Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

My belief is that these lean startups will achieve dramatically lower development costs, faster time to market, and higher quality products in the years to come. Whether they also lead to dramatically higher returns for investors is a question Im looking forward to studying. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Cybersecurity: A Top Priority In the realm of cybersecurity, developing an AI cybersecurity plan is paramount, especially for businesses in tech-centric locations like Washington DC. This not only reduces operating costs but also allows businesses to scale their operations quickly in response to changing market demands.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Make extra cash to help with those expensive holiday costs and maybe even help you put some money back in your wallet so you don’t start the New Year off broke! Paul, San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, and Washington, DC. Here are 10 online platforms that want you to show you the money: 1.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

During this time, there’s financial leverage used in the transaction to help buffer the firm’s cost of capital (e.g. Over the next few decades, I expect forces in Washington DC to use economic and monetary policy to attempt to rebalance the trade relationship between the world’s two most dynamic countries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Hence, cutting corners often paid huge dividends. And with success came growth: in resources, staff and attention. And a certain amount of chaos reigned too. But as the team gets bigger, early mistakes become more costly. Pretty soon, a soul-searching meeting ensues. Are we going too fast? Will the addition of process kill our innovative culture?

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David Teten

AUGUST 6, 2013

For example, we’re a significant investor in Clearpath Immigration , a company based in NY, DC, and Florida which makes immigration process easier and more affordable. I saw numerous companies focused on serving the broader LatAm community using Miami as their home base to do so.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We had endless arguments internally about what features it should include, how the avatars should look, and how much it should cost. Just load them all in and choose a low cost-per-click. Seems like a fairly low-cost method of gauging customer interest for a would-be product. We finally settled on a $1.99 I used to use $.05,

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 21, 2010

I know Mike Lincoln in Washington DC does. How to manage costs - One of the biggest frustrations that people have with lawyers are unexpected costs. I never met a person who didn’t talk about Mike Lincoln of Cooley Godward in DC. I already mentioned DLA Piper. I worked with Sam Angus at Fenwick & West.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2015

The killer chart is below: In the article it raved particularly about the WaPo’s amazing mobile app and how Bezos personally intervened to get the team to improve loading times – whatever the short-term costs. It turns out the $15 / month version was for national/international plus local DC news version. I downloaded that.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2020

Another Helium fan – James Fayal – reached out to me about his effort to do the same in his hometown of Baltimore, as well as DC and Philly. I’m hopeful that some of the readers of this blog live in Baltimore, DC, or Philadelphia and are interested in participating in the Helium rollout.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2016

It also makes purchasing more cost effective. If a company like MakeSpace that offers physical storage for households in NYC, Chicago and DC wants to advertise why should it waste its resources on a product that serves up ads in Austin, Texas?

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The Next Web

OCTOBER 27, 2012

DC Fawcett , Paramount Digital Publishing. This web tool is beneficial for our team as first, helps us eat healthy, and second, cooking at home creates a bunch of cost savings, something every entrepreneur craves! This is especially great while traveling, since you may not be familiar with the local restaurants. - Try MeetCody.com.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

It costs not just the time of the actual meeting, but the time getting there and back, and the time preparing for it beforehand and thinking about it afterward. A Fundraising Survival Guide [link] Raising money has a mysterious capacity to suck up all your attention. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. I want to talk specifics, and when you come right down to it, most technology startups dont have a very interesting cost structure.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

million in funding on TechCrunch led by Harmony Partners and Upfront Ventures to double its footprint of 3 cities (New York, Chicago & Washington DC) to 6 in 2016. We decided to cut costs for a few months until we figured out our best approach. And where they see stability we saw a sitting duck. There are no easy answers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

RFP-EZ and Innovative Contracting Tools Making it easier for the government to do business with small, high-growth tech companies, and enabling the government to buy better, lower-cost tech solutions from the full range of American businesses. competitiveness, catalyze the creation and retention of U.S.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

It seems many startups these days are under a lot of pressure to outsource their development organization to save costs. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. I havent had to work this model under those conditions, so I cant say anything definitive. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lean startups have the ability to use this commodity stack to lower costs and, more importantly, reduce time to market. The biggest source of cost/time advantage that all lean companies have is avoiding building features that customers dont want. Agile software development. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If the CEO wants to completely change the product in order to serve a new customer segment, you need someone in the room who can digest the needs of the new (proposed) business, and lay out the costs of each possible approach. In my mind, theyre racking up costs (one month for that part, two months for that other part, uh oh).

