YoungUpstarts
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
You take that money and invest a good portion of it in traditional sales and marketing efforts — including product developers, creative people, and salespeople, all of whom are paid to figure out what buyers want and to say good things about your company — in a quest to get even more customers. In return, the customers pay you money.
viniciusvacanti.com
APRIL 2, 2012
The bright side is that, 6 months later, when we iterated Yipit into a daily deal aggregator, we learned to ignore the excuses and released a prototype in 3 days that took off right away. After we re-launched as a daily deal aggregator, we got exactly one email from a user saying they missed the sample sales. That’s it.
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Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 14, 2009
Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 18, 2010
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2009
It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 22, 2009
You set up a web app to put volunteers in touch with after-school programs which already exist, already have safe places and supervisory staff, and which need computers, and then the people with the old computers to give away put the computers in boxes and mail them to the after-school programs. Theres three parts to it. Expo SF (May.
The Next Web
NOVEMBER 13, 2013
Then, I would combine the aggregated data of these 2,000 or so willing students into a spreadsheet to help notify them a week, a day, or a few hours ahead of upcoming exams. If I’d been too intimidated to stand on a corner asking people to help develop my concept, this idea would have just remained a thought. Teachers are busy people!
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