Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. They proposed feature sets that they would plan to build and stack ranked how important these customers thought they would be. He’s a smart guy.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

It makes you appreciate that the Silicon Valley technology-centric culture-bubble has little to do with the majority of Americans.) I was living the dream – working 80 hour weeks and all the technology I could drink with a fire hose.) I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

iridium-9500 satellite phone ~1999. Instead of the 42 million customers called for in its business plan, Iridium had 30,000 subscribers at its peak. Today, the successor company serves some 300,000 customers in a series of niche markets including American soldiers calling home from war zones, oil rig managers, and big game hunters.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

These new cellular phone networks were built around two-way circuit switched technology designed to move voice calls without interruption. Unlike the circuit-switched cell phone networks, pager networks were built around digital packet-switched technology. The TiVo CEO hated the idea that customers might think of TiVo as a better VCR.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Alone in a ski cabin with the snow coming down outside, and my wife and daughters out on the slopes all day, I started collecting my thoughts by writing a series of “lessons learned” stories that I had hoped would become my memoirs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. Scott Summitt iteratively leveraging the emerging technologies of digital fabrication and 3d-scanning to change people's lives. The result: a new idea I called The Lean Startup.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2011

For a guy who loved technology, I was certainly in the right place. In 1999… with the company’s revenue north of $100 million…I handed the keys to a new CEO and left. Now…a decade later… that course called Customer Development … is the basis of an entirely new way to start companies. I was always learning.

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