Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Most importantly, there is almost no niche or trend that is unserved by this community. When you participate in an open community like these you take advantage of tremendous amounts of effort.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

As a formal method, the Lean Startup consists of three parts: The Business Model Canvas – to frame hypotheses, Customer Development – to test those hypotheses in front of customers, and Agile Engineering – to build Minimum Viable Products to maximize learning. Distribution Channel changes to Deployment.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. The fact that serious money could be made in companies investing in life sciences wasn’t lost on the venture community. But these VC’s aren’t Lean because they fund startups with web-based distribution models. Here’s why. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

MAY 29, 2019

The other change is that universities, instead of being passive, have become active in building an entrepreneurial community. I want to make my community, country or world a better place, while solving some of the toughest problems.” Distribution channels, brand loyalty, etc.

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

He had a clear vision of what he hoped to achieve with GrabCAD… to make collaborative CAD design easier in our connected world, where CAD engineers and product designers are more distributed. Companies like GE, ABB, and others are also using Workbench or have tapped the GrabCAD community for outsourced design work.

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Venture Chronicles

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

Planning a Customer Self-Service Community Using Distributed Leadership. tags: Blog Customer community. Service Agility thru Adaptive Case Management « Social CRM ideas by Mark Tamis. This is a very cool concept that fundamentally changes the way that companies launch products to a beta community. tags: Blog.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Now, the company and its CEO Ella Gudwin are taking that a step further—offering their resources and capabilities to assist in the manufacturing and distribution of PPE for essential workers on the front lines of the COVID-19 effort. Founded in 2001, VisionSpring’s mission has always been to provide eyewear to the 2.5

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. For example, the Jira Software team created a microsite dedicated to product-agnostic education about becoming an agile team. Distribution framework.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 6, 2013

Zappos could have gone off and built distribution centers, a large database of footwear, and inventory systems for shipping shoes. Here are a few pointers: Have your developers use agile development – they will love you for it. Contrast this to Zappos. Consider open-sourcing certain aspects of your platform. Plus it’s good karma.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

What neither group seems to fully comprehend is that retail needs to fundamentally change to succeed, far beyond the addition of an online component, to meet the experience expectations of today’s generation, an oversupplied global marketplace, and technology for instant pricing and distribution. Look outside for benchmarks.

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View from Seed

JUNE 17, 2015

The reality is a startup career path entails a variety of sacrifices, but I don’t believe it should preclude a rich family life, involvement in one’s community, or otherwise seeking a well-rounded human existence. Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Lee’s personal blog, Agile VC.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 5, 2022

It's important to keep business agile. With everything that has transpired, I've learned not to spread myself too thin, to appropriately distribute work and to fully trust my colleagues. Supporting these businesses supports our local economy, which supports literally everyone in the community. #12- Fine-tune my ability to pivot.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JUNE 11, 2019

1) Small businesses support healthy towns and communities. In turn, these profits are generally spent or invested by said owners, back into the business owners’ local economies and communities. That’s like saying men are important to humans because nearly half the world is made up of men. rather than risk taking.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

If all of those buildings were to power down, it may be that the relative distribution of business would remain the same, but we’ll never know since that will never happen Important navigational areas like homepages, inboxes, notifications, etc are all the same way. Portals that want to unify news, communication, tools, etc.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. This week we are seeing the typical class distribution. In a mission-driven organization such as the defense and intelligence community, there is no revenue to measure. Finally, it dawns on you that it’s time to consider a pivot.

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Steve Blank

MAY 12, 2016

Pivots are what allows startups to be agile, and to move with speed and urgency. This week we are seeing the typical class distribution. In a mission-driven organization such as the defense and intelligence community, there is no revenue to measure. Finally, it dawns on you that it’s time to consider a pivot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Still, because my job is to create bridges that don''t yet exist between people inside the DOE (see 1-4) and those in the entrepreneur and maker communities, the MVP model provides the best template. In my case, the scarce resources, rather than time and money, are time and political capital.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

The reality is a startup career path entails a variety of sacrifices, but I don’t believe it should preclude a rich family life, involvement in one’s community, or otherwise seeking a well-rounded human existence.

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Agile VC

JUNE 17, 2015

The reality is a startup career path entails a variety of sacrifices, but I don’t believe it should preclude a rich family life, involvement in one’s community, or otherwise seeking a well-rounded human existence.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

If you’re working closely with partners who are helping you distribute your product, it’s especially important to make sure they understand who you are, how you speak, and who you serve. Noah says, “Agile is what most software companies use. You can learn more about the agile development methodology on Version One’s site.

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Occam's Razor

MAY 2, 2017

The challenge I want to take on is to be specific in the recommendations make, and to share how we can be very nimble and agile. Continuing the obsession with deeper relationships… TBT is a newspaper that’s updated 80k times a day, how does the Recency distribution look like?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 13, 2017

Startups must be agile and adapt their value proposition several times until they get it right. They have huge advantages in procurement, distribution, and manufacturing, as well as sales and marketing advantages. According to Forbes, 58% of startups successfully figure out a clear market need for what they have.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It was time to take their claim, their rightful place in the international community. And so this very agile, iterative process of bringing new technologies and prototyping systems. That to me is the long pole in the tent for future multi-domain operations this very distributed approach to warfare, that will be necessary.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

A warm intro from a friend or participating in events and communities that specifically frame “finding a co-founder” (not just “startup happy hour”), you will — and I did — have better results. They are building more functionality into the site, a great community resource! Community Service.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Fast forward 20 years, 3 kids and a roller coaster journey – I look back knowing that having to reinvent myself over and over has taught me skills about emotional and sales agility. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. Thanks to Louise Taylor, Unbridled Pty Ltd ! #14- 14- For faster and more control.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 26, 2017

Implement Agile ! Community of practice. More than 10,000 conversions as well as multi-channel distribution: Yes! Can be done using tools like Qualaroo, Hotjar etc. Track responses using Hubspot! User testing: observe interactions with your site – think out loud testing. Takeaways: Listen to Peep and CXL.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 12, 2016

What guarantees that agility and innovation are present in your analytics practice? Online, offline, mobile, acquisition, brand love, relationships, product pimping, community stewardship and so much more! No organization will be born into this 10 | 25 | 65 distribution on day one. Then, ask for real analysis. Ask for I-A-BI.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2013

Single people, pairs or teams, organizations, and whole communities have used Adaptive Action to thrive in flux-filled environments. For example, traditional command and control in production and distribution are just as important as flux-inspired exploration and innovation in product design and customer service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an internet connection. This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. Details soon, I promise.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

Bonuses have been distributed. But if you want to be an agile, nimble competitor, it is a discussion you have to have. You feel proud because you started with just 5% of the traffic from search engines. You've worked on a robust search engine optimization and pay per click programs to steadily grow your search traffic.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

These operations learned during the last 18 months they could operate in a remote or distributed environment. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. While much of the work does have a service level agreement (resolved in 2 days as an example) it doesn't require someone to be sitting at a desk until 10:30 am.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

In such a case youll have the right to use it, but not to decompile or distribute it and probably youll pay a license amount for it. FuePi (2010-06-21) # Youre very good at describing Agile Development without all the technical terms (Extreme Programming, Early Prototyping, Story Cards, Test Driven, et. BTW: great keynote at Railsconf!

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. I’d like to add [link] as a community for founders. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. After all, people rarely say they are mad because they are not being heard.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Ning Communities. On-line Communities. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. free, distributed source code control management system. Agile project management. agile product management. agile product management and Scrum tool. Automates Agile / Scrum development.

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