Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, Program Chair of Lean Startup Co. We’ve hosted talks, workshops, and interactive sessions on the challenges and successes of modern management techniques from a wide variety of business leaders around the world. Side Note: Eric and Marilyn will be doing a webcast as a preview to their workshop on Oct 11.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Rich is founder and president of flyte new media, a digital agency in Portland, Maine, that’s been in business for over 24 years. He recently co-founded Fast Forward Maine, a podcast and workshop series for growing Maine businesses. Each episode is designed to spark ideas you can put into practice for your agency today.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

Often entrepreneurs and business owners create their New Year’s Resolutions around their business. We asked 30 entrepreneurs to share their business goals and what they were looking forward to in 2020. #1- My goal for 2020 as a founder is to celebrate the small moments more. Thanks to Cathryn Lavery, BestSelf Co. ! #7-Make

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

Email Posts Get Connected Subscribe to our Feed Join our Google Group Discussion Follow @StartupBmore on Twitter Find us on Facebook Join our Mailing List News Advice Profiles Events Startup Breakfast + Workshop Startup 101 New? As Dave Troy put it, it all boils down to this: “In Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, Cofounders Find You!&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. 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.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 5, 2018

You’ll learn all the nitty-gritty details about how to create a company and meet mentors, investors, co-founders and sponsors ready about able to help you get started. Startup Weekend HackOut is being organized in partnership with Techstars , StartOut and Lesbians Who Tech.

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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. In that spirit, I want to share some of my top resources for female entrepreneurs in Austin?—?the

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Steve Blank

MARCH 12, 2014

. — Teaching students to think like entrepreneurs not accountants. We wanted to teach our students how to think like entrepreneurs not accountants. For the second startup, we chose a year-old web/mobile startup whose market is college bound teens, with a founder who had skipped the initial customer validation process.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Carolyn serves as the co-founder and CEO of Hello Alice. Elizabeth Gore and Carolyn launched Hello Alice with the goal of helping entrepreneurs thrive with access to funding, resources, mentorship, and more.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

But founders need to know how to ask for their advice and when to ignore it. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. Startup Insights From Paul English, Co-Founder of Kayak - OnStartups , May 10, 2010 I’m just wrapping up several weeks of attending conferences across both coasts. You Can’t Sign This Deal. It says what?!”).

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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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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2016

Entrepreneurs, being goal setters by nature, often like to participate with resolutions related to their small business or startup. I asked entrepreneurs to send me their new year’s resolutions, so you can get a snapshot into the mind of small business, and maybe find some 2016 resolution inspiration. In 2016, try something new.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

He’s also an investor and an entrepreneur with decades of experience at the helm of start-ups and established companies. Wellington UniVentures offers mentorship opportunities, access to pitch workshops and meetings where new ideas are screened, to name a few. “We We welcome engagement in all aspects of our process.

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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read. Many “airport business books&# urge entrepreneurs to never give in. I think theyve succeeded. In fact, they probably will.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

On October 15, Capital Factory hosted the Latinx in Tech Summit, where over 100 founders, investors, executives, and aspiring entrepreneurs from across the city gathered together for an inspiring and insightful afternoon. It's our mandate to carry as we climb this ladder in tech + beyond ????

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

In 2014 Niesh co-founder, Jae Yoo, now 26, had $10 in his bank account, and had to choose between printing past papers for exam study, or feeding himself. The findings from this collaborative workshop are outlined for entrepreneurs and business mentors in a recent case study available here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. As we explained last week , we have stellar workshops scheduled for December 4--the second day of The Lean Startup Conference. Herewith, then, is the first in a series of interviews with our workshop presenters.

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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. Our mission is to create connections between entrepreneurs that move their ventures forward, and one of the key pillars they need is DIVERSE TALENT. Sampson states, “We’ve done good work, but we can do more.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 3, 2017

by Bill Lewis, co-founder at Temasys Communications. In addition to transmitting valuable streams of information and ideas in their own right, platforms which are easily accessible by any entrepreneur or professional, creates data flow, enables the movement of goods, services, finance, and people talent.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2019

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners of a word that could represent their business in 2019. Additionally, I have experienced quite a bit of personal growth in 2019, primarily through seminars, classes and workshops focusing on social media, entrepreneurship in general, growing my business and much more. 10- Tenacity.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It is the true entrepreneur that takes that frustration and turns it into an opportunity which usually means creating a business and sometimes resulting in an empire. Felena Hanson has shown that she is a true entrepreneur. Hera Hub is a spa-inspired, shared workspace and business accelerator for female entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Entrepreneurs who’ve overcome the proof-of-concept phase of their startups want to take their businesses to the next level. They keenly focus on the leadership potential of the entrepreneurs. Endeavor Miami Entrepreneurs with Laura Maydon. Entrepreneurs can tap these networks with a simple phone call.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 15, 2010 Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review) The next part in the series I am writing for Harvard Business Review is online. This time, Im discussing the challenge for corporate CFOs and VCs alike in holding entrepreneurs accountable. Read the rest here.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

While many were going on vacations and traveling, business was still being completed for many entrepreneurs and business owners. Summer is over. We decided to ask them what their best business accomplishments as we head into the fall: #1 – Busy Season. 6 – Wonderful & Productive Summer. Image credit: Shel Horowitz.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 7, 2017

We asked some entrepreneurs and business owners, why they started their businesses: #1 – I Have a Dream. Now my digital products, blog, classes and workshops serves women all over the world teaching them how to use yoga as a tool to juggle their busy life and kids without burning out! Image Credit: Enrico Bratta.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Founders laud their own “end-to-end” thinking. In the mid-90s, brilliant innovator and entrepreneur Jeff Hawkins had an idea for the personal digital assistant (PDA) that would eventually become the Palm Pilot. Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” And the word pretotype was born.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2016

What it’s like to go from the comfort of the lab bench to the chaos of a startup was the focus of the guests on today’s Entrepreneurs are Everywhere radio show. The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

► 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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Startup Conference is an event by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs—except that our definition of “entrepreneur” may be different from the one you have in mind. Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ▼ June (3) What is a startup?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

by Todd Connor, founder of Bunker Labs. Third Shift Entrepreneur, the framework I developed in working with the military community, offers a path to keep your job, while building your dream. Too many entrepreneurs struggle thinking they need a business perfectly put together before they can invite people to participate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. I say this as a founder: the contribution of founders is always overestimated. The danger here is that new founders, looking at existing founders, will think that theyre supermen that one couldnt possibly equal oneself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

So far, I have found "lean startup" works better with the entrepreneurs Ive talked to than "agile startup" or even "extreme startup.") The wise entrepreneur will take this advice seriously in order to distill his ideas down to their essence. Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said.

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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. Time: 12:30PM?—?1:30PM 1:30PM Location: Hilton?—?Salon If you live in Texas, find out how you can tap into the network.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. OnStartups: One of the largest online startup communities founded by HubSpot founder Dharmesh Shah. Babson Entrepreneur Resource Center. University Resources: MIT 100K. MIT Start Lab.

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