Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The first was one of our teams that was evaluating the need for an online business license application program. Our team had been heading down the path to spend $90k or more acquiring a software solution and spending probably a year implementing the program. This is where it is crucial for the project teams to be tracking metrics.

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Government Lean Startup San Francisco 165

Up and Running

MAY 20, 2014

In an industry that lauds performance metrics to constantly track progress, there’s something fluffy about a professional degree that is not a prerequisite for anything. In my time as an MBA, I applied to around 11 different entrepreneurial competitions or support programs, won five, and was awarded nearly $25k.

Entrepreneur 88

Entrepreneur Advisory Board Silicon Valley New York 88

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

The number of Lean Startup meetup groups has crossed 100, spreading out from traditional startup hubs like San Francisco and New York to a wide variety of places. No BS, no vanity metrics, no launches, no PR. This year, the word pivot has become over-hyped ( even on TechCrunch ). And those are just our keynotes!

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San Francisco Silicon Valley Lean Agile 146

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

To his credit are Extreme Programming , jUnit, patterns, TDD , the list goes on. To his credit are Extreme Programming , jUnit, patterns, TDD , the list goes on. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Our mystery keynote is now revealed and I couldnt be more excited.

Agile 99

Agile Software Review San Francisco Continuous Deployment 99

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Apigee , Mashery , 3Scale , Layer7 , etc) get acquired and/or receive large rounds of funding, we are also seeing an uptick in new players, new tools and services, new publications, and even a series of API-focused conferences. The key to a successful API program is to know your audience. The reality: “API as a tactic”.

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API Audience Dividend Programming 135

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco CPA SEM CTO Hire 167

Board Effect

JUNE 14, 2019

Hackers strike once again, this time causing a data breach at a prominent New York nonprofit social services agency. in western New York to be compromised. Best practices for cybersecurity measures indicate that all organizations, including nonprofits, should manage cybersecurity as part of their risk management program.

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Security Government New York Framework 40

Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

There is no golden metric for everyone, we are all unique snowflakes! :). and tell you what are the best key performance indicators (metrics) for them. In the past I’ve shared a cluster of metrics that small, medium and large businesses can use as a springboard…. If you want to play along. Don’t read what I’ve chosen.

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Metrics Acquisition eCommerce Analytics 141

YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 21, 2016

There are three crucial keys: 1) Be ready to demonstrate the relevance of the items being measured to the well-being of the business, 2) Ensure that those who are being measured can create positive changes in the metrics, and 3) Make sure rewards and consequences associated with desired performance levels are fair. Power survey by 130 points.

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Employee Customer Leadership Metrics 100

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much?

Technical Review 132

Technical Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 132

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

San Francisco 168

San Francisco Product Lean Continuous Deployment 168

SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Berkeley Boalt Law School and runs their entrepreneurship program. Bending over: How to sell to large companies - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 24, 2010 This is a guest post by Steve Hanov , who blogs about programming and startups. The New York Times has a story about it in today's business section.

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Fractional CTO Startup Venture Capital Cofounder 248

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much?

Software Review 141

Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much?

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 8, 2013

5 Customer Experience Metrics Every Successful Company Tracks | The Buffer blog – [link]. More founders reject VC money | Crain’s New York Business – [link]. 5 Customer Experience Metrics Every Successful Company Tracks | The Buffer blog – [link]. People First – [link]. – [link].

Social Media 105

Social Media Small Business Design Media 105

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

I used to think that investments in metrics were a form of waste. Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product. The only reason we learned the art of metrics-based decision making at IMVU was out of necessity. that justify decisions already made. I think it was $350 the next, and so on.

San Francisco 98

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 98

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 12, 2009 New York: three straight days of Lean Startup (two of which are free) Greetings from Europe, where Im just wrapping up an incredible (and exhausting) speaking tour. Expo in New York, theres good news. Expo in New York, theres good news.

