Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits." Many of us are not accustomed to thinking about markets or customers in a disciplined way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 16, 2011

That's what Songkick 's Ian Hogarth did by creating a Startup Tools Wiki. Built to save others from "re-inventing the wheel," says Hogarth, the wiki gathers useful tools that startups have found and come to rely on. The wiki is meant to gather these resources in one place so companies that are getting started have a wiki to reference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 26, 2009 A real Customer Advisory Board A reader recently asked on a previous post about the technique of having customers periodically produce a “state of the company&# progress report. Many companies seek to involve customers directly in the creation of their products.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Customer trust is everything. An evolving customer experience is causing trust to be gained at different areas of the buyer cycle. There are dozens of channels businesses use to engage with customers. An omnichannel approach must be taken to ensure that customers have a seamless experience. Offer Live Chat.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 11, 2010

The Hackathon manager should come up with an easy way to manage the team list (hint – wiki). In the best hackathons, there is a wiki that is very dynamic during the hackathon. Form teams. The teams should be between two and five people. The teams should be self-selecting. Demos and awards start at 5:30pm. Food is included.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. The breakthrough idea of agile is that software should be built iteratively, with the pieces that customers value most created first. Enter Jims post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? This may sound crazy, coming as it does from an advocate of c harging customers for your product from day one. They are gaining valuable customer data.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 25, 2012

Today we depend on the Internet to reach customers, manage suppliers, and conduct our business in general. This will allow businesses to continue to reach customers without any impact and regardless of how individual customers are connected to the Internet, whether that is via IPv4 and IPv6.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Carmen was the first CIA executive to envision many of the applications now used by CIA analysts, including online production, collaborative tools, and Intellipedia , the Intelligence Community-wide wiki developed by Don Burke and Sean Dennehy. Upon her retirement from CIA, she received the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2018

Use your LinkedIn profile to connect with potential business partners and bulk customers, but don’t be afraid to have some fun with your profile either. If you or your company have any claim to the site’s ever-expanding definition of “notability,” you have a claim to a Wiki of your own. Your Wikipedia page doesn’t have to be flashy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

All vote-counting is done live using Polly’s analytics tools and the app allows for a high degree of customization like allowing autonomous voting, scheduled surveys, and multiple voting if required. To this extent, Wiki comes bundled with MS Teams by default and allows team members to create and contribute to a dedicated workspace for notes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

The Lean Startup Wiki (hosted by long-time lean startup pbWorks) contains a number of resources, including links to case studies , meetups, tools , and people who have volunteered to help. Its a wiki, feel free to consume and enhance it. Its a wiki, feel free to consume and enhance it. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 8, 2011

It was designed to bring together many of the new approaches to building a successful startup – customer development, agile development, business model generation and pivots. Startups, are not about executing a plan where the product, customers, channel are known. Get Out of the Building and test the Business Model. Or a speaker?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2018

The key here is flexibility: any document you create could have elements of lists, embedded media (including video, audio, and webpages), spreadsheets, wiki-style content, and other data all together in one place. And, our outstanding customer service team is available to guide you through the whole process. Noisli : web, iOS.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) If you’ve read any of my previous posts, you know I believe that: 1) a product is just a part of a startup, but understanding customers, channel, pricing, etc. to optimize this search.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 2, 2018

The key here is flexibility: any document you create could have elements of lists, embedded media (including video, audio, and webpages), spreadsheets, wiki-style content, and other data all together in one place. And, our outstanding customer service team is available to guide you through the whole process. Noisli : web, iOS.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. If youre interested in contributing a case study for publication here, consider getting started by adding it to the Lean Startup Wiki case study section.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Style guides (also known as pattern libraries) are a living collection of all of your product’s customer-facing components. Some companies use wikis for their style guides, which allows the collection to stay current and accessible to everyone on the team. If it’s made of pixels, it goes in the style guide.

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Spencer Fry

DECEMBER 16, 2019

At 9 people, everyone could manage themselves and their own projects without stepping on anyone's toes, but as the product got bigger and as we got more customers, we needed to better coordinate across the company and the various departments. Who owns the failure? Company policies are a necessity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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Venture Chronicles

JUNE 8, 2010

Clearly there are product components, most notably the customer community pieces that vendors like Get Satisfaction and UserVoice are offering (notice the Feedback widget to the left, I started my own VC community on Get Satisfaction!). A number of companies are offering ideation, from IdeaScale to Salesforce Ideas.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2013

To a small app developer like Gliffy , that means waves of curious customers will soon be searching the Office App Store for new tools. But Gliffy is hoping for a surge of new customers and downloads as Microsoft opens the Office Store. “I want to know the power of riding the wave.”

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Starting with an audit of your current strategy, the competitive landscape, a deep understanding of your business objectives, and customer discovery, a CTO will develop a holistic product roadmap that will provide you the unfair advantage you need to succeed in the market. They adopt, measure, and manage key product performance metrics.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

For example, Confluence has an enterprise wiki. This is somewhat within the area of knowledge collecting and searching so they could be considered a competitor, but we are not trying to build a wiki of knowledge, we are trying to simplify centralization of knowledge. Shelf is not like this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

We were even more embarrassed by the pathetically small number of customers we had, and the pathetically low amount of revenue we had earned so far. The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. Retention cohort analysis. Funnel averages over time.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Here are some examples of some recent descriptions for you to enjoy (my simple-minded remarks in parens): Data-centric wiki of tech information (huh?). Low-code platform for custom engagement (is there high-code?). Log analytics firm (like wood logs?). Kubernetes observability platform (no clue!). I guess yes!).

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dontbesoanalytical.blogspot.com

MAY 13, 2012

Working with the customer organizations, the Director keeps up to date on shifting priorities, changes in product requirements, and new potential opportunities that the developers may need to supply. Consider how firms today confront Web 2.0 – the combination of blogs, wikis, and social networking technologies sprouting up.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 28, 2014

In many cases, they use distributed desktops, meaning that the desktop image that an employee sees is customized according to his or her role within the company. Scott Matteson of TechRepublic suggests setting up a shared page or wiki for VDI issues, allowing employees to post VDI problems for IT to review.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did). Defective prototype code was as often thrown out (because customers didnt want it) as it was fixed (when customers did). Firefighting was part of the fun of living on the edge. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The law of large numbers (of customers) says you cant help but make at least some money - your valuation is determined by how well you monetize the tidal wave of growth. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 15, 2013

This post is about how to work with your largest customers when you’re an early-stage software company and about how you can increase your margins by selling your roadmap. For starters as a young enterprise software company you need to think about the customer segments you serve. One way of slicing customer segments is by size.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Scalable systems are no exception - if your assumptions about how many customers youll have, or how they will behave are just a little bit wrong, you can wind up with a massive amount of wasted code. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ▼ June (3) What is a startup? Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the.

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