Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Unlike other incubator-led programs, this workshop is open to anyone who wants to learn, and it does not require companies take investment or give out equity. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. Fear is the mind-killer More video "what to do if customers don't like you. Expo SF (May. .

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Steve Blank

JUNE 2, 2011

A revolution has taken hold as customer development and agile engineering reinvent the Startup process. The result – an instant technology cluster – with equity at a fraction of Silicon Valley prices. The blog became a narrative of the search by posting customer interviews, surveys, videos, and prototypes.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

Let’s consider some examples: Imagine YouTube users were searching for “[title of video] English subtitles” on Google. This would indicate that users want to see English subtitles for videos. Unless you’re a small, agile startup, shipping new features isn’t as simple as it sounds. provide value). Know the process.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Over time, other popular influencers…have begun working with the brand and regularly post photos and upload YouTube videos wearing the clothing.” [via Strategy expert, Gary Fox , defines growth marketing as: “An agile and adaptive marketing methodology that focuses on how to get, grow and keep customers.”. Consistency.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 28, 2014

Just to the facts. Time Wasters - Don''t talk too much. Stay on point. Other Topics Covered I also covered topics that are covered more thoroughly in the following posts: Document Your MVP for a Developer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

And then from there, I was running a fitness company on the west coast by the name of 24 Hour Fitness, which was private equity backed and quite a bit of debt. So we went back, got our agile teams engaged and in 48 hours, we could put up aerial of people's homes. Oh, we can close that over video conference now? Let's go."

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

We also reached out to companies that make products useful to accelerating your Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop, from cloud-hosted Selenium provider Sauce Labs (disclaimer: where I have equity) to ScrumPad (where I dont) and many in-between (a sampling is below, but you should really jus t click through to see the whole smorgasbord).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, October 30, 2008 John Doerrs 10 lean startup tips I just saw video of John Doerrs talk yesterday at VentureBeat’s “How to manage your start-up in the downturn&# roundtable event. You can see the whole video at the end of this post. Offer equity instead of cash. Expo SF (May. .

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Hungary probably wouldn’t sell their sovereignty and entire economy for 1x sales, but Apple has no debt so they could probably lever the deal and borrow money on top of $137 billion in equity. For some reason the notion of Apple hiking the taxes of Hungary to fund a dividend recap just amuses me….

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A lot of people talked about the rise of UGC and how it might displace a large amount of professionally produced video content (TV shows and movies). And YouTube, how-to websites, and others have offered both an audience and monetization outlet for small scale video producers. Content was no longer king. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Agile VC

AUGUST 1, 2012

About 6-12 months ago you could hardly throw a rock in the startup ecosystem without hitting a VC expressing their enthusiasm for “mobile” Now the frenzy about mobile has extended into the mass media and public equity markets, though with trepidation as often as excitement. And will these challenges be persistent or temporal?

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Agile VC

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I have to say that I’m not a fan of the brand “Qwikster” for the DVD-by-mail service, though I think it’s good that group will expand into other media types like video games (a la Gamefly).

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Don’t bother?

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Including software prototypes, MVPs come in many flavors, including: Explainer videos. Building the Minimum Viable Product by Eric Ries [YouTube video]. You might also be giving investors too much equity early on, as the risk is extremely high for them in the beginning stages of growing a SaaS company.”. Wireframes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. There’s been a lot of hand-wringing about gender equity in the high-tech and entrepreneurship worlds lately. This is a good thing. (I I want to especially recognize Vivek Wadhwa and Brad Feld for their leadership.)

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re looking for help to better understand your market, watch this video on defining the size of a market. Bonus points if it’s in person, but if that’s impossible for you, even a phone call or a video chat can be a great way to form that connection. How has your market changed since the time you started your company?

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

My way of explaining our support and service role to the marketing department was that: Sales is the sharp end of the stick, and marketing at best, is the stick. But while the sales team works for commission, the rest of the employees have equity (stock) in the company. Don’t let this happen to your company.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

Machine Learning is most advanced and widely applied today in processing text (through Natural Language Processing) followed by understanding images and videos (through Computer Vision) and analytics and anomaly detection. Recognize and Understand Images and video streams. Example GitHub Copilot , Wordtune. It can even identify faces.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 23, 2012

When someone comes to your site and watches a video, that is a micro-conversion. But if you want to be an agile, nimble competitor, it is a discussion you have to have. That is a micro-conversion because that first date will lead to a second, a third and a seventh (if you play your cards right!). The debate is important.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

For example: If you want to sell videos, you dont need to say whats in the videos. Just “sell downloadable and streamable video files.” Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life.

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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. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Bontq – hosted bug tracking and project management needs.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Videos/presentations. Use us to power any video chat applications (talkshow, education apps, collaboration, etc). We have an iOS SDK as well, for web-web, mobile-mobile, web-mobile video chat and video messaging. Camera, video, and most of the APIs described above for web Tools). Market Research. LaunchRock.

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