Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. My path to lean startups began with Kent Beck and extreme programming.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2009

What metrics do we use to see if we learned enough in Customer Discovery ? I gave my boilerplate answer, “I’m a product guy and I tend to invest and look at deals that have measurable revenue metrics. However the Customer Development Model and the Lean Startup work equally well for startups on the web.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

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. I just assumed that everybody would love the book as much as I did, and would instantly change their behavior based on what they read in a book. You can imagine how well that worked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, June 9, 2009 The Lean Startup Tokyo edition I had a blast speaking at Startonomics Tokyo , which was organized to foster ties between the startup cultures in Japan and Silicon Valley. Books like Crossing the Chasm are excellent, but they can be misleading. Thanks for sharing this. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Finally the day came, we unleashed the landing page, emailed our existing customers, and started advertising online. Depending on the type of product, postings on forums, classifieds and emails could give enough information to help gauge potential response. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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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. Best of luck!"

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

I place them roughly in this order: Movies > Television > Books > Music > Magazines > Radio > Newspapers Each industry is watching the one in front of it sink into the quicksand. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

One major theory that has influenced the way I think about processes comes from Lean Manufacturing , where they use these same techniques to build cars. Still, I thought Id share this email that happened to arrive during class. Feel free to email me (startuplessonslearned-eric@sneakemail.com). Sure, Id be delighted to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 5, 2010 The Lean Startup Bundle People often ask me if they can buy "Lean Startup in a box" from me. People want to get started with Lean Startup but arent exactly how. Its called the " The Lean Startup Bundle " and it is available this week only. But thats not all!

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup."

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. (I Expo SF (May.

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

As a result: They’re converted via email. As Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz detail in their book, Lean Analytics, cohort analysis has special relevance for the customer lifecycle, enabling marketers. Cohort analysis can be done for revenue, churn, viral word of mouth, support costs, or any other metric you care about.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

John Jantsch (06:24): Well, so you make a good point because you know, a lot of people hire accountants and they feel like, yeah, that's my, you know, I'm getting my books done. You can spend on as a risk without putting you outside of the metric. More About The Duct Tape Marketing Consultant Network: Check it out here. Like this show?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. I went to the conference thinking that I was well grounded in the basics of the Lean Startup approach and that attendance would hone the edges of that understanding.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Notice that the unit of progress changes as we move from waterfall to agile to the lean startup. Eric Ries Lean Startup Schematic View Of Agile Development And Customer Development View more presentations from Eric Ries. I wont do the explanation justice so I suggest you grab the book. Just a thought. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. You really should read Steves book: [link] The short version is, you need to build up an in-depth mental model of a prospective customer. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Metrics – Mine is Bigger Than Yours The first thing SuperMac needed to do was to change how our potential color desktop publishing customers viewed our products versus our competitors’ products. As hokey as it is, when confronted with uncertainty or unknowns, human beings like to be reassured by comparative metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

If you have a minute, post your answers in a comment, or email me. As a shoestring entrepreneur with a SaaS (well, not really, but sort of) offering that we present to very large companies (think 10K+), I love your common sense suggestions about metrics and testing. 4) More posts about metrics, scaling, and online games.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

She became a prolific writer—12 books, while you and I struggle with one email or one blog post! Because then, when you go back to the same capital market for your Series A, and say, “We are raising this A to do Y,” you’ll have a lot of folks leaning in. She became a lecturer. We are raising this seed to go do X”…. then go do X.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 20, 2010 Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the Lean Startup) The Wall Street Journal covers the Lean Startup movement in todays paper. I think this means weve officially diffused our first major misunderstanding (that lean means cheap and small ) - congratulations.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

I'd be interested to hear your opinion of a book we published earlier this year: "Hello World! " The book teaches kids programming with examples written in Python, and is illustrated with fun kid-friendly characters. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Can I send you a review copy? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Product managers have the exciting responsibility of establishing the goals, roadmap and tracking metrics of their product (among many other duties), and also the less-glamorous but equally-important task of taking care of all the blocking and tackling required?—?from from administration to politik? I learned that software engineers?—?or

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Plus, as product development teams in lean startups become adept at learning-and-discovery (as opposed to just executing to spec), its clear that some bugs shouldnt be fixed. We always have to avoid that dysfunction - even the lean manufacturing greats realized that they couldnt afford to see their manual-labor workforce that way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. Crosby made this argument in his book "Quality Is Free: The Art of Making Quality Certain" (Mentor, 1980) April 2, 2009 6:24 AM The Caretaker said.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

The notion of “Market Type&# is there so startups have a metric of when to spend marketing and sales dollars. steve Terence Pua , on July 31, 2009 at 12:20 am Said: You need email reply notifications Yes, got it. Reply 4 Anti-Lean Startup Archetypes at Market By Numbers , on August 4, 2009 at 11:30 am Said: [.]

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

When we looked at the color graphics board market, our competitors had defined the market as one measured by technical metrics: screen resolution, number of bits of color, screen refresh rates, acceleration, etc. It didn’t take much imagination to realize that what we had to do was to tell our story around one key metric performance ?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. We were constantly creating metrics to see the effects of different PR messages, channels and audiences on end-user purchases. I feel that I’ve derived as much value from this post as I would from reading 2 or 3 lengthy books on the topic.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

A “gamified” incentive structure is used to deliver cash rewards every 3 months. The daily program encourages a balanced eating plan of fruit, vegetables, lean protein, and complex carbohydrates while monitoring portion sizes. I love finding people that are hungry to write that book, rather than just follow a well-worn instruction manual.

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ReadWriteStart

AUGUST 26, 2022

So, think of the typical two founders with a pitch book in a garage. I will say the one thing we tell all our portfolio companies is to get fit and lean in. I like the get fit and lean in. I’m a partner at TCV, which we founded in 1996. We’re a crossover fund. We’ve been doing this for almost 30 years. .

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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.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. For example, a growth marketer at Grammarly might begin with the hypothesis that a promotional email campaign targeted at millennials will result in a 10% increase in new subscriptions. What type of messaging works best for these emails?

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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 One example.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In particular, Ive focused on the two channels of communication that were most commonly suggested in the first survey: conferences and books. That Feedburner page lets you subscribe if you want to give your email address. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. March 7, 2009 3:31 PM Eric said. Great post.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Maybe more importantly, you need to accept that there are no rules to success, that most business books you should never have read, and that you must consider each situation in the unique context of its people and market opportunity, with common sense and humility. My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5 Warning sign?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. I´m reading (and enjoying a lot) your book “the 4 steps…&#. We hadn’t taken the time to learn the basics of packaging ourselves.

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