Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

If your practice is not designed to cope with uncertainty, it has no place in a startup - even if your startup is located in government or enterprise. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? We tend to equate startup success with making money, but that is a poor choice. They dont really create value.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

As people get more and more used to piloting, they will start to ask themselves “why wait until the last minute?&# (See Management Challenges for the 21st Century by Peter Drucker for more on this thesis.) "Spy satellites produced far more raw information than the government's battalion of overworked analysts could handle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

We met a number of policy makers from the White House and State Department, and had a solid Startup2Startup all about government policy and entrepreneurship. In a previous post , I asked readers for suggested topics that the US government needs to know about startups and entrepreneurs, and got some really interesting responses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

It also causes them to miss the numerous other kinds of startups that appear in less-glamorous settings: inside enterprises, non-profits, and even governments. This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. Wrong again. Wrong again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Every bit as true for government as for enterprise - and even the two guys in a garage. A lot of conversation was about what "the federal government" should do. But its all too easy to lose sight of the fact that any government, even one as large as the US, is made up entirely of people. Federal government should do nothing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2010

Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Our trip was bipartisan, bicameral, and bi-branches-of-government. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? To an early observer, it would have seemed obvious that Route 128 had all the advantages: a head start, more government and military funding, and far more established companies. The first two students to follow his advice were William R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Im especially curious to gauge the reaction of the civilian and military representatives of our government. Ive been in a few government-themed meetings recently, so I know some of the standard answers.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. What about establishing how to measure progress and performance, setting it down, and then tracking it, so you can optimize your management?

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There was a healthy amount of capital ($20-30B annually) invested in VC funds during the 2003-2008 timeframe. The entire US economy was booming (in an unsustainable debt binge, in retrospect) from 2004 through much of 2008, and the tech world was booming along with it. In the mid 2000′s VC’s were largely prospering.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 11, 2008 Three decisions to make on virtual goods I was invited to the Virtual Goods Summit yesterday, and got to see quite a few interesting speakers and panels. Your challenge will be incentivizing your developers to create, and managing the volume of their output.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Nothing worked, until we finally had one of our community managers start talking to real customers on the phone.

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