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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

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. We attempted to use Waterfall and market ourselves as B2C. It was a disaster.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. Four Steps primarily centers its stories and case studies on B2B hardware and software startups. You can imagine how well that worked. I found these to be particularly interesting and worthwhile.

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The Ultimate Guide to Choosing a Pricing Strategy for Your SaaS Startup

Up and Running

I talked to Adam Hempenstall, founder and CEO at BetterProposals , who has been using freemium for three years for his SaaS product: “Honestly, I think it was a mistake. We run into this kind of software services every day—Google, Youtube, Instagram, and so on. It’s mostly popular with B2C markets. Duolingo lingot store.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

“TripAdvisor is to travel reviews what Kleenex is to tissues.”. . As we have seen with the recent speed bumps at highfliers like Groupon and Zynga, taking “lean startups” from foundation to creating sustainable, scalable, profitable business models is a very rare and special task. Henry Harteveldt, Forrester. . Really hard.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Computer Software. Media & Marketing. Small Business. More Industries. Accounting. Advertising. Broadcasting & Entertainment. Computer Hardware. Consumer Products. Defense & Aerospace. Financial Services & Insurance. Food & Tobacco. Hospitality. Industrial Goods & Services. Marketing & Strategy. Media Agencies. Metals & Mining. NAME Comcast.

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Blood, sweat, and tears: How we got from 0 to 500K downloads on a budget

The Next Web

Gili Golander is a co-founder and CMO at Bazaart. As time passed and I took on the marketing role for my startup (while everybody else was busy coding), I started to see marketers differently. Your mission is to grow, and for B2C companies it means more users. A tip from our dev team: don’t hard-code strings in your app.

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