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SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Main | GeeksOnaPlane @ Ignite Paris (Brady Forrest) » Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Startup Metrics for Pirates: SeedCamp 2009 (Sept 2009, London) Same old shit , just a different day (+ 1-2 new slides, not much tho): Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure. Master of 500 Hats A blog about Geeks, Entrepreneurs, & Startups in Silicon Valley, by Dave McClure. The Internet Revolution, Act III.

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AUGUST 3, 2009

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. I often have career discussions with entrepreneurs – both young and more mature – whether they should join company “X&# or not. I usually pull the old trick of answering a question with a question.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

This post is part of my series “ Startup Lessons &#. Elephants, Deer and Rabbits – Some thoughts on start-up segmentation. Nearly all of the mistakes I made at my first company I fixed by the time of my second company.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. I had a picture in the office of my first company with the logo above and the capital letters JFDI. (In

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Reply Jesse Farmer , on April 7, 2009 at 8:53 am Said: Customers don’t ask for your transcript. Martin , on April 7, 2009 at 9:40 am Said: There’s a wide spectrum between A student and dropout. Midas Oracle.NET , on August 30, 2009 at 11:53 pm Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

JUNE 18, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career , Technology | Tagged: Steve Blank , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « Lies Entrepreneurs Tell Themselves Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP » 67 Responses Michael Curry 2.0 , on June 18, 2009 at 6:08 am Said: Steve- Many thanks for your last two posts. thanks Reply Ben Yoskovitz , on June 18, 2009 at 7:13 am Said: Steve – Great post. on June 18, 2009 at 10:38 am Said: [.]

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Steve Poland

APRIL 29, 2009

Steves Latest Twitter Update (@PoPo) : Home About Steve Poland: Risk Taker Archives Contact 100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas By Steve Poland • April 29, 2009 With this recession and unemployment so high, there’s likely a lot of people looking to start their own business. Comments 13 Responses to “100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas&# 48) { this.width = 48; this.height = 48; } ; if (this.width Tim on April 29th, 2009 1:34 pm ( perm link ) you forgot “scale.com&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Handling PR with VCs. This is part of my series on How to Raise VC but could equally be filed under Startup Advice more generally. I recently got a phone call from an entrepreneur whom I respect and who runs a company that I hope will do great things one day.

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500 Hats

MARCH 21, 2009

Posted by Dave on Saturday, March 21, 2009 at 12:16 PM in Venture Capital & Startup Finance | Permalink Technorati Tags : dave.mcclure , pitch , PresentationCampSF , startup , VC Digg This | Save to del.icio.us

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Martin , on November 9, 2009 at 6:41 am Said: Hmm… Not to get too meta here… But if the point of this post is to teach us how to distinguish motion from action (even partly), I didn’t get much help. Esteban , on November 12, 2009 at 10:37 am Said: Distinguishing them is quite easy, at least if you take the relentless part to heart. Reply Brad the Wordpress Consultant , on November 9, 2009 at 11:21 am Said: Awesome article.

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OnStartups

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

I have a picture in my head of what the average entrepreneur is. like. I’d guess pretty young (think Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.) living the. red beans and rice lifestyle and working 80+ hours a week and sleeping under. their desk. On some parts, I’m probably right — but on many, I’m flat-out.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “Start-up Lessons.&# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. In the Beginning … This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow [.].

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Start-up Lessons. &# If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. In the Beginning … This is a very important post to me because I find myself giving this advice all the time and if you don’t follow the basic advice here you can cause yourself much heartache down the line – even if your company ultimately becomes über successful.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 4, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Many entrepreneurs who start technology companies are product people, technologists or savvy business people who worked previously for a larger company. Most start-up entrepreneurs have little or no sales experience. I know I didn’t.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 3, 2009 Minimum Viable Product: a guide One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product. August 3, 2009 10:52 AM Chris Hopf said. August 3, 2009 11:49 AM Jason Brownlee said. August 3, 2009 8:08 PM William Mitchell said. August 4, 2009 2:11 PM Mick Liubinskas said. Quick video here with my views on focus; [link] August 8, 2009 7:38 PM Gene Myers said.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Reply Richard Jordan , on November 5, 2009 at 3:36 pm Said: Steve, best article yet. Reply links for 2009-11-05 « Blarney Fellow , on November 5, 2009 at 4:16 pm Said: [.] Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-11-05 , on November 5, 2009 at 5:11 pm Said: [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

Martin , on April 10, 2009 at 9:27 am Said: A post that would delight F.A. link] Reply craig sparer , on April 10, 2009 at 5:44 pm Said: So true. > Reply Prakash S , on April 10, 2009 at 10:26 pm Said: Steve, Have you seen Mike Cassidy’s excellent talk, “Speed as THE primary business strategy&# ? link] Reply steveblank11 , on April 10, 2009 at 10:32 pm Said: Prakash, Thanks for the link. com) , on May 29, 2009 at 5:49 pm Said: [.]

