Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 21, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Startup Conference was founded four years ago to bring together real entrepreneurs who have applied Lean Startup techniques and have useful advice to share with each other. offering ten ways founders can get out of their offices.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 21, 2012

I judged Lean Startup Machine Boulder yesterday afternoon. I’m a huge Eric Ries / Lean Startup fan and believe that the methodology can be quickly taught. It’s not a coding / hacking weekend – it’s an applied process of the Lean Startup Methodology.

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Up and Running

JULY 19, 2017

Their study wasn’t specifically about entrepreneurship, but it stands to reason that women, especially millennial women, had some good reasons to lean toward forging their own path—essentially sidestepping inequalities by building their own companies. This is significant—in 2012, there were only 8.3 trillion in revenues.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 27, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. Marc Andreessen hardly needs introduction, but we're pleased to introduce him anyway--as a keynote speaker for The Lean Startup Conference on December 3, 2012 in San Francisco. Or of Opsware. Or of Ning.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Founders Dilemmas: Equity Splits. The following is an excerpt from HBS Professor Noam Wasserman’s new book, The Founders Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup. After this excerpt, the book outlines specific solutions that help founders avoid this pitfall.

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Why has growth hacking so strongly resonated with the startup community? The real answer is that the phrase “growth hacking” caught fire because of its particular emphasis on growth, which determines the life and death of every startup. Startups are facing growth challenges that were not apparent a few years ago.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

Amsterdam-based startup accelerator Rockstart last year launched a program to find and support ten teams of startup founders in Europe. Of the ten startups in the inaugural 2012 class, four have raised follow-on funding to date, and one even reached the break-even point and expanded to Silicon Valley.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean vs. Mean – Small Business and Responsibility – [link]. How do I find good technical co-founders? The link is in the Other section below. Quora – [link].

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. The program is funded by the Colombian government and modeled after the NSF Innovation-Corps program created and built by my partner and co-author Steve Blank.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

Meg Wirth and Allyson Cote, founders of Maternova. However, these can be difficult to obtain and ship, and this is exactly where social enterprise startup Maternova has made—and continues to make—inspirational strides. Maternal health is a concern the world over, especially in developing nations. See Also What Is a Social Enterprise?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Startup (and Small Business) Tips: Ask Your Customers For Feedback. Startup Tips: Ask Your Customers For Feedback. Want to get a job at a startup? See the video above.

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Spencer Fry

JANUARY 23, 2013

Before diving in completely in the beginning of February, 2012, I'd had a handful of false starts learning to program dating all the way back to high school. Whenever you're hanging around other startup people, "you should learn to program" is thrown around like it's the antidote to all your problems. Find a technical co-founder.

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Steve Blank

JULY 2, 2015

Takashi Tsutsumi and Masato Iino , founders of Learning Entrepreneur’s Lab in Japan. He was named by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in the defense industry in 2012. John recently co-founded P360, a business that produces animated training content for the military, and he works for BMNT Partners.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

When the legend becomes fact…print the legend” The Hollywoodization of Silicon Valley startup stories “prints legends,” but for most startups those stories are pure fiction. The two guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show tell it like it really is to navigate the chaos of a startup.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Conference 2012. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced).

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Guest author Allan Thorvaldsen is CEO and co-founder of Panorama9 , a cloud-based dashboard for IT managers. As we hit the end of of 2012, the pace of business may slow momentarily, making it a good time to take stock of your startup’s IT assets, spending and future plans. do you have? Create Reminders For Next Year.

