Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2022

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Technical semantics and jargon. Sometimes an entrepreneur or executive tries to communicate without full disclosure, perhaps to minimize impact, or due to company policy. Information withheld.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

You know, has Google gotten or the search engines gotten so good at understanding the semantic meaning of what we’re writing that, you know, we don’t really need to worry as much about feeding the machine? I would even suggest reviews are part of your content marketing. Ian Cantle: I think that’s true.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A founder asked me what makes a $2M round “pre-seed”? especially if the startup already has a product and revenue? While the answers are somewhat semantic, the pre-seed funding round is making a comeback in 2024 startup financing. Seed is about showing initial product market fit.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 17, 2024

He is focused on helping content marketers, search engine marketers, agencies, and e-commerce managers build topical authority, improve content quality and turn semantic research into actionable insights. Questions I ask Jeff Coyle : [01:54] Can you set the record straight on the discourse of the inauthenticity of AI? [03:49]

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 5, 2019

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Technical semantics and jargon. Sometimes an entrepreneur or executive tries to communicate without full disclosure, perhaps to minimize impact, or due to company policy. Information withheld.

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Hacker News new | comments | ask | jobs | submit login Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice. However you get to a good product is how you need to get to a good product. If the BugLabs product started selling then competitors would come out of the woodwork. Idea (A) is just a broad concept of a new product.

Stealth 41

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Neither Pablo or I have a technical background and therefore needed someone to build our product. We both tapped into our respective networks, asking (almost pleading with) people to join our team and vision. model of offering a more valuable product at no cost to the user (think Mint.Com). What could we offer?

Sweat Equity 40

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2014

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Technical semantics and jargon. Sometimes an entrepreneur or executive tries to communicate without full disclosure, perhaps to minimize impact, or due to company policy. Information withheld. Marty Zwilling.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 26, 2019

These services also store all of your responses for you to review and analyze. So let’s recap: Send follow-up emails after clients have had a chance to experience your product or service. Ask specific, open-ended questions. Ask just a few questions to minimize the burden on your support team. Automate your email delivery.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

John: Yeah there’s almost not a question that you can ask Google right now that they don’t have the answer right there in the knowledge box right? David: That’s exactly right and I think voice is — it’s certainly informing a lot of the product decisions that Google is making. David: Sure.

Search 30

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2017

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Technical semantics and jargon. Sometimes an entrepreneur or executive tries to communicate without full disclosure, perhaps to minimize impact, or due to company policy. Information withheld.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2013

Founders have to communicate their ideas and products to investors, business partners, and the rest of the team. Technical semantics and jargon. Sometimes an entrepreneur or executive tries to communicate without full disclosure, perhaps to minimize impact, or due to company policy. Information withheld. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 254

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It has transformed marketing into how do we find people and persuade them that our product or services is worth doing? In other words, creating a customer that comes to their own conclusion that your product or service is worth their time or their money and that being the purpose of a business. That’s great. Robert Rose: No.

Cost 36

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

As with any sales campaign you need to: Qualify your buyers early so you focus your scarce resources on people likely to buy your product. ” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” I learned a lot at Convergent, going from product marketing manager in a small startup to VP of Marketing of the Unix Division as it became a public company.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Questions I ask Julia McCoy: [01:08] What sets this era of the content game apart for you? [01:32] Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! I ask all these founders questions. Essentially using some of the same technology. So that's built into the technology. So I'm like, okay, this looks like the one.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Of course, that’s much easier said than done when you consider technical issues, copy confusion, price barriers and the like. There are three main types of encoding: acoustic, visual, and semantic. repeating a phone number out loud over and over again) while long-term memory relies on semantic encoding (e.g. via Buffer).

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 17, 2019

There are several advantages that case studies/stats/lists/ideas based posts offer to ecommerce businesses: Case studies are niche specific, meaning you can attract a relevant stream of audiences who are genuinely interested in your products. 3- Product Videos (Also Try Vblogs). Videos are one of the best content types.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 3, 2018

John Jantsch: But a lot of people, especially local folks, really hone in on those map results, because they have directions, and it’s very simple, and reviews show up there. John Jantsch: What role do reviews play in that three-pack? Is that a ranking factor, or is that a ranking factor slash social proof factor?

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JUNE 11, 2012

Ask someone to envision a website, and they’ll picture a 960-pixel-wide layout, comfortably nested in their desktop browser window. Ask them to envision a mobile website, and they’re bound to think of apps. Ask the group to focus on information hierarchy and user goals. Stick-figure comic strips. Mobile-first. 6-up templates.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

In this post, we show you how to go from idea to specified product. Not only that, but the end product will be better architected, more coherent and easier to maintain. More than one person can review it, but only one person can author. For a simple system the process outlined in this post should take you a month.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 12, 2017

The entire funnel is all about asking and finding the answers to the same fundamental questions. Typically happens at the end of the product lifecycle. Crappy or outdated technology. E.g. Someone is very interested in a particular product. Ask people to phrase it: “I believe that. Image Credit. Image Credit.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

It’s also after you’ve confirmed you’ve built something people need and are willing to pay money for, and have found your market (some would say product-market fit). My typical estimate when asked how long it takes to get there is 12-18 month. These days, most web apps we see have only a small amount of product risk.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 21, 2015

This is due to many reasons, mainly: a lack of credibility. plain old ‘ banner blindness ‘ Banner blindness is largely due to the fact that most people read in a F-shaped Pattern online: Image Source. A question on Quora asked , “Why do humans prefer simplicity over complexity?”. doesn’t meet expectations. Image Source.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” If it asks for a number, but they type a word, send them back to the same page but with a message.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers.

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