Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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SoCal CTO

APRIL 20, 2007

Been traveling and consulting with a bunch of early-stage and growth companies. type tools (Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, RSS, RSS Readers) on corporate learning and someone like HBS. I've somewhat fallen off the map on this blog. Really fun stuff these days.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

In an early-stage startup especially, revenue is not an important goal in and of itself. Let’s start with a simple question: why do early-stage startups want revenue? If youre still very early stage, then you need to know what a true early adopter looks like. But all things are never equal.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. The event will include a talk from Eric on The Lean Startup over dinner, followed by moderated table discussion and then final Q&A with Eric. Bring your questions.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

Back in March, Andreessen Horowitz and Fenwick & West, LLP published a series of documents that would help structure early stage investments in startups. I've started a Legal Wiki on my website and have posted a form of Series AA term sheet that everybody can edit and comment on: [link] q=node/5.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. For example, my experience with teenagers is that they are very reluctant to call or email asking for support, even when they have a severe problem.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2009

In fact, early stage companies shouldnt be able to get time from anyone else - who else would be crazy enough to try an truly innovative new product? christinelu : if youre building a disruptive innovation.the only people who you want to talk to are early adopters. Brilliant insight. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

One way to conceive of our goal in an early-stage venture is to incrementally “fill in the blanks&# for the business model that we think will one day power our startup. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. The solution is to change our focus from outputs to inputs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

But in the early stages of a startup you are still trying to hone in on what exactly the problem is. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. There is no iteration in the process, in fact the SBCE serves to remove iterations (rework). April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. We’re staring to get the hang of how to divide the show up into talking about deals but also talking about issues for entrepreneurs during funding. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. Three premier early-stage venture investors have joined forces to sponsor the event: Baseline , Floodgate , and First Round Capital. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

This is important, especially if you are a very early stage company. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Ill mention one last thing about knowing what channels of communication your customers engage with. It also gives you insight into their language. Bring your questions.

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www.payne.org

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

From Payne.org Wiki. The total preference is less of an issue in early stage companies (e.g. However, it can be a significant issue in later stage companies that have raised a lot of money. The common stock price is usually a fraction of the preferred price, at least in the early stages. 3 Dilution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I liked the flattering Venture Hacks commentary so much Ill just quote it: Many founders believe that early stage startups are endeavors of execution. He believes that many early stage startups are labors of learning. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

However, this financial bar has had the effect of excluding one segment of potential customers that Id really like to see there - early stage entrepreneurs who have all the intelligence and vision of their later stage counterparts, but simply cannot afford the cash flow to attend. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? This is the usual reason given for a marketing launch, but for most early stage startups, its a failure. My answer is almost always the same: dont.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It turns out, much of our portfolio has some sort of wiki for their data – whether that’s on Google Docs or Github. Our teams are big fans of Github Pages vs. Github Wiki itself. With Github Pages, you can pull requests and edit like a wiki. Perhaps that’s because we’re all still in the early stages in the data science journey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

For short stories - I think it is always good to introduce some practical problem (you might have heard from entrepreneur at early stage) and how the lean startup method helped solved that. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. August 20, 2009 6:44 AM Prashant Sachdev said.

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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. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. Bring your questions.

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David Teten

JUNE 1, 2011

Five next steps Google yourself and see what people are saying about you Be a data hound Reduce email use: move communications to thinks like wikis that are better stores of information and less re-emailing (social text is a good corporate wiki) Find people to meet online – zoominfo aggregates all publically available information.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. Lean Startup Wiki - including a complete list of local meetups and meetup organizers. (You can even see the humiliating evidence of my smug incompetence in this absurd article from 1999.)

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Michael: Well, I’m very in the early stage, and my question reflects that. If you can’t get people to take it for free, even if it is early stage, then I think that’s a bad indication that you still don’t have enough differentiators from those other three. Jason: Nice. Jason: Alright. Jason: Great.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Github -Â Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs.

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