Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? 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?

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

You’re Unaware of Trends Be aware of trends and fads related to your sector and think about how your startup works with or against them. Similarly, you should learn from the guinea pigs in your space. The following organizations and databases can help: [link] [link] [link] 2. Learn more at www.SputnikATX.com.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 19, 2016

Hunter Walk: Ok, Din is your latest food startup but you’ve worked in food-related businesses for quite a while. We were guinea pigs then as the second class! What questions should they ask an investor to help assess whether it’s a good fit for their startup?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business and Startups: End-of-Year Mishegoss, 2012 Version – [link]. 25 Entrepreneurs Tell What They Wish They’d Known before Founding Their First Startup – [link].

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Social Media Small Business Design Media 101

BeyondVC

MAY 13, 2004

” This is not unlike any other meeting with a CIO and just reminds me how hard it is for a startup to get its first, high-profile, referenceable customer as no one wants to be a guinea pig.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 9, 2016

of endlessly trying different brands of lashes and adhesive (which hurt my business profits) and unfortunately my clients were the Guinea pigs who were getting inconsistent results because of it (which hurt business profits even more!). I was tired.

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David Teten

MARCH 12, 2012

We’re filling it with our own team , plus a couple of startups in our portfolio ( Parsely , Phone.com , some in stealth mode). New York startup Workmarket has a pullup machine right at the front of their office, with a list by it of the records set by different people who have visited the office. - Chair photo credit: watz ).

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Altgate

JANUARY 1, 2009

@altgate Startups, Venture Capital & Everything In Between Skip to content Home Furqan Nazeeri (fn@altgate.com) ← Microsoft Buys 37signals For $300 Million The Coming Venture Capital Boom → The World Without Altgate Posted on January 1, 2009 by fnazeeri No, this blog is not going anywhere.    It is an amazing tool. 

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. For many startups, this can be some of the hardest money to raise because traditional metrics aren’t well established, yet. I have some personal travel goals as well – I want to build a raft and sail from Indonesia to Papua New Guinea.

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