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2020

In the US, places like San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, and Washington, DC get the lion’s share of attention as startup sweet spots. Coworking offices like WeWork, Walnut Street Labs, and 1776 are efficient options for startups thriving on collaboration and cost-savings. Washington, DC is 150 miles away.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

If you can start getting ROI on a feature in month one of a twelve month project versus waiting until the end, youve comparatively reduced the cost of development by the revenue generated by that feature over 11 months. Small batches also help deliver value earlier in the project. February 25, 2009 8:12 PM Anonymoussaid. Small is beautiful.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

Mike Lincoln (Washington DC / Virginia … Cooley). Nearly everybody in the DC region had told me, “You must meet Mike. Don Lee (LA … LKP). David Hernand (LA … Gibson Dunn). Joey Tran (SF Bay Area … Fortis). Michael Pfau (Santa Barbara … Reicker Pfau). By now I know many more. But these were my eight.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. I cant really imagine how much it cost our "grownup" counterparts at other dot-com startups to get their first app up and running. Looking back, that was a special moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 Hope your presentation here in Washington, DC reaches a few new minds today. There are and we do.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. Ship new software at a dizzying pace: multiple times a day while improving quality and lowering costs. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I launched a marketing strategy consulting firm, Perspective Marketing, and found it convenient and cost effective to work from home. In this role I found myself consistently challenged to secure cost effective, fitting event and workshop space for monthly meetings. What is Hera Hub?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Who will ultimately bear the cost of their mistakes? One of the distinctions that has helped at the executive level is to stress that you're reducing the COST of failure, rather then its PROBABILITY. If the cost of each failure is dirt cheap, then you can afford to make a lot more failures in the course of learning.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

They help to minimize the number of errors and costs to many manufacturing processes. This market is segmented by: AC and DC servo motors. It’s predicted that the servo motors and servo drive market will grow to USD 15.92 Billion by 2022. Servo motors and drives are used within industrial applications for advanced automation.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Pop-ups are another exciting way to offer tons of opportunity for low-cost experimentation , and even if inventory is limited, these spaces can drive traffic to your online store, setting up a multi-dimensional connection with customers. Even opening a location inside of another store can be a great opportunity to connect with a new audience.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Plus, we saw some of the intrinsic limitations of supporting such a large staff: slower cycle times, higher cost basis, and - most importantly - the ability to serve only a limited number of customer segments. Other companies accomplish this by hiring a large staff of content production experts - and get a very good result.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

There are three fundamental situations that change what your company needs to do: creating a new market (the original Palm), bringing a new product to an existing market (Handspring), and resegmenting an existing market (niche, like In-n-Out Burger; or low-cost, like Southwest Airlines). Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Ben's Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

He also did it at a great cost; he was voted out of office in the following election. Not to mention that SAT scores rose 27 points, graduation rates rose each year, and 72 percent of District students took the PSAT. Measurable results in record time. Adrian did all this in the face of tough opposition from about every corner in the system.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

If it costs $0.10 to acquire an early adopter, how much should it cost to acquire a mainstream customer? But proving your assumptions with early adopters is an essential first step. It provides a baseline against which you can start to assess your long-term assumptions. But $10.00? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future. In addition, third-party services and API’s enabled us to do more with less, but at a cost: taking on the technical debt of products and teams outside our direct control. For example, how fault tolerant should it be?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

September 23-26 - TBA I'll be in New York and then Washington DC for media on these days, but don't have anything public on the schedule to announce. Cost: $20 standard, $12 members, $7 students Location Blue Room, The Commonwealth Club As always when I'm on tour, if you're a reader of this blog, please do come say hello.

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