Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

I have counseled innumerable entrepreneurs to change their focus to revenue, and many companies who refuse this advice get themselves into trouble by running out of iterations. In my consulting practice, I sometimes have the opportunity to work with companies like this. And yet revenue alone is not a sufficient goal.

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infochachkie.com

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Hands-on startup advice for emerging entrepreneurs. Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You John Greathouse – Posted in: Entrepreneur , Strategic Planning. With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good.” About Who the Heck is Uncle Saul? infoChachkie. infoChachkie. Intuitive URL.

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Aymeric Gaurat-Apelli

APRIL 22, 2010

I assume in this article that you already have bought a domain name (use [link] or [link] ). Why you should use your own domain name for your emails Most of you are using your internet provider email address, or some online email provider like Hotmail or Gmail. I like to simply put my first name there but you can put whatever you want.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, July 9, 2009 10 years of entrepreneurship I recently passed my ten-year anniversary of becoming an entrepreneur. All the good domain names were taken, all the good ideas were being implemented. When he left his consulting job to join LinkedIn (whatever that was), I didnt think twice about it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

It moves at a rapid clip, each argument backed up with the relevant math and equations: marginal profit , Littles law , Markov processes , probability theory , you name it. Reinertsen is the book for you. Its quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy. For example, take the lean dictum of working in small batches.

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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? My answer is almost always the same: dont. First off, what does it mean to launch? Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 11, 2009 Innovation inside the box I was recently privy to a product prioritization meeting in a relatively large company. It was fascinating. The team spent an hour trying to decide on a new pricing strategy for their main product line. Almost the entire meeting was taken up with interpreting data.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Imagine you want to store data about customers, each of whom has "last name" field in your database. The problem should be familiar to anyone who plays Scrabble: not all letter are equally likely to be used as the first letter of someones name. One day, there will be, but thats for another post). Key-based partitioning.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Home About Contact Home About Contact The Metamorphosis Becoming an Entrepreneur, by Matt Mireles Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder I started SpeakerText in October 2008 during the financial apocalypse. No one funded us. No one was gonna fund us. And I’m definitely a nobody. Starting is a declarative act. Just go for it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. I won’t sugar-coat this: it is one of the most difficult and frustrating aspects of building a company online.

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