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See More than 120 Speakers and Mentors at The Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference The Lean Startup Conference is next week--and now that we can step back and see all the speakers and mentors, we have to say: Wow. Bill Gross founded Idealab in 1996, making it the longest-running technology incubator alive today.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup."

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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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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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How to Write a Business Plan for an Artist’s Business

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He started from his dorm room at the University of Oregon in 1996; he sold his company, Rumblefish.com, for $27 million in 2015. See Also: Use Milestones and Metrics to Turn Planning into Business GPS. Milestones and metrics. The metrics help you track progress. See Also: What Metrics to Track (and What Not to Track).

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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.

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7 PPC Mistakes You’re Probably Making (and How to Fix Them)

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If PPC has been around since 1996 , why doesn’t it happen more often? Instead, I predict 2016 will be the year of alterna-metrics.” (via Acquisio). Common characteristics of social traffic… Could be high or low intent / level of motivation, but likely leaning towards low. Focusing on the Wrong Metrics.

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