Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. Here are some of our favorites: 1.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

They do that by aggregating America’s startups, providing them with pro bono services, and promoting regional ecosystem development. However, as we got involved in issues like clean drinking water, we realized we’re missing a big opportunity to rally communities around us. Goal: tap into power of developers to solve community problems.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 14, 2013

Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community.

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Occam's Razor

JUNE 4, 2018

Sometimes, by using one of the multitude of price aggregators, you can have an understanding of where your pricing is at an item level. Community and sharing are core to who we are as humans. Yet, I bet you’ve rarely seen the use of this aggregated information to deliver nudges. Direct competitor comparisons. Got social nudges?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2020

Valence launched our beta platform to provide a digital home for Black talent to connect, access opportunities, and aggregate their power. If you are a Black professional, I encourage you to join the Valence community. Kobie Fuller at Upfront Ventures started Valence in the fall of 2019.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

So Westlaw created Peer Monitor, which aggregates anonymized data on firms’ financial and operational performance, collected from participating clients with their permission — and this turned into a lucrative new business. Westlaw, which provides legal research services for law firms, is another example. Close the sale.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Aggregation tools including Sprout, Hootsuite, and Buffer will allow you to make cross-platform posts to attract your entire audience base. This helps you become an established part of the community and recruits new customers in a positive fashion. Simplify Posting with Apps. Join professional groups and share your expertise.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of whats relevant to me based on a more complete profile. With more than 20 million unique monthly visitors, Mashable has one of the most engaged online news communities. . - John Jackovin , Bawte.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

If you target demand capture, you need to use intent channels that include paint point SEO, PPC, review websites, affiliates and aggregators, or intent data. And the content you create will differ depending on the channel: long-tail, pain-point content for SEO, or conversion-engineered landing pages for PPC.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Fashion sites might add links to buying outfits rather than just listing them, while community sites may add links to event tickets. Major webshops like Amazon also have their own affiliate program which you can sign up for, while parties like VigLink and Skimlinks help aggregate affiliate programs.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. In the past, if you wanted to learn from the best thinkers in Economics, you’d have to buy a subscription to the Economist or the FT. Gen Z and the 1% rule. Creator Economy vs. the Gig Economy. Monthly payouts on Patreon.

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VC Cafe

JULY 5, 2011

1) Dealery , the daily deal aggregator gets on the evening news. 3) Fiverr , the place for people to share what they would do for five dollars there’s literally dozens of videos created by the community. 2) Viber , free VOIP calls from your iPhone. The video, and sharing options are also prominently shared on the home page.

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David Teten

AUGUST 21, 2014

Each individual giver feels happy and bonded to the child, but the aggregate effect is fat kids. Your job as an educator is to do what’s in the long term interests of the child and community. Instead, it puts more pressure on educators to educate not just their children but their community.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

By adding your voice to our community of entrepreneurs, you’ll provide valuable insight that can help all businesses learn and grow. The only data we will be sharing is the aggregated results. There will be two winners selected and you’ll have the option to select either prize option. It’s been a complicated year for everyone.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 16, 2012

You’ve heard enough about the need to produce content that I’m guessing you’re probably blogging away and curating, aggregating and filtering all manner of content. Community knowledge base. Robin Robins, founder of Marketing Technology Toolkit in Nashville, TN involves her customer community in an incredible way.

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VC Adventure

MAY 10, 2020

After its enactment but before it was implemented, there were questions about the SBA’s “affiliation rules” which can disqualify companies if the aggregated number of employees at affiliate companies is greater than 500. The program sparked confusion from the start. This must be clarified and done so quickly.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. to motivate their angel community to support their startups. are using AngelMob.co

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

As of December 2017, the GIMPS project had reached an aggregate computing power of approximately 320 TeraFLOPS (320 trillion floating-point operations per second). The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. The majority of the largest known prime numbers are Mersenne primes. million CPUs.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Be a Community Resource. Another powerful way to improve local search results and amplify your local search opportunities is to create content that is related to your community, regardless of whether it directly relates to your products or services. A great example of this might include coverage of local sporting events or festivals.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. The site aggregates content but doesn't own it or try to copy it.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 21, 2022

