Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 18, 2010 Four myths about the Lean Startup Myth: Lean means cheap. Lean startups try to spend as little money as possible. Truth: The Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Myth: The Lean Startup methodology is only for Web 2.0/internet/consumer

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 3, 2024

Implement Lean Manufacturing Principles The lean manufacturing principles usually focus on eliminating waste, optimizing processes, and maximizing value to achieve operational excellence.

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Where to Play

APRIL 8, 2018

The post 5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations appeared first on Where to Play. Before you ‘get out of the building’: How to adopt a top-down orientation to improve your lean startup experimentations. Lean Startup , by Steve Blank and Eric Ries , is a great bottom-up approach.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. use Google Analytics to measure the success of your campaign.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Most importantly, it’s now possible to have detailed analytics on exactly what’s happening to messages and ideas as they flow through word-of-mouth channels. If they don’t, there are a new breed of lean startups who understand this deep in the bones ready to take their place. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. Each day, the analytics team would share a report with them that had the details of how each test was doing. Expo SF (May.

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Where to Play

APRIL 8, 2018

The post 5 Steps to Strengthen your Lean Startup Experimentations appeared first on Where to Play. Before you ‘get out of the building’: How to adopt a top-down orientation to improve your lean startup experimentations. Lean Startup , by Steve Blank and Eric Ries , is a great bottom-up approach.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This actually aligns closely with the Lean Planning approach, which allows your business to be more agile and make adjustments as you test your idea in the market. Know every business metric for your company—start with Google Analytics. Two of my startups failed because I was so busy “creating” or perfecting the products.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 28, 2012

by Mike Richardson , author of “ Wheel$pin: The Agile Executive’s Manifesto “ Technology is constantly speeding up the pace of business: Decisions once delayed for weeks are now made in seconds thanks to internet communication. Computer analytics puts real-time market information at our fingertips. Set the mood.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Specifically: Who owns web analytics / who it reports to from a org structure perspective. Let me hasten to add that this, web analytics ownership, does not exist in a vacuum. If your overall web business is misaligned from an org perspective then honestly there is no hope for you, regardless of where analytics sits.].

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

But, there’s plenty that you can do… if you embrace lean marketing principles. Lean marketing is a philosophy that emphasizes executing campaigns quickly, getting feedback from your audience, analyzing the results, and optimizing the campaign – all in rapid succession. National television campaigns are definitely out.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 1, 2009 Lean Startup webcast post-game Wow, what an incredible turnout for webcast this morning, right on the heels of a phenomenal crowd at startup2startup last night. Its been a great twelve hours for the lean startup! wogsland : Still not understanding the "lean" aspect. What a thrill.

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Up and Running

MARCH 14, 2017

In the Lean Startup methodology, one of the most important elements is getting out of the building. Idea validation and Lean Planning. Idea validation is a practice which has been gaining more and more popularity as Lean Startup and Lean Planning methodologies have changed the way new business concepts are conceived.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. As this is a new initiative for this blog, we especially welcome your feedback. How are we doing?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

AUGUST 1, 2018

All frameworks (Agile, Lean, CPS, Design Thinking, Stage-Gate) require people to come up with fresh ideas, and MoshPit has a new and better way to do that. Data Analytics. This shaping of vague ideas into resource-worthy innovation projects is the final step of the MoshPit process. Artificial Intelligence. Augmented Reality.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

A pivot is the lean methodology’s way to fire the plan without firing people. Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. Now they’ve realized that the SAR data and analytics is the business. This is what enables Lean teams to move with speed and urgency. They all come out of it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

A pivot is the lean methodology’s way to fire the plan without firing people. Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. Now they’ve realized that the SAR data and analytics is the business. This is what enables Lean teams to move with speed and urgency. They all come out of it.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Army’s Rapid Equipping Force on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan finding and deploying technology solutions against agile insurgents. Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

How do we know how much energy to invest in analytics vs. doing real work? How do we know how much energy to invest in analytics vs. doing real work? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 3, 2009 Minimum Viable Product: a guide One of the most important lean startup techniques is called the minimum viable product. I was delighted to be asked to give a brief talk about the MVP at the inaugural meetup of the lean startup circle here in San Francisco. Thanks Eric. Expo SF (May.

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ConversionXL

JULY 16, 2019

Taking lessons from agile project management (specifically: sprints), I’ll show you how to build more effective, less assumptive, marketing campaigns. Adapting sprints for marketing. Image source ). Brands like 23andme and Slack have adopted the Google Venture design sprint because it works.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

There are great frameworks and tools out there for innovation projects, like Design Thinking, Agile, Lean, and blended processes. Innovation requires a different mindset and approach than normal operations. Do your people know them? If they don’t it’s a way to significantly up your game.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 5, 2021

monthly email newsletter to entire subscriber list on X day each month) Dynamic workflows are more agile and flexible. Even startups with a lean marketing strategy invest in at least two or three channels. They run in strict sequences, often at the same time of day, week, or month (e.g. Marketing requires a multi-channel approach.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

At this point, it’s Nelson and new cofounder of her latest venture Jason Champion gearing up to break new ground in video analytics (Bradford now stays on in an advisory capacity). If not, be agile enough to change direction and re-focus,” Nelson advises. Their latest product, Statdragon, launched just last week.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 22, 2020

She has been an advocate for a more responsive, a more resilient, more agile government. He was Bloomberg's Chief Analytics Officer for awhile and had done a bunch of tech and data stuff. If that sounds like an oxymoron, well listen up. Jen Pahlka : I just wanted to tell a quick story, sort of exactly the same thing.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

They will realize that you have built a startup that’s agile, resilient and customer-centric. Your presentation doesn’t have a single word about Lean Startups or Customer Development. Good to see someone with authority advocating an approach to building startups that we at Agile Entrepreneurs focus on, week after week.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. I don't see how aplying Continuous Deployment (CD) to data marts (and the analytic products that depend on them) would be any different to any other online application. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And we charge money for it.” – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. You should also look closely at your website and social analytics. It also gives you a product to market.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

So let’s be very specific: let’s assume your dream job is product manager at Google, working on the Analytics product. Vision Synching in a Lean Startup - Startup Marketing Blog , November 12, 2010 In the age of the lean startup , we often forget about the importance of vision. By doing the job. Where is it? Absolutely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

In the process, we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system. And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

A Lean Startup methodology offers entrepreneurs a framework to focus on what’s important: Business Model Discovery. Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. He observed that most startups that succeed aren't lean: their goal is to have an exit rather than a scalable business. Flip startups are agile startups that aim to exit quickly.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Most C-suites and shareholders speak the language of the hard edge: metrics, analytics, logistics, strategies, and a well-defined and easy-to-see ROI. A strong soft edge makes a company resilient and agile — even in the face of the occasional C-suite disagreement. Work together to ensure you’re mining the right data.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Their own internal culture would tie them up in knots, and agile startups could run rings around them. Build a company culture where everyone supports the “sharp end of the stick.” Stay agile, stay focused. Don’t let this happen to your company. Embrace and then c ommunicate the idea of a lead department(s).

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VC Adventure

MARCH 15, 2017

Trello – collaborative task list for Teams, works well with Agile/Lean methodologies. Docsend – track, control, send, and present sales materials with real-time document analytics. TextExpander – store frequently types phrases/notes across all devices. Assistant Services. youcanbook.me

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