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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

From Lean Startup Machine , Lean LA and San Diego Tech Founders , to countless speeches and workshops, I have seen the impact that their leadership has had first hand. There continues to be an incredible demand out there for actionable, practical lessons in how to apply this emerging set of ideas. It was a fairly organic thing.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

Startup Lessons Learned

You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. It strokes your ego. Problem is, you inevitably become yesterday’s old news.

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Learning is better than optimization (the local maximum problem)

Startup Lessons Learned

When you read stories of successful startups in the popular and business press, you usually hear about how the founders anticipated several of these challenges in their initial vision. What about companies, like Siebel, that started with partner distribution first? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

– Eric Ries In April of 2009 my partner and I had an idea for a web app, a B2C platform that we are selling as SaaS [software-as-a-service]. Rich Collins , founder of the Lean Startup Circle , responded to the poster with some Q&A. We walked them through what we thought would be the major application of our product.

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Towards a new entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

The cost of creating new companies is falling rapidly, and access to markets, distribution, and information is within the reach of anyone with an internet connection. This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers.

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The cardinal sin of community management

Startup Lessons Learned

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. As a founder of a company, there is nothing more painful than to see your most loyal and devoted customers suffering. Eric, I am not only a member of the IMVU community, but I am your business partner.

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