Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For example, we used to be baffled at IMVU by the significant minority of people who would download the software but never chat with anyone. I originally thought I might get some development process tips (I manage developers), but I find that Im really enjoying your business tips (SEM, listening to customers, etc.).

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2009

Wow the file is a gig and is going to take 7 hours to download! Could someone reupload to one of the video sites mobileme doesn't seem to be friendly for large files or non-US downloaders. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? July 6, 2009 8:43 PM Eric said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. And over time, the development team may be able to start anticipating your needs. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. I dont think so.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 16, 2014

Metrics such as cumulative registered users and total number of downloads are often called vanity metrics because they can make you feel good even when your startup is going south.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

All successful media companies had at their heart a series of editors, producers, and agents tasked with discovering and developing new talent. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. Is that a lot? Is that good?

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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. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, February 9, 2009 7:45 PM Joseph Flahiff said. I am extending it to all start-ups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

I tried your compiler and it generted the XPI file but when I link to it and click the link it actually downloads the binary into my browser window instead of popping up the Firefox plugin window. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? 2comments: Matthew Quinlan said.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

It’s structured around a model that Steve has become famous for—the Customer Development Process. Our self-guided tool will also help you forecast financials and manage your business metrics once you’re up and running. . You can also download and print off a version for yourself if you scroll to the end of this page. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Dan and Brian by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Through that process, I lost a lot including some relationships with individuals, and I started to develop symptoms of acute anxiety. . Brian Zuercher. I push them to think really big.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But its not very open, and not very programmable, unless you have an expensive Mac and an approved developer license. Not only are there free compilers and development systems, but there are also a number of efforts to develop development systems and languages specifically aimed at teaching kids to program.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Combining agile development with customer developm. But the real breakthrough is a usability insight: that people dont really want to control devices.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Listen to my full interviews with Dan and Brian by downloading them from SoundCloud here and here. And download any of the past shows here.). Through that process, I lost a lot including some relationships with individuals, and I started to develop symptoms of acute anxiety. . Brian Zuercher. I push them to think really big.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

Solving the chicken-and-egg platform problem Developers don’t want to develop unless there are customers who are there to buy their products, and customers don’t want to come on the platform unless developers are there selling them something useful. Happy holidays to you all!

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature. Free Subscription Sales Forecast Template [DOWNLOAD]. Branding Checklist: 10 Essentials Before Launch [Free Download]. Want Customer Loyalty? Brand to clarify your vision.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

It is a mystery actually whether the tagging of application as hot/popular has to do with the number of downloads or merely from the usage statistic. Im pretty sure the Top 25 lists are based on downloads, from what Ive seen. There will always be far more apps that dont make the top lists, no matter what metric is used.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 28, 2009

This builds on a lot of great thinking that has come before, like the agile movements insistence that only the creation of working code counts as progress for a software development team. I used to think that investments in metrics were a form of waste. Customers dont care if you have good metrics, only if you have a good product.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

A downloaded movie is a virtual good; theres really no pure functional value (other than lights and sounds). The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Work in small batches Continuous deployment with downloads What is a market? (a

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

In fact, this crisis was at the heart of Steve Blank ’s original impetus to develop customer development as an alternative set of milestones to use for startups.) Therefore, if you want to sell IMVU one day, you’ll need to abandon your business model, even though it’s generating a lot of revenue per customer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. No vanity metrics should be looked at. It works to undermine excuses for poor or shoddy work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 5, 2009

So she downloads the product, we have her install it on the computer, and we’re like “okay, it’s time to check it out, you know, invite one of your friends to chat.&# His understanding of development problems impressive. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

1) It all starts from the Growth Hacking Funnel - in the early stages, startups should not just focus on top/bottom line metric like unique users and revenue. Customer Development Labs recently shared a great experiment on using mTurk to interview 100 customers in 4 hours for less than $200. Which one is the most stable?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Nobody gets here overnight, but every step along the way has made us better developers. They’ll increase code quality, prevent defects and educate your developers. You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. On commit automatically run all tests.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Even with only a few months of development, third parties have crammed every single category in the store full of apps. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. I downloaded and tried all four of them (because I had time to kill) - and Im still not sure which one was the best.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Turns out, what customers really meant was "let me use IMVU with somebody I dont know" so they could get a feel for the social features of the product without incurring the social risk of recommending it to their friend. Luckily, the metrics helped us figure out the difference. Lets run a thought experiment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

It just answered this question: for any given time range, for the 100% of people who registered in that period, what percentage of them downloaded? That simple funnel analysis became our scorecard, and helped us refine our product with constant customer input. chatted once? chatted five times? bought something?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Its one of the easiest ways to get leverage in your development process, amplifying the power of your team by letting you take advantage of code written by thousands of others. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour. Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

You can listen by subscribing to my podcast on iTunes , or it’s enclosed in this blog’s RSS feed , or you can just download the mp3 of the first hour. Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

This is lean development without any customer development. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. The development part is similar to a lean startup: you want to be agile. A good way to get attention is to get catchy metrics. The focus is on building.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Market By Numbers on Twitter | Entries RSS | Comments RSS Market By Numbers High-Tech Marketing and Customer Development Home What is Customer Development? Customer Development Help Affordable Customer Development Support! Please Share! Feel free to Contact me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 1, 2009

I cant figure out how to download the picture so that I can print it and post it to my wall. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Product development leverage Validated learning about customers Built to learn Web 2.0 Thanks so much! am I missing something?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. And yet I keep returning to PHP as a development platform, as have most of my fellow startup CTOs. The IMVU downloadable client, just to name one example, is written primarily in python.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. s helpful to find an developer tool that allows you to write html/css and renders the view in real time, so you donâ??t Firebase : Are all your developers front-end engineers? s easier to use/develop with. Mobile Tools: If you are a web developer, you donâ??t

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