Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 31, 2018

Then we paired it with a cool icon that represents wisdom and agility, Owl. When I started my blog and website, my goal was to provide inspiration and motivation. Thanks to Heather Krug, Heather Krug PR & Marketing ! #11- I knew from the beginning that I was going to build my business and would have employees in the future.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 28, 2016

Startups are intended to be agile businesses that consistently face engineering and marketing challenges with creative thinking and a willingness to evolve. With an interest in the social media / PR space, Untitled Startup Inc. But what if the company you are building begins to change? When Untitled Startup Inc. Product Expansion. .

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. While we’ll still focus on customer service, online content and creating new products, we’ll be setting time aside for additional digital PR, searching for opportunities for guest posts, and building backlinks. Agility is the watchword for 2021. 10- Have a two-pronged approach.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. It will be important that your CTO can execute on big projects, too, hacking away to build an amazing product that is agile. Danny Wong , Blank Label Group, Inc.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

Note: This post also published at NextView’s blog for seed stage companies The View From Seed. A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. The Power of Perception . Don’t Blindside Them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 29, 2010

I received an email from the PR contact for the company that mentioned the BP oil spill in the Gulf and the process of idea collection on the web they were undertaking. The four products that Accepts offers as part of their innovation suite are: Ideas: A classic ideation offering, non-employees can submit and vote on ideas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Its an amazing thing when you can hire an employee who knows more about your code base than you do, and this turned out to be a big source of advantage. Doing the market test required this blog, a SurveyMonkey account and a PayPal account - and nothing else. The response has been nothing short of amazing (thank you all so much!).

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.)

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

For us at CEO Blog Nation, we get it. While we’ll still focus on customer service, online content and creating new products, we’ll be setting time aside for additional digital PR, searching for opportunities for guest posts, and building backlinks. Agility is the watchword for 2021. 10- Have a two-pronged approach.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Or by a VP of Marketing who talks “branding&# , SEO/SEM, PR agency, etc. Blog at WordPress.com. Initially your job is to understand each of the parts of your business model before you hire someone to do it.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 21, 2015

Note: This post also published at NextView’s blog for seed stage companies The View From Seed. A population of founders, employees, investors, advisors, and others all aligned in trying to build large disruptive businesses is naturally prone to lofty, even over-the-top language. The Power of Perception . Don’t Blindside Them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

Things Change In 1956 Hewlett Packard (HP) was a 17-year old company with $20 million in test equipment sales with 900 employees. The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 (I’ll show you the memo in a second. But first some background.)

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

You can start by reading a few (or all) of these 17 venture capital blogs, reading Tim Berry’s thoughts on what venture capital firms want, and his advice on finding venture funding. The great thing about raising money after they’d already started was that they’d had time to validate their idea and start building a team of good employees.

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Transformify

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Red Stag Fulfillment is a pretty agile company, and right now we're still at the point where despite a lot of growth, we don't have room to bring anyone on full time. In your opinion, are freelancers and contingent workers less motivated and loyal than full-time employees? Why do you hire gig workers and freelancers?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. Combining agile development with customer developm. 9comments: Back office services said. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Much of what Ive learned over the years has been invested in this blog, and that makes creating a sweeping summation challenging. Then I wouldnt have the chance to work with the incredible employees and mentors from whom I learned so much. We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. Remember that you should evaluate both internal (your employees) and external (everyone else) perceptions of your brand. This isn’t an issue you can afford to ignore.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’ve summarized my learnings in this blog post , and here , here and here and here and put it together in the presentation here. Persuading employees to let go of old values and beliefs, and adopt new ones can be challenging. Assess your company’s current values and beliefs as understood by the employees.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Since you're reading a blog on advanced analytics, I'm going to assume that you have been exposed to the magical and amazing awesomeness of experimentation and testing. This blog post was originally published as an edition of my newsletter TMAI Premium. Accommodate for this reality in your PR campaign. Not to zero.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. That’s what you pay PR firms for: to get an article written that is entirely factual and yet still provides positive spin for your company. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

Managing and Motivating Employees in Their Twenties – [link]. Un-manage your employees – [link]. Is Your Service Agile? Age doesn’t define whether someone can be a great leader – [link]. Wanna Know What it’s Like Being a VC? – [link]. – [link].

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. Build a company culture where everyone supports the “sharp end of the stick.” Stay agile, stay focused. Get a blog at WordPress.com Theme: Digg 3 Column by WP Designer. Don’t let this happen to your company.

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2014

Why We Love Small Business Saturday | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/15dPZpS. 5 Ways To Help Employees You’re About To Lay Off | Fast Company – crowdspring.co/159KAQE. Bring Agile to the Whole Organization – crowdspring.co/1A49uxC. The lesson for me? Stay away from lion packs! The Surprising History Of The Warner Bros.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Insist on the incredibly high-IQ employees and hold them to incredibly high standards. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. It never generated positive returns for its investors, and most of its employees walked away dejected. Build a truly mainstream product. Mission accomplished.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Expensify Blog. Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). Blog posts like this might be part of why you’re finding it hard to hire good people. « chawisa's blog. Expense Reports That Don't Suck.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

More importantly, this quadrennial exercise will determine the content of our newspapers, blogs, TV newscasts, and radio editorials. We write often about a focus on iteration and agility in startups. Politicians adjust. In politics the ability to adjust positions and react to the environment is crucial to long-term success.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

Leaving people skills and capabilities aside, it is the work the employee does that makes them a Squirrel or a Ninja. While these metrics sound good, and yes they do get a bunch of press coverage (they have good PR Agents), they are rarely deeply relevant and even more rarely yield valuable insights into business performance.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 15, 2015

Small Business and Startups: 8 Steps To a Successful Redesign | @crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1KuCfWj. Employee Culture: The Seven Deadly Sins – Small Biz Daily crowdspring.co/1GwPzGj. Why Your Best Employees May Be Thinking About Leaving crowdspring.co/1PYYHuc. How To Avoid Agility. 1PsQTP7.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2. automatic links to generated images Rietveld - asynchronous code reviews on changesets Tech*if*er0*urs – blog on roadmap for learning rails Best free programming books Project Management Basecamp - web-based project management and collaboration tool.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Harry (2010-06-19) # Derek, I just discovered your blog and this article from Hacker News.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

This post would be more coherent if we were able to understand in more detail what the platform features were that were changed, especially as in the SL context, "adult verification" produced a whopping 4,400 votes against it on the P-JIRA features proposal device, and numerous protest groups, actions, blogs, boycotts, etc.

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