Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Most important slide: hockey stick Micro-scale results Key questions: who is the customer, and how do you know? How does a lean start-up find the all-star team worthy of pitching? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

Investors have spread the word that you can’t get “hockey-stick” growth without a large cash infusion. Bootstrapping does require a full confidence in your own passion to make decisions and change the world with no investors to lean on or blame. Don’t assume you must plan for exponential growth.

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Up and Running

APRIL 19, 2017

While we’re big advocates of the simpler, faster Lean Planning method, doing just a sales forecast is also an effective way to quickly validate your initial assumptions before writing up a business plan. Perhaps you’re pressed for time, and you’d just like to validate the numbers you’re assuming are in reach.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

And if the reference checks come back positively, then if I believe at startup is a good opportunity, I can lean in right away. For a long time, when you looked at the graph, it was almost like a classic exponential “hockey stick” curve, where it’s flat for a long time, then hits the bend and takes off.

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Up and Running

JUNE 26, 2013

Bootstrapped, lean and already providing (in a small way at least) for the needs of my family and that of my co-founder. The day we set foot into the doors of the accelerator, we had a business that DHH would be proud of.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 27, 2012

As a result of a convergence of many factors (lean startup methodology, broadband & smartphone penetration, social web, cloud computing, etc), breakout startups are clearly getting scale faster than they used to. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC.

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Professor VC

JUNE 7, 2018

I am a strong believer in the new school of entrepreneurship education (lean startup, customer discovery, etc.).

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe 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. Not All Startups Are Alike There’s an urban legend that Eskimos-Aleuts have more words to describe snow than other cultures.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is why we love the lean startup methodology. If folks don’t know what lean startup is you want to check out Eric Ries’ book, because he talks about customer validation, and also this is in the lean canvas model as well when it comes to shorter planning cycles. If you’re sure … Peter I think you need to mute yourself again.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 26, 2023

I never learned to roast a chicken and I never had kids and my career trajectory has been very windy as opposed to a straight hockey stick that it's supposed to be. And I've always been content to lean back and nap in the passenger seat. Like I've never, you know, learned to, I, I don't drive a car.

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