A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

Listen to this episode if you want to hear about a founder who has a product and users and paying customers … and is trying to figure out how to take his company to the next level and grow faster. Well yeah, you could potentially find a cofounder. Ten million, I think I can be very, very happy for the rest of my life.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does. This post has been removed by the author.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

This is the first post that moves into making specific process recommendations for product development. Read the rest of The Startups Rules of Speed - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review. Labels: product development Speed up or slow down? (for This is the speed-up-or-slow-down moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

And yet the key to startup speed is to maintain a disciplined approach to testing and evaluating new products, features, and ideas. 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.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 28, 2022

We want our clients to feel like out of all the shopping they have done online they finally reached the top of their journey in securing the right product for their families. We always strive to be a cut above the rest in our industry and want to consistently uphold and earn our name. All boxes checked the rest is history.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. 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. June 22, 2009 6:30 AM Anonymoussaid.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. 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. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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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.) Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process. Regardless, they must cull a lot of bad ideas for every one that we hear about.

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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.)

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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 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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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. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

It’s all about the product. The only thing that matters is how good your product is. All the rest is noise. At Fab, our virtual product is our website & apps, our physical products are the merchandise we sell, and our experience product is our operations and service. Always has been. Always will be.

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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.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

I wasnt sure what to talk about at Startup School, so I decidedto ask the founders of the startups wed funded. So I sent all the founders an email asking what surprised them aboutstarting a startup. Be Careful with Cofounders This was the surprise mentioned by the most founders. What hadnt Iwritten about yet?

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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

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 Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Starting instead from a position where feedback cycle time is the priority and allowing quality to ratchet up as the product matures provides a more natural lead in to continuous deployment. The rest of the post, which you can read here , discusses the application of these principles to other contexts. I recommend you take a look.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Some believe in the all-in approach to product development: build an advanced app. What happened to the rest? In other words, if the proposed solution has no proof of adoption, neither the customer, founder, co-founders or investors will benefit from the venture. Guess what? I went back to them and asked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

This cycle repeats for a while, until the team either catches up to all the conflicts or just asks the rest of the team for a general check-in freeze. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Of course, while they are resolving, new changes are being checked in. So new conflicts appear.

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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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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. gave us two years of a beta product to build up the service and the brand awareness. Cannon said.

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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. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Is that a lot? Is that good?

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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. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? That’s all fine and dandy.

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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. 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. This case presents a further complication: desktop software.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

When everything rests on your shoulders, the fate of your company is in your control. As a CEO and founder, I work with employees, contract individuals, and other business owners who are genuinely stellar, and I love being part of the small business dream. Thanks to Stephen Gary, Flashpacker Co ! #25- Photo Credit: Jeff Cooper.

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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. At IMVU, we were terrified by how early we shipped (and charged for) our first product. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 14, 2020

The team regularly co-worked out of Lazarus Brewery, which, for someone born & raised in NYC, was more of a radical change than COVID-19 remote work. Before COVID-19, we needed to focus on ensuring people were using our app, providing feedback, iterating on the product, and making sure the app didn’t break.

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Genuine VC

MARCH 24, 2014

And in seeing that process unfold numerous times, I’ve picked up that there are really four main distinct playbooks which a Founder/CEO can run in the subsequent 12-18 months following a Seed round in preparation for the next round of financing. The four winning strategies for startups to go from Seed to A are: Build Scale/Momentum.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

When doing the post-interview team meeting, it was common for the first opinion expressed about a candidate to become the prevailing opinion of the rest of the team members. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The two rounds of questioning is a good idea for avoiding that.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Near shoring development with your team (ex: your team is based in Canada / India) is cool, but not outsourcing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Thanks to those of you who were willing to fill out the survey, I learned my net promoter score (about 25) as well as some clear other segmentation insights: about 80% of you are founders of or work at a startup, you read many of the same other blogs, and many of you would like to engage with Lessons Learned in formats and venues beyond this blog.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 19, 2009 Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Its been an exhilarating first day here in Washington DC for the Geeks on a Plane tour. We can remedy it by creating a special visa for startup founders. 2gov.org will take care of the rest.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2018

The rest is chronicled in the book, but we find these kinds of innovators and learners throughout the corporate world. I recently spoke with a founder of an online education marketplace. If you’re a founder or working in a startup or thinking about forming or joining one, think about this. His project got the support it needed.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

See Also: Got “Founder Fit”? According to a study conducted by seed accelerator Blackbox, many tech startups failed because they focused on their product rather than their potential customers. Blackbox cofounder Bjoern Lasse Herrmann says, “Too many startups start building first without talking to customers.

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