Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Through case studies, exercises, and discussions, Eric Ries will guide entrepreneurs of all stripes through the key areas that determine success for startups: product, engineering, QA, marketing, and business strategy. This workshop presents a new methodology that will allow you to bring new products -- and companies -- to life.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 5, 2017

I was having coffee with the CEO of a new startup, listening to her puzzle through how to communicate to potential customers. Audience(s), Message, Media, Messenger. Select the media you want the message to be read/seen/heard on. These are very different audiences, each requires its own messages, media and messengers.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 10, 2023

I was having breakfast with Erin, an ex-student, just off a red-eye flight from New York. Erin had previously worked in New York for one of those companies and had a stellar reputation in the industry. As one would expect, with banks and hedge funds as customers, the majority were based in the New York metropolitan area.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Kathy Ku , executive director of Stanford University’s Office of Technology Licensing. In addition, Orin has served on boards or as the Principal Investigator for the NYC Media Lab , PowerBridgeNY , and the Columbia Coulter Translational Partnership. Orin Herskowitz.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Such expectations have spurred the growth of a new crop of independent venture funds, with notable examples like Andreessen Horowitz and First Round Capital. Can the founders communicate well?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

But in Menlo Park, every commute is highly variable, no matter how short, and so I often found myself sitting in traffic, bored, and eager to get to my desk to work on whatever engineering problem I was obsessed with. It's a wide-ranging call-in show that covers just about every topic you can imagine. Scullin, Alphabet Energy, Inc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. Big-time media buying is a complex ecosystem that includes many entrenched players.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. SlideShare asked customers what they had expected in the product; the responses were often literal descriptions.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 15, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link]. Bad Customer Development Questions and How to Avoid My Mistakes – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. The Torch Program is the worlds largest “lets engineer entrepreneurial clusters” experiment.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 11, 2013

This post is about the how the Chinese government engineered technology clusters. Examples are Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion, New York for finance and today, Silicon Valley for technology entrepreneurship. The Torch Program is the worlds largest “lets engineer entrepreneurial clusters” experiment.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Who better to answer than the company's engineering lead. 10 Tips for Enterprise Software Startups - ReadWriteStart , November 16, 2010 I started my career in enterprise software in the 1980s and after some years working in other areas (outsourcing and online media) I am back in the enterprise software game. This post is an accusation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The customer is unknown, the product is unknown, and startups must be built to learn. It represents the triumph of learning, over the naive startup creation myths we read about in the media. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? IMVU learned to learn.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

It’s actually pretty hard to find a good start-up job if you have no real engineering or user acquisition / product management skills. My company and product involve HW/SW/RF/embedded system integration, and I am NO kind of engineer. Why You Shouldn’t: You’re postponing your dream for at least two years. Any advice?

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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. Consequently, I either needed a tech co-founder or to pay someone to develop the product. Given those criteria, where are the watering holes to find these engineers?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

The first event is January 21, and is being put on by Dealmaker Media as part of their Strategy Series events: In the Trenches: Cutting Costs in a Tight Economy. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? There are no canned presentations, so you can come set the agenda.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. Customers and prospects are overwhelmed by the number of media and companies clamoring for their attention. On the App Store, the same dynamic is in play.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Each of these four currencies represents a way for a customer to “pay&# for services from a company. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. Sorry about that.)

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

incubators, e.g., the many options in New York. intrapreneurs, e.g., the employee of GE who is tasked with launching a new business. Design, development, and digital media shops, sometimes just a few years old, are doing bigger and bigger projects and come bearing cash flow and that scarcest resource, talent.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Retention - Users come back to the site through emails, social media and stay active with product features (“you’ve got a message”). Active users also refer new users through product features and incentives. accessible to search engines, sitemap.xml), fresh (i.e. new and original) and interesting (i.e.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Do some Customer Development instead. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, the works. The product didnt convert well enough, the mainstream customers we were driving werent ready for the concept, and the event fed expectations about how successful the product was going to be that turned out to be hyper-inflated.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Hire a CTO or VP Engineering.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

Reply Quote of the Day | Bronte Media , on April 7, 2009 at 7:28 pm Said: [.] From the king of customer development, Steve Blank: [.] Reply Harvey , on April 11, 2009 at 7:05 pm Said: Some of the best engineers I hired out of school were not 3.5+ Google requires transcripts for new grads. I love Google.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Hello Eric, I've been pouring through your blog since attending your event at MIT providing a overview of the core competencies of a "lean startup" Coming across your post about the "net promoter" score was a surprise but I had to reach out and tell you that this was the inspiration of my new startup called SOCIALtality.

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