Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. Please feel free to send along your comments or questions about the workshop itself.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 31, 2019

He is also a sought-after speaker, who delivers hundreds of keynote speeches, trainings, and workshops each year around the globe. Why breaking through the initial resistance can change the whole sales conversation. Why breaking through the initial resistance can change the whole sales conversation. Learn more about Sales Gravy.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Paige Briscoe, founder of ReRoot. In my interview with Brain Berger , Founder and CEO of Mack Weldon, he told me how to approach this multichannel strategy: It’s about being really strategic around how you position your brand to your customer and what channels in which you do that. Do you want us to offer delivery?’ We did them.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Wellington UniVentures offers mentorship opportunities, access to pitch workshops and meetings where new ideas are screened, to name a few. “We Pierre encourages interested investors to get in touch with commercialisation offices to start a conversation about upcoming opportunities. We welcome engagement in all aspects of our process.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Capital Factory is so excited to welcome the OHUB community to Austin during SXSW,” said Joshua Baer, founder & CEO. OHUB@SXSW | Opportunity Hub (OHUB) Thursday, March 7 Opening reception and fireside chat with Priscilla Chan, Cofounder, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative 4:00 PM?—?8:00

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. On December 4 at The Lean Startup Conference, three of New York's top UX designers will lead a workshop we're really excited about, Lean Startup in the Enterprise. What will people take away from your workshop?

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been 6 month since my co-founder and I started Reset ?—?a In July I spoke on a panel at 3 Day Startup Global Roundup, an opportunity that sprung out of a connection in a Female Founders Facebook Group. Workshops included topics of price-setting, customer acquisition and legal considerations when starting a business.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

by Todd Connor, founder of Bunker Labs. Coming to them with proposals about future contributions might be the solution they’ve been looking for and opens up the conversation that you as a person are open to possibilities. Employers are struggling to figure out how to manage, maintain or let go of their work force. Part-Time Internship.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

The Five Whys for Start-Ups - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Root cause analysis and preventive maintenance are concepts we expect to see in a factory setting. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Heres an excerpt: The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Every startup that achieves success eventually faces a critical moment — whether to speed up or slow down. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. This is the speed-up-or-slow-down moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Id be honored to have you join the conversation. The Conversation - Harvard Business Review For most of us, the phrase management science conjures up a decidedly non-entrepreneurial image, and for good reason. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Id be honored to have you join the conversation.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Most of the time, the experiments you run will have a zero percent conversion rate - meaning no customers were harmed during the making of this experiment. I would aim to get no more than 1o0 clicks per day - over the course of a week or two, youll get pretty good conversion data. Measure conversion rates.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Jacqueline is the f ormer Managing Partner and the Head of Strategy Story Worldwide and current founder of BrandCrudo. She's a former managing partner and the head of strategy for story worldwide and the co founder of Brand Crudo. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Jacqueline Lieberman.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 5, 2014

This is a guest post from Ben Rubin , co-founder and CEO of Change Collective , which offers courses for behavior change with world-class experts. When my co-founder Derek and I sat down to start Change Collective, we had two things driving us: impact and culture. (I’ve Values at Change Collective.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

He also offered an example of a customer journey map for “Telephone Repairs,” from the book he co-authored, “Service Magic: The Art of Amazing Your Customers.” The answers from our conversation are as follows: Q. Dapper’s CJM has 5 phases: Research, Comparison, Workshop, Quote, and Sign-Off. Click to enlarge.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

We also analyzed the results from the resolution conversation on our Facebook page to take the pulse of our Bplans readers: We surveyed our Bplans readers, and here are their #2016Goals. I plan on attending workshops throughout the year in order to make myself more available for social events, and I plan on engaging in feel-good activities.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

We held a workshop of stakeholders and explored names inspired by a variety of approaches (provenance, roots of our technology, etc). I still had to host that workshop with all the other names but I strategically directed everyone to Everipe and we’ve had a ton of compliments on it since. 7- Inspired by a notion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. It is written in a conversational tone, doesnt take itself too seriously, and avoids extraneous fluff. I think theyve succeeded. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. Ive been there: is it me or my cofounder thats crazy? Yet, I think this definition is too important to leave out. Iterating at whiteboard !=

