesson of the forces governing scaling startups

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

“The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. Yet, it’s the job of a Product Manager at that mid-sized company to invent, discover, design, implement, and nurture those products — something that most entrepreneurs will never succeed at. Recruiting.

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Smart Bear Live 5: Dan from SyncBloc.com with Mark Suster

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 24, 2012

Mark: But Dan, I want to say, your language, you have to be careful about not coming across as a grumpy entrepreneur. So just because our industry is structured to try and find huge outsized returns doesn’t make, first of all, doesn’t make that right for most entrepreneurs, and it doesn’t make it bad.

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Smart Bear Live 6: Jared from Padseeker.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 8, 2012

Jared: I guess I’m leaning towards A. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. So that you do achieve that when you finally release [inaudible 1:17:40]. Does that make sense? I think both of those are very rational and very good ideas. I really appreciate your time. Jason: Okay.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Welcome back to Smart Bear Live … the show were Jason speaks with entrepreneurs looking to improve their businesses. I think I might be able to speed things up, especially now that everybody always talks about the book The Lean Startup. In this episode, Jason talks to Edwin from MeetingKing. Why not get a partner?

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Point/Counter-Point: Startup Genome Project Considered Harmful

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 6, 2011

Once we had those, we leaned back, looked at them from afar and tried to ask ourselves “do these results make sense.&#. don’t tell entrepreneurs to do that. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. Because statistics are meant to be able to describe. benchmarks.

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Startup Cofounder Texas Austin

The unfortunate math behind consulting companies

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

These are generally bigger, more dysfunctional companies with 25-page Master Service Agreements and complex, ever-changing requirements (though no acceptance of “agile&# or “lean&# ). Also this sword cuts both ways — even little discounts crater profitability.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks