Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Some think that hiring a PR agency, starting the buzz and getting coverage in hot blogs or on the cover of magazines at launch are objectives.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Pitches higher in the hierarchy tend to be more successful, and so if you can fit your company into one of those categories, you can get better results or better terms. Most important slide: lessons learned Working product Key questions: what does the product do? whats the launch plan? what is the potential market size?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

In future posts I’ll describe how Eric Ries and the Lean Startup concept provided the equivalent model for product development activities inside the building and neatly integrates customer and agile development. Market Type also affects the market size as well as how you launch the product into the market.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

In hindsight it appeared clear that startups that survive the first few tough years do not follow the traditional product-centric launch model espoused by product managers or the venture capital community. But it is life and death for a new venture. It is the path that is hidden in plain sight.

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infochachkie.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Beware The Consultant John Greathouse – Posted in: Cash Flow Management , Launching Venture , Strategic Planning. Such positions include: PR, Sales, Product Development, Lead Generation, Strategic Planning, Fund Raising, etc. Equity should be saved for people who will deliver ongoing value to your venture.

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Up and Running

JULY 24, 2015

When you’re ready to launch a startup, the name of the game is research. This list is broken into categories and is meant to be a one-stop-shop for aspiring entrepreneurs. Product development. If you need a little help with your product development and getting it on store shelves, you can check out Edison Nation.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

In times when venture capital is hard to get, investors extract high costs for failure (down-rounds, cram downs , new management teams, shut down the company.) Preserve your cash: When you have unlimited cash (internet bubbles, frothy venture climate,) you can iterate on your mistakes by burning more dollars.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Our prototype also got us into Dreamit Ventures. I pick my cofounder's brain almost daily about the inner workings of our product, so that I can be better informed about the tech side of things. f must launch aggressive effort to learn the language. The prototype got us into the SXSW Business Accelerator Pitch Competition.

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Up and Running

DECEMBER 22, 2015

My personal favorite in the “pure nonsense category” is the IRR, the Internal Rate of Return , something that was interesting for about one hour as part of the MBA curriculum, but which has no relevance in the real world. See Also: 17 Venture Capital Blogs You Should Be Reading. Lesson 2: Don’t sweat meaningless numbers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Even with only a few months of development, third parties have crammed every single category in the store full of apps. All I see is a name, an icon, a price, the developers name, and a review star-rating. I think this is a major challenge for companies that hope to build dominance in some category on the iPhone.

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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. I’m a newbie just starting off with my first venture, making websites for clients. Would it be a good idea clubbing all the other products / services under 1 venture, because some of them are totally unrelated.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The timing is perfect, there is more than a little overlap with Vivek Wadhwa’s guest post on venture capital earlier today. But let me tell you, the sum total of my contribution to Meebo prior to our launch was getting us incorporated (read: easy) and suggesting that “the button might look better over there” (read: not much).

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

A minimum viable product in this category must answer the question: does my media content or channel command the attention of a valuable audience? When Facebook launched early-on at college campuses, it was immediately apparent that they had a viable business, even though they weren’t charging customers for anything.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Getting customers to see your service as #1 for a given category is what positioning is all about. Venture Hacks interview: "What is the minimum viab. Combining agile development with customer developm. Don't launch Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you? How to build companies that matter (the lean start.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Livelys launch was marred by zillions of sex chat rooms, with people spending hours and hours trying to figure out how to use Livelys stock animations to make their avatars do things that looked kinky. Youll need bundles, promotions, category and segment managers, and algorithms for upsell, cross-sell, and conversion optimization.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Test- and Behavior-Driven Development. Great for visualizing work of product development. Boilerplate Venture Funding Documents. National Venture Capital Association â?? Venture Hacks Angel List â?? Raising Venture Capital.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. Maybe a future blog post? :) --TL September 13, 2009 9:40 AM Miranda said.

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