Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

If youre just getting negativity from someone, they are more likely a internet troll - not an earlyvangelist. Some techniques that Ive found especially helpful: Build your own tracking survey, using a methodology like Net Promoter Score (NPS) to identify and get a regular check-up from promoters (and to screen out detractors).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

December 18, 2008 9:40 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Expo SF (May.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2010

The VC industry grew dramatically as a result of the Internet bubble - Before the Internet bubble the people who invested in VC funds (called LPs or Limited Partners) put about $50 billion into the industry and by 2001 this had grown precipitously to around $250 billion. Staying “lean&# is not an option.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. On the other hand, it is scary as hell.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

Eric Ries of The Lean Startup has called Andrew Chen’s blog “one of the best entrepreneurship blogs of all time.” David Cohen is the founder and Managing Partner of Techstars, the #1 ranked internet startup accelerator in the world. Inside the Minds of Top Venture Capitalists: Blogs You Need to Read to Understand How VCs Think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lean methods present a third option: to invest in our process so that our design gets more feedback sooner and is more adaptable to changes in purpose. A wide net from the start, and gradual elimination of weaker solutions, makes finding the best or better solutions more likely. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. They've made internet shopping a breeze by constantly researching and improving warehousing facilities to ensure that things can be ordered and dispatched quickly. Thanks to Fletcher Wimbush, The Hire Talent ! #2-

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

Facing continuous disruption from globalization, China, the Internet, the diminished power of brands, changing workforce, etc., It needs the tools and processes pioneered in Lean Startups. This first post will describe some of the structural problems companies have; follow-on posts will offer some solutions. What to Do?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Its a key lean startup concept. The net result was powerful: within six months of starting the company, we were able to get a basic version of our product into open beta. For example, I recently created a customer validation exercise around the Lean Startup Workshop. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 26, 2016

Join a select cross-disciplinary class that will put you hands-on with the masters of lean innovation to help bring rapid-fire innovative solutions to address threats to our national security. Terrorists today live on the ‘net and they are all early adopters. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, CIA, NSA.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 23, 2016

10 – Running a Lean Business. ‘Fit Small Business’ worked perfectly, though, and speaks to the idea of running a lean business that keeps costs low and net income high. I started my internet marketing and web design business more than 16 years ago. Back then, the internet was in its infancy.

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Steve Blank

JULY 11, 2016

Jessica has been starting her own Internet businesses and programming since middle school. Jessica ran things as lean as she could for the next few months while figuring out what to do. Especially difficult were the days after the Internet bubble burst: 2001 was a staggering blow to technology. Everything disappeared.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2013

It’s been fun watching a 20th Century entrepreneur learn new tricks as he builds his next startup, FindTheBest using Lean Methodology. Lean Start-up Connection: Business Model Canvas. We assumed our customers would be any smart Internet users looking to make a decision—granted, an extremely broad customer segment.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in. I like the get fit and lean in. The theme of this episode is how to scale unicorns. Jonathan Siddharth . I’m excited to welcome David Zhang from TCV. Welcome, David.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 2, 2009 How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis In the lean startup workshops , we’ve spent a lot of time discussing the technique of Five Whys. My intention is to describe a full working process, similar to what I’ve seen at IMVU and other lean startups. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

We were originally leaning towards the mountain where the Greek God of partying was born, Nysa or the actual Greek God for partying, Dionysos, also called Bacchus, but the names didn't excite us, and we didn't want to have to explain it to everyone who. Or they'd been taken on the internet. Photo Credit: Merilee Speigner.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Harrisburg Real Estate November 27, 2008 12:09 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. Of course, those were the days when 12 year old, 80% market share, $200mm, 30% net profit companies were the ones going public. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. I pretty much missed all the trends.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She and Raylene Young, who you'll hear in a minute, have collaborated to form the USDR, The United States Digital Response, activating an entire network of government technologists, lean and agile practitioners, to bring them together with state and local governments solving problems of immediate need. They are by no means, automatic.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

It’s immediate of what is happening and what the net result is. In a lot of the startup conversations I’ve been having, if you lean too far that way, it doesn’t resonate with people. Lauren : Yeah, it’s being able to lean into that agility—to shift strategies quickly and adapt. The data’s clear.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

December 14, 2008 8:09 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. ► April (11) Video update on the Startup Visa Act Lean Enterprise Institute webinar, April 28 Four myths about the Lean Startup Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Sneak preview, Grockit The Lean Startup Intensive at Web 2.0 Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

November 24, 2008 3:45 PM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

The internet. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. Usually royalties fall somewhere between 2 percent and 10 percent of the net profit. That airplane thousands of miles above you. The memory foam pillow on your bed. The headache pills. The toothbrush. Your guitar.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2014

It’s an approach that is advocated today as part of the Lean Startup Methodology. Pictured here from left to right, COO John Monterubio, and CEO Tim Richards discussing ReefCam at Net Impact in Washington DC. Today, small businesses and internet startups are popping up everywhere. Begin with the simplest form of your product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 13, 2011

These days, we all have to rely on a few trusted sources to digest and filter information, net out the relevant messages, and steer us with links to accurate details. But with the speed of the Internet, these have become as old-fashioned as museum curators. and books for entrepreneurs like “Think and Grow Rich.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. Net Promoter Score NPS is a methodology that comes out of the service industry.

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

If you aren’t doing things which are sufficiently crazy, you’ll never generate a 5x net fund. That means we want to put up 5x net funds, we want to be investing in owning non-trivial quantities, generally at least 10%, of companies. Most venture funds return at best 1x net over 10 years. On Deciens’ Lean Operation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

In lean times, it’s most important to focus on cutting costs in ways that speed you up, not slow you down. Even if it helps optimize one stage, if it slows you down somewhere else, it might not be a net win. You cannot become a lean startup by willpower alone, any more than you can lose weight by going on a willpower-based diet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Great related post by John Shook at the Lean Enterprise Institute about technical vs. social sides of problems. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? June 15, 2009 9:27 PM Mark Graban said. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Since we were only paying per click, it didnt cost us anything to cast a wide net. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In their marvelous book, Lean Solutions , James Womack and Daniel Jones unpack what it means to apply the discipline of lean manufacturing to service industries. Internet Web Sites/User Generated Content (UGC) — On the internet, information availability evolves in one direction only — more and more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

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