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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. It was absolutely worth it.

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 1

Steve Blank

In the Agency I dealt with a few difficult personalities focused on empire-building and metrics rather than running sound operations. For my current company Infleqtion , I was introduced to a former senior Intelligence Community official who previously served on a board with the CEO, who made an introduction.

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Endeavor Miami Takes on Scaleup Challenge

The Startup Magazine

Across the world, work spaces, maker spaces, incubators, and accelerators are opening, expanding, and making an impact on their communities, and beyond. The Endeavor Miami group is one scaleup accelerator that is overcoming those challenges and having an impact on both their community and the broader world. Scaleup Challenge.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 45: Dan Miller and Brian Zuercher

Steve Blank

Actively involved in the local startup community, Brian is a Startup Weekend Columbus host and MC at the monthly morning pitch event for entrepreneurs, WakeUp StartUp. We did three iterations of the product in less than 12 months, each one progressively going off of different consumer metrics that we found and then partner feedback.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #15: The fallacy of risk in entrepreneurship

Austin Startup

Both Bazaarvoice and Coremetrics started from scratch, and I’ve also angel-backed companies recently that have started from scratch, like Compare Metrics , where I serve as the Chairman of the Board (note that Compare Metrics also recently completed their Series A with Austin Ventures as the lead). Have we gotten it all right?

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Mentors and advisory boards

Jeff Hilimire

Done great work in the community? Outline the goals and metrics both parties care about. Advisory Boards. When it comes to advisory boards, I’m a big fan. But, I think an entrepreneur needs to be careful about how and when they create an advisory board. Great businesses?

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Lower level of community familiarity. Of the Inc. 5000 companies, only 6.5%