Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. They are on-schedule and on-budget, but their gross metrics are way off. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. This wasn’t very impressive, but we had two things going for us: A hockey stick shaped growth curve. People often forget the most important part of the hockey stick: the long flat part. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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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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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. You’ll also learn more about which SaaS metrics you should be keeping an eye on during the forecasting process.

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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. it took years for Airbnb’s metrics to really start accelerating. The other reason I could decide so quickly is that I really know networks and marketplaces. Now here’s an interesting coda to that story.

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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

Food, technology, bioscience, services, you need to know the metrics for your model. I’m going to share what the metrics are for a SAS business, which is software as a service, and that’s what we are here at LivePlan, so these are the things that we track on a daily basis. This is why we love the lean startup methodology.

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