Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, May 27, 2009 Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues Next week I head to Austin, TX for my first visit ever. This will be an in-depth discussion with a handful of entrepreneurs and founders that have been pre-selected. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

And in some markets its decisive, because of well-known network effects (as happened with Microsoft, eBay, and many others). But if your product category doesnt have strong network effects, word of mouth alone is not usually enough to fend off a competitor who also has a quality product. So what model will prevail on the iPhone?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? Another thought would be to outline who the intended audience for your blog is and the topic areas you will focus on. can I talk to them?" Hacker News 3.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Thats because a marketing launch is a one-time event, and rarely translates into renewable audiences. Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse. My experience is that many founders actually have a deep anxiety that maybe they are not succeeding. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

There is no reason why all written content that is produced today for those purposes couldn’t be split-tested – at least to a segment of its audience. We have to look at fundamental business questions right from the start: what is the right audience? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

.&# But we also invalidated a hypothesis that customers wanted an avatar; we had to learn a whole new way of explaining the benefits of avatar-mediated communication because our audience didn’t know what that word meant. However, that is not the end of the story. In that case, you don’t need a very large sample.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. I think the benefits are a no-brainer. 2gov.org will take care of the rest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

For founders, I think it also has another big attraction: the ability to avoid a lot of " free vs paid " arguments. For network-effects businesses, like Skype , just being on the network is enough to create value. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Do it wrong, and your LTV gets very close to zero.

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