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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 28, 2014
Post by Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries, co-hosts for The Lean Startup Conference At this year’s Lean Startup Conference , we seek to answer the difficult questions you face as an entrepreneur. Note that summer sale pricing for the conference ends on Monday night, so register now for the best deal possible.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference The Lean Startup Conference is next week--and now that we can step back and see all the speakers and mentors, we have to say: Wow. Another way to learn more about who’s speaking is to sort the conference program by category and find people addressing specific topics.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2014
There’s an old joke in software development, “How much time does it take to design software?” CEOs are time-driven creatures. CEOs who are tough but fair-minded set aggressive targets on “time” and communicate clearly with engineering why there is a deadline.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 19, 2009
I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. Some of these advisors from the academic community would work with our of VP of Engineering and help us solve specific technical problems.
Steve Blank
OCTOBER 5, 2009
I had last been in Chapel Hill on a winter’s day in 1986, traveling with the VP of Sales of our new supercomputer startup, Ardent. I’ve convinced the team you’d be perfect, come join us as the VP of Marketing.” I knew we almost had him convinced when our sales guy and Andy started talking to each other in Dutch.
Steve Blank
JUNE 25, 2009
Twenty eight years ago I was the bright, young, eager product marketing manager called out to the field to support sales by explaining the technical details of Convergent Technologies products to potential customers. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 7, 2008
Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. And we cant hire new engineers any faster, because you cant be interviewing and debugging and fixing all at the same time! Even with the highest standards imaginable, theres no way to hire just genius hackers. Just change it.
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