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs. Unfortunately, the video of our sllconf conversation is not online (due to technical problems), but we have a physical tape backup which we are endeavoring to get online soon.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2014

Jackson Bond is the co-founder of Relayr , the team behind the WunderBar - a set of wireless detachable sensors and smart modules, all of which can be monitored and controlled from your phone and web apps. Things to do: constant interactions and conversations on social media (all platforms). 10) The next steps: after launching.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 17, 2009

Im excited that well get more than the usual few minutes of Q&A, so come with a healthy appetite for conversation. If you or your company is interested in sponsoring someone with a scholarship to travel to the expo and contribute to the conversation, please leave a comment or let me know. You heard me right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2019

I’ve worked with founders developing new apps, entrepreneurs at hypergrowth pre-IPO tech startups, and managers at the largest, slowest, most heavily-regulated and bureaucratic organizations in the world. A lot of the material comes directly from the workshops and sessions I do with companies and will help you really dig into the process.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 26, 2018

A group of Startup Chica attendees conversing with Patrick Gallagher from Dell. Photo Credit: Josie Hughes The girls got to hear from teenage keynote speakers Layla Renee and Mya Parish , founders of Suga Babes Beauty , a plant-based bath and body product line for teens.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Ive had at least three conversations this week about the relationship between agile methodologies and customer development. Thats why I prefer to think of them as two co-equals: the problem team and the solution team. And credit once again goes to Nivi from Venture Hacks for sharing it with me.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

female founders. founder friday. Lessons learned from female founders and women entrepreneurs. Startup Quote: Wendy Tan White on Building a Successful Startup » FounderDating: How I Found My Co-Founder. Tweet By Elizabeth Knopf (Co-Founder & CEO, Sorced). Conference 2012.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

If you are currently looking for a CTO or technical co-founder, I’ve included some resources below that may help you in your search. HireStarter SPMB Stringer Executive Search The Bidding Network Whiterock Partner s Douglas Ferguson is a Fractional CTO and founder of Voltage Control. Please email douglas@voltagecontrol.co

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The high levels of learning, great conversations, and most of all camaraderie between entrepreneurs of all kinds was amazing to be a part of. This great storytelling was accompanied by a whole roster of practical panels and workshops, which covered things like A/B testing, customer discovery, and scaling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review Way back when the money was doled out, the team made a compelling pitch about the large market that was going to adopt their new innovative product or service. Leave a comment or reply to someone else. Fostering that dialog is important. Amazon PostRank

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Darren Nix , Group Manager of the Assessments product team at Indeed and founder of the Y Combinator -backed startup Interviewed (acquired by Indeed), puts it this way: “Users can’t design your product for you. In my roadmapping workshop I often use ‘ now, next, later’ as a framework. Creativity is also a must for product managers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Weve gone from total obscurity to something people are beginning to misunderstand and even co-opt. The way forward requires getting everyone together in a room, and having a conversation about where were headed. If a relatively small number of highly-motivated entrepreneurs attend, then well have an intense and intimate conversation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Most important slide: about the founders In a pitch meeting, try to spend as much time as possible talking about the key questions for your pitch. If you find yourself getting asked non-key questions, try to use your answers to steer the conversation back to the key questions. who is the competition? will they fail fast?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post. You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. Amazon PostRank

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2021

The initial vision was to templetize and scale building conversion optimized websites. Two years after the start we had evolved into a pure conversion optimization agency, and later it would become one of the world’s leading CRO agencies. We think CRO agencies that focus solely on conversion rate are broken.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Over 500 tech executives, startup founders, investors and aspiring entrepreneurs came together for an unforgettable day of in-depth discussions, workshops and a $200,000 surprise. The Summit also included a 90-minute #IAmRemarkable workshop?—?part On Monday, October 1?—?the the first day of Austin Startup Week ?—?more

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The Startup Toolkit

JULY 19, 2013

My friends were startup founders. I explored a bunch of options simultaneously: freelance programmer, strategy guy, public speaker, workshop facilitator, bootstrapping little tech products… I didn’t quite manage to get it down to the mystical 4 hours, but I did reach a 6-hour work week within about a year.

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