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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. The Customer Development process (and the Lean Startup) is one way to do that.

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How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of iPhone-related companies lately. There are other models, in other distribution channels. On Facebook, viral distribution has proved decisive. I havent found any yet.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So I initially gravitated to the CTO title, and not VP of Engineering. But since I spent a long time in a hybrid CTO/VP Engineering role, I still have this nagging question. If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? I mean, have you seen other people? They might do anything ! Heres my take.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

I break the answer to that question down into three engines: Viral - this is the business model identified in the presentation as "Get Users." Thats why eBay advertises on search engines, and Facebook doesnt. Labels: search engine marketing 0comments: New comments are not allowed. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Return the name of the hypothesis chosen or assigned.

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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

So we tried to craft a strategy that would give us the product development leverage we needed to serve all customers. We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels. Leveraged distribution channels.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Update: PDF version for "lazy linux users" and others who love freedom. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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New Rules for the New Internet Bubble

Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

VC’s engineered financial transactions, working with entrepreneurs to brand, hype and take public un profitable companies with grand promises of the future. Just like the previous 25 years, startups still built every possible feature the founding team envisioned into a monolithic “release” of the product using “Waterfall development.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

vs. sustainable: Compare this to the renewable strategies, like viral marketing, SEO, widgets, and ads, which can scale into 10s of millions of users but are primarily centered around tough, non-user centric work. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Once you have a first version of your app running, you can use the tools on this site to get it into the hands of users and to get paid.” Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Simple editing.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Customer development. This speeds up the Ideas-Code-Data feedback loop.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 2: Business Model Hypotheses

Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

By now the nine teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad Class were formed, In the four days between team formation and this class session we tasked them to: Write down their initial hypotheses for the 9 components of their company’s business model (who are the customers? what distribution channel? what’s the product? Xu Cui (Ph.D,

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How to Usability Test your Site for Free

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

We did surveys, user testing and psychological profiles. This was extremely useful in identifying the types of users we may have on the site and especially for seeing how people use the site. Anyways, here how our new start-up user tests. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim.

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Lessons Learned: Q&A with an actual reader

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Question 1: When youre adding features to a product used by an existing user base, do you still do split testing to determine usage patterns? Sometimes, testing with existing customers is more complicated than with new customers. Were looking to metrics to determine how users interact with our product. Absolutely, yes.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you want to read just one answer and get most out of it, read the first answer 36 Answers Saul Klein , Student of - and sometime co-conspira.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Well, Im selfish, so there are a couple things Id love to know your thoughts on: a) When youre adding features to a product used by an existing user base, do you still do split testing to determine usage patterns? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Im keeping your blog.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. This feature also supported multi-user environments much better. For most of its existence, PHP didnt have a standard package-distribution system or very good module support.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. For three years I worked at Bug Labs (open source hardware company). From "Think and Grow Rich".

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The best composition is probably one engineer whose passion lies in the pixels on the screen and another engineer whose passion is making bits fly really fast through servers. Launch fast and light, and listen to your users for feedback. In the product, always have a way to ask for user feedback. Sorry, folks.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

We can take advantage of the many open source libraries out there that dont scale especially well, and write as much non-scalable code as we want. This is great for something like a huge DHT or a distributed work queue. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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