Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Guest post by Jennifer Maerz, contributing editor of Lean Startup Co. Welcome to Lean Startup Week 2016 TL;DR: Before you dive into the details, here’s a quick look at what you can expect during your week with us: On Oct. And we’ll close the day with a conversation between Eric and Lean Startup Co. at Breather.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 12, 2016

Prior to that, he worked at Microsoft in product management and marketing. While at MIT, Ajay co-authored papers related to distributed systems, storage and secure processing. He had also cofounded two software companies – one of which commercialized his PhD research.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 21, 2016

“Many Unicorn founders and CEOs have never experienced a difficult fundraising environment — they have only known success. The “Many Unicorn founders …” quote is the first of four emotional biases that Bill calls out. “The typical 2016 VC investor is also subject to emotional bias.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Mike Arsenault and his two co-founders—all with technical backgrounds—built their MVP while working full time for other SaaS companies. “We Running comparative calculations, Arsenault figures that “two senior engineers plus a product manager/marketer for 40 hours per month, times 6 months, would be 720 hours to get to our MVP.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 16, 2019

In contrast to “distribution-first content,” movement-first content is a conscious sacrifice of reach: “it isn’t beholden to any SEO tactics like word count and keyword density.” It took more than two years—and far more homepage designs—before “conversational marketing” made its way into the homepage headline: January 2016. March 2016.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Nonetheless, their 10-barrel brewery came online in December 2015, and they began pouring beer locally and in their tasting room in early 2016. “We How wide do you want to grow production and distribution, or do you want to focus on selling over your own bar? What type of brewery will you be: production brewery or brewpub?

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 3, 2019

We loved the founders, but didn’t have much conviction around the scalability of a browser plug-in and the fact that this was a bridge round. Ryan and his co-founders proved us wrong big time and built one of the largest social media management companies. And yeah, $12M felt kind of high :-). Eight years and $49.9B

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

“If you can fix a problem for someone and do it better, quicker, and/or cheaper than your competitor, you’re off to a good start.” – Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin. We created UpKeep to fill this void—a cloud-based solution that was affordable for any size business.” – Ryan Chan, founder of UpKeep.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 2, 2020

At every one of them I was the person who wrote the proposals, did the technical interviewed on candidates, went on sales calls with the Account Managers to make them look good and got put on troubled projects to help right the ship. About a year strapped to this rollercoaster and I managed to have my best month yet.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

APRIL 19, 2016

And as applications have trended towards a more distributed, data-centric, and segmented architecture, keeping them up and running reliably has become more of a challenge. This is the exact problem that Tal Weiss and his co-founders at Takipi faced a few years ago after selling their startup VisualTao to Autodesk.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Its founders (Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs) have extensive experience with some of the biggest online properties. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. Gibbs was the founder of Google’s App Engine. Enter RealtimeBoard.

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Up and Running

MAY 15, 2019

These products will be distributed to remote yet extremely viable areas, where the market is appreciative of readily-available, good-quality brew. With this money, they plan to expand its distribution to selected metro areas within the state of Oregon. Initial plans are to produce three main lines of beer. Martin Cove Brewing Company.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 28, 2021

They distribute the content via established Platforms that help them reach and grow an audience such as Twitch, Youtube, Tiktok, SubStack, OnlyFans etc, and more often than not, they build following in more than one of these channels and benefit from cross promotion (i.e. San Diego based, founded in 2016 and started as a meme creator.

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David Teten

MARCH 5, 2021

(co-written with Katherine Boe Heuck , a MBA candidate at MIT Sloan (class of 2022); past intern at Versatile VC ; and a current intern at Metaprop NYC.). All of the 40 companies’ 92 founders were male. Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. Of the 43 U.S.-based Of course, this dataset is incomplete.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 22, 2017

Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year. 11 – Lesson Learned.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Austin Diversity Evangelists Mellie Price Director of Diversity Capital Factory Managing Director, Health CoLab Dell Medical School Mellie Price is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, venture capitalist, and now university commercialization disruption at the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas.

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. Technical founders .

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Mike Michalowicz

JULY 25, 2016

Too add, by implementing Profit First, within the first two weeks of starting the business, the company took their first distribution check! As founder and CTO of several businesses, I love to see ideas become reality and build sustainable businesses that create real value. Welcome to Episode 106 of the Profit First Podcast!

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

76% planned to increase their content production in 2016. Neil Patel, co- founder of KISSmetrics and Quick Sprout, used infographics on the KISSmetrics blog to generate over 2.5 Neil Patel, QuickSprout Founder. million visitors in 2010 and continues to believe in the power of infographics. “I About the Author.

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