Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 31, 2015

The following is a guest post by Kirsten Cluthe and Ritika Puri from The Lean Startup Conference team Wondering what’s new in the Lean Startup community? It all started with a small group of founders and product enthusiasts who self-aggregated into an online community. She wants to disrupt Hollywood with the Lean Startup method.

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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 Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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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. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. Similarly, it’s easy to generate large aggregate numbers by simply falling back to non-disruptive or non-sustainable tactics (see Validated learning about customers for one example). June 8, 2009 1:16 AM Colin said.

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View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? Because then, when you go back to the same capital market for your Series A, and say, “We are raising this A to do Y,” you’ll have a lot of folks leaning in. Are you bringing an army of algorithm authors to attack a sleep non-technical industry?

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Investors sitting through Incubator or Accelerator demo days have three metrics to judge fledgling startups – 1) great looking product demos, 2) compelling PowerPoint slides, and 3) a world-class team. And we can offer investors metrics to play Moneyball – with the Investment Readiness Level. We think we can do better. Here’s how.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The startups in our Lean LaunchPad classes and the NSF I-Corps incubator use LaunchPad Central to collect a continuous stream of data across all the teams. The Power of the Investment Readiness Level: Different Metrics for Different Industry Segments. Investment Readiness Level (IRL) for Corporations and Investors. Medical Devices.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 24, 2020

Simply put, IoT is a combination of sensor and data analytics systems, helping businesses aggregate metrics to make more accurate decisions. Making lean decisions , testing minimum viable products (MVP), actively seeking feedback, and being willing to make continuous adjustments in pursuit of optimization.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. While the data that you care about will likely differ based on your business type, you can bucket it all under general customer satisfaction metrics. How to choose a CRM for your business.

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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 Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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www.subelsky.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Mike Subelskys Blog Wednesday, November 11, 2009 Lean startup tools for Rails apps A few months ago I was invited to dinner with the Geeks on a Plane crew when they stopped in Washington, and had the opportunity to meet one of my heroes, Eric Ries , author of the Startup Lessons Learned blog. Email This BlogThis!

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ConversionXL

MARCH 11, 2019

are not suitable for sentiment analysis because the question is asked of people already leaning toward a negative sentiment. A stacked data format looks like the table below: In the above example, the first column is your quantitative metric (e.g. No single metric, NPS included, is perfect. Step 1: Stack your data.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If it’s done right, feedback and postmortems are regular activities and reviews are just the official aggregation of such feedback.?. Find one person, make them your sherpa, and lean on them. I’ve leaned on Allen Morgan for the last 8 years through 4 companies and all sorts of ups and downs and twist and turns. Fab Culture.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 8, 2017

The daily program encourages a balanced eating plan of fruit, vegetables, lean protein, and complex carbohydrates while monitoring portion sizes. Physical activity recommendations gradually guide our members from simple walking, on to vigorous strength and cardiovascular training that helps replace excess fat with lean muscle.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale. Second, their story illustrates a key Lean Startup idea: proving the business in micro-scale.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. The simplest way to track a company’s performance: have them give you access to their internal metrics dashboard. I used Ipreo heavily at one of my prior VC funds. .

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ConversionXL

MARCH 16, 2016

See, when people lean on NPS like it’s a magic number, it doesn’t do much good. Net Promoter Score is a customer loyalty metric developed by (and a trademark of) Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company, and Satmetrix. If you have a bunch of customer success metrics but don’t use them for anything, you’re wasting your time.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Each team of three to five students is being asked not only to become an expert on these complex topics in 10 short weeks, but also to learn and apply Lean LaunchPad methodology to put forth a solution. The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.”

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Each team of three to five students is being asked not only to become an expert on these complex topics in 10 short weeks, but also to learn and apply Lean LaunchPad methodology to put forth a solution. The teams live and die by the Lean Startup credo: “There are no facts inside the building so get the hell outside.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 28, 2011

Many NFPs operate in ways that would not be considered ‘business-like,’ AND these organizations, like their small, for-profit cousins, can benefit by leveraging the ideas and tools that we often discuss in the Lean Marketing series. But one of the tenets os lean marketing is to define short-term and intermediate goals.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Its actually part of a lean startup story. For more on his lean startup journey, you can take a look at this slide presentation. 2gov.org automatically routes your tweet (aggregating it with everyone else whos expressed a similar point of view) to the right legislator or agency. Its actually part of a lean startup story.