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500 Hats

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Posted by Dave on Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at 06:12 PM in Conferences & Events , Geeks, Tech, Startups | Permalink Technorati Tags : dave mcclure , fowa , london , pirates , startup metrics Digg This | Save to del.icio.us

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Startup Marketing Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

59 Responses to “Milestones to Startup Success&# Sarah Prevette Nov 30, 2009 7:52 pm This is an incredible post – a must read for any entrepreneur. uberVU - social comments Nov 30, 2009 7:55 pm Social comments and analytics for this post… This post was mentioned on Twitter by StartupDigest: Milestones to Startup Success [link] [via @seanellis]… Sean Nov 30, 2009 7:57 pm Thanks Sarah. Neil Nov 30, 2009 8:02 pm Wow!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. Very much appreciate the suggested solutions (Five Why's, split testing etc) July 29, 2009 6:24 AM Kevin Gadd said. July 29, 2009 6:57 AM Heiner Wolf said. July 29, 2009 8:48 AM William Pietri said. July 29, 2009 9:12 AM Eric said. > July 29, 2009 9:40 AM Ryan Higdon said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? March 13, 2009 1:50 PM dan simard said. March 13, 2009 2:14 PM Alan Pinstein said. Alan March 13, 2009 2:18 PM alon said. March 13, 2009 6:20 PM alon said. Aslong as you stay real March 13, 2009 6:23 PM R. March 13, 2009 7:32 PM Torley said. March 13, 2009 7:53 PM J5Freedom said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. June 22, 2009 12:26 PM Anonymoussaid. June 22, 2009 1:03 PM Eric said. June 22, 2009 1:06 PM Anonymoussaid. June 23, 2009 9:55 AM LKsaid. June 23, 2009 11:55 AM Pradeep Bhanot said. September 27, 2009 4:08 PM Patti said.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This is part of my series with Advice on Raising Venture Capital. I recently wrote a post on how to Deal with your Elephants in the Room during your VC meetings. Elephants being big issues that the VC will be thinking whether you bring it to his/her attention or not.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series. Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. I always take a very different approach in early conversations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? April 14, 2009 3:09 PM Eric Santos said. April 14, 2009 4:03 PM Dave McClure said. thats SNL Jan 1976: [link] April 15, 2009 2:00 AM Matt Prados said. April 15, 2009 2:46 PM Alex Pyatetsky said. April 15, 2009 3:48 PM Knowist said. April 15, 2009 4:06 PM Eric said.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This is part of my Startup Advice series of posts. I heard Bruce Dunlevie of Benchmark Capital say these words at a conference in London nearly 10 years ago. I jotted the words down (I normally pay little attention to anything said at conferences.

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Silicon Valley Entrepreneur Conversion Naming 64

Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

Filed under: Customer Development | Tagged: Customer Development , Early Stage Startup , Entrepreneurs , Tips for Startups « The End of Innocence The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution (part 1) » 21 Responses Kulveer Taggar , on August 27, 2009 at 11:18 am Said: Great post. Reply Knowtu » links for 2009-08-27 , on August 27, 2009 at 6:04 pm Said: [.] Ben , on August 28, 2009 at 10:09 am Said: This rings true.

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Startup Marketing Blog

JULY 27, 2009

Startup Marketing Blog – By Sean Ellis Unlocking Startup Growth By Sean Ellis of 12in6 The Startup Pyramid Every six months I rethink the optimal startup go to market approach based on new insights gained at recent startups. Lately I’ve been using a pyramid to represent the process I’m using. Startups require a solid foundation of product/market fit before progressing up the pyramid and scaling the business.

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Steve Poland

APRIL 29, 2009

Steves Latest Twitter Update (@PoPo) : Home About Steve Poland: Risk Taker Archives Contact 100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas By Steve Poland • April 29, 2009 With this recession and unemployment so high, there’s likely a lot of people looking to start their own business. Comments 13 Responses to “100+ Web Start-up Business Ideas&# 48) { this.width = 48; this.height = 48; } ; if (this.width Tim on April 29th, 2009 1:34 pm ( perm link ) you forgot “scale.com&#.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ▼ December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. In that post, I took it for granted that vanity metrics are bad for you, and focused on techniques for creating and learning from actionable metrics.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC&# – the outline is here. You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Everybody seems to like you but nobody seems to be getting out their checkbooks. Most of them are telling you that they just need to see a bit of traction before they’d be prepared to [.].

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 8, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC&# – the outline is here. You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Everybody seems to like you but nobody seems to be getting out their checkbooks. Most of them are telling you that they just need to see a bit of traction before they’d be prepared to invest. Your friends and advisers tell you that this means you need revenue because in this economy VC’s will only fund businesses with revenue.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 1, 2009 The Steve Jobs method Image via CrunchBase Its been a long time since I did a post that was primarily a link to another blog with commentary, but I came across something today that I really want to share. August 1, 2009 9:33 AM Brij said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 23, 2009 Venture Hacks interview: "What is the minimum viable product?" Thanks Hazem March 23, 2009 6:46 PM Knowist said. March 30, 2009 8:40 PM illscience said. May 23, 2009 12:07 PM Dan Hodginssaid. December 23, 2009 11:22 PM Jawwad Farid said. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons Building companies is hard work. I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our [.].

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Lessons. Building companies is hard work. I started my first company in 1999 in London at the height of the dot com craze. We also had facilities in Dublin, Ireland where our company was initially founded. We went through the euphoria of massive exposure at the time of our launch due to an article that ran in the Financial Times. We were unprepared. Our software wasn’t fully baked.

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Watching Websites

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

link] Getting more bang for your buck (Small Business E-commerce Link Digest – October 2, 2009) [.] This was the primary theme of Velocity 2009, and major web destinations shared their business case [.] link] BlogLESS : Four Design Links: October 8, 2009 [.]

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