Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure. Another terrific post, Eric.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Geodelic develops free mobile applications to easily browse your surroundings (restaurants, banks, businesses, etc).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an internet connection. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. There are and we do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Of course, readers of this blog know that the lean in "lean startup" doesnt refer to cost, but - rather - to Lean Thinking. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

As the costs of production fall, it’s getting easier and easier to send in a proposal or even a complete work. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. I’ve met a lot of gatekeepers in the past few months. Is that a lot? Is that good? ideas (e.g.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. Even if you have a very large community, I dont think this number needs to be higher than 100.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The scene is the siren song of the innovation community. Today, brands are hiring social media specialists for customer support, crowdsourced product development, promotions and even leads generation. D&O insurance is a “cost of respect” for board members. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. In between sessions, this cohort of companies would have the opportunity to act as a learning community, sharing what theyve learned and supporting one another as they try to put the techniques into practice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them. When the goals not clear, I think you wind up with situations that are essentially value-destroying, where free users are actually driving up costs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

In my presentation this morning, I emphasized three key areas: reducing the personal cost of failure for entrepreneurs, innovation-friendly legal reforms, and access to the digital means of production (slides from my White House presentation are available at the end of this post).

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Chak has been able to get a couple of distributors in Singapore to buy his greeting cards designed by a community of artists, but is struggling to find a steady, repeatable model. He is also struggling with the pricing structure, because until he can get to volume printing, the cost per unit is way too high.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And that’s been reflected in the entrepreneurial community, where entrepreneurs, especially between 2000 and 2008, entrepreneurs really only wanted to do — for the most part wanted to do consumer software, because that’s the only software that they could actually get anybody to adopt. He is an active member of the blogging community.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Even in this obscure niche, their napkin-math suggested that improper moisture management cost companies $1 billion in repair and replacement costs each year. They’d built a range of products that completely solved the problem—but they couldn’t reach their potential customers. These questions still get asked.

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