Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Establish credibility with potential partners. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators. A marketing launch can help you get in the door with those partners, if youre having trouble getting their attention. Do some Customer Development instead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

I believe the only way to improve our chances as entrepreneurs is to develop a working theory of entrepreneurship. Sure, when entrepreneurs create startups that grow up into mature companies, they become part of an established industry, with its own ecosystem, norms, partners and best practices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. There are lots of good reasons why I can’t have instantaneous access to this data, and each partner has their own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

It exists to serve the needs of customers, and it does this by offering its capabilities to other functions in the company, and partnering with them. In school I was being pounded day and night with anything that has to do with agile software development. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

All the teams used the Mission Model Canvas , Customer Development and Agile Engineering to build Minimal Viable Products, but all of their journeys were unique. We were lucky to get a team of 25 mentors (VC’s and entrepreneurs) who selflessly volunteered their time to help coach the teams. 21 st Century Frogman. Sign up here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? And this is true outside of games. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Our job as entrepreneurs is to invent the future, and any optimization technique – including split-testing, many design techniques, or even usability testing – can lead us astray. What about companies, like Siebel, that started with partner distribution first? Should you charge from day one, testing the revenue model first?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. You should know that there are thousands of entrepreneurs who read this blog, some of whom are working on new platforms that will see the light of day someday. Thank you so much. So I thank you for that as well.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 1, 2009

I see that as a great way for my product to grow, but while Ive partnered with companies in my consulting business, its not something Im as familiar with now that Im on the product side. I question what numbers I would need to be considered respectable and/or worth a potential partners time. Expo SF (May. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

– Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service]. And thanks to these entrepreneurs for sharing their story. And thanks to these entrepreneurs for sharing their story. Have a case study you’d like to share?

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Agile VC

JUNE 12, 2012

They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search. Read More ». Previous Entries.

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