Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. The AARRR model (hence pirates, get it?) He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The brand name is the best summary possible of our business model. We are our name, and our name is our business since the inception of the idea behind the company. When we created Yeeply in 2012 we were sure IT hiring was going to be all about freelancing platforms and remote work. 2- Combination of two names.

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View from Seed

MARCH 3, 2015

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 19, 2017

by Steve Owens, Founder and CTO of Finish Line Product Development Services. The lean start-up movement has been based on a single insight – which the purpose of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. The objective of a start-up is to discover a business model that works. Culture is Important.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

This isn’t because technical people are flakier or inherently less entrepreneurial; it’s because by definition they have a narrower set of highly in-demand skills. They have lots of options because, for every one of them there are several “business people” trying to get their attention.

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blog.captainrecruiter.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Eventually I was able to scrape up a few bucks and hired Sarah to build me a website prototype. That prototype is now something I use everyday to run my recruiting business. Eventually Ill hire a software geek of my own, but right now Im doing just fine without one. In 2008 I was first time startup founder with no cash.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The one-page pitch format is also more suitable for SaaS businesses that are constantly testing new ideas. Your pitch is going to cover your strategy (what you’re going to do), your tactics (how you’re going to do it), your business model (how you will make money), and your schedule (who is doing what and when).

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Inevitably, the excuses begin: I need to hire people to build the product. The business person can take all the meetings while the technical folks work on making the product better. There are only a tiny fraction of people who hit on all the right circumstances to go from prototype to hit in a straight trajectory. No legal muck.

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Up and Running

MAY 13, 2015

I bill out at somewhere near 200 an hour most of the time. They don’t bill as much as I do, and they do the work in a fraction of time. Doing things all yourself as a business owner is an absolute time drain that we all need to take a magnifying glass to and figure out how not to succumb to this one.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is definitely a weak area of most pitches and business plans that I see. I was able to work with him, and he did some due diligence on my financials, because we had a similar business model, and I was able to show this is a comparable for our exit strategy. Think about your successes.

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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? Say, “We are hiring a developer to create only the beginning of an application.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

He also said, “The most important hire I made in my time at the JAIC was the chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani.” In this class session Nand Mulchandani, JAIC CTO who just completed an extended stint as Acting Director, continued the discussion of AI and the role of the JAIC. That doesn’t mean anything.

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Austin Startup

MAY 29, 2019

Yesterday I was having a discussion with one of our executives on the strength of network effects inherent in the data.world business model. This led to a far ranging strategic discussion that got us both really excited about the huge potential of our business. check out The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #1 on that front).

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 17, 2017

LawnStarter is one such company, so we sat down with their CTO, Jonas Weigert , to learn about how they experiment across their product and communication and how they deal with optimization as a company. As LawnStarter’s CTO, he heads their technical efforts, which includes experimentation across their product and communications.

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