Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Traveling the past year, I have heard loud and clear that its time for the Lean Startup movement to enter its next phase. My aspiration with the Lean Startup methodology has always been to provide such a framework, so that we have more intelligent conversations about what works and what doesnt for startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc., Transitioning from founder sold bootstrapped revenue to a functioning sales team is certainly possible. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 20, 2010

Marc Ringel of Floor Works, in New York, started his flooring company in 2007 with $145. Tags: bootstrapping startup stories Floor Works Food Tour Corp lean startups Live Worldly LLC WSJ. He’s now doing it full time, and paying himself a salary for it. These stories are a good reminder.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. The new startup arms race (for Huffington Post) For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Expo SF (May.

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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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Up and Running

DECEMBER 30, 2014

It endearingly represents the ingenuity and collaboration required to bootstrap a project. Like Chef , it also offers an interesting look at how social and new media have helped independent artists/entrepreneurs compete with entrenched businesses that have deeper pockets. Wild (December 2014); Fox Searchlight Pictures. We innovate.

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Up and Running

APRIL 5, 2013

Responding to a New York Post article glamorizing drinking on the job, The Atlantic’s Jen Doll dispels the mystique of boozing with the boss by claiming that it is a ploy to keep employees at work longer. It also means you may have saved enough money to bootstrap a lean startup. He’s kind of big deal.

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Up and Running

MARCH 24, 2015

Every entrepreneur has heard of the Lean Startup methodology ; it’s a great way to prove demand with less time and money and to prevent building a product that no one will want. In practice though, the Lean Startup methodology is hard to figure out. As a New-York-City-based startup founder, I’ve been asked these questions many times.

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Rob Go

OCTOBER 2, 2012

We were in many ways, the lean-start of venture capital funds. During that time, I maintained a pretty regular schedule travelling to New York to meet companies (3 of our first 7 investments were in New York) and meet potential investors for the fund. Here they are below.

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blog.traindom.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Some lean toward more traditional businesses, instead of service offerings, but it’s worth a [.] Reply SEO Advice for Bootstrapped Startups | Shark SEO says: November 19, 2010 at 10:04 am [.] Traindom has an excellent list of places to submit your startup to, and the comments of this Hacker News page are also very [.]

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2013

The New York Times best seller “ What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School ”. And lemme tell ya, the startup costs to reach an MVP ( minimum viable product ) have never been easier to bootstrap. They’re using the 4 Hour Work Week , Lean Startup , Rework & Linchpin as their textbooks. The list goes on.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. It didn’t take us very long to connect the dots between exponential growth, business model innovation and the “Lean Startup” movement.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

I currently just started a tech blog to cover under the radar, bootstrapped startups and this is great advice for the startups I cover and my readers. I plan on bootstrapping my upcoming startup. Big Picture Overview of All the Components of a Web Service [To Come] More to Come… Cliff Dailey This is a great post. Thanks again.

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Up and Running

APRIL 1, 2015

If you look in Los Angeles, you look in New York, you’re looking at different items that are local to those florists with their name and pictures,” says David. Funding a Business BloomNation bootstrapping funding startup VC venture capital' That transparency that was missing when I was buying, we are solving that.”. “The

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Should you bootstrap? So now when I'm building startups, I'm really shrewd and very lean and I can build things very quickly and I'm very resourceful. (12:46): Queens actually Queens in New York and really poor. Should you raise funding? Who should you partner with? So we're just bringing it back to the individual.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

Should you bootstrap? So now when I'm building startups, I'm really shrewd and very lean and I can build things very quickly and I'm very resourceful. (15:01): He's a, he grew up in the projects in, I think it was the Bronx maybe, or if I'm remembering correctly, Queens actually the queens in New York.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2018

So you’re essentially going live with it, and then you see what happens, and by doing it in this lean way hopefully you’re not spending exorbitant amounts of money or time or energy because what you want to do is you just want to put it out there and see what happens and test it out and see maybe what the business model can be.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Loading… New York. When youve bootstrapped a business where youre not drawing a salary and depleting whatever savings you have, thats one of the very difficult things to do," says Toby Stuart, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Harley Goes Lean to Build Hogs.

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Austin Startup

MAY 3, 2017

All that said, I have started and moderate the Texas Startups group , as the uniqueness of the Texan economy, the distinction of our collective schools, the opportunity presented by the industries herein, and substantial migration of people from the coasts in to Texas, are all driving our new economy; an economy of innovation driven by Texas.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. And that was $100,000 that came in to bootstrap Chicago and Detroit and Atlanta. So thanks for taking time out.

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