Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. Use some customer development to find out. Without further ado. Now for the feedback.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

To create this first year in business checklist, I turned to our in-house experts here at Palo Alto Software: Sabrina Parsons, CEO; Noah Parsons, COO; Josh Cochrane, Vice President of Product Development; and Josh Fegles, Academic and Government Channel Sales Director, and founder of gluten-free cookie company Jude’s Foods.

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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. What we call “community management&# is actually governance. It is our obligation to govern well, but – as history has repeatedly shown – this is incredibly hard. It was absolutely worth it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 22, 2015

A massive rain storm blew through San Francisco in the middle of last year’s Lean Startup Conference. These community-led experiences were so much fun -- and became a source of such serendipitous, fruitful connections -- that we’ve decided to iterate on the idea for the 2015 conference and make it a core part of our program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. I suddenly lose my ability to judge if our marketing programs are being effective. Use pilot programs.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. They must, however, endure advertising and are unable to use the program offline. AltBird Robotics is a technology start-up that offers robotic and drone services to businesses and government agencies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. As Lean Startup methods have been used now for a number of years, we’ve become increasingly interested in how companies use them to sustain growth. Next Tuesday, October 22 at 10a PT, we’ll take a look at this advanced entrepreneurship question.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2013

To accelerate that program, President Obama and US CTO Todd Park have created a national event to leverage technology and open data to strengthen our democracy in the United States. Rally is also donating three seats to their Enterprise Lean Startup training course to this effort. Government government hackathon open data rally'

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. I prefer to take the most expansive possible definition of product, one that encompasses any source of value for a set of people who voluntarily choose to become customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. And, on an unrelated note, we also had an entertaining night at the DC Lean Startup Meetup featuring me and Dave McClure, in what was billed as a "Lean Geek SMACKdown." Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Expo SF (May.

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K9 Ventures

AUGUST 13, 2010

Another customer was my alma mater, Carnegie Mellon University, who was using it to host online class discussions for its distance education program. Since I had good connections with the University, we got a lot of feedback on how the product could be improved to meet their needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I promised to post the slides for my highly abbreviated version of the lean startup presentation, so here they are. 2009 09 08 The Lean Startup Gov 2.0 g2s The very abbreviated version of Customer Development (channeling Steve Blank ). Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

The government doesnt assign each clothing brand its own level of benefit. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing. Product, product, product!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

I cannot sink any more money into a program that is still having community problems. They can make items without the need of s 3K usd program to develop with, and where, yes, even though there are naysayers to the contrary, staff listens and tries to help. In a history of totalitarian governments, there's one common thing.

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