Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 21, 2014

Post by Lean Startup Conference co-hosts Sarah Milstein & Eric Ries We’re excited to announce this year’s Lean Startup Conference , December 8 – 12 in San Francisco. This year, we’re defining the conference program as a series of hard questions entrepreneurs commonly face, and we’ll address them in our talks and workshops.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for T he Lean Startup Conference. We’ve posted the full program for The Lean Startup Conference , and it includes more than three days of events for Gold pass holders and six days of events for VIP pass holders. On the evening of December 8, Ignite Lean Startup kicks off the conference.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

It happened recently when a group of educators came to the ranch to learn how to teach Lean entrepreneurship to K-12 students. They need to learn to find answers to questions like: who are my customers, what product features match customer needs, how do I create demand and what metrics matter? On Fire With A Vision.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. Thank you for your simple, insightful explanation of why that is the wrong metric to use. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

JUNE 19, 2013

The New York Times profiles two successful tech start-ups— GoodData , which at its start raised more than $50 million in venture capital funding, and RJ Metrics, which held out with self-financing for as long as possible—that went after the same market at the same time, and contrasts their approaches to finance.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

family of brands), I was there to source the absolute best talent for the Product Management summer internship program in order to continue to push HomeAway’s agenda to develop a Tier 1 workforce. As a product manager at HomeAway (part of the Expedia, Inc. from administration to politik? What does this mean?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

As a consequence, corporations used metrics like return on net assets (RONA), return on capital deployed, and internal rate of return (IRR) to measure efficiency. These metrics make it difficult for a company that wants to invest in long-term innovation. Risk capital has provided financing for new ideas in the form of startups.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I was working my first programming jobs, I was introduced to the following maxim: "time, quality, money - pick two." When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Any advise on how the decision to rewrite may change for lean startups?

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Up and Running

APRIL 2, 2015

I was really disappointed when I needed my company’s first commercial bank loan to finance receivables of more than $1 million—from well-known distributors no less—and we ended up having to sign a lien on our family home to get the loan. See Also Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. Do you find this daunting?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. Its a key lean startup concept. For example, I recently created a customer validation exercise around the Lean Startup Workshop. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

APRIL 4, 2022

You can create a website for your product/service and check website metrics. Some of the basic metrics are session duration, traffic source, number of visitors, average time on page, etc. These are typically grant programs that cater to specific demographics such as minorities, veterans, etc.

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500hats.com

AUGUST 2, 2012

First Round became a very active investor in consumer internet and e-commerce, on a rather lean investment budget, with several notable exits (including Mint.com to Intuit in 2009 for $170M). Why bother with all the extra costs, people, programs, etc? They are operators, through and through. But why are we all doing this?

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Steve Blank

MAY 3, 2011

The Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. Their initial customer segment were upwardly mobile professionals with $2-10K discretionary purchases/year (excluding travel,) and their revenue model was affiliate program fees. Costs vs. ramp vs. product iteration?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Joining me at the Lean Startup Conference in San Francisco were: Liz Powers , co-founder of ArtLifting , a for-profit online art gallery that features the work of homeless and disabled artists. It’s the same concepts as Lean Startup as get your idea out there as soon as possible and then pivot with customer reaction. Liz Powers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 21, 2010

This is equally true of a packaged good in a grocery store, an ecommerce website, a non-profit social service or a variety of government programs. I emphasize this point because it is necessary to motivate large amounts of the theory of the lean startup.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But particularly when you’re running lean and mean, you may not have native expertise in every aspect of managing a startup. The difference between marketing and say, finance, is that, as consumers, we’re constantly exposed to marketing messages. Most digital marketing programs include both inbound and outbound marketing tactics.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Together Pete, Joe Felter and I created Hacking for Defense , a nationwide program to teach university students how use Lean methodologies to solve defense and national security problems. The Lean Innovation process is a self-regulating, evidence-based innovation pipeline.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In 2012 I got together with Alexander Osterwalder , Henry Chesbrough and Andre Marquis to think about the Lean and the future of corporate innovation. What we didn’t envision was that one creative corporate VP would take that post and build a world-class corporate innovation program around it.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

