Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Coming up in just a few short months, you'll have a chance to go in-depth with the authors and their book at an awesome workshop. As we’ve mentioned here once or ten times before, this year, The Lean Startup Conference will include a second day, December 4, with in-demand workshops from established leaders in our community.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Even the IT sphere, well known for entry-level hiring and a never-ending search for talent, has shed a number of early stage positions in response to the COVID-19 virus. Consider investing in opt-in workshops, courses, or online certifications at a number of milestones in a new employee’s journey. The factors are manifold.

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NZ Entrepreneur

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

The findings from this collaborative workshop are outlined for entrepreneurs and business mentors in a recent case study available here. In the early stages of your business, you are constantly testing and evaluating your hypotheses with customers – and sometimes it’s a lot easier to do that in your own backyard.”.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 17, 2021

At the time we were planning a workshop for B2B tech startups from the IMEC accelerator (Ghent, Belgium) and had a chance to interview many of the companies that had signed up. And while this was a good start, a significant position of these companies were early-stage startups.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2011

Help with recruiting – Finding and helping interview candidates is invaluable, especially in the early stages. Host workshops and help establish a strong management team within your portfolio. Invite to workshops meaning workshops even while you don’t have money to invest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage. Then, create an encouraging environment for early-stage companies. Provide early seed capital, and be the ones to make those introductions. And do your customer development.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2021

For example, you can implement an individual development plan by using the Indeed template in the early stages. LMS software gives you a workshop where you can combine your data and organize it into an intuitive learning plan. Thankfully, there are many templates you can find online to speed up the process.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Editor’s Note: NextView recently kicked off a Boston-based workshop series on technical interviewing with Google. This interview covers a wide range of topics also covered in our workshops. In terms of interest in your product: If this person is an early hire, they need some product vision to go along with a desire to build.

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Eric Friedman

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

For now, this means advising early stage teams and offering myself as a “COO in a box” – consulting for companies that need operational excellence and trusted help. My True North is staying close to early stage startups and working as a strong advisor and coach.

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Haystack

JULY 15, 2018

“Fascinating, I need to think about it…” – Being an early-stage investor, I do encounter amazing people building entirely new things I have not even conceived. Workshopping An Idea – This is happening more frequently. I will meet a founder with great potential.

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ReadWriteStart

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Among other activities and programs, Silicon Sentier runs La Cantine , a coworking center, hip geek hangout and bustling hub for Paris tech events and activities: barcamps, workshops, competitions, launch parties, press conferences - you name it. Cap Digital and System@tic are among a number of tech clusters in Paris.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

The conference hopes to also raise international awareness for Malaysia startups for fund-raising purposes, and position the country – and the rest of Southeast Asia – as a viable market for innovative technologies and early-stage investments. Key Event Features.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 12, 2009 Lean Startup Workshop scholarship program I havent had much time to write lately, and so havent been able to share much about the Lean Startup Workshop series I have been producing with OReilly in their Master Class division. Thank you all. Thats why Im so excited about this format.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2019

Amos decided to write Sell More Faster because he realized building early-stage sales organizations had become intuitive to him based on a simple but effective process he created back at Business.com called W3. Finally, Amos will be doing a 20 city book tour this fall including a workshop on selling that accompanies the book.

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 3, 2023

(Post 1 of 4 in the series of Scaling CPO’s) In most startups, the HR function starts out as tactical, because you have to get people hired and paid, and while you might have a founder or early-stage employee who can do these things, often these tasks are frequently outsourced to a PEO.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Another advantage of the early stages is that most dont have to juggle too many competing priorities. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

A discounted price is available for early stage entrepreneurs and students. On August 20th, Eric is leading a half day in-depth workshop on the Lean Startup. A very limited number of tickets are also available for this workshop. Early bird pricing expires on August 6th, so register early. Amazon PostRank

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Austin Startup

APRIL 2, 2021

Job descriptions are fluid and expectations can be modified to fit the skills of the individual and the needs of the company; that’s one of the biggest advantages of being an early stage startup. We kick off the day with an all-hands meeting where we discuss company updates, product status and other announcements that affect everyone.

