Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

I dont see any reason why having the team offshore is any more of a liability in this area than, say, having to do this work while selling through a channel (and hence, not having direct access to customers). Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

Customer Development 131

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

MARCH 8, 2012

iPhone & iPad #distribution #ormaybemarketing # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 2: Partner with someone with an established distribution channel, ie. Mint & finances #distribution #andalsoproduct # 19 hours ago @davemcclure Idea 3: Build brand buzz to epic proportions, aka a Purple Cow, ie.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs. Legal Wiki â?? Mark Suster GRP Partners Advice. Project Management. Mercurial â??

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Establish credibility with potential partners. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators. A marketing launch can help you get in the door with those partners, if youre having trouble getting their attention. Do some Customer Development instead. Dont scale.

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San Francisco PR Lean Early Stage 168

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 22, 2011

what distribution channel? Start their team’s blog/wiki/journal to record their progress during for the class . They were going to start with the $81M Chlorine market where they already had a partner. Come up with ways to test each of the 9 business model canvas hypotheses. Consider if their business worth pursuing?

Business Model 237

Business Model Intellectual Property Lean Wiki 237

www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The negativity either impacted investment funding (venture capital fell off a cliff in 2009) or the customers they were targeted as was the case for Untitled Partners who were building a platform for fractional art ownership. We were obviously wrong about Untitled Partners’ ability to grow through the subsequent downturn. #19

Cofounder 89

Cofounder Startup Technical Cofounder CTO Hire 89

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience?

Customer 156

Customer San Francisco Viral Lean 156

www.igda.org

JULY 24, 2012

In these clearest of possible conditions the ship made a planned turn out of the shipping channel and didnt turn back in time. William Dement, pp 51-53: The night of March 24, 1989 was cold and calm, the air crystalline, as the giant Exxon Valdez oil tanker pulled out of Valdez, Alaska, into the tranquil waters of Prince William Sound.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. They are largely invisible in the normal channels where customer service and community management pays attention. Eric, I am not only a member of the IMVU community, but I am your business partner.

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Community Management Lean Software Review 158

ConversionXL

JULY 17, 2015

I would just use a simple A/B, but then leveraging the segmentation, too, as I think you both talked about, look at them before, look at the new versus repeat marketing channel, different segments of customers and how they behave. The question about optimizing VWO, who is our event partner? So you can wiki that.

Video 48

Video Mobile Conversion Audience 48

thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

Aaron Swartz made it into the Summer Founders Program with his flexible blogging/wiki software Infogami, which he had already been working on for some time. Kan’s latest venture is Exec, an outsourcing service for people to get their jobs and errands done for a flat rate of $25/hour, and he is a part-time partner at Y Combinator.

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