But at least if you’re working on an eCommerce site, you have clear metrics to hit. But many times, they’re dealing with non-financial metrics or competing online goals. A leading home-finance company, for example, implemented an “executive dashboard” that eventually grew to encompass nearly 300 measures. Content sites.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Its useful to look back to understand how we got those advantages.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

In the case of an entrepreneur pitching for finance, its the same fear that has them putting on a facade and not comfortable in what they do and dont know that will see them a long way off getting funded. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

These dynamics harm startups at all stages, because they pressure founders to engage in “success theatre” – trying to make themselves look successful by general management standards by focusing on vanity metrics , product milestones, and whiz-bang demos. The course does not examine financing options or the composition of founding teams.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

His groups whole-heartedly adopted and adapted Lean. 14 different innovation teams were going through a 3-month I-Corps/Lean LaunchPad program to validate product/market fit. Our CEO is behind the program. Or finance, who insisted on measuring the success of new ventures on their first year’s revenue and gross margin.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. With five days remaining before The Lean Startup Conference , we wanted to lay out what we’re offering that’s unlike any other entrepreneurship conference and explain the different levels of participation available to you.

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Occam's Razor

DECEMBER 9, 2009

So… not a surprise… if you can align Web Analysts (and based on #1 and #2 above the Web Analytics program) with the actual human being who has the power. Update: Please see Jim Novo's thought on value of Finance as an option for owning Web Analytics.]. The closer you can get to her (direct report?) the better off you are.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 17, 2015

I listened as Roberto listed the obstacles to the new innovation program at Sprocket, “We’ve created innovation teams in both the business units and in corporate. Our CEO is behind the program. His groups whole-heartedly adopted and adapted Lean. The division general managers have given us their support. So what to do?

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Are you familiar with the Lean Startup methodology? They call it Lean Startup, but it’s also essentially conversion optimization. Ignore vanity metrics, segment super deep and don’t just rely on built-in reports. Lean Analytics (book, mainly for startup folk, but good primer for all). Reminds me of rule #1.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 26, 2019

We just finished the 8 th annual Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford. So in 2011, with support from the Stanford Technology Ventures Program (the entrepreneurship center in the Stanford Engineering School), we created a new capstone entrepreneurship class – the Lean LaunchPad. It’s the same, but different. I-Corps @ NIH ).

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

In February, Greylock kicked off “Iconversations,” a new speaker series featuring “icons” across tech, finance, media and culture. So the norms that we have were a combination of bottoms-up and then some top-down leaning. We measure, we have programs against diversity inclusion. Again, you know, we don’t have it perfect.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

In this guide to starting a brewery, we’re going to talk with brewers who’ve been-there-done-that, and we’ll get insights from experts in supporting industries such as insurance and finance, as well as discuss regulatory issues. Watch your finances. Metrics: Know your numbers. The ColdFire Brewing team meets to plan marketing.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Why do I do it?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2021

We have put a long-term goal of attaining the highest market capitalization, primarily focusing on our finances and management in a bid to achieve the highest market value and cap position. But with other business aspects (accounting, metric monitoring, etc.), ” I think so many people start big goals with metrics.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2017

If you don’t have an existing audience, you’re going to do what we call the Lean Deep Dive Survey approach. Now, the Lean Deep Dive Survey approach is instead of trying to get hundreds of survey responses from your existing audience. And, then from there, yeah, we have programs. Online training programs.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

My professional areas of interest cover Customer Service, User Experience and Finance, though here on Occam’s Razor my focus is on influencing incredible Marketing through the use of innovative Analytics. The difference between leaning-back and letting content wash over us vs. leaning-in and pulling content you desire is huge.

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

This is the part that people hate the most, unless you’re a finance geek. Food, technology, bioscience, services, you need to know the metrics for your model. These are the metrics for the SaaS model that we have. This is why we love the lean startup methodology. Moving into your financial projections.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 5, 2014

Most C-suites and shareholders speak the language of the hard edge: metrics, analytics, logistics, strategies, and a well-defined and easy-to-see ROI. Embedded marketers get to learn from their IT counterparts about data and analytics; embedded IT people get to learn about key marketing programs and metrics. Invite scrutiny.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. But lots of lawyers and finance kids in New York thought they had stable jobs that would make them rich. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. And when it comes to money, Eric is only somewhat right.

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