2009, Business Plan, Product Development and Web

Amazing lean startup resources

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2010

For the many entrepreneurs that send me cold emails asking for me to review a business plan or answer a strategic dilemma: Im much more likely to answer if youve already tried getting an answer on the mailing list. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Youll probably get a better result, anyway. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. March 14, 2009 8:34 AM Can Sar said. April 11, 2009 1:22 AM CeeTee said.

Customer Development

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The Customer Development Manifesto: Reasons for the Revolution.

Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This post describes how the traditional product development model distorts startup sales, marketing and business development. Marketers believe creating a killer web presence, corporate presentation, are objectives. Here’s what the product development diagram looks like from a sales perspective.

Customer Development

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 2, 2009 Lessons Learned on Mashable today I had the good fortune to be asked to write a guest post over at Mashable , which is running today, called HOW TO: Raise Money in a Down Economy. January 2, 2009 11:54 AM Daniel Davie said. January 2, 2009 4:48 PM Chris Desouza said.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, June 5, 2009 It’s a startup, not a spreadsheet Some people, when they start to realize the power of using data to inform their decisions, become obsessed with optimization. Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. Now you can build an app at true web scale without incurring any software costs, or any fixed hardware costs. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Making Decisions in Context

Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your original business plan will probably go out the window when you land your first customer. They even create a tangled web of electronic files that are hard to unravel. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission.

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Lean Startups aren't Cheap Startups

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. This “get out of the building” activity is the Customer Discovery step of the Customer Development Model.

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Don't be the Ice Cream Glove

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 3, 2009 Dont be the Ice Cream Glove I have a new post up today on OReilly Radar , called " Is your product an Ice Cream Glove or a Snuggie? " Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 19, 2009 Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a response) Inc Magazine has a great new piece up about the increasing use of the Minimum Viable Product by businesses (and not just startups). The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Read the rest.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. March 13, 2009 1:50 PM dan simard said. What would you suggest for a business like this?

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Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. At first glance, this makes a lot of sense.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I’d been around the web long enough to remember the dozens of companies before YouTube that tried to create crowdsourced video sites and failed. Storm Clouds - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , November 12, 2010 We have enjoyed an amazing run in the web startup and investing space over the past five or six years. Don’t bother?

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. If so, execute, iterate, and learn.

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Lessons Learned: When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to.

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost

Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Categories and indexes on the web pages aren’t quite the right metaphor or substitute for random access. So bowing to popular demand the 2009 blog posts are now available on Amazon on a portable device which provides instant and random access to any post and does not require power or an internet connection. Startup Culture.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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Why Free Plans Don't Work

Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

CrazyEgg decided to drop its free plan in Jan of 2009 and they haven’t looked back. I asked CrazyEgg co-founder Hiten Shah why they decided to drop their free plan back then. Pluggio is a Freemium Twitter web app created by Justin Vincent. Maybe we should just skip that free plan and focus on making money instead.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

He said that you need a reliable business plan, six months of cash on hand, and cheap labor. If so, shoot me an intro email at ryoma8ito@gmail.com A little about me: - Degree in computer engineering w/ management science option - Built several web 2.0 But at the end of the day, it is about a product being accepted.

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Lessons Learned: What is a market? (a guide for hackers)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, February 12, 2009 What is a market? (a February 12, 2009 3:30 PM Neil said. February 13, 2009 2:05 PM kareem said. February 13, 2009 4:12 PM Brant Cooper said. One can see how it ripples through the entire business plan. great analogies. Expo SF (May.

San Francisco

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Innovation, Change and the Rest of Your Life

Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Not kind of wrong but going out of business wrong.

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