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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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The Equity Kicker

JUNE 26, 2014

We are a bit like an accelerator programme, a bit like an incubator and a bit like a straight early stage fund, yet we are also different to all of these things in crucial ways. Finally, we are different to early stage funds (and many of them are great early stage funds) because we spend much more money supporting our portfolio.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Unfortunately, they are disinterested in doing the hard work to help early stage entrepreneurs and companies. A few of us have banded together to do this ourselves and are actively working on several projects, including coworking, free startup workshops (our next one in on Jan 7th about product management), jellys etc.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

The people who are the lifeblood of an early-stage startup are earlyvangelists. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading. Dont confuse passion with volume.

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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. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 28, 2013

On December 11, an optional extra day for attendees, we’ll also offer half-day workshops on select topics and site visits to startups around San Francisco. The Gold Pass gets you those things, plus a third day of hands-on workshops and startup site visits around San Francisco (December 11). If that''s you, apply here.

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David Cohen

JULY 31, 2019

When Amos first shared he was writing the book I asked him why this book and he said, “because, surprisingly, with all the great books on sales out there, literally none of them give early stage founders a recipe for thinking about sales and product-market fit from day zero”. We looked around and he was right. Congrats Amos!

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2019

In the early stages of growing your business, this principle can reap great rewards. Later, that lot I didn’t want, but could afford was big enough to allow for a substantial expansion which led to being able to offer services that my competitors could not. Be prepared to embrace surprises and adjust accordingly.

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Scalable Startup

DECEMBER 4, 2012

To visit Startup Workshops, go here: [link]. Thinking about starting a very simple list of startup/tech jobs. any thoughts? I’ll see some of you Thursday and Happy Holidays to everybody! tomnora2020 (at) gmail.

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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. In other words, we want to use the spreadsheet to quantify our progress using the most important unit: validated learning about customers. Amazon PostRank

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Berkonomics

MAY 31, 2018

I keep that email in my leather note portfolio, carrying it with me wherever I go, pulling it out often to read portions to audiences during my workshops, or just for fun to fellow private equity investor friends. Five years later, I received an email from Tom. An email to preserve and show. Hello again, Dave,” it began.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 30, 2019

Early stage sales and product-market fit are topics that I love talking about,” said Schwartzfarb. I’ve spent my entire career helping to build early stage companies and I feel very fortunate to share my experience with founders everywhere.” 4: “Sell More Faster” Launch Party?

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Scalable Startup

MAY 14, 2012

I started a new group 2 months ago in Los Angeles – Startup Workshops – #SUWSLA to teach startup success concepts and try to launch new startups.We have over 100 members now, have had a few meetings and are in the process of launching a new startup with some of the members. Below is my update to the group today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

The difference matters, because while there are more than enough conferences aimed at startups—more of them every year it seems—so many of them look the same: a succession of speakers who are on the conference circuit, and a series of fast pitches and demos from early-stage startups. The fine art of experimentation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 19, 2023

And it's the same thing for individuals because at that early stage of a business, when you don't yet have a product, even sometimes when you don't yet have, um, customers, you don't yet have traction in sales, how are you gonna judge it? These are the kind of decisions we wanted to help people with at that early stage.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

After you briefly sketch out some ideas, they say, you set the stage with the wireframe. According to the article, “next, a lo-fi prototype is created from the wireframe itself by adding interactivity; this is tested for valuable early-stage feedback that can be incorporated before fine-detailing takes place.”.

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VC Cafe

JULY 21, 2020

GV (formerly Google Ventures) – Started in 2009, GV is Alphabet’s venture capital fund, focused primarily on early stage in diverse fields: from life sciences and healthcare to robotics and entereprise tech. Gradient Ventures – an early stage fund backed by Alphabet, investing exclusively in AI first companies.

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Gust

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

These are the ACA Leaders Workshop and the EBAN Winter University. This invitation-only event, which premiered in New York this year, is the first conference to specifically target both serious angel investors and early stage venture funds. VentureForward Conference.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 7, 2012

Our goal is to teach them the art, science and strategy of entrepreneurship that will forever change how they view early stage ventures. So we offered a special evening workshop on how to present a story-arc and narrative. (The slides and syllabus here describe the details of the class.) And do it in 8 weeks.

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