Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

To acquire new money managers, the company makes traditional sales calls, which means they’ve interviewed many, many professionals and gotten a strong sense of their needs. .&# says Rachleff. At the same time, whenever a customer closes an account, kaChing contacts the person to find out why; most agree to a short phone interview. .&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

Carl was also worldwide head of stores at Home Depot when Hurricane Katrina hit, running sales out of the backs of trucks and accepting IOUs for payment. 13:58) Advice for companies who think it's too late to start looking for new ways to operate, including some examples from Austin, Texas. (15:55)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

For example, I quickly learned that when I twittered about the event, more often than not I would make a sale. I’ve often wanted to wire up a bell to sales data, so that when we make a sale, we literally hear the cash register ring. When the incidence rate is small, emails or text messages are a great mechanism.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

If you are trying to find a product that sells, than each test would require a different product to be created (or at least a different sales page).in This adds to the complexity of decision making since you dont know its the ad, sales page, product, keywords and so on. . Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Winners in 10 categories will be announced at the Pitch Award Ceremony at 6:30 pm Sunday, March 10, at the Hilton Austin. Maycotte answered some questions about his Austin-based company. Finally, our primary financial goal is to triple sales this year vs. last. CEO Higinio O. What do you like most about the startup experience?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. If you want to get ahead in this new world, agile is already not agile enough, lean is too fat and investing money in processes which tell you whether you're doing the right thing will put you on the right track but not out in front. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Because this language may lead you to believe this concept is for enterprise sales only, I thought Id walk you through an example from the world of consumer electronics. Combining agile development with customer developm. But if that piece-parts solution is great, then its unlikely they are going to need to buy any additional products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Although customers didnt flock to this offering at first, we had enough of a developer program active to start recruiting early adopters to start creating 3D objects for sale in our catalog. The net result was powerful: within six months of starting the company, we were able to get a basic version of our product into open beta. Expo SF (May.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 15, 2010

Founded in Austin in 1999, Coremetrics is known as one of the high-end providers of web analytics, competing with Omniture and Webtrends. After Bazaarvoice CEO Brett Hurt left Coremetrics the company relocated its headquarters to the bay area, but it still maintains an engineering presence in Austin.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2011

It enables a company to shift directions with agility, altering plans inch by inch, minute by minute. Why you should pre-order the Lean Startup Book A few months ago in Austin during SXSW, Andres Glusman (of Meetup.com) arranged a very special meetup. Let me explain why. It was an amazing experience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

This can take the form of a traditional sales pipeline or a registration-activation-revenue chart. 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? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Meanwhile, individuals and smaller companies emailed by the hundreds to say that they wanted the features of custom channels, but the sales model—arranged like a media buy—didn’t make sense to them. -Eric] Big companies said they liked the idea, but SlideShare found it hard to close deals. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. We set sales targets from day one, $300 the first month. As the experiments progressed, day-in-day-out we werent making sales. Expo SF (May.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 11, 2017

Like thinking on strategy for sales, or committing to deliver on good customer service, or putting in long hours to complete the next version of your product, creating a solid culture code that speaks to your company is just as important. Essentially, a great culture helps attract amazing people, and helps us do our best work.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Photodex is a little company you've never heard of I worked for in Austin in the 90's. P.S. For more, here are detailed examples of how this mindset also sets up your sales pitch. It's not unusual to get $10,000-$50,000 in sales over the next three months from people who saw me at that talk. I can see the sales pitch now.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

In particular, a marketing launch can help you do three things (courtesy, as is most of my marketing advice, of The Four Steps to the Epiphany ): Drive customers into your sales pipeline. Combining agile development with customer developm. In the right situation, its a very useful tactic, too. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2011

Manuel Rosso was IMVU's first VP of Marketing, and is now CEO of Food on the Table , one of the leading lean startups in Austin. As a bit of background, Food on the Table helps people plan meals for their families around what is on sale in their local grocery stores. If you weren't there, be sure to watch the video.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. When I entered the company, I realized that there were no process and I quickly applied what I know about agile software development. I am basically a one-man shop. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

It’s the same process as sales and dating, and I know how to do both, well, at least sales… So, how hard can this be? At SXSW Interactive In Austin This Week! After interviewing and budgeting it out with a few firms and getting feedback from people who had both good and bad experiences, I decided outsourcing was my last resort.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Similarly, government purchasing is a frustrating series of hoops, even compared to enterprise sales. 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? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Sales depend on being right (whereas in UGC we can pretty much try anything, and promote the winners). 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? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

At that point, theres no opportunity for marketing or sales; the battle is already won or lost in the persons mind. 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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

We got instantaneous feedback on the validity of the idea and started our sales process concurrently. LOIs, while clearly not as good as signed sales contract, do have meaning and are valuable. We got instantaneous feedback on the validity of the idea and started our sales process concurrently. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Labels: agile , product development , Test-driven development 11comments: William Pietri said. Back when it first came out, Fowlers book Refactoring was what got me into the Agile world, so it holds a special place in my heart. Great post, Eric. mooders - Performance is not the only metric deserving analysis of a refactoring effort.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

These companies produced over $52 billion dollars in sales in 2005, and employed 450,000 workers that year. These companies produced over $52 billion dollars in sales in 2005, and employed 450,000 workers that year. Substantial research shows that immigrants play a key role in American job creation. Expo SF (May.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The commission on selling houses still amounts to at least 6-7%, and so many agents and brokers are adding to the competition pool while decreasing the rate of productivity and sales. The real estate market also loses its ability to provide efficient results such as high sales turnout and more satisfied clients and customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Without a basis for comparison, you first have to drive home the need, then you will have an easy time making the sale (after all, youre the person who they trust to bring it to their attention). Toughest part of the sale is to get agreement that you really can deliver benefits that they didnt previously know were possible. .

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ConversionXL

JUNE 19, 2019

Decline stage: product sales start to shrink. Interesting insights in attribution, impressions, visits, conversion rate and prediction of sales from @therustybear at #elite2019 pic.twitter.com/buHsV04b0Y — Karl Gilis (@AGConsult) June 13, 2019. André Morys: Why “Agile Teams” Fail (And You Might Be the Only Savior).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

It took hundreds of years for newspapers to learn to behave as worthy holders of this public trust and cover the news without fear or favour, and create a firewall between news and views and the ad-sales side of the operation. Since LL took over xstreet, they have seen a 34% DROP in users and sales, why? YOU and ONLY YOU. Expo SF (May.

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