Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Buy a higher quantity 2. of higher priced items 3.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Were not going to have any form of advertising, but I am considering trying to offer a scholarship program to worthy entrepreneurs, just as we did for the Web 2.0 The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Others have asked about sponsorship opportunities at the workshop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Or follow all of the New York Times columnists equally? This is good news for everyone except those who have huge legacy investments in large-batch distribution. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Does anyone really watch the full NBC lineup anymore?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 18, 2019

by Anish Sebastian, Co-Founder of Babyscripts. The article is authored by Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook. The article is authored by Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook. As the CEO of BabyScripts, Anish has focused his efforts on product and software development, as well as research validation of their product.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

This is John Jantsch and my guests, yes that’s plural, Joe Pulizzi, founder of Content Marketing Institute, and Robert Rose, the chief strategy advisor of the same. We’re gonna talk about the new book by both of them today called Killing Marketing: How Innovate Businesses are Turning Marketing Cost into Profit.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

Founders Workbench. The Founders Workbench has a variety of tools to help you get your startup off the ground. Product development. If you need a little help with your product development and getting it on store shelves, you can check out Edison Nation. They can help with development and licensing, too.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

Prior to joining Facebook, he was the president of Digital, News, Business, and Sports Properties at Time Inc. John also spent several years at The New York Times Company at NYTimes.com running strategy, marketing, and operations. I mean, you think back in 2008, you think about early advertising and banner ads.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

These are companies that generate revenue by offering a free product with an upsell or premium version. Their economics blends elements of the free, advertising-supported, "eyeballs" business with more traditional e-commerce and subscription businesses. Is it that they act as free advertising for our premium product?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 11, 2009 CPI > CPC Google revolutionized advertising by popularizing pay-per-click. Because social networks have generated staggering quantities of traffic without generating as much economic value from traditional advertising models, theres a big opportunity to buy traffic on a new model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. If your company is using minimum viable product , you’ve probably said the same thing yourself. Eric] “The first user experience was actually terrible.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. I believe this is one reason why the myth of the dictatorial startup founder has such enduring appeal.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. What are the terms of their relationship with the founder? If we believe in founders enough, we should believe in their potential more than what they could be paying us to build the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

The technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Labels: hiring , product development 5comments: TedHoward said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

And how do you pick a new direction? Some startups fail because the founders cant have this conversation - they either blow up when they try, or they fail to change because they are afraid of conflict. I am so sick of your tweets it's advertising 24/7. Both are lethal outcomes. February 9, 2010 3:16 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

This attention is valuable to yet another set of people: namely, the traditional businesses (see above) who are using marketing to grow, and are looking to advertise to new prospects. In the old days, these media companies would then themselves plow this profit back into marketing and advertising, and grow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Furthermore, I think most of what you are suggesting is applicable in companies/ industries that are not software development. I work in advertising and this system would work to analyze failures. Leave your thoughts in a comment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

When we finally did launch the company, even though our product had grown and changed significantly, Wired didnt cover it. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, the works. Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse. We really did it well, with a great PR firm and great coverage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

You declare how much someone clicking an advertisement is worth to you, and then the search engine does its best to get you as many clicks as it can at that price. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

I’m now in my second founder/CEO role, having raised more than $18.5 For example, my company decided early on to hire a UI designer, which has helped tremendously with our product development. Founded in 2005, Mashable is headquartered in New York City with an office in San Francisco. million in venture financing.

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Designmantic Blog

MARCH 6, 2018

Here are some of the most interesting facts about female founders as well as startups. She is also the author of Social Media Mastery: A Comprehensive Guide to Strategic Growth and is the founder of “The Authority Matrix”, which is a powerful tool used by Fortune500 executives that utilizes employee advocacy and influence.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

(And manufacturing a new cateogry that you can be number one in is what resegmentation is all about) In WoWs case, its positioning is established by the gameplay itself. But that is not the only source of positioning: brand advertisers have been using packaging and TV ads to do this for years.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The number one question you all asked after reading my last blog post about starting a business from scratch was “how do I find my co-founders?&# And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. Having trouble meeting folks you think would be good co-founders?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 5, 2014

Make those tweaks before fully entering the market – and understand that, for most entrepreneurs, this is a process, not a single final product. Develop a Plan. As you develop a business plan and a roll-out plan, and think about each step along the way, and what you will need to take each step. And don’t look back. Be unusual.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Isn’t it equally possible that this company is spending more money on advertising or marketing than it’s competitors? When we look at the same conversion percentage for cohort after cohort, we are effectively getting a new, independent, report card for our efforts each period. But is that true? But is that true?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

The SOCIALtalty scoring methodology is the Net Promoter score for the new digital age measuring a company's use of social media to become more customer centric. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Contact Contact Us Submit News Submit a Bug. Advertise Advertise. Perhaps the team is working on a product that really isnt that great or useful. Or maybe the co-founders have a poisonous relationship that will hinder the companys growth. Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Entertainment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

To wit: achieving product/market fit , getting customer validation , making something people want , things that matter , and of course the many excellent books on the topic, of which Ill mention just two of the best, Crossing the Chasm and The Innovators Dilemma. Are advertisers customers, and are they part of a market?

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