Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. Turn Your Organization Inside Out. It was humbling.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 25, 2018

Digital businesses need to be agile and reactive too. If you’re looking for more details on how to write a simple business plan, consider using Bplans’ free downloadable Lean Plan template. It can be hard to be nimble if your business plan is 200 pages long and has been in a drawer since you finished it.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

If these sound like reasonable answers to you, and you are in a startup/small company, update your resume. Most startups put together a corporate mission statement because the CEO remembered seeing one at their last job, or the investors said they needed one. What I was actually hearing was a failure of management.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 11, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing: Delivering Customer Service via Social Media – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. Better Agile Than Smart – [link]. – [link].

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. What kind of startup outsources everything? Well, you’re right, most don’t, but one example of a startup that does is PlentyOfFish. Also, most startup attorneys will do deferred payment plans.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

What are they, how do they differ and what can startup do to take advantage of them? Paths to Liquidity: a quick history of the four waves of startup investing. Lean Startups/Back to Basics (2000-2010): No IPO’s, limited VC cash, lack of confidence and funding fuels “lean startup” era with limited M&A and even less IPO activity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Its a force that allows startups to build products at parity with much larger companies - cheaper and much faster. Its a key lean startup concept. Still, these risks are thoroughly mitigated if you can iterate faster than either set of competitors - and, as a startup, you shouldnt have any excuse for allowing that to happen.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 24, 2009 The lean startup at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Image by Jessica_Mah via Flickr Last week I had the opportunity to lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at Haas, which is always a great learning experience - for me at least! Eric takes a different approach.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 4, 2010 Stop lying on stage Entrepreneurs crave information about successful startups, and they should. About half the interesting things I know about famous startups, I learned at YC dinners. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Many thanks, you’ve changed my startup a hundred times already. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) Maybe the core of what you talk about in getting companies to success lies in the answer to these 2 questions. Keep ‘em coming.

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Steve Blank

MAY 22, 2009

While one could argue that a trade show is just another demand creation activity akin to advertising or PR, trade shows are the closest eyeball-to-eyeball contact you’re company is going to have with customers, competitors and partners. Everyone should be articulate and agile in describing and demoing the products.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? But how do we know which metrics to look at?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, April 17, 2010 Sneak preview, KISSmetrics (and more) Hear the CEO of KISSmetrics give a sneak preview of what hell be presenting at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23 (were less than a week away!): The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. In the next few posts that follow, I’ll describe how thinking of a solution to this model’s failures led to the Customer Development Model – that offers a new way to approach startup sales and marketing activities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

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. In fact, in most situations its a bad idea for startups to synchronize these events.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Ninjas are agile, fast, and efficient. This is why networking events or conferences are so popular in the business world- especially for startups and small business. But experienced business owners and marketing/PR experts all agree that such doubts and fears are irrational. Lean Marketing tips: business card as selling tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

To give you a better idea of what entrepreneurs in this industry are thinking about during each phase of the startup process, I interviewed SaaS entrepreneurs from all over the world, including our own COO Noah Parsons. Step 1: Start with a lean plan. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

The original Hewlett Packard which made test and measurement products was spun-out and renamed Agilent. Agilent is a $5.8 Technology changes, culture changes, customer needs change, more agile competitors emerge, etc. The remaining company kept the Hewlett Packard name and focussed on computers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

For startups (and other innovators ), that’s a decisive advantage. The work itself, especially in startups, depends primarily on intelligence, communication, creativity and empathy. Their recent article suggests that startups led by women are actually more successful, on average, than those led by men.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In the summer of 1999, I started working on a startup from my college dorm. And the great ideas that became todays successful tech startups dwarf anything that had been done to that point. Nonetheless, my first startup was a tool for college students from elite colleges to create resumes and help them find jobs. Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 27, 2009 Cash is not king Cash on hand is just one important variable in a startup’s life, but it’s not necessarily the most important. In lean times, it’s most important to focus on cutting costs in ways that speed you up, not slow you down. What counts as an iteration?

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2021

And we charge money for it.” – Eric Ries, The Lean Startup. Like Apple, your strategy will require significant marketing investment in content, traditional media, and PR. Then we ship it to customers way before it’s ready. It also gives you a product to market. Product lifecycle marketing in the development stage.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 29, 2017

I’m a big believer of lean startup. Getting things done well takes considerable testing and hinges on agile changes; striving for perfection is the opposite mentality. Thanks to Bryanne Lawless, BLND PR ! #17 Thanks to Annkur P Agarwal, Pricebab ! #6 Image Credit: Johannes Kanter. – Seth Godin.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, April 7, 2010 Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem) Lean startups don’t optimize. When people (ok, engineers) who have been trained in this model enter most startups, they quickly get confused. In Google’s case, often in the millions of people.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’ve spent this year working with corporations and government agencies that are adopting and adapting Lean Methodologies. While startups have the luxury of building values and culture from scratch, existing companies that want to (re)start corporate innovation must reboot an existing –and at times deeply rooted- corporate culture.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

Steve Blank, author of Four Steps to Epiphany , has helped formulate the thinking behind the Lean Startup methodology , together with Eric Ries. I had an opportunity to meet him during a discussion around the Startup Genome project. What would be the methodology for startups that simply want to flip?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. Or take a recent TechCrunch article about a startup I wont name: “X billion messages sent since June 2009.&# The PR firm helpfully left out that context.) Vanity metrics are generally bigger.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You could try and drive home that positioning with an expensive PR campaign, superbowl ads, and whatnot. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

Every marketing communication hire couldn’t wait to produce the next great ad or PR program. In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development. In my experience, every marketer with an MBA wants to “do strategy.” Who’s on the Sharp End?

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Reply O modelo Freemium para Startups – parte II » Manual da Startup says: April 14, 2010 at 12:09 pm [.] My Recent Tweets #SanDiego added to Startup Digest! link] @mccannatron #startup please RT about 50 minutes ago from TweetDeck My answer on Quora to: Are there any tech meet-ups in San Diego?

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

A brand identity is the most effective way any organization (startups, small businesses, agencies, nonprofits, or others) can gain a competitive edge in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Curved lines are visibly flexible and can communicate agility and reactivity. Curved lines , on the other hand, offer more energy and dynamism.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Bring in an expert CEO with outstanding business credentials and startup experience to focus on relentless execution. Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. I had the privilege, and the misfortune, to be involved with a startup that executed this plan flawlessly. Focus on quality.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Marketing Tips: Hyperlocal Marketing Channels – [link]. Agile is a Sham- [link]. 5 Key Talents of Successful Startup Founders – [link].

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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