Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. This whole framework breaks down when teams confront entrepreneurial situations in which theyre trying to build something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. Sure, everyone knows that getting customer feedback is important. And do I still need to get out of the building if Ive got great metrics and surveys?"

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Much of the writing on startups focuses on two elements: finding product-market fit scaling the company once #1 is accomplished For product-market fit, we have a lot of source material to work with from the last decade: Steve Blank’s leadership on Customer Development , and Eric Ries’ on the Lean Startup ?—?along I also blog at www.bp-3.com/blogs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

In keeping with my recent theme of blogging about upcoming events, Im happy to announce that Ill be speaking at Agile Vancouver on April 21. For those of you who subscribe to the blog for substantive content and whatnot, I promise to get back to more regular posts soon. And when did there get to be 3000 of you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. When it becomes possible to build products "live" with customers, the cycle time changes and design becomes a much more dynamic process. it is very helpful for me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I wanted to say that as a student I was working for a start-up company in town using the Rails framework. That's fine occasionally, but most development should happen in response to what the team needs to learn next. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

But part was a recognition that we could gain substantial competitive advantage by leveraging a community of like-minded visionary customers to serve a wider (and more mainstream) audience than we could alone. Personally, the framework Ive found most helpful is MTVs "create, share, validate" feedback loop. Very useful post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. Leading up to a pivot, each cycle, despite our best efforts, the metrics werent good enough. In a customer problem pivot, we try to solve a different problem for the same customer segment. It was painful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

But we couldn''t have identified this without having clear metrics (that high bug count) to assess our development process. On Customer Development in a growing company, Wyatt offered the following advice: Wyatt: We''ve employed a number of systems in the organization that keep all of us close to the customer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

One big idea that I havent had a chance to write about on the blog yet is answering the question "What is a startup?" LIKED: Y startups fail, cont deployment vs waterfall vs agile, small batches & learn fr biz metrics #leanstartup As concise a summary as Ive ever seen. Much of the content is shared with the Web 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Having had a number of years to try and answer this question at cocktail parties and social gatherings of all kinds, I thought Id try and expand on his framework a little, and then try and use these answers to help make suggestions for those who are trying to get people to buy virtual goods. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. In a nutshell: Acquisition - Get people to hear about your product from press, blogs and social channels. KISS Metrics – How to Run A/B Tests that Get REAL Results.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Do some Customer Development instead. Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Great blog BTW, adding this to my favourites. OH>>> they can, since i have an ezine and blog, too. Thanks and if there are further advice you can offer start-ups, ill follow this blog keenly to uncover them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. What can you do about it?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 1, 2009 The Steve Jobs method Image via CrunchBase Its been a long time since I did a post that was primarily a link to another blog with commentary, but I came across something today that I really want to share. In the meantime, I hope some of you will find the lean startup a helpful framework.

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The Startup Toolkit

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

You shift from qualitative feedback (customer development) to quantitative feedback (metrics). Leave a comment, write a blog post, spread the word. On the other hand, if you’re a marketing-driven company, you now have to build a bunch of tech. Acquisition and retention tend to be inseparable from the product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

One way to evaluate this fear is to spend time on analysis: how many customers will be affected? How upset will those customers be? In this framework, we’ll tend to either invest in the proposed prevention or do nothing. Regular readers of this blog will know the specific methodology I recommend, called Five Whys.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Rocket Watcher Product Marketing for Startups Product Marketing for Startups About Speaking Contact Email Posts Startups Product Marketing Messaging Social Media Commentary Uncategorized Marketing Metrics 101 for B2B Startups 13. Rocket watcher b2b marketing metrics View more presentations from April Dunford.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. It’s also a great way to get inspiration for blogging. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Those are the only 2 metrics you need initially. What’s the best way to commercialize a blog?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It also has the nice side-effect of driving down the batch size of work, but thats for another post) This framework for making progress evident applies to more than just scheduling, of course. I used to think a giant flat-panel screen that broadcast our companys key metrics would be what was required to get everyone to pay attention to them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

The second time around however, I went around the internet and read blogs such as yours to see how I can save myself from all the chaos because I knew that at some point I will break and just leave for another company only to find that I will probably have to go through the same thing again!

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 28, 2014

Peep has also said that “conversion” on it’s own is a silly metric, if you have a variation that shows 90% off full price, of course the variation will “win” but if it does not result in extra revenue, than the metric on it’s own is b t. For more on understanding customer behavior: Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Laura is not only the author of UX for Lean Startup and the creator of the design blog Users Know , she’s also Head of Product at Hint Health, a software company working on healthcare affordability, and one of our most popular speakers. In that case, metrics and analytics are really important. We already know about that.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

The class was unique in that it was 1) team-based, 2) experiential, 3) lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering). It’s worth reading the blog post that became the manifesto of the class here as well as what we learned when we first taught it- here.). Class Velocity/Depth.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? This post was mentioned on Twitter by Eric Ries and brantcooper, ralxz's Blogs. ralxz's Blogs said: Your Business “Driving Force” [link] [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Many viral products have flamed out over the years, able to capture large numbers of users, but proving transient in their value because they failed to engage customers for the long-term. Our goal is to understand the metrics, mechanics, and levers of engagement. Some of those affected customers decide to return to your product.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2014

To guide the discussion, we’re going to be using Dave McClure’s Conversion Metrics as a framework to see where different conversion optimization opportunities lie. For Acquisition, we’re primarily asking how do first time visitors & potential customers find you? Even The Comments On Active Blogs. image source.

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www.rocketwatcher.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

For example, it would be pretty hard for people to find this blog if I called it RokkettWatcha and naming my site Rocket Launcher might have had me competing with the Guns and Ammo crowd. blog post: How to Name Your Startup [link] #startup #prodmgmt. RT @aprildunford: blog post: How to Name Your Startup [link] #startup #prodmgmt.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

From e-commerce to blogs to photo galleries, we benefited from tens of thousands of lines of code that had already been battle-tested. PHP can do what no other language or framework can (albeit django). and Rails as a web framework. If youre using big frameworks in PHP, you are almost 100% wrong to be doing so.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

A few days ago I open-sourced a framework for split-testing, A/B testing or continous optimization. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Once you get the hang of it, I promise youll learn a great deal. Labels: split-test 2comments: Greg Dingle said.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Useful blogs and links for startups Click Here ————– 2. interactions, widgets, effects Django – high-level Python framework Cappuccino – open source framework for app development Kodingen – cloud development environment, code editor, hosting service, collaboration platform.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Based on the list posted on StartupWeekend Resources pag e and the TokBox blog. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Website/Blogging. Express : Express is built on NodeJS framework. Web frameworks. Zend Framework (PHP). website/blog spelling checker. Test- and Behavior-Driven Development.

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