Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

I think the other thing that sort of made me jump pretty early on the testing is we had been setting up this clinical trial with a partner for probably about six months, with a collaborator who had typically been incredibly responsive and would jump on the phone at a moment's notice. We were supposed to have the kickoff meeting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 29, 2022

2:59] Where strategic partners can fit into this idea. [3:25] The fourth episode in the series: How To Build A Strategic Partner Network. Maybe I'd bring in some of my strategic partners. If you listen to last the, the last show on, on referrals, I talked extensively about strategic partners. And it was the same thing.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

So we set out to solve them and help grow successful food businesses in DC. My partners and I founded Reel Paper with the goal of adding the positive experience of social responsibility to the simple e-comm purchase of a household staple: toilet paper. I was determined to be the best business partner he’s ever had.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While maintaining persistence and willpower is certainly good advice, Customer Development methodologies are designed to give you data and feedback you may not want to hear. But be philosophically consistent: periodically take the time to question your own expertise and that of your friends, partners and investors.

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). Don't get lost… DC, DR, DA, money, DC, DR, DA, happiness, DC, DR, DA, glory.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Ive been talking to the folks at [a very good VC firm] about helping them with a new venture. Take a look and let me know what you think. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

We pitch to potential partners, vendors, publishers, conferences, employees, and even lawyers. Dont keep banging your head against the wall - if you cant convince your potential partners that your startup is printing money, try to figure out why. Experiment with different narratives. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

After being an actual analyst for a while, I'm now managing the Google Analytics Certified Partner program, and I now realize that it wasn't just me, our entire INDUSTRY is affected by this issue. Your designer created new graphics. DC, DR & DA are three key components of any analytics practice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, the companies get a lot of exposure to VCs, investors, and partners in larger, more traditional startup hubs. And one last specific practice that came up at this session: feverishaaron : UI, design and programmers are all in the same department, all have the same title, and all are evaluated the same.

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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. It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. It strokes your ego.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

Some designers also hate optimizing (which is why the “41 shades of blue&# test is so famous – a famous designer claims to have quit over it ). After you’ve spent months on a painstaking new design, who wants to be told what color blue to use? It takes some getting used to for most designers, though.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I had a lot of use for this concept back when I worked on game design and virtual worlds. In order to maintain game play balance, game designers have to take into account the needs of customers who have an excess of four different assets: time , money , skill , and passion. Having a balanced ecosystem is what game designers strive for.

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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. This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers.

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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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Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

HW: You partnered with Bond Street for growth capital. I also have a lot respect for the fellow DC-based entrepreneurs and the founders of Sweetgreen who were part of Bond Street’s Series A. About Bond Street: Bond Street is transforming small business lending through technology, data and design.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 10, 2016

HW: You partnered with Bond Street for growth capital. I also have a lot respect for the fellow DC-based entrepreneurs and the founders of Sweetgreen who were part of Bond Street’s Series A. About Bond Street: Bond Street is transforming small business lending through technology, data and design.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Designer – Good design can make or break a product so make sure you have someone who can think about and drive all design aspects of your business – from brand/logos, the appearance of the product and marketing materials. Software Engineer—PHP—Energy Software for the Smart Grid @ Agentis Energy (Elmhurst, IL) Sr.

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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. It was pretty ugly, the marketing and design sucked, and I was embarrassed by it. We can learn to see.

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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. Thanks for an enjoyable evening. June 3, 2009 8:16 PM Tom Gimbel said. Eric - thanks for making it to Austin to share your insights on the lean startup. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

The site hung on to its design philosophy of being an island cut off from the rest of the Web, and paid the price. For example, we simply cannot make the changes we need because weve already promised something to partners. Thats what business is designed to do. The opportunity was just mind-bogglingly huge. How did they do it?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2017

The Hacking for Defense class was designed as “fundamental research” to be shared broadly and the results are not subject to restriction for proprietary or national security reasons. This meant that the minimal viable products the students built were focused on maximizing their learning of what to build, not just building prototypes.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 29, 2021

was born on a train from NYC to DC in 2008 when I was reading an article by Annie Prolix in Amtrak magazine about Elizabeth Gilbert, author of “Eat Pray Love.” In the first few years after I initially started this company, we focused on logos, branding, posters, banners – anything to do with graphic designs. Photo Credit: Hope Gibbs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Even if, in a previous life, you were a world expert in some functional specialty, like in-depth market research or scalable systems design, the compressed timeline of a startup makes it irrelevant. These are two other Extreme Programming practices that are explicitly designed to counteract the problems inherent in this situation.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 14, 2017

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. Our mission is to help design lovers buy and sell chic furnishings in a beautiful, easy-to-use and super fun marketplace. I hired another guide to help with the load, and I started charging for tickets to pay the guide.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 16, 2019

If we’re honest, many of us will admit that we’re kind of going through the motions — work, home, eat, TV, sleep, repeat — and living by default instead of design. If your spouse or partner doesn’t want to get out, grab the kids or a girlfriend and just go. You’re not alone. Uninspired.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen. I am one of the original organizers of Frontline Foods and prior to this had spent six years as a general partner at RedPoint Ventures. The founders of Frontline Foods are three of these people.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Now we see weird case of designer from Nigeria collaborating with APP developer from Romania building a product which Intellectual Property is registered in Netherlands and LLC registered in Boston. Here your goal is to design, build and brand, launch MVP or Demo. Just how cool is that? I love every single second of it.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We’d like to equip every Honor Flight hub in the nation with VR goggles so aging and terminally ill veterans who can’t travel to Washington, DC to see their memorials can experience them in VR. My co-founder, Dr. Jeff Tarrant, was my husband’s business partner when they had a psychology practice together. Jeff would be meditating.

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Hunter Walker

JUNE 7, 2016

Bettina Stern: My business partner Suzanne Simon and I have been cooking together for many years. Chaia was the result of our matched style toward food and our wish to bring seasonal, vegetable cuisine to DC. UberEats – we recently partnered with this behemoth to get our food to more customers. How did it all begin?

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

My love of DC and work during the 90’s marketing the city, helped to shift national perception about Washington DC as a place to live and invest. Thanks to Sara Wagers, Virtual Biz Partner ! #12 I currently manage a new startup called GadgTecs as a partner. It feels good being heard and valued for it!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. or their privileging of only certain designers featured in Showcase and promos. Eric, I am not only a member of the IMVU community, but I am your business partner.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

Momentum currently has a graduate base of 30,000+ and growing with offices in NYC, DC, Seattle and Los Angeles. During this time, I have learned a lot, while also making a ton of mistakes, but I am incredibly proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish and the team of people I get to partner with. That is a great question.

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Transformify

JULY 27, 2019

We participate in job fairs around the state, including the Maryland, DC and Northern Virginia, areas. VMFA worked hard to receive a designation from the state's Veterans Administration called Virginia Values Veterans (V3). Are there any D&I campaigns you are especially proud of?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Only after we have at least two products scaling successfully in at least two emerging market regions, will we have proven the commercial model for medical device design with and for emerging markets. This will require new partners, new skill sets, and new business model innovation. Johns Hopkins University and University of Maryland).

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The Next Web

APRIL 20, 2013

Our program used Lean Sigma to figure out the variance in care, we then used design thinking and brain storming techniques in partnership with IDEO to come up with solutions. I outline the specifics of how we made minimal viable products, tested hypotheses and either persevered or pivoted.

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