Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Anand Sanwal , co-founder and CEO of CB Insights ; and Chris Shipley , executive producer of MIT’s Solve initiative, joined me in the studio to discuss the day-to-day chaos of building a company. 1, 2008. … (and) the economy tanked right as soon as I started. or the key metrics in the credit card business. …

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. The Harvard Business School reported that small business loans have decreased 21% from their pre-recession peak in 2008. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. Get Online or Get Left Behind.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 10, 2017

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. He co-founded the first angel investor group in the Bitcoin space, BitAngels , in 2013, which grew to over 500 members globally. We were infatuated with tech.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When we pivoted from fabulis to Fab, we pivoted towards building a business around the unique tastemaker talents of one of our founders, Bradford Shellhammer. Have amazing co-founders who are better at what they do than you could ever be. Founders need to personally own something big themselves. It’s that important.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

JANUARY 6, 2011

And congrats to Alex Le, cofounder of a prior investment, Serious Business, whose first game since the Zynga acquisition is CityVille.]. Shawn Gupta of OhLife , a personal journaling tool over email, has similar sentiments in using metrics to drive product innovation: Make metrics a core part of our product development.

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Campus Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

But Suhail Doshi, the 22-year-old co-founder of San Francisco analytics company Mixpanel, is far from average. In 2008, following his sophomore year at Arizona State University, Doshi interned at Slide, a developer of social media apps. His stint there resulted in a business idea–and an investor.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 12, 2007

Bessemer was also heavily represented with David Cowan , managing partner and co-founder of VeriSign ( see his post about the event ), Rob Stavis , BVP’s New York-based managing partner who led our investment in Skype, Byron Deeter , partner and founder of Trigo and our COO/managing partner Ed Colloton. ► 2008. (11).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

Mo was graduated from Wharton, worked in investment banking, spent 6 years at IAC (including in an operational role for Connected Ventures which includes College Humor, Busted T’s and Vimeo) before joining Spark Capital in 2008. Company grew by more than “400% each year” for past few years [assume growth metric = revenues].

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My Mama, the founder of Yuca’s Hut in Los Feliz, CA, didn’t allow a lack of college degrees or a business plan to deter her from launching her dream. Larry Page, Google co-founder.I I am co founder of GreenPal which has been described as Uber for lawn care. It was March 2008. Image Credit: Dora Herrera.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the founder and CEO of Stackify. I said in the intro and it’s funny how many founders of companies start companies because they can’t find something or they can’t get something solved, so they just solve it by creating a company. As a founder of a company, a CEO of a company. Go check it out.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JUNE 6, 2011

Summarized here , their modern “rules of business&# include “Solo founders take 3.6x Supposing you’re a solo founder, after reading that quote above you can’t help but start in with the self-doubt. “Maybe I need to think about finding a co-founder. more money than those that don’t.&#.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

I was hanging out the other day with my buddy Jody Sherman, founder & CEO of EcoMom. He was raising money initially in the worst market in a decade (we met in 2008), he’s in his mid-40′s, is doing a mom’s site (he has no kids) and he has a JewFro. Through this process he raised $2 million.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Going to business school and becoming a startup founder are often positioned as conflicting choices by the media and startup bloggers. Some go as far as stating, flat out, that MBAs don’t make for good founders. In fact, there are over 250 founders from the HBS classes between 2008 and 2014. billion in venture funding.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

Paras Chopra , founder of VWO , answered a question about this on Quora. You know all about vanity metrics , and how you shouldn’t be obsessed with them. The example he gave was that the search term “snow tires” has evolved into, “what are the best snow tires for a 2008 Ford F150?”. Traffic Without Conversions is Worthless.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 16, 2015

