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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. That is customer development.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

I agree that listening and communicating is a key to success, but customer development can only do so much. In fact, one of your own mods, told another customer to literally go f themselves. Compared to 2007, the chat client runs whole lot smoother (well, right before 2.0 Eric September 13, 2009 11:32 AM Joel Andren said.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

Im confident of that last statement, because I made the same mistake again a few years later, when I won an award in 2007. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? BusinessWeek named me one of the top young entrepreneurs in tech , based on my work at IMVU.