Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

So, if youre interested in helping avoid mistakes like that, here are the steps: Get a domain name. It doesnt have to be the worlds catchiest name, just pick something reasonably descriptive. If youre concerned about sullying your eventual brand name, dont use your "really good" name, pick a code name.

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TechEmpower

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Unstructured Data, as the name suggests, lacks a clear structure. Precision and Recall Metrics: Define a process to assess the precision (the relevance of retrieved documents) and the recall (how many of the relevant documents were fetched). Strive for a balanced outcome.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. Marketing is often seen as this front-loaded element of a business; it’s what gets your name to the public and what draws them in to complete a purchase.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In addition to presenting the IMVU case, we tried for the first time to do an overview of a software engineering methodology that integrates practices from agile software development with Steves method of Customer Development. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. What about a hardware business with some long-lead-time components?

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It’s also a time when you are most agile to work on ideas and implement strategies without the crippling setbacks caused by decision hierarchy and process. Marketing is often seen as this front-loaded element of a business; it’s what gets your name to the public and what draws them in to complete a purchase.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Focus on the output metrics of that part of the product, and you make the problem a lot more clear. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. If she is, return the name of the hypothesis she was exposed to before. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. Go on an agile diet quickly. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I want to thank Techstars for putting this event together and giving me a chance to experience the scene, even if it lacks a name. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

Accept that many successful companies are going to want to be backed by big-name firms in other cities. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. Thank you @ericries for drastically altering my perception of agile startup Thank you all so much for your kind words. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. The book takes its name from Steves theory of the four stages of growth any startup goes through. Phases of product & company growth.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It will create a strong brand image that will hit users’ minds whenever they encounter your brand name or logo. This agility enables you to make informed decisions, optimizing your advertising efforts for maximum impact. Use analytics tools to track metrics and conversion rates.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 8, 2010

Like good little Reporting Squirrels we collect and stack metrics as if preparing for an imminent ice age. Rather than being a blessing that stack becomes a burden because we live in times of bright lovely spring and nothing succeeds like being agile and nimble about what we collect, what we give up, and what we deliberately choose to ignore.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. It strokes your ego.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. Im a huge fan of small batches as well.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term. We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. The metrics for this level are more concrete and objective.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. Meeting growth metrics, achieving profitability, and ensuring a substantial return on investment are now integral parts of the startup journey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 4, 2019

Keep your sales metrics visible. This is where a good CRM system and sales metrics really come into play. If you don’t have time to run sales metrics yourself, talk with your team about what you’d like to measure and why so that you can agree on what you’ll see in your regular reporting. Keep agile and pivot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. Luckily, we also discovered that certain other metrics, like LTV and CPA were much better than we initially projected. .&# I think the problem with this approach is not the presence of the spreadsheet, but how it’s used.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

I was named a Noble Foundation Fellow in Teaching Excellence and a Poets & Quants EMBA Favorite Professor. We communicate with: – A one-page strategy map that outlines your advantages, what you want customers to say about your advantages and metrics you’ll use to monitor employee actions.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. SaaS stacks give companies the agility they need to move fast, but often they are the cause of a huge data fragmentation. Et voilà: the first CRM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Much of what I have found effective is counter-intuitive, because it requires investing more effort in each hire - all in the name of efficiency. This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. Deliverable for Jan 18 th : Find a name for your team. to optimize this search.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

But what I wanted was an agile marketing team capable of operating independently without day-to-day direction. This year, marketing need to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. My transition to Continuous Deployment Prior to adopting continuous deployment, I used to release software on a weekly schedule (come rain or shine) which I viewed as pretty agile, disciplined, and aggressive. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In other words, how can we adapt the Business Model Canvas when the metrics of success for an organization is not revenue? These two components of the business model are so important we give them their own name, Product/Market Fit. In the defense and intelligence community the metrics of success are not revenue but mission achievement.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Branding is a process designed to develop, among other things, a unique business name and custom logo design for a company, product, or service. But branding isn’t solely about tangible concepts like a company’s name and logo. You’re going to need some brand health metrics to track. What is branding?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Customers went into the store either looking for the SuperMac product by name (if our demand creation activities had been effective) or went in unsure of which brand of board to buy. Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.)

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

At G2 , for example, we learned that a query syntax like “free [software name]” can’t be solved with a filter on a category page. Crawl your site on a staging environment with freshly deployed features and compare metrics like crawl depth and internal links to similar pages on the live version of your site. Know the process.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My name is Lauren Pawell, and I’m the founder and owner of Bixa Media, a digital marketing agency focused on helping entrepreneurs generate and nurture more leads through their WordPress & Shopify websites. It helps me have the agility to make adjustments on the fly that benefit brands. Thanks to Mark Hughes, C3 Metrics ! #22

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Unfortunately, its easy to lose track of positioning effects when optimizing for a single metric.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

For entrepreneurs out there who are building metrics-driven products but also committed to a great user experience, I would love to hear when and how you pay down the product design debt. they even have a name for it , after having done some real-world experiments + it's context in software. Please comment! what a coincidence.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2013

Jubenville, co-authors of “ Zebras and Cheetahs: Look Different and Stay Agile to Survive the Business Jungle “ Odds are, you’ve watched one of television’s many popular survival shows. just to name a few. Determine metrics (How will each person measure, record, and report their progress?). by Micheal J.

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