Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 25, 2011

SLLCONF featured incredible entrepreneurs on stage to put those ideas to rest (watch, for example: Aardvark , Grockit , Dropbox , PBworks ). It may be hard to remember that there was a time when people in the agile software development community thought Lean Startup was incompatible with agile practices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2018

The rest is chronicled in the book, but we find these kinds of innovators and learners throughout the corporate world. They take on many priorities—for example, working on 3 product development projects simultaneously—and then work hard to accomplish all of them, which means they cannot go all in and obsess over a few things. “Do

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 3, 2015

The disadvantage is that its methodology was based on the old waterfall model of product development and not the agile and lean methods that startups use today. By embracing lean, you can be assured you will be giving your students essential innovation skills they will use for the rest of their lives. The Business Plan is Dead.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. No vanity metrics should be looked at.

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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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Up and Running

JULY 6, 2016

See Also: Use Milestones and Metrics to Turn Planning into Business GPS. For example, tech businesses managing product development road maps, research and development teams, extending software features or tech features in hardware would be likely to build strategy and tactics around technology. They’ll thank you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

One such technique is called Five Whys, which has its origins in the Toyota Production System, and posits that behind every supposedly technical problem is actually a human problem. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. Applied to a start-up, heres how it works.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Every experiment has to be evaluated based on a single standard report of 5-10 (no more) key metrics. Any team that creates an experiment must monitor the metrics and customer reactions (support calls, forum threads, etc) while the experiment is in-progress, and abort if something catastrophic happens. It promotes rapid iteration.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Behind this analysis is a spreadsheet model, complete with detailed metrics for a set of customer behaviors that show just how valuable the new product will be. They are long-term bets on the development of a new line of business, a new technology platform, or the creation of a new market. Read the rest here.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Why marketer misuse of metrics may be an addressable cultural issue – [link]. Amazon’s Approach to Product Development – [link]. What Are You Willing To Do For The Rest of Your Life? Attn Google: The Rest of My Sci-Fi Wish List – [link]. Five Ways to Write Magnificent Copy – [link].

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

The five conditions for a Series A financing which he enumerated are: a core team ready to scale, demonstrable market size, repeatable cost effective customer acquisition, metric momentum, and plausible monetization. The strategy here is to foster product development and marketing which creates overall (semi-)organic user momentum.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 7, 2017

Well designed consumer research will highlight the most valuable customers, and what is motivating them to buy, which is the necessary insight managers need to keep the best products on the shelves and eliminate the rest. All too often media spend is a blanket purchase with little precision and even fewer metrics on returns.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

When everything rests on your shoulders, the fate of your company is in your control. I love knowing that my business empowers lawyers to actually understand how marketing works and how to hold the vendors they work with (and often their own internal employees) accountable for their work in measurable, fair, and metrics-backed ways.

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Steve Blank

JULY 30, 2009

.&# Most startups tend to think they are selling into an Existing market – a market exists and your company has a faster and better product. If that’s you, by all means hire a VP of Sales with a great rolodex and call on established mainstream companies – and ignore the rest of this post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana. Read the rest of The New Startup Arms Race at Huffington Post. Luckily for the rest of us, he was able to find his path to a green card, and now employs 24 Americans in West Lafayette, Indiana.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 11, 2015

And worse, even if someone does manage to start something new, our management structure has so many financial, legal and HR hurdles that every initiative needs to match our existing business financial metrics, processes and procedures. There are financial metrics (Return on Investment, Hurdle Rate, etc.) Lessons Learned.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does. This post has been removed by the author.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The old models are broken, and we do not yet have new models to replace them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. The opportunity was just mind-bogglingly huge.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

Because, unless you are working in an extremely static environment, your product development team is learning and getting better all the time. Instead of waiting for that to happen, make sure there is a mechanism for sharing refactoring lessons with the rest of the team. Why dont they just learn to do it right the first time?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

but rest assured they would be. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. A Fundraising Survival Guide [link] Raising money has a mysterious capacity to suck up all your attention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

.&# In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest. Weve got slides , video , audio and twitter commentary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2016

Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Smart entrepreneurs know they must deliver a quality product, develop a winning business model, and attract real customers. Wait and hope for a miracle. All that’s left is to commit and deliver. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2015

Usually the real culprit is procrastination, lack of focus, or low productivity and lack of metrics. Smart entrepreneurs know they must deliver a quality product, develop a winning business model, and attract real customers. Wait and hope for a miracle. All that’s left is to commit and deliver. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. As you face new challenges, successes and failures - please share what you learn with the rest of us. My realization for 2010 is that Im already in the game. Lets hear it: good, bad, crazy?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Ive been guilty of this many times in my career - its just so easy to focus on product and technology instead. True, there are the rare products that have literally no market risk; they are all about technology risk ("cure for cancer"). Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) All I can tell the folks who attended the simulcasts is that I’m not missing either the time or the money. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. At IMVU, we were terrified by how early we shipped (and charged for) our first product. The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 10, 2020

Every good VC looks for the same three things: a great team, a great product, and a large and attractive market. We like those things in the same way as the rest of the industry. I think we differ a little from the rest of the industry, though, particularly with our focus on early stage companies. What are your benchmarks?

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer. June 22, 2009 6:30 AM Anonymoussaid.

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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. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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OnlyOnce

AUGUST 12, 2013

” In other words, should we just be taking the same kind of lean/agile approach to CX that we do with technical product development and UX — but basically do it more holistically across every customer touchpoint, from marketing to invoice? “Customer Experience is a journey, not a project.

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