Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully. Enter Jims post.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. The manager of the training department who hired you wasn’t authorized to do so – and he’s been fired. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&#

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Of course, users won’t be able to customize their project as fully as if they were coding it from scratch. But in most cases, that level of customization isn’t necessary. In the past, a business that needed a custom app, website, or other digital solution would have to be prepared to make a big investment.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 6, 2014

by Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey, authors of “ The Entrepreneurial Culture: 23 Ways to Engage and Empower Your Peopl e “ We all know today’s companies need to be more nimble, more innovative, and more entrepreneurial, and that this shift begins with employees. We were able to do so because of their dedicated employees.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Remember your customers, culture, and connections. Instead, ING has adopted a company-wide focus on three Cs: customers, culture, and connection. It’s “creating something really useful for the customer that is solving the need of the customer.” LESSON #3: Avoid these three hiring mistakes. They’re qualified.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It could be more revenue, hiring clients, or launching a new product or service, but every new year is an exciting time because it’s ripe with opportunity. Initially, I would like to hire people from my neighborhood, with the goal of expanding to other communities in the future. 7- Providing employee engagement software.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

A combination of competition for top talent and an effort to bring employees back to the office drove startups in Israel to throw extravagant parties and all-inclusive retreats abroad. The press took notice, especially since just a few months later startups were laying off employees en-masse to cut costs. Need for Speed, indeed.

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

MAY 22, 2019

The Benefits of Innovation Training for Operational Employees. Why is it that organizations don’t invest in training operational employees? Don’t this large group of employees deserve a Brown Bag Innovation Training? It’s almost as if creativity from operational employees is actively discouraged.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

In order to find out, I asked a panel of 12 successful founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) the following question: What are the pros/cons of hiring an agency to do development work, vs. having all your technical talent in house? Hiring an agency is usually less expensive, and you can utilize them only when there’s a problem.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Either way, custom software development is an effective way to build brand awareness and give your business a competitive edge. In order to bring the most value to your business, it’s important you explore ways to enhance your customer experience. Where to Hire Developers for Your Project. Source: Pexels.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re an early employee at a startup, one day you will wake up to find that what you worked on 24/7 for the last year is no longer the most important thing – you’re no longer the most important employee, and process, meetings, paperwork and managers and bosses have shown up. The company was going to hire a VP of Marketing.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 27, 2020

Everything from customer service, technical support, to back office operations are able to be outsourced as a way to reduce costs, keep up with the evolving consumer expectations, and drive a faster return on investment. Put simply, offshore outsourcing means hiring a company to perform a service from a different part of the world.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Reading the NY Times article “ Jeffrey Katzenberg Raises $1 Billion for Short-Form Video Venture, ” I realized it was time for a new startup heuristic: the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. He just hired Meg Whitman.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 30, 2022

In fact, connecting with customers and prospects is one of the most difficult tasks facing business leaders today. Business leaders are rethinking how frequently they plan face-to-face meetings and when they can successfully use technology to communicate with customers. . 6- Recruit and retain employees. 4- Move online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 21, 2019

A common practice is to hire local employees who know the geographic culture, even though this may well dilute the company culture. For additional growth, most companies expand the product portfolio to cater to more customers, and sell more to existing customers. Product-line expansion.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

The first hint lies in its name; this is a product development model, not a marketing model, not a sales hiring model, not a customer acquisition model, not even a financing model (and we’ll also find that in most cases it’s even a poor model to use to develop a product.) Where Are the Customers? Product Development Diagram 1.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

His company had marched through customer discovery, learning about the customer problem, validated solutions and was now scaling sales and marketing. It wasn’t that I had somehow inherited dumb employees. But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

They want to snowball their customer acquisition, attracting thousands of new people to the brand, and reach diverse new audiences in new locations. You can hire more salespeople and practice social selling. . And the revenue from your existing customers alone may not be enough to cut it. . Visibility . Or is it? .