Meta is successfully engaging with AR creators and users via Instagram already, and has a growing Spark developer community building AR social filters. Like Meta, Snap has a booming developer community who uses Snap Lens Studioo to build AR social filters: Over 250,000 developers have published a total of 2.5 Snap Spectacles.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2020

Stefan Zant: In light of the current situation we logically adjusted our content approach from aggregating event highlights and news to more situation-specific and creative formats, since most of the esports events are also postponed. This goes beyond the realms of like-for-like games (e.g.

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Austin Startup

JULY 6, 2018

When an accelerator says “our companies have raised an aggregate of $200 million,” they may be neglecting to mention that a huge chunk of that was raised before some of the companies (the top ones) ever “entered” the accelerator. Some accelerators are well-known for being extremely friendly, generous, and community-oriented.

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David Teten

JULY 14, 2014

Katina Stefanova : The government is looking for effective ways to increase transparency in the aggregate risk of the system and hold investment managers accountable. In aggregate, the investment management community performs below the market benchmark when fees are taken into consideration.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month. While I didn’t get much time with the academic community, in talking to students, education seems to still be one of China’s bottlenecks – rote lectures, passive learning, follow the process, exam-based performance, etc.

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community? And the results were pretty interesting, especially as they clustered with meaningful overlap among companies. When we took the poll itself, one founder said: “This is a great idea.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. With MentorMob , you spend more time learning and less time searching.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 8, 2013

Join the conversation with Community Forums. Curation is humanly aggregating, filtering, and re-posting the best-of-the-best content on the web, relative to your product or service area. A forum is a discussion site on a relevant subject, hosted and moderated by you, which adds authority, content, and traffic to your website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 17, 2011

Blog aggregators. Other popular aggregators include TheHuffingtonPost and BusinessInsider. Community bloggers platforms. I review these, as well as contribute entries occasionally for entrepreneurs and startups. One of my favorites in this category is MyAlltop , run by a well-known name with entrepreneurs, Guy Kawasaki.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2018

For example, if a person clicks on the hashtag #purplemarkers, they’ll typically see a page that aggregates all content with the same hashtag. Niche hashtags for existing communities, fields and industries are great choices. Some social media platforms allow people to follow hashtags.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

By aggregating user-generated speed and location data, Blink will provide instantaneously generated traffic-enabled maps, optimal routing, estimated time-to-arrival and predictive itinerary services to personal and corporate users. BlinkTraffic will empower mobile users in developing markets (Jakarta, Sao Paolo, Delhi, etc.)

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The Startup Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While end-to-end IR solutions aggregate all your data in one place, a siloed approach separates each process into a distinct tool, isolating analytics from reporting, targeting, and surveillance. With a fully integrated CRM desktop program, you can leverage on-the-pulse data into actionable insights into your shareholder activity.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 23, 2011

Drumo is a hyperlocal question-and-answer platform that connects a community of users in a certain area to ask and answer questions about what is happening around them. Whatever you believe, there are increasingly more mobile location-based services that focuses on providing information and content targeted at specific locales.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2016

Leaderboards are a popular form of gamification in community-based businesses. For instance, message boards routinely carry flairs against community members that point out their “seniority” among the community members. Leaderboards. Virtual Currencies.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 24, 2018

Blockchain Development Tracking For the developers in the group, Cryptomiso is a Github-based stream of information that tells you how frequently pushes have been made to the Github community related to cryptocurrency software. Community Automation Every blockchain company needs a place to share transparent information with their community.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2018

Sources by Readory – Discover your next favorite blog, aggregator, or community – sign up and see who’s trending weekly. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out there on the road. Google Wellbeing – Great technology should improve life, not distract from it.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Accelerators have been great for our respective communities. It’s where their passions are, too.

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