www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) 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. Looking forward for your future posts.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 9, 2012

Let’s not forget that back in 2007 when the folks at Apple made us fall in love with apps, the mobile web was in its infancy. This is why many app developers are beginning to lean toward utilizing HTML5 to create mobile web-based apps that use cloud technology. Mobile Has Come A Long Way.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 8, 2013

This thought was in my mind as I was reading Lean Analytics a new book by my friend Alistair Croll and his collaborator Benjamin Yoskovitz. In this post, we’ll look at each of the four steps in the Lean Analytics Cycle in more detail. In the Lean Startup world, this is called customer development. But it is not routine.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

link] # 4 hours ago Going #lean and testing with imagemaps, cuz concepts are cheap and code is expensive. # 2 hours ago What wise & mature words. coolcatteacher "If you don’t have any interests, you won’t be interesting." 4 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 4: Make something very useful drop-dead simple to use, ie.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2020

I met Eric in 2007 or so and he’s another example, like Tim Ferriss, of a “good friend and colleague” from a distance. This was his sequel to The Lean Startup , which created the phrase “lean startup” and the lean startup movement. Eric Ries Author The Lean Startup April 2020.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

.]… Tom Eisenmann Furqan: Does outsourcing engineering work well when following a lean approach with lots of iterative learning? The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture. link] fnazeeri I’ve seen it work (and not).

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

He totally leaned into mentoring startups and never for a moment asked what was in it for him. I first met Alex around the time I started Techstars, in 2007. I was riding in a car from the airport yesterday when I got the news from his wife, and I just started crying. He loved his role as teacher. Hi Heather.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. I’m looking for ones that understand that in order to build huge, meaningful companies they’ll need to likely build through these boom years and some lean ones.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2010

Jeff Swedarsky started Food Tour Corp with $110 in 2007. Marc Ringel of Floor Works, in New York, started his flooring company in 2007 with $145. Tags: bootstrapping startup stories Floor Works Food Tour Corp lean startups Live Worldly LLC WSJ. This year he expects sales to hit $300,000. These stories are a good reminder.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 15, 2011

While the word lean might conjure up notions of cheap, it’s really about taking a scientific approach to innovating, measuring and responding in ways that stop companies from wasting time and money. The basis of the concept, as applied to startups, comes from the Lean manufacturing world popularized by Toyota.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The team had to live in Office 2007 for Windows, running virtualized on their Macs. Peter Kazanjy , on November 19, 2009 at 10:36 am Said: Yup. On the VMware Fusion team, we required anyone on the marketing team to a. be a user of software (for the consumer use case).

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

You can actually put together a Lean Plan in less than 30 minutes. Here’s a free downloadable Lean Plan Template to help. As we said earlier, the simplest Lean Plan is just bullet point lists and tables, a few pages, plus essential projections. Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2007. Fear and dread.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Six months ago Upfront Ventures announced its first Partner hire since 2007 – Greg Bettinelli. I guess he’s one step ahead of the rest of us in being super lean. I wrote about him here. The initial round was led by our friend Tim Connors at Pivot North, which is a bonus. We’re excited to see your continued progress.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

His most recent company, Filtrbox, participated in the inaugural Techstars class (Techstars Boulder 2007) and was a win for all parties involved; Filtrbox was acquired in 2010 by Jive Software (NASDAQ: JIVE). I’ve worked closely with Ari for a while and love his candor.

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Seeing Both Sides

JULY 10, 2012

My entry for Twitter, as recorded in early 2007. But what is less obvious to me, and therefore I assume many others, is how to distinguish between a Big Idea that simply starts small -- consistent with Lean Startup methodology -- as compared to a Small Idea that will always remain a Small Idea. To be clear, I am a lean startup acolyte.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 10, 2018

This is an excellent use of the Lean Business Planning methodology , based on a simple Lean Plan combined with regular updates and revisions. And you can do a simple Lean Business Plan in less than an hour. Try using a Lean Plan template to get you started. Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2007.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

First started in July of 2007 in Boulder, Colorado, the movement has since spread across the world. Over Saturday and Sunday, teams will focus on customer development, validating their ideas, practicing LEAN Startup Methodologies and building a minimal viable product. - Hell, there’s even a book on it!

