YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 14, 2013

“The results of programs like 500 Startups, Techstars, and Y-Combinator are well known, but due to the culture here in Europe there’s still a lot of unknowns in terms of the track record for follow on funding and results of accelerator programs based in Europe,” says Don Ritzen, co-founder and CEO of Rockstart Accelerator.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For companies in the early-adopter phase, you can play "the earlyvangelist game" whenever a customer turns out to be too mainstream for your product. Pick a similar product that they do use, and ask them "who was the first person you know who started using [social networking, mobile phones, plasma TV, instant messaging.]? So why you?

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San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 133

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Massive conference update So about that conference : We’ve been announcing bit and pieces of the schedule, and today we’re pleased to publish the full program, below, including speakers, mentors, workshops, startup site visits and Ignite: Lean Startup. And Sincerely’s Matt Brezina on the secrets of developing mobile apps quickly.

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Lean San Francisco Houston Engineer 159

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

LSC: Tell us about the customer development you did for your book: Alistair: We''ve been thrilled at how Lean Analytics seemed to resonate with founders. Let''s say you want to know about the burgeoning market for mobile widgets. So you create a mobile widget MVP. If it fails, you''ve successfully studied it.

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Analytics Lean Widget Metrics 167

Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2016

We give out between $2 and $3 billion a year for these startups as 5,000 and 7,000 grants to small businesses doing everything from advance composite materials, space exploration, to IT, mobile security, you name it. To go through a deep dive as some sort of daylong workshop that helps them break through a barrier.

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Small Business Administration SBIR United States Entrepreneur 120

Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

Their initial customer segment were upwardly mobile professionals with $2-10K discretionary purchases/year (excluding travel,) and their revenue model was affiliate program fees. We taught them theory, methodology, and practice using Customer Development and business model design.

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South Dakota Business Model Lean United States 223

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Think, for example, about the way we talk about sales and customer development and the idea of ‘getting out of the building.’ Impatient investors and team members give little support to a founder trying to do Customer Development to verify or modify that idea. They often look on this as a waste of time.

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Silicon Valley Lean Puerto Rico Japan 168

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

As we lead up to the big day, we’re spotlighting speakers who’ll be involved in our hands-on workshops, lightning talks, keynotes, interactive breakout sessions, and other learning and networking events. The customer development theory was an eye opener and gave us the final push to launch this venture. Our MVP is a service MVP.

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Kenya Lean Community Africa 60

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. Prior to Sorced, Elizabeth worked in business development at SecondMarket. She has consulted for a number of startups in the mobile, Saas, and consumer health spaces.

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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

For example, if any of the mobile ad networks gets major traction, they may become a dominant way that people discover new apps. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. Amazon PostRank

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San Francisco Lean Retention SEM 68

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

So there is an opportunity to build new brands with attributes like "the most amazing mobile apps" but I think building a company around that strategy means really thinking through how to do it. No other mobile platform or carrier deck under the sun can offer the amount of user attention and time that the App Store does.

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Distribution San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment 74

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 4, 2013

What you’ll see at all of our events —whether on the stage, in the workshops , at a mentoring session , or in the site visits —is something other than conference regulars pitching presentations on the usual themes. You’ll launch a startup in 54 hours, creating mobile, web and software innovations with a team of fellow participants.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

If you support mobile or prepaid cards for billing, they can even do it on their own, without approval, just using their discretionary income. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. Amazon PostRank

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