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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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. There are a lot of affiliate marketing networks that allow both advertisers and affiliates to find each other. How do I get into contact with potential affiliates?

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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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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. The last couple of months have not been great for social networks. Community and sharing are core to who we are as humans. Direct competitor comparisons. 38% cheaper than Nordstrom.

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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. 8) Fellowup , a personal virtual assistant to manage your unmanageably large network.

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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. The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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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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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Creators decouple their non-standardised skills from the aggregator and hope to become themselves a brand. Trend to watch : an equivalent to MCNs (Multi Channel Networks) on the early days of YouTube where creators band together to generate economies of scale (and share revenue). Gen Z and the 1% rule.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 2, 2018

Regular computers must be united into a sophisticated computing network; big tasks should be broken into smaller ones; and all the possible contingencies — like slow internet or sudden computer shutdowns — must be taken into consideration. The aggregate computing power of the project is more than 960 TFLOPS. million CPUs.

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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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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. Once a year or so hold a client appreciation event to say thanks and create a networking event for your clients and prospects. Community knowledge base.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2018

But to use hashtags effectively, you must do more than just plug them into your tweets on Twitter or posts on Instagram, Facebook or another social network. When a person adds a hashtag to their post, that hashtag is indexed by social networks and the content becomes more easily searchable and discoverable by others.

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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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VC Cafe

MARCH 27, 2020

Suddenly, the major sports networks have no programming. 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. People actually want to watch games.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Through them, entrepreneurs can hook up with R&D resources in universities and companies, and get access to a robust support network that provides opportunities for visibility, growth and financing. They're going strong , and constantly adapting their platform to users' changing needs for information and social media aggregation.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. And they were increasing at an aggregate 33 million IOS and Android activations per month.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 17, 2016

This is a strategy that has been successfully used by social networks, ecommerce stores and even enterprise businesses to drive customer engagement and build revenues. Leaderboards are a popular form of gamification in community-based businesses. What exactly is gamification? Leaderboards.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Both provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Both provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart.

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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. So we went for it.

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Version One Ventures

JULY 19, 2018

We love their network effects and continue to invest in them. In that handbook, our goal was to aggregate all the amazing content out there. In addition, there are opportunities to build a marketplace around communities that are passionate about a specific product category, i.e. GOAT for sneakers. The answer is YES!

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2015

Marrying Big Data With Social Networks. The key thing about Social Physics then is the meticulous processing of big data with behavioural economics, social networks and influence. This also entails looking at how ideas flow and aggregate in social networks. According to Pentland, traditional economics thinking is flawed.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 15, 2016

Aren’t there network effects in healthcare that we get excited about? Back in 2014, we wrote about our interest in patient-doctor networks and patient health data. And while these networks, services, and products are helpful to patients, we as investors can’t help but ask if we can do more beyond solving the “efficiency problem.”

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 5, 2012

Aided by social media, wireless networks and data crunched from every available source, people are moving towards sharing goods and services at the point of need. 2) Using advanced web and mobile data networks to track goods, aggregate usage, customer and product information, and strengthen customer intelligence. Access is in.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

35:50) Building community on text messages and threads. (38:30) She is sitting now at Georgetown's Beeck Center, running a digital service's collaborative there and knew that she would have the right network and the right orientation for this. Some of it's communication. 33:59) The value of being useful. (35:20) Let's start."

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

We have tons of entrepreneurs but our technology community has historically been splintered across town and across industries. In aggregate we have a ton of great developers but we need a better feeding system into our startups. In LA we lack the same scale of technology ecosystem as they have in the Bay Area.

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Transformify

AUGUST 2, 2017

In all cases, there are HR Forums and and HR Blogs you may follow to expand your expertise, receive answers to your questions or simply network with HR experts. Probably the bigest community based HR forum organised around discussion groups and topics. Blog Aggregators. Author: Trish McFarlane. Posts ~5x a week. OnToplist.com.

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VC Adventure

DECEMBER 2, 2014

A joint effort between The Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado , The Salesforce Foundation and The Atlassian Foundation , Pledge 1% encourages entrepreneurs and companies to give back to their local communities through a gift of equity, profits and/or product.

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ithacaVC

JUNE 26, 2019

Here it is: Launch NY is working to find more ways to engage the local investor community and connect them with our client startup companies. The Investor Network is akin to a digitally administered open angel group, allowing accredited investors to look at deals based on their preferences in sector, stage, and region.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 18, 2011

Filtering and aggregating content produced by others is not only a great service, it’s a great differentiator.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 27, 2015

Aggregate readily accessible inventory. A last strategy is to aggregate inventory that’s already listed out there, for example through affiliate programs. No matter which approach you use, it’s easier to build a strong community if there’s a large overlap between buyers and sellers.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Now they are coming back, and the best even provide networking, technical leadership, and seed funding, as well as investors waving money at graduates. Both provide excellent networking to investors, and on-site technical leadership, which I believe sets them apart. networking with other entrepreneurs.

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This is going to be BIG.

JANUARY 25, 2010

The agenda: * Quick introductions over breakfast * Three brief demos, including one from Hot Potato * Casual networking session, with free Wi-Fi on offer for those who want to stick around and work in a community environment. RSVP: [link]. Saturday, January 30th. RSVP: [link].

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Homads is an online platform designed to help users sublet their home or apartment while helping other users find medium-term rentals in a community that feels like home. An example of that would be aggregating supply instead of building it. Don’t miss out on future networking opportunities to meet more entrepreneurs like Vi.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, members of the DOD will not respond to ”cold calls” and those in the Intel community won’t even tell you their names. They refined their understanding of Spearfishing vs. catfishing finding that Spearfishing is the number 1 source of malware, cyber attacks, and network threats. Automated data aggregation (i.e.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, members of the DOD will not respond to ”cold calls” and those in the Intel community won’t even tell you their names. They refined their understanding of Spearfishing vs. catfishing finding that Spearfishing is the number 1 source of malware, cyber attacks, and network threats. Automated data aggregation (i.e.

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