Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

On August 20th, Eric is leading a half day in-depth workshop on the Lean Startup. A very limited number of tickets are also available for this workshop. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

You might get a bunch of inbound emails from other press and partners, and all of these things can contribute to a feeling that you’re on your way to getting tons of traffic. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? It strokes your ego. Amazon PostRank

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 1, 2016

Partner Marketing – This includes co-marketing activities run in collaboration with strategic marketing partners. Online Events – This includes events such as webinars, demonstrations, and workshops conducted using online tools. Offer a screencast showing readers exactly how to do what you’ve written about in your post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Establish credibility with potential partners. You need to combine your product with others, and this requires partners like OEMs or system integrators. A marketing launch can help you get in the door with those partners, if youre having trouble getting their attention. Do some Customer Development instead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

I got a powerful taste of datablindness recently, as I’ve started to work with various large companies as partners in setting up events, speeches, and other products to sell around the Lean Startup concept. There are lots of good reasons why I can’t have instantaneous access to this data, and each partner has their own.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

We trying to teach students a methodology that combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. This team spoke face-to-face with 50+ end users, 3 manufacturers, 25 potential partners, 22 domain experts and surveyed an additional 115 customers. Yet this isn’t an incubator.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 29, 2016

To promote innovation inside the NGA, they’ve staffed an Enterprise Innovation Office (EIO) to coach, educate and advise the entire agency, from core leadership to the operational edges, with methods and concepts of validated learning through rapid experimentation and customer development.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 28, 2017

Often, they struggle with understanding which person or group represents a beneficiary, supporter, advocate or potential key partner. Bringing the groups together in a workshop also served to align value propositions between beneficiaries by demonstrating that there was a way to create a single program that served all their needs.

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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. Then, what’s missing — clearly an engineer — and why do I want a partner? Prior to Sorced, Elizabeth worked in business development at SecondMarket.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Or to some passionate customers. Were doomed!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Herein lies the reason my partner and I started Dillotronics - as well as the reason your take on the matter resonated so well here. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master. Thanks for an enjoyable evening.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

General Assembly – Boston branch of tech classes and workshops started in NYC. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Investors: Antonio Rodriguez – Matrix Partners, HP ( blog , @antrod). David Skok – Matrix Partners ( blog , @bostonvc).

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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. And we hope that when you join, you''ll come ready to share your experiences and advice with other participants.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2016

We did canning and food preservation workshops. It also helped us create a network of farmers, which was another one of those things that we didn’t realize was important, but through all the catering work we had done and the food preservation workshops, we had connected with lots and lots of the farmers that deliver to Little Rock.

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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.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Sure, when entrepreneurs create startups that grow up into mature companies, they become part of an established industry, with its own ecosystem, norms, partners and best practices. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 7, 2015

At Forward Partners we are in full agreement with this definition (although we spell organisation with an s… ) but have found that it is a bit confusing for startups in their first weeks and months. We think the best next step is to find a point of emotional connection with customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

What about companies, like Siebel, that started with partner distribution first? For more on how to figure out which question applies in which context, see Business ecology and the four customer currencies.) It’s the difference between asking “how should we best solve this problem for these customers?&#

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

This week they were testing their hypotheses about Partners. Partners are the external companies whose product or service combines with your Value Proposition to create a complete customer solution or “whole product&# to satisfy customers. They worked on understanding their partners. The Nine Teams Present.

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www.kernelmag.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Recently, my friend Harjeet Taggar, partner at US seed fund YCombinator, tweeted that, increasingly, the problems faced by start-ups they fund are being addressed by other start-ups. They tend to have a multitude of side projects, Github portfolios and hacking workshops on the go at once. But it’s not only cheaper.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

Week 3 of the class and our teams in our Stanford Lean LaunchPad class were hard at work using Customer Development to get out of the classroom and test the first key hypotheses of their business model: The Value Proposition. Next week each team test their Customer Segment hypotheses (who are their customers/users/decision makers, etc.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. It exists to serve the needs of customers, and it does this by offering its capabilities to other functions in the company, and partnering with them. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2009

This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. This case study illustrates one company’s attempt to do customer development by testing their vision with customers before writing a single line of code. Oh, this is just a Photoshop file?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 1, 2009

I see that as a great way for my product to grow, but while Ive partnered with companies in my consulting business, its not something Im as familiar with now that Im on the product side. I question what numbers I would need to be considered respectable and/or worth a potential partners time. January 2, 2009 4:53 AM Dave McClure said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

But it became clear that if IMVU was ever going to become a mainstream business, we had to effectively fire these early customers. Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. The reasons were many and complex, so I won’t rehash them all here.

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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.

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