Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2018

by Keiichiro Nozaki, Regional Marketing Architect/Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for F5 Networks. Companies are embarking on digital transformation journeys to experiment new digital ways of doing business — this means leveraging data smarter to enable unprecedented levels of efficiency, agility, and productivity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.

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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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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 9, 2018

The global beauty market is predicted to grow from $432.7 To help you, we’ve assembled useful branding and marketing tips to help your beauty business reach and connect with customers. To help you, we’ve assembled useful branding and marketing tips to help your beauty business reach and connect with customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2022

If you are interested in advancing your leadership, and achieving more success in this new Internet age, here are some principles to guide your focus: Foster the trend to flat teams versus vertical organizations. In this age of world-wide markets, you need all the help you can get to attract loyal customers.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2019

While large corporations are struggling with the digital transformation, small agile firms emerge every day and challenge traditional retailers. One of the cofounders explains how he witnessed first-hand while working at a bank that a lot of traditional retailers were in trouble as internet retailers ate away their margins.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Are you are a startup that needs to market your products and services ? 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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. This new volume also tackles examples from the Internet and wireless startups of today, both B2B and B2C. I think theyve succeeded.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Today, as transmission costs have plummeted, internet broadband speeds have soared, and mobile connections have exploded, the amount of data flowing across the world’s digital highway has increased 40 fold in seven years and is projected to increase another nine times by 2025. But, in reality, globalization was heading into a new phase.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 20, 2022

If your business today is healthcare, it may be time to look for opportunities in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, and digital data management, rather than just more unhealthy customers. Even if your business is local, like ride sharing, think about the potential for emerging markets in new countries.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

We’re now in the second Internet bubble. Dot.com Bubble ( 1995-2000): “ Anything goes” as public markets clamor for ideas, vague promises of future growth, and IPOs happen absent regard for history or profitability. They taught you about customers, markets and profits. Carpe Diem.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 16, 2020

2- Make our marketing more efficient. My number one goal for 2020 is to get our marketing flywheel to a state of complete efficiency. As an agency, getting new contacts and prospects over the internet has been a mixed bag of results. 4- Remain agile as a brand. Thanks to Vietek Ladislaav, Square Motion ! #2-

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? User privacy.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2021

Skill in making the organization steerable and agile. They learn to be agile, or steerable, by linking the external realities in real time to assignments, priorities, decision-making power, funding, and key performance indicators. They create and meet short-term milestones to win credibility with investors and stakeholders.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

As small businesses increasingly look towards mobile applications as a marketing strategy to reach their customers, the question some of them are asking is this: Is it better to go with a native application (i.e. Google is projecting that by 2016, about 80-percent of all internet users will access the web using a smartphone browser.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. We want to make a bet that your Lean Launchpad class can apply the scientific method to market-opportunity identification. Over the last two months the U.S. This week we saw the results.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. They are gaining valuable customer data.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 28, 2011

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? User privacy.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 14, 2021

Startup companies face challenges that are different from those faced by established businesses, especially when it comes to marketing. One difference between marketing a startup and an established brand is that consumers are getting to know the brand story and the product simultaneously. Top 7 Marketing Tips for Startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2016

Founders soon learn that customers only spend real money for solutions rather than ideas. A good execution requires a plan and the right people, combined to create operational excellence and exceptional customer value. Companies that do this best become market leaders. A great business must be agile.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thanks to Richard Burner, Goals Marketing ! #2- With their affordability, you can invest in several and gain more return by earning customer trust before a sale occurs. You’re also wasting less time because selecting a micro-influencer means their audience is made up of potential target customers. Photo Credit: Ben Reynolds.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The rise of the internet, advancements in digital technology, and the growth of social media platforms have fundamentally transformed the way businesses function and engage with their customers. Understanding Your Market A deep understanding of your market is crucial for any successful business venture.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 26, 2022

Thanks to Nicholas Rubright, New Reach Marketing ! #4- Keep making arrangements for a rainy day because markets can flip in a matter of a few hours now. With the current labor market , 2022 is the year in which businesses are going to sink or swim based on their labor retention rates. 13- More social media marketing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The most challenging cases are the ones where your intuition tells you that you need to be looking ahead for new growth opportunities , because the market landscape is new, and there is little quantitative data yet. Usually this means running a pilot program and looking for outliers in the data and subjective feedback from customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. Many companies seek to involve customers directly in the creation of their products.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

For the business leaders I know, these priorities almost always include the following: Business agility. Implicit in agility is increased productivity on change initiatives. In today’s world of distributed data, global reach, and powerful incursion technologies, how do I protect my data and my customers’ data? User privacy.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 5, 2010

Consumer Internet investing seems to have split off from traditional Venture Capital, and is creating a new category of VC’s: Lean VC’s. I think you can blame Customer and Agile Development for a small part of it. The Rise of the “Lean VC’s” – Consumer Internet Gets Funded. Here’s why.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 14, 2014

We focus on scale and execution during times of peace, but once we encounter serious threats to our business from changing technology, evolving markets, and emerging competitors, this requires a war time mindset and a relentless focus on continuous innovation. In any case, the Internet happened.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

by Yi Ning Lim, marketing specialist at GMO GlobalSign. According to respondents already offering hosted cloud services, 42 per cent expected to see growth from the broader IT sector, 39 per cent from financial services and 30 per cent from retail customers. Content Delivery Networks (CDN) Join the Fray. The Rise of the Mobile Cloud.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 7, 2021

However, one way that is emerging to ensure success is to focus on brand purpose and how your company can connect with customers on a deeper level. . A recent report published by Feefo found that 74% of customers always consider a brand’s values before purchasing from them. Source: Flickr. Using your brand purpose in a strategic way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%. Apple owned 0%.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

As a founder with that kind of experience, you are likely to find that a lot of the typical advice for startups on the internet isn’t quite applicable. You needed to find the most scrappy and cost efficient way to get a product out, and in the process learned tons about the market and customer you are trying to serve.

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