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. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Heres the catch.

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ConversionXL

JULY 22, 2020

ZoomInfo solved misalignment by creating a service-level agreement that required a dedicated member of their sales team to call MQLs: ZoomInfo had long struggled with warm MQLs. We tried giving them to our sales development team, then tried our special sales SWAT team. It’s marketing without a target audience.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

There are also tons of tools for creating your own microsites, Facebook apps, social networks, blogs and more. Here, developers and dev shops are organized by vertical so you can find a shop that has expertise in the kind of app you want to build. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools. PM OK, agree.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

OCTOBER 14, 2010

– and then sign up for a 14 day trial (the trial option may be over depending when you read this blog post). I wrote previously about Kajabi and some of the competing content marketing systems available to us who sell information online in this blog post – Which Content Management System Is Best For Selling Information Online?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 20, 2019

If you’re setting business goals – and you absolutely should be – CRMs can help you review your metrics (i.e. number of emails sent, number of meetings booked) to understand how your team is doing. The post Top 9 Best CRMs for Small Businesses in 2019 appeared first on crowdspring Blog.

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venturehacks.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

SUPPORTED BY Products Archives @venturehacks Books AngelList About RSS How to pick a co-founder by Naval Ravikant on November 12th, 2009 Update : Also see our 40-minute interview on this topic. If you like it, check out his blog and Twitter. It depends on what other responsibilities team members have as well. Coincidence?

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The fact is, the worst that can happen is you get to the end of the year and you have to spend weeks reconciling your books. I think there’s again, a lot of unnecessary fear that a small business will have before they’ll go into a bank, thinking okay, my books aren’t exact or they’re not perfect. Peter: Yeah.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Derek Sivers about me blog books email list contact How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen 2010-06-19 Do you have an idea for a website, online business, or application, but need a programmer to turn that idea into reality? Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

It also means that developers that choose to create HTML5 web apps for the desktop — like for the Google Chrome Web Store — can often use the same code when crafting an app for the iPad or for other tablets. Fortunately, this problem has created a microcosm of cross-platform mobile development tools.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

TWO See page 199 of Poppendieck and Poppendiecks new(er) book for a finer analysis of defects and bugs: Unit tests prove that the code does what the developers want it to do, i.e. there are no defects. The PMs relationship to quality is a step removed from the development team that is directly affected by the quality every day.

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Expensify Blog. Blog posts like this might be part of why you’re finding it hard to hire good people. It’s funny how you’re using the MOST SUCCESSFUL food chain as your analogy to.NET developers. NET (and Java) experience are big bright red-flags in my book. « chawisa's blog.

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