Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? But all things are never equal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. Come to TS in Boston! Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. If you dont have customers, a product, investors, or a board of directors, you can pretty much stay focused on just one thing at a time. Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 88

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Do we believe “startup-driven” innovation (innovation that comes from relationships with external, early-stage companies) should be part of the corporate innovation portfolio? Acquiring a growth-stage private startup can provide a faster ROI at lower risk than the acquisition of an early- stage startup.

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Silicon Valley Acquisition Boston Early Stage 120

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. These are people who understand the vision of your company even before the product lives up to it, and, most importantly, will buy your product on that basis. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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San Francisco Customer Lean Continuous Deployment 131

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. My answer is almost always the same: dont.

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

That fostering and encourage entrepreneurs to bring companies and products to market is a great source of innovation, job creation, etc. Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

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San Francisco Tampa Continuous Deployment Lean 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

In fact, early stage companies shouldnt be able to get time from anyone else - who else would be crazy enough to try an truly innovative new product? christinelu : if youre building a disruptive innovation.the only people who you want to talk to are early adopters. Brilliant insight. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. In other words, we want to use the spreadsheet to quantify our progress using the most important unit: validated learning about customers. Amazon PostRank

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

This is important, especially if you are a very early stage company. If youre used to pitching your company in a startup hub, like here in Silicon Valley, you may suffer from a debilitating disease: the inability to describe your product to normal people. It also gives you insight into their language. Amazon PostRank

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 68

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If your school doesn’t already have a student group designed to foster collaboration between groups of students with the skills necessary to get a startup rolling, start one! It brings together students from both the undergraduate and graduate levels, across disciplines such as design, computer science and business.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. You see the business of innovative solutions does not include services or products that are demanded by the market.

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Austin DC Texas San Francisco 49

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. The customer is known, the product is known, and all we have to do is act. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning. Amazon PostRank

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Lean San Francisco Continuous Deployment DC 74

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

However, this financial bar has had the effect of excluding one segment of potential customers that Id really like to see there - early stage entrepreneurs who have all the intelligence and vision of their later stage counterparts, but simply cannot afford the cash flow to attend. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Lean Programming San Francisco Continuous Deployment 60

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

For short stories - I think it is always good to introduce some practical problem (you might have heard from entrepreneur at early stage) and how the lean startup method helped solved that. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. August 20, 2009 6:44 AM Prashant Sachdev said. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think. Amazon PostRank

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 60

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. (You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.) Instead, we should have thought of it as an indication of validated learning. Amazon PostRank

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 94