Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2013

As with everything new that grows quickly, it’s a chaotic system with lots of innovation, creative destruction, and rapid change and learning that – if done well – is a great example of the power of the Lean Startup approach to entrepreneurship. Have a strong management team who are typically proven entrepreneurs.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2013

It’s the essence of one of things an accelerator program is trying to teach the entrepreneurs going through it. As an entrepreneur you get an endless stream of conflicting data on every issue. At Techstars, we repeat over and over again the following mantra to the entrepreneurs going through the accelerator.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 11, 2010

If you don’t know of Eric, he’s a software entrepreneur who over the past few years has been developing and evangelizing the idea of the Lean Startup. The overview of the event follows: Startup Lessons Learned is the first event designed to unite those interested in what it takes to succeed in building a lean startup.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 10, 2013

One of the chapters in Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur that was especially challenging for me and Amy to write was the one about children. It’s very nicely linked to the Lean Startup methodology (without realizing it). I read it tonight. It was timely and excellent.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

Gurus wax lyrical about vision and lean, focused execution. They draw out lessons-learned from business experiences and try to share best practice with aspiring entrepreneurs. Everyday I’m blown away by the incredible entrepreneurs I know and work with. But there’s one critical piece of entrepreneurship that these experts miss.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 22, 2012

” And I’ve come to believe that – especially among first time entrepreneurs – founder market fit is much more important than product market fit at the inception of the company. In parallel, there’s often a Lean Startup methodology going on that does more quantitative tests of the specific product.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2012

Being an Entrepreneur. Reading: The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Ries). Reading: Alfred Kahn As A Case Study of A Political Entrepreneur (Weiser). Five Minds for the Future (Gardner). Leadership and What Makes a Great Founding Team.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Entrepreneurs everywhere describe the first release of their MVP (“minimum viable product&# – for those of you that haven’t intersected with the Lean Startup movement) app as a “platform&#. The first three pages of a google search on “platform&# are 33% tech, 33% politics, and 34% other.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 16, 2013

As I’m coming out of my depression, I’ve been reflecting on the hundreds of emails I’ve gotten from entrepreneurs, investors, friends, and people I don’t know talking about their own struggles with depression. I started my practice after I got laid off from my job in October of last year.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

There are a number of great ones coming that seem to have been kicked off by Eric Ries’ dynamite The Lean Startup. Hopefully you have them and are giving them to every entrepreneur and aspiring entrepreneur you know. I gobbled down some entrepreneurship books in the last week. It’s Black Friday. Buy some books!

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 6, 2011

The entrepreneurs have been living the specific problem for a long time and believe they have a unique and very informed way to solve it. In lean startup language, they’ve got a minimal viable product. It’s an ambitious product vision that will take a while to fully roll out. However, they are faced with two choices.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 21, 2015

It feels like it started with Eric Ries’ great book The Lean Startup when words like MVP and pivot started showing up in all conversations. For entrepreneurs outside Silicon Valley, and even plenty within Silicon Valley, the language seems forced. The language of startups has become pervasive. Uncomfortable.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2013

NEXT by Startup Weekend is a wonderful next step for entrepreneurs looking for feedback on their idea or early business, while heavily leveraging the Lean methodology. Entrepreneurs will be immersed in the skills and tactics their startup needs and will get consistent advice and feedback from the best mentors in Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

It was a gathering of 60 entrepreneurs over four days (for three years) who were all under 40 and founders of companies with more than $1m in revenue. ” You are using all the Lean Startup and Lean Launchpad techniques to find your product-market fit. You are iterating and pivoting.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2013

I guess that’s part of the motivation I have in writing Startup Boards: Reinventing the Board of Directors to Be Useful to the Entrepreneur (the next book in the Startup Revolution series which should be out sometime this summer.). Until then, I’m still running experiments, or experiencing experiments that the entrepreneurs run.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

When I look at what drives my decision to invest, it’s the entrepreneurs and the product. When I look at what drives my decision to pass, it’s the entrepreneurs and the product and occasionally the existing investors if I simply don’t want to work with them. .” ” The reason is almost always qualitative.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 7, 2011

And even then, it’s unclear that the information covered was particularly useful to the entrepreneurs and management, who are the ones the board meetings should be useful for in the first place. Recently, Steve Blank, one of the founders of the Lean Startup concept, wrote two provocative posts about board meetings.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 12, 2017

Eric Ries: Entrepreneur, blogger, and author of The Lean Startup. Marc Benioff: Founder, Chairman, and CEO, Salesforce. Skoll Foundation. Brad Feld: Managing Director, Foundry Group. Paul Graham: Co-Founder, Y Combinator. Dave McClure: Founding Partner, 500 Startups. Fadi Ghandour: Co-Founder, Aramex.

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