Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa. June 22, 2009 6:30 AM Anonymoussaid. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Eventually, I hope to get them on a full agile diet, with TDD, scrums, sprints, pair programming, and more. I went through some of this in bringing agile methodologies to my current firm - except that I am the product manager in question at this case.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

but rest assured they would be. Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. I say this as a founder: the contribution of founders is always overestimated. And funding delays are a big distraction for founders, who ought to be working on their company, not worrying about investors.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Idealistic founders believe they will break the mold when they scale, and not turn into a “typical big company.” Or it’s fatal because that was a co-founder. “The future is inherently unpredictable,” insists the small company, spurred on by Lean and Agile mindsets. It’s a different thing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. I believe this is one reason why the myth of the dictatorial startup founder has such enduring appeal. Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Ship it.&# Factional strife is learning kryptonite.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Read the rest of The Five Whys for Start-Ups. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs. You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) Expo SF (May.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The past year was a wild ride for startups and founders, giving a whole new meaning to the ”rollercoaster” aspect of being an entrepreneur. Patrick Collison , self-made billionaire founder of Stripe. Use agility to your advantage and make speed a team priority. Bill Gates , founder of Microsoft. Team, product, market.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 17, 2011

Entrepreneurs create success by being agile and by making effective but quick decisions based on what they have in front of them. Entrepreneurs who have repeated success don’t rest on their laurels; neither should administrators. These developments are tough to swallow for many of the nation’s educators. Don’t drink your own bathwater.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Will the addition of process kill our innovative culture? Well-functioning teams just dont make these kinds of mistakes, right? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. Expo SF (May.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 30, 2022

While investors can seem like a solution to countless problems you encounter as a founder, don’t be too hasty to start eating from their hands. In this article, you’ll learn how bootstrapping makes you a better business – a leaner, smarter, more agile company that can roll with the punches. You might even ask for it.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

For startups that are tempted to mimic this behavior, I suggest reading the great account of the early Apple in Founders at Work.) So I don't think the Apple experience should be used to discount lean, agile, or customer development-type approaches. Regardless, they must cull a lot of bad ideas for every one that we hear about.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Many assume it was a cakewalk, based on the success LinkedIn has enjoyed over time and the current stature of our founder/CEO Reid Hoffman (now Chairman). Yes… he was a very successful PayPal exec and previously co-founder & VP Product of SocialNet. The rest, as they say, is history. It was a $4.7M Thanks Lee.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. Some companies and founders refuse to serve existing customers, and are always lurching from one great idea to the next. Expo SF (May.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

It is what separates successful entrepreneurs from the rest. Startups that are named after their founders sometimes do not succeed. As a startup founder, you should be concerned about whether your product or service will be a success or not. Develop a business mindset. Choose a unique brand name. Do market research. Conclusion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 7, 2010

Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Read the rest at The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

I have pitched to hundreds of angel investors over the years as a result of co-founding two tech companies and raising just shy of $1M in angel capital. So what’s going to separate “YOU” from all the rest? Too many founders tread the fine line between arrogance and ignorance. Angels vs. venture capitalists.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

The agile software movement has made numerous contributions: continuous integration, which helps accelerate feedback about defects; story cards and kanban that reduce batch size; a daily stand-up that increases tempo. In fact, excess time pressure is exactly why they think they have these problems in the first place. So new conflicts appear.

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The Next Web

MARCH 2, 2014

But hoarding money means it doesn’t trickle down and assist the rest of society in any way. There are opportunities to get a feel for running a team, validating an idea, choosing co-founders. So you learn to be agile, to take it in your stride, to pivot based on the shortcomings of your competitors. Changing the mindset.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Founders push for it. In some ways, founders are even worse. My experience is that many founders actually have a deep anxiety that maybe they are not succeeding. The rest can believe what they want. Combining agile development with customer developm. See if their answer is about tactics or strategy. Cannon said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We spent the rest of our time pretending to work on the assigned homework, but really trying to do interesting side projects, like sending juvenile messages across the school network or building primitive video games. Then you set up a web app to co-ordinate volunteers who can wipe a hard drive and install Ubuntu. Good Post.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

The rest of the post, which you can read here , discusses the application of these principles to other contexts. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. My transition to Continuous Deployment Prior to adopting continuous deployment, I used to release software on a weekly schedule (come rain or shine) which I viewed as pretty agile, disciplined, and aggressive. Read on to find out.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

There’s been a lot written about the individual characteristics of what makes a great founder , but a lot less about what makes a great founding team and how that’s different from a great founding CEO. In doing so we’ve failed to help founders understand what it takes to build a great founding team. Founders – the idea.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 15, 2010

Read the rest here. Read the rest here. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. The visionary’s lament The Superbowl ad test Lo, my 57692 subscribers, who are you?

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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 opportunity was just mind-bogglingly huge. How did they do it?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

In 2002 I became exposed to the idea of “agile software development&# and subsequently was a first round investor in Rally Software which is now the market leader in Agile application lifecycle management software. Read the rest. Weve got slides , video , audio and twitter commentary. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. But for the rest of us, who create content because we care passionately about having an impact on the world, we need to rethink the process by which we do it. For established media empires, this is a scary fact. Expo SF (May.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 4, 2012

Founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk originally started building the company in their native Estonia before moving to Boston to join the hub of SaaS / CAD software companies located here. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

billion invested in coding agents and co-pilots alone, with Google, Salesforce, Meta, and other incumbents heavily investing in Agentic AI. Incumbents: The AI Battleground The rapid development of AI agents is creating a fierce competition between agile startups and established tech giants.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 30, 2009

Hopefully you and your co-founders are experts in one or two parts (agile development, SEO/SEM, etc.) But the rest; sales, marketing, bus dev is actually customer development that the founder needs to understand. so at least some parts are being run by people who know what they are doing.

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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. I’m Marty, the Co-Founder of REIZE.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

Even for those who don’t care to dive into the numbers, it’s worth a quick glance because co-founder/CEO Andrew Mason wrote a letter which forms the preamble of the full document. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Filed under Uncategorized. Pingback: Iphone Android App.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Expo SF (May.

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View from Seed

MAY 14, 2019

A number of blog posts recently have mentioned this, but we seem to be experiencing a rise in repeat founders starting new businesses and raising seed capital. We’re also seeing a wave of folks who were not founders, but were star players among the first 25 folks at a unicorn company also starting new companies.

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