Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits. So what’s left?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Compared to the million-dollar startup, they are operating at micro-scale. Instead, each potential customer has to go through a self-serve process of signing up and paying money. Steve calls this just Customer Validation , but I like to emphasize the learning aspect, so I accept a far more awkward phrase.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Expo (and a call for he.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. The key to your startup’s success is your sales, editorial or marketing operations most of which will be mainly happening offline. Home About Contact Me How To Make It as a First-Time Entrepreneur Vinicius Vacanti Should You Hire a Programmer or DIY? Sales / Marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I’ve seen many times what happens when a single department get’s holed-up in its own space, like the terrifying “ operations cave.&# Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

A given customer would have an entity URL that looked like this: customer://1234 Somewhere in your API, you have a way to access data about a given customer. Im not talking about high-level abstractions (like an object-oriented view of a customers data). Im talking about the actual data-fetching operation.

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