Remove Agile Remove Early Stage Remove Finland Remove PR
article thumbnail

Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. This is important, especially if you are a very early stage company. Combining agile development with customer developm. It also gives you insight into their language. Expo SF (May.

article thumbnail

Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more)

Startup Lessons Learned

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Expo SF (May.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of.

Startup Lessons Learned

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning. What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule.

Lean 74
article thumbnail

10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. (You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) I think its wasteful.