Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. So you can imagine how I expected some skepticism when pitching ideas about technology innovation to, say, the U.S. Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

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. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does. This post has been removed by the author.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Once the rest of us reach a certain age, we know too many things that can go wrong, so we avoid the path entirely. The realities of new product development may require living on ramen noodles and sleeping on a cot in the back room for a week. The rest of us are waiting expectantly to see what you can do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

but rest assured they would be. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

.&# In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest. Weve got slides , video , audio and twitter commentary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Read the rest here. Read the rest here. For a little while, the team can resort to the last defense of entrepreneurs in trouble: the promised hockey-stick. One thing that is often overlooked about the hockey-stick growth shape: its most distinctive characteristic is the long, flat part. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Ive been guilty of this many times in my career - its just so easy to focus on product and technology instead. True, there are the rare products that have literally no market risk; they are all about technology risk ("cure for cancer"). Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) All I can tell the folks who attended the simulcasts is that I’m not missing either the time or the money. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer. June 22, 2009 6:30 AM Anonymoussaid.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

Every good VC looks for the same three things: a great team, a great product, and a large and attractive market. We like those things in the same way as the rest of the industry. I think we differ a little from the rest of the industry, though, particularly with our focus on early stage companies. Absolutely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. As the costs of production fall, it’s getting easier and easier to send in a proposal or even a complete work. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. At IMVU, we were terrified by how early we shipped (and charged for) our first product. Frankly, we were embarrassed by how many bugs, crashes, and defects it had. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We spent the rest of our time pretending to work on the assigned homework, but really trying to do interesting side projects, like sending juvenile messages across the school network or building primitive video games. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. This functional team philosophy is in contrast with the idea of a single person who, being smarter than all the rest makes all the crucial decisions. He has experience in Internet of Things, M2M, Oil and Gas, and Industrial Controls.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Over 13 years ago, in March of 2000, I wrote a blog post titled “ The Most Powerful Internet Metric of All. ” The key thesis was this: if an Internet company could obsess about only one metric, it should be conversion. As such, it is time to pound the table again – conversion is by far the most powerful Internet metric of all.

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Hunter Walker

JANUARY 15, 2017

Practically speaking, the burning need was to begin hiring employees so that I could spend more of my day on product development, partnerships and driving sales. RL: At a high level, technology has created many ways to increase our productivity while also providing freedom to run the business from anywhere in the world.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. So new conflicts appear. Then the fun part begins.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Unneeded features are waste and not only create more work but can needlessly complicate the product and prolong the "customer validation" phase. Build in response to a signal from the "customer", and otherwise rest or improve. Build in response to a signal from the "customer", and otherwise rest or improve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

If you are willing, please take a moment to fill it out before proceeding with the rest of the post; itll mean less biased results, and youll have a better idea what Im talking about later. It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. Before I go any further, heres the link to the new survey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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37signals.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

But don’t act like there wasn’t years of leveraging your online presence and your blog followers before that product launched. Most Internet marketing does not work that way. You’re essentially saying “Don’t worry about Internet marketing. it should relate to your product directly or indirectly.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 5, 2011

If you have been following along, you would have been able to realize the best way to look at your product is not as a product but as a solution. You also would not be “product focused” but instead focused on “ who ” you are providing a solution for. You should know the places on the internet where they hang out.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 5, 2011

If you have been following along, you would have been able to realize the best way to look at your product is not as a product but as a solution. You also would not be “product focused” but instead focused on “ who ” you are providing a solution for. You should know the places on the internet where they hang out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. To avoid falling into this trap, I recommend you follow the three As of metrics. Dont forget to leave a comment.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The internet. The name is likely enough, as the company licensee will have their own team to do the rest for you. Websites: Quirky: This is a great place to learn about the product development process, and to take a shot at getting your idea picked from a host of others to be manufactured. The headache pills.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 12, 2010

This program is designed for people who have a stake in creating great products: engineers, designers, product managers, marketers and businesspeople—from companies of any size. Read the rest here. Read the rest here. If youre thinking of attending the Web 2.0 If youre thinking of attending the Web 2.0

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 22, 2011

So what in the world does this have to do with Internet Marketing, Online business, blogging, etc? Well, in a past article, I showed how my 5 Question Survey saved me time and resources in product development. If so, the rest is super easy. Of course, it will take some time for data to start accumulating. Until Next Time!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. Ship it.&# Ship it.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Or it might mean selling a few products on a site like eBay to see how well they perform before ordering in bulk from a wholesaler. What sets this approach apart from practices like using focus groups is that companies base product development decisions not just on what customers say they want but on how they vote with their wallets.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JULY 22, 2011

So what in the world does this have to do with Internet Marketing, Online business, blogging, etc? Well, in a past article, I showed how my 5 Question Survey saved me time and resources in product development. If so, the rest is super easy. Of course, it will take some time for data to start accumulating. Until Next Time!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

But in reality, most products fail because they are the Ice Cream Glove, that is, because there are no customers who will buy them. Read the rest (and be sure to watch the videos). These videos make an important point: that almost all product ideas sound bad. At the whiteboard, you can make any idea seem brilliant or ridiculous.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org will take care of the rest. 2gov.org will take care of the rest. To that end, were tweeting about it, and would like to ask you to join us. If you are a US citizen, tweet your thoughts on the Startup Founders Visa, using the #StartupVisa hashtag and including @2gov. The Geeks are doing their part.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This is a designated web2open hybrid session - which means you can attend for free even if youre not attending the rest of the conference. This is a designated web2open hybrid session - which means you can attend for free even if youre not attending the rest of the conference. Its the only hybrid session happening on Tuesday.

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