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David Teten

APRIL 15, 2012

Keynotes include: Dan Porter, CEO and Founder of OMGPOP. Mike Brown, General Partner and Founder of AOL Ventures. Kevin Nazemi, Founder of Done. Alexa von Tobel, Founder of LearnVest. Neil Blumenthal, Co-Founder of Warby Parker. Neil Blumenthal, Co-Founder of Warby Parker.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 14, 2018

you change the world As I mentioned at the beginning of this series/ebook, over the years I’ve noticed that I tend to frequently share certain Lucky7 posts with entrepreneurs we’ve backed , team members at data.world, or other startup investors I know. io , where I’ve been writing about primarily entrepreneurship since 2012.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

He is co-founder of international start-up community event organisation 3beards and founder and director of Albion Drive , a fully integrated communicaitons agency for entrepreneurs and challenger brands. If it is, then Australia does start to look appealing as a startup destination both as a founder and an investor.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. It didn’t take us very long to connect the dots between exponential growth, business model innovation and the “Lean Startup” movement. in developing these new models.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Business Tips: Hiring Contractors for Fun and Profit(ability) – [link]. 8 Startup Founders Reveal Their #1 User Acquisition Tactic | Treehouse - [link].

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Eric Friedman

AUGUST 18, 2021

Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. He is also co-founder and Managing Partner of Deciens Capital, an early stage investment fund. How do you get to that point if you have that kind of a view of the world, of founders, and of this space? On Sushi and VC. Everything we do.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. I love startups. Here’s my high-level approach for startups. Is that true ?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 14, 2012

I started a new group 2 months ago in Los Angeles – Startup Workshops – #SUWSLA to teach startup success concepts and try to launch new startups.We have over 100 members now, have had a few meetings and are in the process of launching a new startup with some of the members. Below is my update to the group today.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. But there is also opportunity in lean times. 2009-2011: Retrenchment.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

APRIL 9, 2013

Guest post by Ben Yoskovitz, the co-author of Lean Analytics , a new book on how to use analytics successfully in your business. Ben is currently VP Product at GoInstant, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2012. Lean Startup pokes a hole in our reality distortion field. Have you pivoted before? Hopefully not.

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Agile VC

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Like many things in life, the VC/startup ecosystem is one of cycles. But let’s look back at the last decade in VC-backed startups… it’s easy to forget how predominant mindsets change throughout the cycle. VC funding for startups is drying up quickly. But there is also opportunity in lean times. Reading Time: 5 minutes.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

No matter its size or age, every brewery was once a startup. Most small businesses and startups that are looking to grow— hire a new employee , or buy a new piece of equipment, or open a new location —need to think hard about cash flow, or making sure they have enough money in the bank to meet payroll and other financial obligations.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

This past week while I was in Tokyo for meetings with potential partners for Fab, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion on startups. When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2015

Like many entrepreneurs, the founders of Crosscut quit their well-paid jobs in the belief that LA’s moment was about to arrive and they spent years on low (sometimes no) salaries to prove it. This week Michael Dubin’s startup Dollar Shave Club announced a $75 million funding round at a rumored $650 million valuation.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 8, 2019

We doubled the number of companies we are working with in Dallas, Houston and San Antonio and invested in more than one Texas startup per week. Capital Factory is fortunate to have many co-founders and some that even joined a few years in. and some tough times where we had to lean on each other, too. Venture Associate?—?Defense

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wordsting.com

APRIL 4, 2013

Fat startup: Learn the lessons of my failed Lean Startup. by Word Sting in Lean Startup , Software copywriting , Copywriting for startups. Those that do will likely fall under the influence of the celebrated Lean Startup movement. My co-founders and I did. April 1, 2013.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You may have read my previous posts about the Lean LaunchPad class taught at Stanford , Berkeley, Columbia , Caltech and for the National Science Foundation. Ten years ago I started thinking about why startups are different from existing companies. In 2004 I funded IMVU, a startup by Will Harvey and Eric Ries. Sign up here.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Aaron Skonnard is the CEO and co-founder of Pluralsight , an online training resource for Web developers and IT professionals. Whether they’re computer science grads or self-taught coding wunderkinds, business leaders with 0s and 1s in their blood have a leg up on their B-school counterparts in the tech startup scene.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 2, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! How To Choose A Co-Founder – [link]. Twitter, the Startup That Wouldn’t Die – [link]. Paths to $5M for a startup founder – [link].

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