Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 6, 2013

Luckily, in a room full of entrepreneurs, plenty of new businesses popped up to bring people food and water. (If That's because the room we were in was so packed, the only way to stay for the next session was to refuse to give up your seat. 1,000 startup founders, investors, and press! Nicole Lazzaro President Udi Nir CTO NEW! >

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the one hand, an entrepreneur should not be overly paranoid and should know the ropes that VCs and other professional investors generally will not sign NDAs to see the concept or a prototype--and even if they did, it would not provide much protection.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 31, 2021

The Angel Association of New Zealand ( AANZ ) is co-hosting with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners ( NZGCP ) a series of workshops on early-stage investment. The post Portfolio Management – Learning from experienced investors appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

That last bit should sound familiar if you follow theories of Startup Laws & Metrics. When “growth rate” becomes the only important metric for company “fitness,” other metrics are left unsolved. “Profitability” is perhaps the most-talked-about example of a metric left unsolved.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 1, 2024

That’s why lists like Ycombinator’s Requests for Startups (RFS) help entrepreneurs thinking about starting a company (or picking a problem) and can be a good barometer for founders on what’s interesting to investors right now. Bots should be able to join chats with you and friends, and weigh in or spark discussions.

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Combining these goals and objectives will give you meaningful metrics to track. Objective Goal Metrics Grow the business Increase awareness and perceived value Followers, fans, shares, retweets, etc. We’re on a mission to help entrepreneurs grow with our smart, all-in-one marketing and commerce platform.”.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

As an entrepreneur, you have to work on your business as well as in it. Entrepreneur. Social Triggers is the brainchild of Derek Halpern – entrepreneur, marketing expert, and one-man success engine. They offer both free resources and a Pro membership, and they host the annual MarketingProfs B2B Marketing Forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 21, 2015

Based on my experience advising entrepreneurs, I’m convinced that success is often more a mindset than a specific set of skills or intelligence. A fixed mindset is when entrepreneurs believe their abilities and market are fixed, and the challenge is to make the best of the hand already dealt. Most experts call this a growth mindset.

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Up and Running

MAY 12, 2020

While many traditional jobs still can’t function remotely, or have difficulty adjusting, many entrepreneurs have found success in starting a business from home. Establish milestones and metrics for your business plan. To make your business plan work for you, you’ll want to incorporate milestones and metrics from the start.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

If you’re creating videos only for your own content, then it might make sense to host it on Vimeo and drive people to a landing page (or product pages), and not try to build a community. Key metrics: Average View Duration, Click Through Rate, & Views 3. Key metrics (90% of your focus). Vanity metrics.

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The Startup Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Launching a business is a pivotal moment in an entrepreneur’s journey. Choose the Right Platform for Launch Where you launch can be as vital as how you launch: Physical Venue: If hosting a live event, select a location that aligns with your brand and can accommodate your target audience. What worked? What didn’t?

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NZ Entrepreneur

APRIL 25, 2024

Squarespace is a popular website building and hosting service that allows individuals and businesses to create professional-looking websites and e-commerce stores without needing extensive technical expertise. Reliability and Security: Squarespace takes care of website hosting, ensuring reliability and security for users.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

From New York, Philadelphia, and Boston to Los Angeles and San Francisco, entrepreneurs came out to share their enthusiasm -- you really are everywhere.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We’ve hosted talks, workshops, and interactive sessions on the challenges and successes of modern management techniques from a wide variety of business leaders around the world. Livestream - Because we’re all about community building, we invite you to host or join one of our free livestream meetups. Lean Startup Week (Oct.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

How to create a growth hacking strategy using the pirate metrics model. Growth hacking in marketing incorporates the five stages of the customer lifecycle into the “ AARRR Framework ,” otherwise known as the “Pirate Metrics model.”. But it’s not a channel you can scale as easily as LinkedIn , which offers a similar audience.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

All types of entrepreneurs become this intertwined in their work, often at a price. Consider that 72 percent of entrepreneurs self-reported a personal or family history of mental health issues in a study led by Michael Freeman, M.D. Academic researchers seem to take it for granted that entrepreneurs are stress cases.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

The Entrepreneur’s Guide is an easy read. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Many “airport business books&# urge entrepreneurs to never give in. I think theyve succeeded. In fact, they probably will.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is an entrepreneur, podcast host, and community builder. He's an entrepreneur, podcast host and community builder. Lloyed Lobo (01:10): Thank you for hosting me, big fan and I'm excited. Lobo, Lloyed Lobo (01:38): A great entrepreneur once told me that you got to do things to stand out, right?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 15, 2010 Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Harvard Business Review) The next part in the series I am writing for Harvard Business Review is online. This time, Im discussing the challenge for corporate CFOs and VCs alike in holding entrepreneurs accountable. Read the rest here.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Generally speaking, as investors and entrepreneurs, you want to go after ideas where, if you succeed, it transforms an industry or even the world. it took years for Airbnb’s metrics to really start accelerating. Thus, it’s important that hosts keep their windows clean. Now here’s an interesting coda to that story.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

