Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 29, 2020

I chair a medical data research lab called WAMRI, and probably best known as the co-founder of fast.ai, although increasingly finding myself known, surprisingly enough to me, as the co-founder of this thing called #Masks4All. And they- Eric Ries : It’s antithetical to the scientific reader Jeremy Howard : In theory, it should be.

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Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

This is exactly what Matt Buchanan and his co-founder have done while leading a technology company that offers local lead generation solutions, based in Austin, TX. We believe what makes us unique is our world-class technology. Anything else additional you want to tell our readers? What makes you unique? In fact, seek failure.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Steve Blank has asked me to co-teach his MBA entrepreneurship class at Berkeley Haas, starting January 19, and to revamp the curriculum to make it a full introduction to the lean startup. If youd like to attend this class at Berkeley, just let me know in a comment. Teaching at Berkeley (and beyond). Startup Lessons Learned conference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). Q&A with an actual reader The lean startup comes to Stanford You don't need as many tools as you think The three drivers of growth for your business mode.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. In each case, a single maintainer recorded items emailed by newsgroup readers, and posted updated versions of his list from time to time." " September 17, 2009 9:40 PM Anonymoussaid. Thanks Eric, great blog! Definitely highlights the beauty of the web.

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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. Customers kept demanding that we add this or that IM feature, and we were routinely refusing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" By delegating and training, we create a corps of leaders who could step in to provide CTO-like services on demand. Thats an important job, for sure, and Ive been called upon to do it from time to time. I always assumed I wouldnt manage anybody.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

The most common feedback Ive heard from readers has been that I should provide details on my background. Thanks to Suns amazing PR blitz, there was tremendous demand for experts on Java, and I did my best to convince people that I was one of that mythical breed. Your thoughts resonate and I enjoy much your writing style.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 1, 2010

Yes, we’ll always want to encourage higher quality, but it won’t matter if we have crappy demand. Readers and consumers of media have exerted a new level control around how news and entertainment is created, shared and consumed. 12:30 PM: CrowdControl: Changing The Face Of Media Or Hype?

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mashable.com

DECEMBER 29, 2011

” This year, a flood of promising startups — from peer-to-peer learning startup Skillshare to on-demand car wash service Cherry — found new ways to answer that question. That same month, prestigious startup accelerator TechStars announced its first New York City class. NYC Rises In the Tech Scene. I Wanted an iPhone!

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

“Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. And in fact, overall trends are a second-order effect for founders.” “The real winners here are going to be the seed funds and early stage VCs that can write a $1 million to $2 million check,” says AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Thanks alot for writing, and consider me a very engaged reader :) Keep up the great work. Gatekeepers are overloaded.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Regular readers of this blog will know the specific methodology I recommend, called Five Whys. It could be fixed by refactoring the code itself, or by partitioning the data horizontally or vertically, or by adding additional capacity at the point of the bottleneck, or by shaping end-user demand, or even by removing the feature itself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Even worse, in my opinion, is that I know there are at least a few readers out there who read the previous paragraph and thought, "those arent hard choices to make; its obvious what you should choose." Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. People have natural affinity for some kinds of work. What is customer development?

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

500 CEO, serial entrepreneur and the founder of New York Angels. founder and CEO of Gust, the angel financing platform used by over 50,000. This is where you find the superb Rails coder, and the world-class information architect, and the consummate sales guy, and the persuasive business development person, and the brilliant CFO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage. It makes successful founders famous. That means less attention, less coverage, fewer readers, and lower sponsorship dollars.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 13, 2021

Entrepreneurs such as Figma CEO Dylan Field, fellow investors including Moxxie Ventures founder and general partner Katie Stanton, and Coatue Management partner Jamie McGurk pitched questions to the duo. And we talked about some of the key lessons readers learned over the course of his career. You can listen to the podcast here.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. Earth Class Mail. online web site class for novices. Event platforms. Eventbrite.

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Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Readers may find it helpful to download the sample term sheet from my firm’s website and follow along with the commentary. Thus, it’s in everyone’s best interest to see the startup raise more capital rather than declaring default and demanding repayment.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 6, 2012

My partner Bonnie Harvey and I are the founders of Barefoot Cellars, the company that transformed the image of American wine from staid and unimaginative to fun, lighthearted, and hip. That’s a problem, because entrepreneurship demands resourcefulness, imagination, self-reliance, patience, hustle, and tenacity.

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I’ve been an avid reader of Dan’s Term Sheet while he was at Fortune , and now Pro Rata at Axios. I’ll start with all the questions I can think of, from many different perspectives: founders, LPs, the press, and even other VCs. If you try to punch beyond your weight class, your chances of getting knocked out are a lot higher.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

But I’m not sure that the consumer awareness and consumer demand is really there from a chat bot perspective. Hello and welcome to another episode of the Duct Tape Marketing podcast. David thanks for joining me. However, I think at this point not only is the technology a little bit too nascent to really kind of sink your teeth into.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 4, 2018

She is the Founder & Principal of 11Eleven Consulting , a boutique corporate social responsibility consulting firm focused on aiding companies that care. In today’s marketplace, companies have to do more than just produce a top-quality product and provide world class customer service to be the best.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. This post was tremendously enhanced by a number of early readers from the Twitterverse. Trust me, it’s a lot of fun.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

As regular readers of my blog know, I was born in Nairobi and grew up visiting the developing world in the 1980s, after my family moved to the United States. Impact investing, venture philanthropy and social entrepreneurship are all areas in practice and theory that have been close to my heart for years.

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thebarefootvc

MAY 13, 2015

As regular readers of my blog know, I was born in Nairobi and grew up visiting the developing world in the 1980s, after my family moved to the United States. Impact investing, venture philanthropy and social entrepreneurship are all areas in practice and theory that have been close to my heart for years.

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Professor VC

JULY 25, 2013

In investment parlance, it strictly means that new classes of stock have equal rights with prior classes in terms of liquidation preference, voting rights, etc. However, I''m sure some of ProfessorVC''s readers will recognize themselves or others in these examples. Startup outcomes tend to be very binary.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. In later posts I’m going to get into more detail on specific topics like hiring, raising money, what types of ideas have the potential to get big, finding your founders, and the like.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2011

Its i-nigma solution comprises of a mobile multi-barcode reader application and an integrated platform for managing barcode services. Content and platform protection for smart phones, tablets, TVs, set-top boxes, e-book readers and other mobile and home entertainment devices. MailVision. Rad Data Communication. Saguna Networks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. No idea how I found your blog but I follow it with my Google Reader. November 24, 2008 2:44 PM Eric said.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

You can measure this yourself: go to any list of startups, maybe look at YCombinator’s recent graduate class , or Scoble’s list of picks for 2010 , or Sequoia’s list of seed companies — or go find a list you like better. I agree with some of the other readers. Who cares if you can connect class A with class B?

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Perhaps 15 years ), probably your reader needs further references, and some hands-on experiences to appreciate your post. Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Co-founders and outsourcing work the same. Finding a co-founder will take much longer (3 months is typical).

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For example, Charles Revson, founder of Revlon, always used to say he sold hope, not makeup. Basecamp designer Ryan Singer summarized the problem with personas : You’ve got a couple and they’re middle-class Americans. You’ll help prevent your readers from wearing themselves out visually before they can finish absorbing your content.

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