Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

Expo Intensive rocked, the mainstream media has started writing about the Lean Startup, and - most of all - the movement continues to grow and evolve. I went to the conference thinking that I was well grounded in the basics of the Lean Startup approach and that attendance would hone the edges of that understanding.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. We were constantly creating metrics to see the effects of different PR messages, channels and audiences on end-user purchases. Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice. I couldn’t care less about those.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot?

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 10, 2013

Defending the Brash Arrogance of Silicon Valley | by Mike Greenfield – [link]. How a 1-Page Business Model Will – and Won’t–Help Your Lean Startup | by Kevin Dewalt – [link]. The critical metrics for each stage of your SaaS business | by Lars Lofrgren – [link]. 10 Myths about Startups – [link].

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Growth marketing borrows a concept from the lean startup methodology. Growth marketers can then use audience segmentation and multivariate testing to understand what resonates best with different sub-segments, informing more personalized communication. If your campaign works and your brand awareness metrics improve, you win.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Step 1: Start with a lean plan. It’s the fastest way to get your idea onto paper, and it’s the very first step in the lean planning process, which is much easier and more iterative than traditional business planning methods. Introducing Lean Planning: How to Plan Less and Grow Faster. How to Write a Traditional Business Plan.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

bands take their built in audience and then branch into their own material. Reply My take on Customer Development and the Lean Startup | Recess Mobile Blog , on January 9, 2010 at 5:29 am Said: [.] reminds us that Customer Development is not just collecting web metrics and it’s not about focus groups. Then WHAT it IS?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Guest post by Lisa Regan, writer for The Lean Startup Conference. How can established companies benefit from implementing Lean Startup? Of course, you can also continue the conversation by attending The Lean Startup Conference. What can Lean Startup do about this? They’ll jump in to answer in the coming days. (Of

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

I confess that I looked at it and concluded that I must be far outside the target audience. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Thats because a marketing launch is a one-time event, and rarely translates into renewable audiences. In fact, we often felt frustrated when new startups with a fraction of our success got terrific write-ups in Silicon Valley-centric venues. Know what the success metrics are for the launch. Expo SF (May.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 2, 2021

So the norms that we have were a combination of bottoms-up and then some top-down leaning. Look, one thing that everyone tends to do (in the whole cult of culture in Silicon Valley) is to establish one and then you stay there, almost like the 10 commandments. Our chief diversity officer is as metric-driven as you would see.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2013

But the counterpoint comes from a researcher named Kathleen Eisenhardt at Stanford, who did a study of Silicon Valley firms and found that the firms that considered more options were actually faster for three basic reasons. That is a core belief of everyone in the Lean Startup movement. It’s more work, and it’s slower.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Why do I do it?

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

I came to Silicon Valley when I was 25, turning 26. And I think one of the things that we’ve learned is, when I came to Silicon Valley in 2007, we were starting Airbnb in 2008, it was a marketplace. But there’s something else that I think I learned, and that was that a lot of focus on Silicon Valley is about growth.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 6, 2016

Emotional Content Strategy (using emotional triggers to target your audience). Learn as much as you can about your audience. It’s your job to identify your audience’s dreams and then address that on your landing page. Claire Vo: CRO Metrics for Performance and Insight. Wrong Success Metric (OEC). Emotional SWOT.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

The CAB, DC (aka the C3) and the APC fought hard to help you guys please the general audience, and at many times, the moderators as well, heck there were forum mods on the councils. Same goes for the AP products that the General Audience consumers (whicn includes teens) get their hands on. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

He worked at an education startup here in Silicon Valley. Tomas Pueyo : Yeah, I started figuring out it was going to happen around the middle of February, and I was waiting for the cases to really start appearing in Silicon Valley. And in fact, The Lean Startup is very much that. His name is Tomas Pueyo.

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