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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. I didnt include much on the blog at first, because I want you to judge what I write based on what I say, rather than who I am. Eric, love the blog.

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

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Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. Credit for round up goes to the Idee blog. Considering that nearly 2 million Americans fall victim to online scams a year, and many scam sites lean heavily on low priced stock photography… the odds are not in your favor.

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Customer Development Manifesto: Market Type (part 4) « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Palm in a New Market What makes this example really interesting is this: rewind the story 4 years earlier to 1996.

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New Course: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy

Feld Thoughts

Students in the class will be required to write a ten page paper as well as participate actively in the course (including on a class blog). Reading: The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses (Ries). Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity 1996 – 2010.

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

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I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in. So the “get fit” part of it is whatever your circumstances are today, lean inwards a little bit, do some introspection, and figure out which part of the house requires some cleaning up.

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Revenue Development

K9 Ventures

In 1996, when I started my first company, SneakerLabs, Inc., Update (08/15/2010 11:23 PM): Patrick Vlaskovits posted a great followup to my post above on his blog: Distribution and Pricing Hypotheses with LOIs. we began by building chat servers. This was when the state of the art was click-to-refresh HTML form-based chats.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. In step one, you created a lean plan, or a one-page pitch.