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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup. I like the term because of two connotations: Lean in the sense of low-burn.

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A New Way to Teach Entrepreneurship – The Lean LaunchPad at Stanford: Class 1

Steve Blank

In January, we introduced a new graduate course at Stanford called the " target="_blank">Lean LaunchPad. The Lean LaunchPad class was scheduled to meet for three hours once a week. JointBuy allows buyers to start a new deal on any available product and share the idea with others through existing social networking sites.

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How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

This was 2004, and we had never even heard of MySpace, let alone had any understanding of social networking. It required hearing customers say it over and over again for us to take a serious look, and eventually to realize that social networking was core to our business. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? Lean Start-up SlideShare prez at Web 2.0 The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. can I talk to them?" 9 - Retweeted "2." Expo SF (May.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

link] # 4 hours ago Going #lean and testing with imagemaps, cuz concepts are cheap and code is expensive. # 2 hours ago What wise & mature words. coolcatteacher "If you don’t have any interests, you won’t be interesting." 4 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 4: Make something very useful drop-dead simple to use, ie.

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For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? (for Harvard Business.

Startup Lessons Learned

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. 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.

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Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet

Startup Lessons Learned

Its actually part of a lean startup story. Recently, hes been engaged in a customer validation exercise around a new concept for a political action-oriented social network. For more on his lean startup journey, you can take a look at this slide presentation. Its actually part of a lean startup story.