New York 94

New York Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment 94

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

We are successfully dominating the core markets within the Dubai Real Estate arena and our recent growth into New York, Los Angeles, and Miami is proving to be extremely successful. One of the key metrics of success in Real Estate is having a large market share. organization.

Entrepreneur 138

Entrepreneur Social Media Employee Los Angeles 138

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

Metrics 121

Metrics San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 121

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I also owe a great debt to Kent Beck, whose Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change was my first introduction to this kind of thinking. (So The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? for Harvard Business Revie. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Amazon PostRank

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Lean San Francisco Startup Continuous Deployment 168

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Im one of those people whos been programming since they can remember. I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. for Harvard Business Revie.

San Francisco 155

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. Some of the most active: SF , New York , DC , Chicago - but there are many more listed here. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? for Harvard Business Revie.

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Lean San Francisco Wiki Startup 146

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

And, as one entrepreneur put it to me, "we understood that a big part of our responsibility in the program was to make sure the mentors have a good experience, by taking their advice to heart and giving them a feeling of being part of our evolution as a company." TechStars encourages them to go wherever opportunities take them.

San Francisco 113

San Francisco Silicon Valley Startup Lean 113

Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

When Harvard started the MBA program there were no graduate-level business textbooks. While MBA programs proliferated during the first half of the 20th century, they focused on teaching management of existing companies. By 1991 there were 57 undergraduate and 22 MBA programs. There were no classes on how to start a business.

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Lean Agile Business Model Business Plan 435

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 long-term bets on the development of a new line of business, a new technology platform, or the creation of a new market.

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Hockey Stick San Francisco Entrepreneur Lean 105

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Yet even among those who have access to good actionable metrics, I’ve noticed a phenomenon that prevents taking maximum advantage of data. Use pilot programs. What’s happening?

San Francisco 84

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 84

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much?

San Francisco 125

San Francisco Software Review Technical Review Continuous Deployment 125

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much?

San Francisco 94

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Agile Lean 94

VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Bridgette: Jon, you run several accelerator programs. What do you see your programs producing? . Jon -London has 250 nationalities, the next one on the list is New York with 150. when I wrote people a big cheque, they stressed out on metrics from day 1. We attract great global talent.

Pakistan 113

Pakistan Community Bulgaria 113

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, March 28, 2010 Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Thanks to the generosity of sponsors, Im pleased to be able to announce two scholarship programs for upcoming lean startup events. TechWeb has decided to expand this program to provide scholarships for the whole Web 2.0

Lean 109

Lean Programming San Francisco Continuous Deployment 109

www.clickz.com

JANUARY 7, 2013

Ad Industry Metrics. Improve your Online Marketing Skills at SES New York ! She has over 20 years experience helping clients increase profitability by developing innovative marketing programs to acquire and retain customers based on solid analytics. 10 Social Media Marketing New Years Resolutions. SES New York.

Social Media 86

Social Media Media B2C New York 86

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. I assumed he was there to refute my critique of extreme programming, but nothing could be further from the truth. Was that really the Kent Beck?

Lean 140

Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment Startup 140

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. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

Oakland 327

Oakland Incubator Lean Metrics 327

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Departments were built and were even metrics-driven. But there was no feedback loop to help the company find the right metrics to focus on. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? As the company built infrastructure and added features, the team celebrated these accomplishments.

San Francisco 150

San Francisco Lean Agile Continuous Deployment 150

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much?

San Francisco 133

San Francisco Lean Technical Review Software Review 133

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 29, 2010 New conference website, speakers, agenda The Startup Lessons Learned Conference on April 23 is fast approaching. We have a brand new website up at [link]. Weve got a new scholarship program up and running. We have a brand new website up at [link].

San Francisco 120

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Giving rise to three verbs: Implement (programming!) Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? where we turn ideas into code the best way possible.

San Francisco 142

San Francisco Continuous Deployment Lean DC 142