Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We spent the rest of our time pretending to work on the assigned homework, but really trying to do interesting side projects, like sending juvenile messages across the school network or building primitive video games. We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age.

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Reid Hoffman

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Let’s make the rest of the session a working session.” And if the reference checks come back positively, then if I believe at startup is a good opportunity, I can lean in right away. it took years for Airbnb’s metrics to really start accelerating. That’s when I agreed to meet them. Now here’s an interesting coda to that story.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

” As the managing editor of Bplans, I’ve had the good fortune to learn about business via the content we share; through interviews with LivePlan customers and other business owners; and thanks to brilliant, informal coaching from people like Tim Berry, Noah Parsons, and the rest of the executive leadership team at Palo Alto Software.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2009

When we looked at the color graphics board market, our competitors had defined the market as one measured by technical metrics: screen resolution, number of bits of color, screen refresh rates, acceleration, etc. It didn’t take much imagination to realize that what we had to do was to tell our story around one key metric performance ?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

In the Fall of 2008, the credit crisis wiped out mergers and acquisitions as a path to liquidity as M&A collapsed with the rest of the market. » Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. The leadership art is to balance the needs of the present with the needs of the future. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

Learn why the traditional way of writing a five-year business plan is often a waste of time and how to use a Lean Plan instead for smarter, easier strategic planning to establish your long-term vision. They make mistakes just like the rest of us. Develop your Lean Plan. Sorry if that offends some people, but it’s true.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, August 20, 2009 The Promise of the Lean Startup Im honored to have a guest post on GigaOm to introduce the concept of the lean startup to their audience. The ultimate goal of a lean startup is to identify where its vision intersects with what reality can accommodate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 14, 2015

Measure its impact in the marketplace using actionable metrics that help us analyze customer behavior. And that means nothing less than full support from leadership. New thinking requires a act of leadership. That’s true in the tiniest startup and the world’s largest companies.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

And the final lesson was that we were keeping score on our packaging with the wrong metrics – it wasn’t about awards, it was about sales in the retail channel. But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 31, 2017

The stakes for this output are higher when we are in front of the Senior Leadership of any company, we have but a few minutes to communicate what we have to. There is only one simple message above, and just two metrics that matter. Hence my two obsessions above. An important assumption. It should have just focused on those two.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. You typically have to have the more directive leadership style, versus curating things from the bottom up, in order to move quickly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

While both Stanford and MIT encouraged commercially oriented research and courted federal research contracts in the postwar years, MITs leadership focused on building relations with government agencies and seeking financial support from established electronics producers. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

One of the most common questions I get about the lean startup methodology is, "but what about Steve Jobs ?" So how do you reconcile his success with the lean startup, which seems to suggest the opposite?" Plus, the premise of the question misunderstands the lean startup, too. And he doesnt shy away from big-bang launch events.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

The median figures for each strategy should give you an idea of which program to lean towards. For example, securing two or three companies within an industry may give you leverage with the rest of the industry. Does your company clearly understand current CAC , LTV, CAC payback period, and other core growth metrics?

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

He also shared his perspective on M&A (including Uber’s recent acquisitions of Postmates and Drizly), autonomous vehicles, the complexities of working in highly regulated industries, and how his personal and professional background shaped the way he approaches leadership today. EPISODE TRANSCRIPT. RH: Yeah, totally agree. She’s great.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

Sam was one of the first people I saw in the tech world jumping up and taking the leadership position related to COVID-19. I thought there was some chance that it would stay contained or that the rest of the world would follow their example and do really great in the stage where you still can contain it.

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Steve Blank

MAY 26, 2009

Government Regulations I turned to the class and said, “The rest of you can keep building your company and shipping your product because you don’t need to worry about government regulations. Rest assured there are differences, and they can be significant. You’re a startup, just get your product out the door.”

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. And so you got to be honest, you got to be willing to lean in and be open, authentic. So what do you mean by stakeholder capitalism?

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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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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

What’s some of the ways that that kind of informs your leadership? We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. And so you got to be honest, you got to be willing to lean in and be open, authentic. So what do you mean by stakeholder capitalism?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

And also just the rest of the story of how you decided to take this action. I don't know if you know Frances, but she's just a remarkable teacher around new leadership principles. Eric Ries : Give us some more vanity metrics, if you would. So it's awesome. Eric Ries : Ryan, tell us about how you picked Little Star.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

. + Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. I tend to use Hitwise a lot less, or not at all, because it is a very hard to use, it is slow, the UX/UI, metrics and reports have not really evolved over the years. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Visitor/Audience Type Profile Analysis.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 17, 2015

We just love sharing articles about fonts, logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, economics and other interesting stuff! 7 Ways Great Leaders Think Differently Than the Rest of U [link] crowdspring.co/1fkoBvL 6 things to do after your pitch [link] crowdspring.co/1G5p6i4

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

oz burgers as fast as possible, and commit the rest of your career to an endless series of McDonalds menus. The rest of us have some fine dining to enjoy. The truth is that the.NET community, outside of the thought leadership at Microsoft and a few outliers (e.g. I doubt anything can beat it the rest of this year.

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