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. LeanStartup Of course, a big enabler of those kinds of mistakes is stealth-mode.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Mari is now building a new venture in human-machine interaction within the Samsung accelerator, currently in stealth mode. New York Times’ timeSpace is a good example. Conventional R&D can only address so many areas and it’s not exactly lean or fast. Corporate venture funds today are doing good deals.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. We now have the tools, technology and data to take incubators and accelerators to the next level. We think we can do better.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 12, 2016

We heard a consistent set of themes: treat them with respect, bring real expertise to the table, and have an investment approach that is consistent with the new world of the capital-efficient startup. The advent of the cloud, open source development tools and lean startup practices have led to a different evolutionary pattern for startups.

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