Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

For the many entrepreneurs that send me cold emails asking for me to review a business plan or answer a strategic dilemma: Im much more likely to answer if youve already tried getting an answer on the mailing list. Youll probably get a better result, anyway. Youll probably get a better result, anyway. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Lean Planning is a concept that we introduced back in 2012 as an evolution in business planning. The traditional business plan just wasn’t fitting the needs of modern, fast-moving companies and it was time to bring more of a scientific approach to business planning. It starts with “Plan-As-You-Go”.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. The only folks who invested in me were the ones who barely understood the business plan. My 2008 revenues were over $100k on a 35k inventory. They just havd faith in me. I am chugging along.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. Looking back, that was a special moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. But when it comes to the specific of a product release, business plan, or marketing launch, all that matters is: do we have a strong hypothesis that will enable us to learn? If so, execute, iterate, and learn.

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wordsting.com

APRIL 4, 2013

Our chosen problem was logic models , which are the non-profit equivalent of business plans. Too often Agile development methodologies are used to excuse lack of process and planning (still possible, just only as far as you can see). Copyright 2008-2012, Business Case Pro. TAGS: Lean Startup , Fat startup.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My Mama, the founder of Yuca’s Hut in Los Feliz, CA, didn’t allow a lack of college degrees or a business plan to deter her from launching her dream. It was March 2008. The business was thriving, I was financially free, but … I hated working inside my own company. Image Credit: Terri Maxwell.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. Combining agile development with customer developm. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? Startup founders need to use their own judgment to ask: which is the riskiest assumption underlying my business plan? It doesn’t say anything about which risks it should be used to mitigate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea. After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

No Business Plan Survives First Contact With A Customer – The 5.2 In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. Online Video on Lies About Business Planning - Up and Running , November 19, 2010 Business plans are a waste of time? billion dollar mistake. Third, startups are social.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

By testing each failed hypothesis leads to a new pivot, where we change just one element of the business plan (customer segment, feature set, positioning) – but don’t abandon everything we’ve learned. Being systematic about these hypotheses is what customer development is all about. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

One can see how it ripples through the entire business plan. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? (a Expo SF (May. Expo (and a call for he.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

ALT.NET is a large sector of the.NET community that isn’t satisfied with the status quo and wants to find the best, most agile way to do things. Working for or started something in 2008 that may or may not make it. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder. March 26, 2011 at 9:18 pm.

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