Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 17, 2010

Take a look and let me know what you think. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

In the meantime, I think we have a good explanation for what all those PR dollars are being spent trying to obscure. Once startups and vendors really understand this dynamic, we can all get past these legacy arguments and start focusing on building partnerships that truly make it easier to create companies that matter. Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

In a startup, these channels of communication are critical to understand for advertising, launch and PR purposes. In particular, Ive focused on the two channels of communication that were most commonly suggested in the first survey: conferences and books. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. And companies crave positive PR and control over their message – all for rational reasons. The higher the vanity ratio, the more effective the PR. It helps companies with PR. It sells newspapers and magazines.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark are close runners up, leaving the rest of the world trailing sadly behind. Grim recent statistics from the World Economic Forum’s 2014 Global Gender Gap Index reveal that out of 142 economies studied, not one has true gender equality. Sit with them to brainstorm, connect and problem solve.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. This "success theater" is occasionally useful for PR or getting through a tough board meeting. Once again, we revisit the topic of Actionable metrics and their nemesis: Vanity metrics. But how do we know which metrics to look at?

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Aiming to create opportunity, innovation and new businesses in southern Sweden, the Mobile Heights Business Center is a partnership between local industry, academia and the public sector that offers approved participants access to a bank of unexplored patents, business ideas and solutions requested by industry.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Announce a new product, start its PR campaign, and engage in buzz marketing activities. Even if you must launch to your customers, avoid the urge to also launch in extra places, just because your PR firm can do it at the same time. If you are having trouble raising money, sometimes a little PR can help. Help you raise money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

This is completely analogous to the situation elsewhere on the internet, where launching a new website, product, or service with PR is getting harder and harder. On the web, we have many of these channels: SEM, SEO, world of mouth, PR and viral. Dont do PR upfront, dont put out a press release. My advice: dont launch big.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What happened when we got early press (circa 2004) in violation of our own no-PR rule. We actually lived this situation, and got to validate this answer: a process of rapid iteration can beat massive strategic investments from a big competitor. I especially enjoyed the discussion of the power of fact-based decision making.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. There was one notable exception: Sweden. Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

We go to mixers, buy fancy offices, focus on PR, and try to one-up each other. Is it really worthwhile spending time and money trying to impress each other with our supposed successes, especially in a business where real feedback can take five or ten years? I think its wasteful. In time, success will come.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2009

Journalists, PR firms, investors, and the public at large love a scrappy come-from-behind story about two guys in a garage who figured out how to take down Goliath. Some aspects of the vision remain, but often in a significantly modified form. But the story usually features visionary protagonists who had it figured out from the start.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Even worse, entrepreneurs are faced with a constant barrage of vanity metrics from competitors and other companies engaged in PR. That’s what you pay PR firms for: to get an article written that is entirely factual and yet still provides positive spin for your company. The PR firm helpfully left out that context.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 23, 2011

The updated list of locations is below: Streaming Sponsor Africa Cape Town, South Africa: [link] Asia Chennai, India: [link] Pune, India: [link] Europe Athens, Greece: [link] Barcelona, Spain: [link] Belfast, Northern Ireland: [link] Berlin, Germany: [link] Brescia, Italy: [link] Brighton, England, UK: [link] Brussels, Belgium: [link] Bucharest, Romania: (..)

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 7, 2010

What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. What the PR stories tend to leave out is that we can get attached to every part of our vision, even the dumb parts. Unfortunately, startup success requires getting them all right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 20, 2011

Here's the latest list: Streaming Sponsor Africa Cape Town, South Africa: [link] Asia Chennai, India: [link] Pune, India: [link] Europe Barcelona, Spain: [link] Belfast, Northern Ireland: [link] Berlin, Germany: [link] Brescia, Italy: [link] Brighton, England, UK: [link] Brussels, Belgium: [link] Bucharest, Romania: [link] Cambridge, UK: [link] Cluj-Napoca, (..)

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You could try and drive home that positioning with an expensive PR campaign, superbowl ads, and whatnot. So you decide to try to reposition around a different value proposition, one that more closely matches what your product is best at. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2009

Launch with a PR blitz, including mentions in major mainstream publications. As with many Silicon Valley failures, a flawless PR launch turned into a flawed customer acquisition strategy. Conduct constant focus groups and usability tests. Build the product in stealth mode to build buzz for the eventual launch.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 30, 2012

What Every Start-up Should Know about PR – [link]. As Sweden Goes, So Goes the World: The Beginning of the End of Cash – [link]. Why the Best Product Doesn’t Always Win – [link]. Spotify Is Raising At A Stunning $3.5 Billion Valuation, Multiple VCs Say – [link]. Why Don’t Young Americans Buy Cars?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Why do you think outsources have been happy to generate all this PR the past few years about people losing their jobs to India? Now your crappy resume and low-grade references become a strength: youre obviously not wasting money on marketing. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

I tried to continue reading but it is obvious that you are closer to PR or marketing than to the tech area. Kinda muddies the waters from a PR perspective, and quite possibly with the folk at Sand Hill. company based in Sweden. was clearly aimed at Java, next versions incorporated already known stuff from other platforms.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Have you personally visited the Content Creator forums and read through the PR thread? When new changes roll out that aren't anticipated or expected - like the whole PR deal that became a PR mess - people PANIC. PR is even worse - last week I did 200 or so and found 10 UFI and AP items available to minors.

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