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

90 percent of our clients are ordering more than one product at a time, so we’re an aggregator. The Lean Startup by Erik Reis. Allyson offers a concise description of what Maternova does: “We’re almost like Amazon in the sense that we’re click-and-ship.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 13, 2015

In Lean Analytics , Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz gave a great example of the value of cohorts, using data from a hypothetical online retailer: January. So by segmenting your data, you can learn things you couldn’t from the aggregate data. Will this cohort help me improve that metric?”.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 13, 2013

Traffic volume is a vanity metric. So I was a bit too caught up in vanity metrics like traffic volume and I was happy to say I was getting 10-15K visits a month but is that even good? Look I’m not going to tell you that vanity metrics are useless and you shouldn’t look at your traffic stats. What are vanity metrics?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

John Jantsch: So you in the Value Builder System kind of lean on these drivers of salability kind of the things that people use to determine or demonstrate that a company has value. I love looking at cost per account acquired as a key metric to share with potential acquirers. They can simply grow quite quickly by winning new customers.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

11: Close to zero aggregated analysis exists, everything's segmented. #10: They are generic mash-ups that tailor to almost no one's needs, and more often than not contain awful things like nine not-really-thought out metrics for one dimension in a report. All data in aggregate is crap. " Kisses. Angels singing!

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klinger.io

JANUARY 17, 2014

Andreas Klinger #product #metrics #marketing Startup Lessons Learned. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. A Primer on Startup Metrics – Which Analytics Tool to pick. Accounting are the metrics we track over time. Follow @andreasklinger. On this website I share notes & thoughts. ?.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2015

You need to think of business planning from a lean perspective, and it’s just enough to get you to the right place. It is lean. Why do I talk about it as being a process, and lean. A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. That’s it.

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The Startup Magazine

JULY 9, 2020

Improve traffic figures, metrics and digital performance. For example, listing your business to aggregator sites, setting up your own e-commerce presence, or even opening up your blog to guest posting possibilities. This will help you get a sizable bump during a lean period like the COVID 19 pandemic. Conclusion.

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 14, 2015

I re-read Eric Ries’s The Lean Startup this week largely because our partner companies do things a little differently to what I would describe as ‘classic lean startup’ and I wanted to get clearer on what the differences are and why. It’s a very good book and deserving of it’s reputation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 11, 2020

But I do think there will be at least a short term moment where after a period of a lot of despair, and economic, and health disaster, a huge number of people die in tragedy, by mega tragedy, by any metric. All the other things that matter, aggregating talent, getting people to care, all of that stuff that's hard in a boom and easier now.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 29, 2020

Consequently, you’ve decided to utilize this passion and expertise to collect and aggregate social media data from some of the popular social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, CrunchBase, and LinkedIn. Implement the “lean startup” philosophy. Year-on-year growth metrics in unique site traffic is 7.8

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2019

Each chosen obsession is very much in the spirit of my beloved principle of the aggregation of marginal gains. Here are five brand and five performance metrics that'll be your BFFs in 2019, as you social strategy lives up to that now famous mantra: Show me the money! Keep control of creativity, give up control of the creative.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? Lean project management. aggregation. Lean Startup Machine.

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practicetrumpstheory.com

JULY 14, 2010

First, what is an actionable metric? An actionable metric is one that ties specific and repeatable actions to observed results. This distinction carries over to metrics too. Map Metrics to Actions The next step is to map specific actions in your product to Activation and Retention.

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Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

. + Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Onsite Behavior Key Metrics Analysis. I tend to use Hitwise a lot less, or not at all, because it is a very hard to use, it is slow, the UX/UI, metrics and reports have not really evolved over the years. Traffic Trends Key Metrics Analysis. Visitor/Audience Type Profile Analysis.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

For most clients, Futurety starts by identifying the key business question—not a specific metric or visualization. Leaning on natural language processing and predictive analytics, the program analyzed conversations, forecasted trends, and trained more than 13,000 volunteers. Outside vendors. Agencies offering bespoke solutions.

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