Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

We thought that would give us enough credibility to bring someone on board and enough money to even compete, at least in the short term, with some of the other salaries. that are a good place for non-tech people to start off with ? Show something other than an email with an idea. Our prototype also got us into Dreamit Ventures.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

It wasn’t a lack of competence or skill in her job; it was just that as far as she was concerned, her job had no connection to the rest of marketing, our customers or our ultimate success as a company. I also wanted to know who our existing customers thought we competed with. What did they think we stood for?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor job. See [link].

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

It was always a welcome change of pace to leave the brown of the unchanging desert and travel into town and have dinner with them and have a non-technical conversation about books, theater, politics, travel, etc. Too often people abandon their ethics because “hey the other guys is doing it, I have to to do it to compete.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

As notification channels get stuffed full of these messages, customers tune them out (or platforms have to put in place dramatic limits on access). The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. A few days ago, I received a great email from Warhammer Online.

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. Lead Gen: I utilized my friends, professional contacts, and Harvard networks by sending out emails to list serves, reaching out to people, and getting referrals.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Competing with such companies is pure pleasure – just harp on their mis-understandings of the market. Linearity leads to such advice as listening to the voice of the customer, which has driven enough companies into the ditch. Non-linearity is approaching. Non-linearity is the constant.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

For other products, customers are generally shopping for virtual goods in some kind of catalog. If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role. I loved to compete against these companies.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Non of this academic stuff. You can start by personally emailing them and saying thanks. I send DM’s, emails, all day thanking people.

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grasshopperherder.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Non-compete. I was once asked to sign a one year non-compete agreement as a sweat equity consultant. Without receiving a real salary, I’d be wary of signing a non-compete in an area which I have domain expertise in. Email Address. Top 3 Ways to Fail at Customer Development.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also, for the full time coder, you may violate your employee contract especially in the area of non-competes or just plain piss off your boss when he finds out how much time you have been putting into a side project when deadlines were looming. Meebo doesn’t even work right on Chrome or Opera. Living expense money 2.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Whether you’re wondering what site search you should use or what is the best email marketing tool, knowledge is power. Email Integration. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Email marketing. Sendgrid : Need to send email out to users?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Most normal customers – even among early adopters - do not pay attention to the trolls. They don’t participate heavily in the forums, and they don’t send email when they are dissatisfied. They are largely invisible in the normal channels where customer service and community management pays attention.

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