Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 11, 2010

One of its platforms, Jivy Inside, will run as the casual games site for TF1 in France. Founded in 2007, PredictAd’s product puts an emphasis on monetization, by showing contextual ads on the autocomplete drop-down in the search box – this old Mashable post by Ayelet Noff tells their story. Miscellanous.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2018

A global accelerator program is taking applications from any startup offering innovative solutions to multiple product and service challenges. Each team will receive: The chance to trial their product in a ready-made international market. The chance to secure follow-on funding of up to £100,000/$135,000 [ * ] per startup.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 10, 2010

It took more than a year to make this happen (I’ll cover how I did this in a different post) but January 2nd, 1995 I flew to France for 2 years and didn’t move back to the US for 11 years. During this period of time I found ways to get my firm to staff me in Italy, France, Hungary, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain and the UK.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Common denominators underlying strong patent portfolios include: A skilled patent attorney to draft the patent claims Broad patent protection for key products Patent protection for strategic market segments and geographies Monitoring patenting activities of competitors In-house management of the patent program. What is a patent strategy?

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

Companies experience a high churn rate because of bad product adoption. As a part of narrowing down the focus, we redefined their targeting, identified the most profitable market segment, and updated product positioning based on the interviews with clients from that segment. Of course they have a great product and are well funded.

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ConversionXL

JULY 7, 2019

Quality product images. If I had to pick one thing that would sell a product online, it’s images. Technically, you could have an ecommerce site with only images and no product descriptions, but I don’t recommend it. Show the products from different angles and in context; make them zoomable. Great product copy.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2021

Companies like iHeartMedia, SiriusXM, and Spotify are investing in and leading the evolution of audio, focused on music streaming (on-demand and lean-back modalities), podcasting and content production. Products that were previously not inherently social, will embrace community, stories and sharing to increase stickiness and drive revenue.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Meanwhile, France prevailed with a double-digit percent increase, jumping up one spot and into third place. The top industries stayed relatively unchanged from the previous month, with Internet/Web Services and Consumer Products and Services leading worldwide. Canada also saw a decline, falling from second to fourth place.

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

The system operates in France, and from the beginning of 2020, also in Turkey. It’s an exciting fact that DHL ESS team members receive requirements directly from key users of the product, thus ensuring proper fulfillment of the company’s objectives. Since 2017, the DHL ESS team has grown 6 times.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments. When we ship product. We will do that. Time will tell. Obviously.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Take Air France KLM’s recent partnership with Winding Tree for example, they are working to lower prices by using blockchain technology to cut out the middle man. As blockchain technology continues to evolve, we will see new use cases in the travel industry, from hotels to planes, to user experience and loyalty rewards programs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

In France in some ways it was worse because if you failed as a startup founder you shouldered personal liabilities that don’t exist in the US under our bankruptcy laws. In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2013

for France apply to websites registered within a certain country. Country specific top level domain names make sense if your product or company is identified with your country. . They can be assigned to domain names anywhere in the world. By contrast, country specific top level domains such as.uk for Great Britain,ca for Canada or.fr

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2022

Leading countries by research and development (R&D) expenditure as share of gross domestic product (GDP) worldwide in 2021 (Source: Statista ). For the record, Startup Nation Central and Pitchbook share slightly higher numbers ($26.6 The only countries that saw higher growth in tech investments were Germany (170%) and India (164%).

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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. We didnt think wed able to compete with that.

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Transformify

MARCH 23, 2020

Tech startups were running out of cash prior to launching great products over talent shortage and ever-increasing salaries and rents. At the same time, talented software engineers, designers, digital marketing experts, product managers, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2020

The application will run in your browser, checking everything that you write: product reviews, social media posts, etc. Supported countries are Brazil, India, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa, Ireland, Russia, China, Poland, Hungary, Salvador, Australia, and Canada, as well as the com.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

So at the end of ’94 I moved to France, because I wanted to learn Spanish. I had someone willing to offer me a job in France. I lived in the south of France in Antibes and in Cannes. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France. So I went from San Diego to LA to Miami to the south of France.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2019

One of the biggest problems facing any entrepreneur is how to convince people that your idea, product or service is as great as you personally believe it to be. by Caroline Pegden, co-founder of TempaGoGo. There are different ways of achieving this, but winning a Business Award is one of the most powerful and long-lasting in its effects.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Army veterans and mid-career MBAs hailing not just from the United States but from countries including Saudi Arabia, India, France, Israel and Austria. State Department and see what products you can come up with to solve them. In Week 4, a number of teams were sketching out minimal viable products, or MVPs.

