article thumbnail

A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. One example is having a real Customer Advisory Board.

article thumbnail

A large batch of videos, slides, and audio

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 6, 2009 A large batch of videos, slides, and audio Ive been trying very hard to avoid turning this blog into a travelogue. pbWorks (formerly pbWiki) was one of the first companies that ever invited me to join their advisory board.

Audio 118
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

article thumbnail

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre interested in being part of my "customer advisory board" for this presentation, please get in touch. Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. I would love to be on your advisory board. And thats where the call for help comes in.

Lean 68
article thumbnail

How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people

Startup Lessons Learned

Today, when I talk to startup founders, the most common answer I get to the question "do you talk to your customers?" Establish a customer advisory board. Most of the people building our product werent themselves target customers. So there was simply no substitute for seeing actual customers with the product, live.

article thumbnail

Coro Health Raises $2M

Austin Startup

As soon as I heard the Coro Health story several months ago from Brian Anderson, co-founder and President, I knew this company was on the path to success. Sample content includes: music, spirituality, education, current events, audio books, and personalized affirmations from local churches and faith groups.

article thumbnail

Building An Effective Board For Your Startup

Duct Tape Marketing

Prior to co-founding Foundry, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and is also a co-founder of Techstars. He’s also an author of a number of books including — Startup Boards: A Field Guide to Building and Leading an Effective Board of Directors. You're not building a team, that's a board. (09:21):

Startup 86