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. My answer is almost always the same: dont.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. No one funded us. No one was gonna fund us. Just go for it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. Imagine you are crossing the street. Now imagine the herculean task that faces those who are blind. We can learn to see.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 3, 2011

The job of an entrepreneur, manager, or CEO is to say, ‘We’re taking this fork in the road, for better or worse, and it’s on my head’ He or she is the one person who makes the important decisions when it counts. When you’re an entrepreneur and a leader, make-or-break decisions are made on a daily basis. analysis paralysis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

As a last disclaimer, please consult the definition of the word hacker if youre not familiar with the controversies surrounding that term.) Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 1, 2009

As for a topic Im particularly interested in, Id be curious about partnerships: the type of formal or informal relationships one tech co has with another in terms of either cross marketing or integrating each others products. I question what numbers I would need to be considered respectable and/or worth a potential partners time.

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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. I won’t sugar-coat this: it is one of the most difficult and frustrating aspects of building a company online. Sure it has its moments, but then so does getting stranded on a desert island. of all usage.

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