Steve Blank called last year’s conference “ Woodstock for entrepreneurs ” and my goal is do even better this year. (If SLLCONF featured incredible entrepreneurs on stage to put those ideas to rest (watch, for example: Aardvark , Grockit , Dropbox , PBworks ). Brad doesn’t meet your typical image of a scrappy entrepreneur.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Currently serving as the VP of marketing at Thinkific, a platform that empowers entrepreneurs to craft, market, and deliver online courses, Christie delves into the burgeoning Creator Economy and how it’s reshaping the marketing landscape, especially in the B2B sector. And she also writes about marketing for Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

UT’s Herb Kelleher Center for Entrepreneurship and Texas MSTC Program are leading a “University Track,” focused on building out student entrepreneur ecosystems and creating a bridge between universities and startup teams. 3, to programming for students and community interested in what Texas’ flagship university has to offer entrepreneurs.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

AUGUST 29, 2011

Still, it was early in our life and we wanted every customer we could get, especially since they were willing to pay a good rate for hosting. Sign up for AppSumo 's daily deals specifically for web geeks & entrepreneurs. So we kept on. Hubspot has this down to a science, more so than almost any other company. Tweet. -->.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 9, 2010

Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. In many of them I get asked similar questions, including the inevitable “what makes a great entrepreneur?” If you’re an entrepreneur, the glib answer is “no.” You Can’t Sign This Deal. It says what?!”).

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

This post was co-written by Eric Ries and Sarah Milstein, co-hosts of The Lean Startup Conference. The Lean Entrepreneur: Embrace the Unknown to Go Big with Patrick Vlaskovits and Brant Cooper. This year, for the first time, we've added a day of workshops and site visits to The Lean Startup Conference.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. He also has a discussion of how your choice of business model determines which of these metric areas you want to focus on. Choose one.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. Remember "metrics are people, too."

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I’ll start by taking you to the world of Startup X, a passionate team of entrepreneurs who believed they had the next big thing in the world of software as a service (SaaS). Zoom : Zoom provides a user experience that lets users quickly and easily join and host video meetings.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2014

In this webinar, we take time to discuss the different metrics that startups—and established businesses—should be tracking. In terms of pre-purchase, traffic and content metrics. So I’m going to keep going here, “Pre-purchase, the traffic and content metrics.” Peter, anybody have any questions as I go along?

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 10, 2015

Essential Resources for Entrepreneurs Building a Business crowdspring.co/1LEod8m. Growth Minded Entrepreneur on Instagram: “Less talking -> More doing. Tech Startups Woo Investors With Unconventional Financial Metrics — but Do Numbers Add Up? From the Vault: America’s Founding Entrepreneurs | crowdSPRING Blog – crowdspring.co/1f8F6uN.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 4, 2022

He’s the host of the Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief podcast, where he interviews COOs and other seconds to share their insights with his listeners. One is that the roles and responsibilities that are on the entrepreneur or the CEO's plate, or just too many, and they need to kind of divide and conquer.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

The Lean Startup Wiki (hosted by long-time lean startup pbWorks) contains a number of resources, including links to case studies , meetups, tools , and people who have volunteered to help. Not coincidentally, they were one of the first organizations to host me as a speaker. But I wanted to create a centralized directory.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Stephan is also a bestselling author, serial entrepreneur, and host of two popular podcasts, “Get Yourself Optimized” and “Marketing Speak.” He also host his own podcast, in fact, two podcast shows, get Yourself Optimized and Marketing Speak. My guest today is Stephan Spencer. So there's a lot on that.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

According to Peterson’s Ultimate Home Office Survival Guide, most entrepreneurs who work from home start with less than $5,000. If you’re reading this checklist and still wondering whether or not you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur, take the Bplans quiz, Are You Entrepreneur Material? Assess your situation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

John Jantsch (00:00): This episode of the duct tape marketing podcast is brought to you by the salesman podcast, hosted by will Barron brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. Check out the sales podcast where host will Barron helps sales professionals learn how to find buyers and in big business in effective and ethical ways.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

On Monday night 9/24 from 6:15 to 7:45 I’m co-hosting the first Entrepreneurs Unplugged session of Fall 2012 at CU Boulder. I love doing the Entrepreneurs Unplugged sessions – it’s a chance for me to interview some of the great Boulder entrepreneurs, especially up and coming ones like Rusty and Holly.

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