Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. The results of the Customer Development process may indicate that the assumptions about your product, your customers and your market are all wrong. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest.

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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. Read the rest here. Lets return to our team thats failing to hit their targets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

but rest assured they would be. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. A Fundraising Survival Guide [link] Raising money has a mysterious capacity to suck up all your attention.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

.&# In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Even more importantly, you can start to experiment with feature set, positioning, and marketing - all without building a product. Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. If you cant find any , maybe that means you havent figured out who your customer is yet. A very interesting strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way. a roadmap for how to get to Product/Market Fit." Theory of market types. Heres the catch.

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. my startup is Blank Label (www.blank-label.com), which is a provider of custom dress shirts that empowers consumers to become the designer of their own product. hey eric, love the blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We spent the rest of our time pretending to work on the assigned homework, but really trying to do interesting side projects, like sending juvenile messages across the school network or building primitive video games. Third, you market it far and wide. And as for marketing it, this post is already on the first page of Hacker News.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit.

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JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. That fostering and encourage entrepreneurs to bring companies and products to market is a great source of innovation, job creation, etc. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. The opportunity isnt to give into temptation and figure out how to recklessly and expensively market the frontlist.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Now, helping potential customers discover new things they might like is the job of the discipline of marketing. The key tools of this new marketing are: targeting, filtering, and customer insight. Gatekeepers are overloaded.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Weve built the Intensive into an all-star program designed to give a comprehensive overview of the methodology, taught by its leading practitioners. Unlike the conference on April 23, the Intensive does not assume any prior knowledge of lean startups, and is designed for a wide audience. Read the rest here. Read the rest here.

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MARCH 4, 2009

If you are willing, please take a moment to fill it out before proceeding with the rest of the post; itll mean less biased results, and youll have a better idea what Im talking about later. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Before I go any further, heres the link to the new survey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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MARCH 23, 2009

The first page is so bad, not because it is badly designed, but because the features are wrong that you don’t need to go through the effort of building out the product. Read the rest of the interview at Venture Hacks. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. This just isn’t a viable product.&#

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Dont forget to leave a comment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The EB-5 visa is designed for foreign investors to get a green card if they are willing to bring capital to the US and create at least ten full-time jobs. 2gov.org will take care of the rest. 2gov.org will take care of the rest. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. The Geeks are doing their part.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. Read the rest (and be sure to watch the videos). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. We act as if the biggest risk to startup success is that the technology won’t work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

This is a designated web2open hybrid session - which means you can attend for free even if youre not attending the rest of the conference. This is a designated web2open hybrid session - which means you can attend for free even if youre not attending the rest of the conference. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Thats why some entrepreneurs are trying another approach to product launches: marketing a product online before spending much on research and development or inventory. Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

And the kinds of failures that do get airtime are usually failures to adequately plan, anticipate, or design in advance. Journalists have the highest obligation to ask these kinds of questions, and conferences organized by journalists ought to be the exemplars the rest of us look up to. And yet, today many are not.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. This is precisely the dilemma that the doctrine of minimum viable product is designed to solve. When people start using quality, reliability, or design as an excuse to delay, it used to make me nervous, even when these suggestions were well intentioned. Ship it.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 17, 2009

What about the rest of us? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Heres their write-up of the event: We have heard that recessions are the best time to start your own startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

Read the rest of the article here. Does lean startup xlate into sustainable success where a fast feedback/iteration loop yields market leadership? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 5, 2009

Watch the rest here. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Third customer comes in, same thing. You start to see these patterns and you’re like, okay.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Heres the key quote: Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn’t do market research - Bokardo It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. Now, I cant speak to what process Steve Jobs uses to get his team to do this market assessment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 31, 2009

I'm finding many people coming to me with jobs, not to offer to me necessarily, but to say, "hey do you know any good designer/engineer/product person looking for a new opportunity?" The broadcast nature of joblink doesn't seem necessary/useful to me but I can see how the rest are useful.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

If Id bought just a handful of the "best of the rest" domain names that were available at the time (for a whopping $70 each), I probably could have just retired right then. Neither can the rest of us (well, except for Matt Cohler). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. In time, success will come. Great post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The fact that the San Francisco Bay Area’s electronics industry began close to the turn of the Twentieth Century should lay to rest the notion that industrialization and urbanization on the scale of Silicon Valley can be quickly induced in other areas. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Marketing launch) Make a new product available to customers in the general public. This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. In the right situation, its a very useful tactic, too.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Thats what business is designed to do. How did they do it?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

But they require coordination across departments – engineering, marketing, customers service. Whatever learning took place was happening by the product owner; the rest of the team was just heads-down implementing features. But they require coordination across departments – engineering, marketing, customers service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Similar mechanisms are at work in the stock market, Google PageRank , and guessing an oxs weight at the state fair. Remove any of these essential ingredients, and you can find examples of groups gone bad: the Bay of Pigs invasion fiasco , market bubbles, and pretty much every one of Dilbert s team meetings. Anyway, back to fit.

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