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 6, 2012

Today, I want to introduce you to a new concept for starting and growing successful companies: Lean Planning™. Before I dive too deeply into the Lean Planning methodology, it makes sense to talk about its history and where it comes from. Lean Planning is born. Flesh out the specifics with more detailed planning (as necessary).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Jun 2007 Baylor) Stanford Researcher Neuroscience, postdoc, BS biology from Peking University. Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. This post is part two.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 25, 2012

Incorporated in April 2007, over the course of two years - from June 2007 to September 2009 - the founders invested $185,000 of capital in the company, in the form of loans. There are going to be lean years as you build your business and ramp up your operations.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Even with the turmoil in the capital markets in the second half of 2007, it was another record year for merger and acquisition activity. But in 2007, after Jumpstarts success, he decided to get serious. million of consulting work in start-ups in 2007. But Ive definitely had to lean on Dave.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

He has spent his career in the financial industry, as a management consultant and, since 2007, as a certified financial planner professional and executive financial consultant. I resisted my entrepreneurial leanings early on in the pursuit of security and safety. Dwayne Rettinger should know.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). You have to decide where to lean in on follow-on rounds. And when the press releases and the attaboys wear off it still comes down to real work.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

One of our customer service executives recently discovered a space owner who’s been using the platform since 2007. We price competitively, and we keep our operations as lean as possible. Pick the right business partner. Sustainable growth is hugely important to us. So many startups falter when the coffers dry up.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

I became a VC 12 years ago in 2007 when the pace of deals was much slower. An example was that while we were in the seed round at Ring and followed in the A, B, C and D … we were also able to lean into the E round when Jamie really wanted to scale up his funding and the final check was still > 420% IRR!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2015

BMNT , a new Silicon Valley company, is combining the Lean Methods it learned in combat with the technology expertise and speed of startups. The OODA Loop was the Lean Startup philosophy before lean. By the end of 2007, the REF had delivered more than 550 types of equipment and more than 75,000 individual items.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

There are a number of great ones coming that seem to have been kicked off by Eric Ries’ dynamite The Lean Startup. I was at the very first Startup Weekend in Boulder in 2007 and was blown away by what Andrew Hyde – and the Boulder entrepreneurial community – did while creating Vosnap.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Chris first came aboard as a consultant back when we were building the site in 2007 and became employee #2 in January 2008, 3 months before we launched. Related posts: Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool. Chris is focused, loyal, flexible, and kind to everyone around him. Photo – Labor Day New York 1882 Wikimedia.

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This is going to be BIG.

AUGUST 8, 2012

In a world of lean startups, we too often mistake MVP for Minimum Viable Problem instead of Minimum Viable Product. It's been very cool to be around early for Jack's successes--from watching Twitter blow up at SXSW in 2007 to being dollars number 476 and 477 swiped on Square.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2011

Image Tom BKK via Flickr Most business owners lean toward the negative side of things and view this question as a warning that their suppliers, staff and customers are trying to take advantage of them. What was your first thought when you read this title?

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 23, 2013

More recently we have started to apply similar disciplines to drive productivity improvements in the fuzzier areas of business – e.g. sales and marketing effectiveness, return on investment analysis of new IT projects and most recently innovation accounting from Eric Ries and the lean startup movement.

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Altgate

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship , Startups , Venture Capital and tagged founder , lean startup , product development , startup. Take a picture of your kid and ask some people what they think about this picture, “of your friend’s kid.&# Bookmark the permalink.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2014

The term ‘pivot’ – as it relates to business – was coined by Eric Ries in his book “The Lean Startup”. When Groupon first launched in 2007, they were an activism platform called The Point. In fact, if you don’t know your target market, the lean startup methodology is strongly recommended.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

In my mind, the best VCs actually deliver outsized returns by “leaning on the scale” not by “deal sourcing.” Great VCs create the fabric of their success by backing the best entrepreneurs they have access to and then helping them to lean on the scales. I asked him what he’s learned as a VC. Ergo I suck.

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