Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Start your blog/wiki/journal. Update your blog/wiki/journal. What are your hypotheses around customer acquisition costs? Update your blog/wiki/journal. Actually engage in “search engine marketing” (SEM)spend $20 as a team to test customer acquisition cost. Get real costs from suppliers.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2012

What once cost $20,000 and was produced by skilled researchers in a lab, now costs $500 and is produced by hobbyists working part-time. Wikipedia was a tremendous invention in the process of knowledge curation, and it was dependent, in turn, on the invention of wikis. Before this point, it can’t be done. But I digress…).

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

Agora’s selling points are its ability to reduce users’ IT infrastructure cost and enhance revenue for service providers. Veritas is making a low cost, residential wind turbine. Start their blog/wiki/journal for the class. The goal is to sell a renewable source of energy at an affordable price for backyard installation.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Ideally, they will help you understand technology ROI, innovation accounting, and also help you understand where you can cut costs and where you need to invest. Online Resources & Boards The following job boards and other related resources are a cost effective recruiting tool. They will review and negotiate all related contracts.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 6, 2011

It was remarkably easy, once I knew the magic trick, which I found on the site Pay as you go sim with data wiki (thanks Toby Ruckert – lunch is on me tomorrow.). It’ll cost 9€. Now you want to follow the instructions for Internet Max on the wiki I referred to earlier. Go to an Orange store. Ask for a Mobicarte.

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

A user CTO whose bias is towards always trying new things adds no value to the firm looking for a sustainable, cost-effective competitive edge. Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up.

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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Breaking the rules will cost you time, grief, and money. It could cost you the business. Create an internal wiki. The downside of non-HR people doing HR relate work means someone is dealing with a distraction. It’s taking away time from key tasks. Make sure you’re aware of the laws that will affect your business and employees.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

For example, Confluence has an enterprise wiki. This is somewhat within the area of knowledge collecting and searching so they could be considered a competitor, but we are not trying to build a wiki of knowledge, we are trying to simplify centralization of knowledge. Shelf is not like this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. 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. Are we going too fast?

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Software Review San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 141

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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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2012

There are often startup costs that can hinder your development and slow progress to a crawl. A good example of this would be Wikipedia and other online wikis. Someone who loves comic books may go to a comics wiki and write about their favorite characters. Getting a big project or business off the ground isn’t easy.

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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned for Kindle Startup Lessons Learned - the conference.

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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Startup Lessons Learned season two : Every post from the blogs second year in print form.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 23, 2017

For example, Confluence has an enterprise wiki. This is somewhat within the area of knowledge collecting and searching so they could be considered a competitor, but we are not trying to build a wiki of knowledge, we are trying to simplify centralization of knowledge. Shelf is not like this.

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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 23, 2020

You’ll need to make an assessment of your costs and weigh these against both your profits and ethics. The issue may also be cost-based because plastic packaging is often the cheapest to produce. Paper is compostable and recyclable, and it’s also a great cost-effective option.

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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. There were a lot of questions about outsourcing/offshoring and startups. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

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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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As I started thinking about his question, I remember what it was like setting up our office in 1998 and the headaches and cost of buying a Nortel phone system and phones and hiring a Microsoft networking expert to get our office set up for file sharing, back up, and email. What a nightmare!

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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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Up and Running

JUNE 25, 2012

Cost: The amount of money that it takes to produce said product (both how much the materials to create the product cost as well as the money it takes to fuel the production). Stuff happens and schedules or costs have to change a bit. Simply build in some lag on the schedule and some flexibility on the costs.

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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0,

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

Start their team’s blog/wiki/journal to record their progress during for the class. Their hypotheses when they first left the campus were: Value Proposition : Labor costs in mowing and weeding applications are significant, and autonomous implementation would solve the problem. Consider if their business worth pursuing?

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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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devver.wordpress.com

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

On any idea, keep track of what is near term, what resources are needed, what is the cost, and what does the related market look like. (I Ben and I keep a wiki, which has grown to be an incredibly useful resource and was the initial starting point for our last two companies) Ideas should have an “Aha! I highly recommend this!

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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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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Small is beautiful.

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BeyondVC

OCTOBER 6, 2006

It leverages almost a wiki like concept so when I add a bottle of wine, it first searches its database to see if anyone else in the community has already input the data. Over time, I moved from an Excel spreadsheet to using the web to track some of my purchases and to learn more about each bottle. One of my favorite sites is Cellartracker.

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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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Technical Review Software Review San Francisco Lean 168

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? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. But proving your assumptions with early adopters is an essential first step. But $10.00? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. we dont talk enough about how it feels.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Truth: The Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Truth: The Lean Startup method is not about cost, it is about speed. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Lean startups try to spend as little money as possible. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

I now believe that the "pick two" concept is fundamentally flawed, and that lean startups can achieve all three simultaneously: quickly bring high-quality software to market at low cost. Those are the kinds of indefinite costs that make our team grind to a halt over time. First of all, its a myth that cutting corners saves time.

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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). April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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