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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Steve Blank

JULY 14, 2015

My guests on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on Sirius XM Channel 111 were: Alexander Osterwalder – inventor of the Business Model Canvas. Oren Jacob , ex-CTO of Pixar and now CEO of ToyTalk. What’s the Business Model Canvas? You really need to understand first what customers actually want.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The application of agile development methodologies which dramatically reduce waste and unlock creativity in product development. See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2016

He also founded and served as chief technology officer of Life Magnetics. The technology was working, but finding that market fit was challenging. …. …We We couldn’t figure out the right business model to move forward with. You don’t need new gee-whiz technology to do that.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

There's a lot out there around Customer Development - read Steve Blank : Entrepreneurship as a Science – The Business Model/Customer Development Stack - Steve Blank , October 25, 2010 Checklists for Chaos, The Path to Success - Steve Blank , October 28, 2010 and reading about Lean, MVPs, etc.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The UCSF Office of Innovation and Technology ( Erik Lium and Stephanie Marrus) is the reason the program exists. Each of the teams is assigned a mentor to match their domainv(Head of device R&D of Phillips, Genetech, Crescendo, CTO of UCSF, venture capitalists from Sofinnova, Burrill, Lightstone, M34, etc.). Lessons Learned.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra. But I don’t think so.

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www.aaronkharris.com

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Im a private tutor on Tutorspree Text Aug 23, 2010 @ 9:08 pm Permalink We have a CTO, and so can you! I was told that finding a CTO/technical co-founder in NYC was about as easy as climbing Everest with one leg, no O2, and carrying a dead elephant. If you want to get in touch, drop me a line at akharris at gmail dot com. startupcto

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 27, 2015

In the Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps our equivalent to the Braintrust are weekly meetings where teams present what they learned from talking to customers and show their latest minimum viable products, and instructors provide continuous feedback. Customer Development. Innovation Management – Animation and Startups. Artists and Founders.

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www.startuplessonslearned.com

MAY 4, 2012

At the company level, founders learn about the flaws in their initial plans and adjust the startup’s strategy, business plan,and business model. percent) of new firm founders indicated that their business ideas [had] changed between the time they first identified them and the time when they were surveyed about them.”

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. As most, if not all, of the games on social networks use the freemium business model (i.e. m the f%*kin’ boss.”.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

Certainly using techniques such as customer development (www.custdev.com) and lean startup (minimum viable product) can help go a long way to giving the tech co-founder some early payback in terms of whether there will be any traction in the idea and reduce their inital involvment to get to prototype stage.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

Especially because I could have used this time on marketing, sales and customer development, and actually helped our business move forward. Go for a convertible notes/equity and save the legal nightmares for when you actually have proven that you’ve got a credible business model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Initially, IMVU sought to quickly build a product that would prove out the soundness of their ideas and test the validity of their business model. where an initial bad impression affects a significantly larger percentage of potential customers. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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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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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 5, 2011

Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Nosake From nothing to losing money every month with no business model in sight. Everything Seth said is absolutely spot on, except I’d encourage founders to make sure they do some customer development (even in the consumer space) in parallel to cranking out the first product. How to get there.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

" Saul Klein • Nov 16, 2010 I think the important part of the under-appreciation of the distribution part is the lack of formal structure in business activities and the lack of proper communication arising from it. are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,).

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