techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

The Forrest Four-Cast: February 13, 2018 The 2018 SXSW Accelerator Pitch Event has selected 50 startups in 10 categories to show off their skills on March 10 and 11. Meet all the finalists on Monday, March 12, at the SXSW Accelerator Demo Day , at the Hilton Austin, Salon C. We are all from Austin, so SXSW is our home turf.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 17, 2017

Staying ahead of the curve in a competitive world Written by: Farouk Dossa , Senior Account Executive SXSW is a film, interactive media, and music festival and conference held in Austin, Texas that draws thousands of people from all over the world. Is the answer a community portal? A guide on how to use their products best?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. Passionate online communities are real societies. It was absolutely worth it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I joined a financial services tech startup in 1999. You can click here to learn more.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

All SXSW Pitch events take place at the Hilton Austin Downtown. Sisu is currently expanding its product portfolio and geographic scale to develop additional cutting-edge, patented, clinically proven medical devices, and to create a system for medical device commercialization in emerging markets. and Indian companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 29, 2010 New conference website, speakers, agenda The Startup Lessons Learned Conference on April 23 is fast approaching. Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. Earlybird Admission pricing ends in just two days.

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SiliconHills

JULY 23, 2015

The Austin-based startup plans to use the funds on product development, sales and marketing and community development. Continuum Analytics has closed on $24 million in Series A funding led by General Catalyst Partners and BuildGroup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

That’s what most startup decisions are like. Because of the extreme unknowns inherent in startup situations, we are all blind – to the realities of what customers what, market dynamics, and competitive threats. This startup has been busy transforming their culture and process to incorporate split-testing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Fundamentally, lean startups do more with less, because they systematically find and eliminate waste that slows down value creation. I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure. As a mentor of mine always says, "Startups dont starve, they drown."

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Austin Startup

APRIL 14, 2020

a story for another time; I could already tell Austin was going to be a ride. Lazarus: Credit Before COVID-19 madness ensued, we were ramping up our beta community outreach, finalizing our Ambassador program, nailing product development, and flirting with guerrilla marketing ideas for a classic post-SXSW launch.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. 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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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

In other words, they are facing conditions of extreme uncertainty, just like startups. But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Is that a lot? Is that good?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program Over the past few months, I have been engaged in another customer discovery exercise with passionate early adopters of the lean startup methodology. So if youre a lean startup earlyvangelist, read on. Great idea.

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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. Its actually part of a lean startup story. Will you join us?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Expo SF (May. .

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Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2018

How Technology Startups Can Leverage Disability Inclusion and Become Relevant, Competitive and Gain an Unfair Advantage Image: A satirical cartoon with six identical individuals dressed in business suits and sitting around a table with notepads and pen. by focusing on products and platforms, it has forgotten about people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Then youll have a chance to come discuss the lean startup live and in-person. We'll have IDCEE conf on October 28-29, [link] If you could come any other day we'll organize small event at #kievstartup community. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Fascinating.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 28, 2009 Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for help) There are only two opportunities left this year to see a Lean Startup presentation in the US - for free. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo SF (May. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

If you look at the typical startup, you will see the vast majority of their energy and time invested in building new technology. We act as if the biggest risk to startup success is that the technology won’t work. These videos make an important point: that almost all product ideas sound bad. Expo SF (May. . Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. And what hurdles could be eliminated?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

I also work for a startup and we have been grappling with the same problem ever since we went public. We're keeping ourselves free for the community that has helped us build our product; premium vs basic seems wrong to us. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

I promised to post the slides for my highly abbreviated version of the lean startup presentation, so here they are. 2009 09 08 The Lean Startup Gov 2.0 whorunsgov : Eric Ries: Startups fail not because the technology works, but because no one wants the tech. dhinchcliffe : Lean startups go faster. Startup=Experiment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL) Its official: Startup Lessons Learned has passed the one-year mark. Or how about the first of about a zillion times I used the term lean startup ? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 12, 2019

This past month, SXSW called on the community to enter proposals for conference sessions at all SXSW 2020 events— and so the buzz begins. We’re proud to share that our members, startups, entrepreneurs and Innovation Council partners submitted a total of 17 proposals to the SXSW PanelPicker this year!

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

When startups achieve that milestone, its a mixed blessing. Lets take an example of a startup I was advising a few years ago. This wasnt an education product - it was a pretty surprising group to find using it. Im Community Manager at VenCorps, co-host of commandN. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. Especially for a startup, not taking maximum advantage of free software is crazy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# A successful startup strives for this latter case.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Employees should be masters of their own time Every startup should have a culture of learning. Without entering into that theoretical domain, in this post Id like to try and offer a specific and concrete suggestion for how to build a culture of learning into a startup.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Buffalo Billiards, Austin, TX. Have an account?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

These decisions cause problems that will challenge you for years, if you are lucky enough to be successful with your product. As the size of your community and economy grows, youll be able to solve them as they arise, as long as you know what to look for. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

It is an essential lean startup tool that combines seemingly irreconcilable attributes: it provides operational, actionable, real-time feedback that is truly representative of your customers experience as a whole. Theres a lot of controversy surrounding NPS in the customer research community, and I dont want to recapitulate it here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, January 2, 2010 Towards a new entrepreneurship When I started writing about the lean startup , my aspiration was to do more than just share a handful of tips and tricks that work for consumer internet startups. This belief led me to the lean startup, and to an amazing 2009.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

And therein lies the problem in finding co-founders for that startup you’re dying to launch. It’s most comfortable to hang out with people like ourselves, but those are exactly the folks you probably don’t want to co-found a startup with. In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. And yet I keep returning to PHP as a development platform, as have most of my fellow startup CTOs. Given that startups depend on superstars to survive, why stick with PHP?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. Then the reality of our problem hit us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Startups and larger companies alike can learn a lot from the organization I observed. In todays world, knowledge workers (and especially those who thrive in startups!) We were building a community, open to anyone who shared its values, and that mission inspired volunteers and staff to try and reach out to as many people as possible.

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