A couple weeks ago my colleague Dimitri Dadiomov published a post on NextView’s “View From Seed” blog which answered the question “Should we take Harvard MBAs Seriously as Startup Founders?” From the group, over 260 founders have launched around 90 startups, raising more than $2.5B in capital. Quite the contrary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. People, not just metrics. He has a unique business philosophy. I hope you will.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. BC: Yeah, Reid.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Dandelion’s founders previously started the internet company Plaxo, so I was particularly interested to learn how they were incorporating technology into their business. In founder Todd Masonis’ words: Q: So, the chocolate business? Prior to Dandelion, my friend, Cameron Ring, and I co-founded an Internet company, Plaxo.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2020

I've known Brian Chesky, Co-Founder, CEO and Head of Community at Airbnb for a long time. This was supposed to be Airbnb's biggest year by many measures, including its IPO, which was one of the most anticipated since the 2008 financial crisis. What can organizations do to remain true to their vision for generations to come?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

Why does this hurt, well I was just reading a few blog posts yesterday on finding startup co-founders: Where do you Find Cofounders? Startup Co-Founders: If You Cant Recruit Em, Should You Join Em? Finding Startup Co-Founders You would hope that networking events would be a good way to find suitable folks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, December 23, 2009 Why vanity metrics are dangerous In a previous post, I defined two kinds of metrics: vanity metrics and actionable metrics. In this post, Id like to talk about the perils of vanity metrics. My personal favorite vanity metrics is "hits."

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Life Beyond Code

AUGUST 23, 2010

Note 1: Disclosure: I am a co-founder of iCharts. Related Posts: Venture Capital Story in Q4 2008 – Now Told Visually… Top 25 Films of 2008 (based on box office earnings) iCharts launched; Invitation code for premium beta accounts A little bit of (positive) surprise… Metrics that Matter on Video.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

For more page-turning corporate drama, including the feud between Intermix co-founders and UCLA college buddies Brett Brewer and Brad Greenspan, Nasdaq delisting, proxy contest and lawsuits by Greenspan after he was fired as CEO, see Stealing MySpace by WSJ reporter Julia Angwin. MySpace became its own company, MySpace, Inc.,

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

asks Bruna Martinuzzi, president and founder of Clarion Enterprises. Use any metrics that demonstrate the traction your startup has made in the market. Other metrics include marketing efforts, cost of production, business figures and more. million valuation ($150,000 for 10 percent equity) in 2008.

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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. October 20, 2008 9:34 PM Nivi said. October 20, 2008 10:36 PM Nathan said.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

The articles I cited there around finding co-founders suggests that Ben is on the money. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? What I mentioned in Events and Networking in Los Angeles was that its somewhat hard in LA to count on networking events to build networks. No small task Ben.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 15, 2008 The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time Split-testing is a core lean startup discipline, and its one of those rare topics that comes up just as often in a technical context as in a business-oriented one when Im talking to startups. September 15, 2008 9:12 PM Hitchens said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. Eric, love the blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. November 14, 2008 3:19 AM Hitchens said. November 14, 2008 4:41 PM Eric said. November 14, 2008 5:00 PM Tony said. Good stuff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. Great piece!

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief. Most people cant sustain more than a few of these iterations, and the founders rarely get to be involved in the later tries. When we build products, we use a methodology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, November 7, 2008 Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online service, step-by-step If you want to build an online service, and you dont test it with a fake AdWords campaign ahead of time, youre crazy. November 7, 2008 7:36 PM nitesh said. November 7, 2008 7:41 PM nitesh said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

While many travel industry leaders chose to “go dark,” as Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky put it , while they decided how to navigate next steps, Chesky took a different approach: He got candid. Today, we are thrilled to have Airbnb CEO and co-founder Brian Chesky with us. BC: Yeah, Reid.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

Tim Berry Tim Berry is the president and founder of Palo Alto Software, founder of bplans.com, and a co-founder of Borland International, author of books and software on business planning, Stanford MBA, father of five, married 41 years. The management happens with the following up on the metrics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. December 2, 2008 8:53 AM Lisa said. December 2, 2008 10:47 AM William Pietri said. December 2, 2008 10:56 AM Ryan said. Fantastic post.

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