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Transformify

APRIL 13, 2020

The system operates in France, and from the beginning of 2020, also in Turkey. It’s an exciting fact that DHL ESS team members receive requirements directly from key users of the product, thus ensuring proper fulfillment of the company’s objectives. Since 2017, the DHL ESS team has grown 6 times.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 Thoughts on scientific product development I enjoyed reading a post today from Laserlike (Mike Speiser), on Scientific product development. I agree with the less is more product development approach, but for a different reason. So dont just kill the feature - iterate.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2015

Our Instagram account attracts aspiring photographers; our Pinterest following caters more towards females; Twitter attracts those interested in our product releases and news stories. It can trawl the internet for mentions of your business or products. Knowing this, we share relevant content and grow distinct communities.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2010

He stood up, grabbed the mic and gave a heartfelt overview of his experiences in experimenting with new technologies to build relationships with his audience, get feedback on his product quality and to market his music all the way to the top of iTunes. He got people to do bootlegged mixtapes in new york, france and new zealand.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

.&# I took it to mean, “making decisions with small amounts of money (pennies) that end up making bad sense for affecting larger amounts of money (pounds, as in Great British Pounds).&# I thought of it as people who cut corners on small costs but paid dearly in terms of lost productivity on expensive staff. I Love Scrappy.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 20, 2011

The image above is a fun look at what logos would say if they truly reflected the experience on those sites or with those products. Design is Product, Product is Design - [link]. In France, the decline was 4% – [link]. Design is Product, Product is Design - [link]. Designing For iPad - [link].

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2012

Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas and building a minimal viable product. I could have gone to Nice (France) or Minsk or Bergen (Norway), but the event in my hometown was a lot easier to get to. That is where I come in. I signed up for this past weekend in St.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 28, 2022

This money is actively invested in product - with roadmaps fast-expanding - and M&As, with unicorns acquiring products and talent across regions. in other major hubs (France, UK, Germany). For example, Snyk has recently announced a number of acquisitions. Israel also has the largest number of unicorns per capita, with 2.9

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Gust

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

As such, creating a functional clone of Gust (including all the features under the hood, and ones that have not yet been released), using world-class engineers and state-of-the-art, 2012 project management in Ruby on Rails, would take roughly 20 person-years from soup to nuts (figure about 1/3 of that in product/UX/UI and 2/3 in actual coding.)

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

BonitaSoft has offices in France, the U.S. Clearly Define Your Business Model While this may sound like a trivial task, young startups often have an exciting and innovative product, but no real plan for monetizing it. from France. and China, and recently recorded their 1,000,000th download of Bonita Open Solution. startupcto

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

But truthfully both Dana and I are more aligned with the lean startup principles and believe you only go FAT when you’ve really proved out your product / market fit. The “private sale” market phenomenon was started in France by Vente-Privee (literally means “private sale”) and was replicated in Germany by BrandsforFriends. Go Boulder!

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2020

Since 2018, we have come up with different innovative products and solutions. KaviAR: The idea for KaviAR Gate is the product of augmented reality mixed with an interest in discovering new places. What is the startup scene like in France? KaviAR: There is a vibrant startup scene in France.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Now I’m in France. I have a really productive head of products cranking out code.&#. When you’re on the road all the time you’re not as productive. You think that everybody is marveling at your travels, your stories, your airplane layovers, your new friends and your photo from the South of France.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 13, 2017

Even if failure can be educational and productive it is not an exercise to be repeated. What problem does my product/idea solve? Who are my key competitors, what is their market share and how does my product distinguish itself? These three factors have based my decision to invest in several startups in France.

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Transformify

APRIL 2, 2020

Travel, tourism, logistics, production plants, HoReCa, events management are planning massive lay off in the coming weeks and months. Some countries like Italy, Spain and France allow citizens to leave their home only to buy groceries, visit a doctor or a pharmacy.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Telmap powers mapping applications for a number of mobile operators, including Orange, Telefonica’s O2 and SFR in France. ISRAELI RESEARCHERS IDENTIFY KEY TO INSULIN PRODUCTION. Herzliya-based Telmap has 210 employees. Intel, the world’s No. 1 chipmaker, has two plants and four development centers in Israel. More on Globes.

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