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.&# Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

(Steve calls this just Customer Validation , but I like to emphasize the learning aspect, so I accept a far more awkward phrase.) First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development. Things started to slip. Things started to slip.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R. ► May (3) Thank you Philosophy Helps Start-Ups Move Faster (WSJ on the. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

Every year, our team conducts more than 500 customer development calls to understand what challenges the community is facing. It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. We come across some interesting stories from people who are really making things happen.

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2011

This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others. The site aggregates content but doesn't own it or try to copy it.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 7, 2009

From the king of customer development, Steve Blank: [.] If one looks at the total pool of college vs non-college people, and what each group’s career trajectories look like in the aggregate, I think Google’s position is more justifiable. You just get successful. Sometimes they just drop out and do their own thing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

In order to get optimal results from a group-based effort, you need three things: diversity, Independence , and an objective method for aggregating results. Aggregate results carefully. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Not all crowds are wise. cause disaster.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

aggregates resources from all the VCs. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? [link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said. Very good "chewy" stuff, Eric - well done & thanks. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2011

We graded them on a scale of 1-5, posted our grades and comments to a shared Google doc, and had our Teaching Assistant aggregate the grades and feedback to pass on to the teams.). Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. Our first team up was Autonomow. Stay tuned.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2009

Resegmentation means these startups are trying to lure some of the current or potential customers away from incumbents by either offering a lower cost product, or by offering features that appealed to a specific niche or subset of the existing users. Do you know the archetype of their customers? Me – “Have you used Company x’s product?

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

2) There is nowhere consumers can go which aggregates all the late availability properties in one place and guarantees the best prices. Turning to the business and how we’ve worked together, the first thing to say is that Matt’s customer development work was encouraging. This is a big opportunity.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency.

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Steve Blank

JULY 19, 2016

a company that aggregates data on treatment outcomes for hospital patients. Soon after, he developed the world’s first mobile newsreader so people could follow TED Talks from their mobile devices. . Filed under: Customer Development , SiriusXM Radio Show. In Sweden, he founded omvard.se

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

But, since Yipit, an aggregator of all these services, involves more user interface / user experience challenges, it made more sense for us to teach ourselves so that we could iterate on the concept till we got it right. Just get something out there and recruit a great technical team later.

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

The scope can also be tough – i.e. does your business need to aggregate massive amounts of data in order to be useful to other people? But, I’m seeing interesting business models, where companies insert themselves in transactions (that involve validating things or providing services).

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Hippoland

JUNE 19, 2018

The scope can also be tough – i.e. does your business need to aggregate massive amounts of data in order to be useful to other people? But, I’m seeing interesting business models, where companies insert themselves in transactions (that involve validating things or providing services).

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 20, 2013

Examples of these applications include: remote patient monitoring, analytics/big data (aggregation and analysis of clinical, administrative or economic data), hospital administration (software tools to run a hospital), electronic health records (clinical data capture), and wellness (improve/monitor health of individuals). Regulatory Issues.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. That is customer development. “But it never happened.&# [Alas, customers dont know what they want!

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. aggregation. Customer Development. Read post Why Learning should be your top 2013 new year’s resolution  for a full list. Codeacademy. Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank. SW Courses. Part 1- Intro. Part 2- 3 tools for startups. Part 3- Lean Cust. Part 4- Closing.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. This is the blog post I needed to read. niners.boi Do you think we can ever take [link] mainstream? link] Hazem Awad An excellent and very practical article.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list. The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation - Steve Blank , July 22, 2010 Startup CEO’s can’t delegate sales and expect it to happen. Customer Validation needs to have the CEO actively involved. Customer Development Diagnostics over Lunch.

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