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2- It can affect team communication Photo Credit: Andre Oentoro It's hard to qualify employees doing only bare minimum tasks into engaged employees. Their lack of enthusiasm and initiative can poorly affect team communication, achievement, customer satisfaction, and, eventually, company growth.

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

2- It can affect team communication Photo Credit: Andre Oentoro It's hard to qualify employees doing only bare minimum tasks into engaged employees. Their lack of enthusiasm and initiative can poorly affect team communication, achievement, customer satisfaction, and, eventually, company growth.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2017

None of this was law, and nothing in writing required this; this was just how these firms did business to protect their large institutional customers who would buy the stock. This required a repeatable and scalable sales process, which required a professional sales staff and a product stable enough that customers wouldn’t return it.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

By which they mean: Without stupid rules that assume employees are dumb or evil, without everything taking ten times longer than it should, without wall-to-wall meetings, without resorting to hiring anything less than the top 1% of the talent pool, and so on. Why is this impossible when you have 500 employees? Predictability.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Shelter-in-place orders have left many startups lacking ways to interact with customers. Pivoting only works if a business is small and agile and can shift its operations quickly and flawlessly in a different direction. Is it worth losing an experienced hire over remote working arrangements?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. Entrepreneurial employees are the talented performers who hear the siren song of a founder’s vision.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 13, 2021

2- Consider customer feedback/advice. Our relationships with our customers and their trust in our company is our strongest asset. COVID-19 has shown us even more how important customer feedback is to the success of our business. 3- Practice empathy and kindness to all our customers. Thanks to Calista Redmond, RISC-V ! #2-

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. Specifically, there are five challenges that emerging business typically put on the backburner between funding rounds: Seed to Series A: Customer Testing.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn how bootstrapping makes you a better business – a leaner, smarter, more agile company that can roll with the punches. Hire a bunch of new staff? . Your employees and cofounders deserve their stakes since they’ve helped you scale to an exit. Secondly, just how badly do you need that funding?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

When & Whom should you hire? when is the right time to hire your first sales employee? How do you get access to customers? agile sales process? 14:18 Your first hire should be someone who’s hungry and willing to work. 15:00 Hire somebody who will punch above their weight class. junior vs. senior?

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 3, 2019

The premise is simple; operate with all your leaders and employees working remotely, sometimes all over the world, to cut costs and broaden your potential employee pool. They can set up and customize a home office of their very own, or work from a local café or coworking space. Wider hiring options. Employee options.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Employees should be masters of their own time Every startup should have a culture of learning. The rule is simple: every employee is 100% responsible for how they spend their time. Now he really thought I was nuts, replying "from the recruiter who hired me, of course!"

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

They of course need to be agile and adaptable, but home businesses should still have some formalized planning and structure. You might hire a part-time worker who steals your data and sells it on the “dark web.” For example, a home business might offer a virtual service and have tens of thousands of prospect customers on file.

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Board Effect

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Selecting the right workforce planning model can help solve these problems for many nonprofits as it is not cost-effective to have employees standing idle during a shift, and employees who feel overworked may lose their enthusiasm for the job. Employee development. Knowledge transfer. Succession management. Improve Retention .

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2022

This change is providing leaders and employees alike with positions that make them feel more valued, more connected, and feel a sense of purpose in their work. Curating comfortable customer experiences by enhancing digital touchpoints is of paramount importance. Customers now want all information at the click of a button.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Investors, partners, team members, and customers implicitly value or devalue a startup based on the leader’s physical presence, emotional identity, social skills, intellectual agility, moral values, and past performance in the domain. For startups, the entrepreneur and founder is almost always the face of the company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

Jeff Bezos believes that if you double the number of innovation experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your agility, and thus outpace your competitors. This starts with instituting a hiring and training program that emphasizes collaboration, and rewards individual expression and empowerment.

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The Next Web

MARCH 6, 2014

The business development team needs to see the customer feedback they deliver make it back into the product, and the tech team needs to see reasonable requests to develop new features without a constant stream of changing direction. Practice Agile Development. Hire T-Shaped People. Make sure to hire T-shaped individuals.

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