Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

As the costs of production fall, it’s getting easier and easier to send in a proposal or even a complete work. 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. Ever-more artists and authors are petitioning them.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

And do I still need to get out of the building if Ive got great metrics and surveys?" My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. By creating a space for your startup community to congregate and share new ideas, youre enabling a new kind of economic growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Im open to being the coffee and snack technician :-) On another note, I live in Atlanta and believe that we have a strong enough start-up community that would greatly benefit from your lessons learned. I have contacts within the university and entrepreneurial communities and would be happy to help you set up something if interested.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

They raised around $350 million to try and sell cars direct over the Internet. Scott left the company, which eventually IPO’d and became Internet Brands. And finally, Scott demonstrated his internal management tool for managing the metrics of his business. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. This can be especially challenging for HR professionals who measure their success based on the number of jobs they fill. This post has been removed by the author.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. When I was a kid, the way I logged onto the internet for the first time (to play MUDs, naturally) was through an open dial-up console at San Diego State University. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management.

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Hearpreneur

JULY 19, 2021

I love being an entrepreneur , because I have the ability to impact my community and create change. Through our various community outreach events , volunteering, and mentorship we are able to make a difference in the girls' lives that we work with. It has been a blessing serving my community and has helped make me a better person.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

130 posts (and dozens more that mercifully never saw the light of day), tons of comments, and, of course - you, the awesomest subscribers on the internet. Thats the internet for you. Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ► October (7) ▼ September (9) Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We'll have IDCEE conf on October 28-29, [link] If you could come any other day we'll organize small event at #kievstartup community. 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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ► October (7) ▼ September (9) Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ► October (7) ▼ September (9) Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. Each month, wed hold each other accountable for making changes to our product, process, and team. Thanks for all that you have done to help the startup community! I love the business model.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ► October (7) ▼ September (9) Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

We're keeping ourselves free for the community that has helped us build our product; premium vs basic seems wrong to us. 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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Why vanity metrics are dangerous ► November (1) ► October (7) ▼ September (9) Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders (and a request for.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. Sorry about that.) As soon as possible!&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

I would recommend periodic surveys, along with some kind of forum or other community tool where the most passionate customers can congregate. Im Community Manager at VenCorps, co-host of commandN. As you start to see them, collect your hypotheses and start using broader-reach tools to find out how they break down.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Beyond the quality of the candidates themselves, Ive noticed three big effects of hiring out of free software communities: You can hire an expert in your own code base. Ive had the good fortune to see this first-hand. Submit patches.

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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. Building Product 2. Building Metrics / Usage Reports / KPI 3. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? Of course, the real thanks should go to a startup - Gogo Inflight Internet - that I was lucky enough to meet at a recent workshop. Thanks to on-board wifi, you can join me in that thought process, if youd like.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

In order to give people the data they need to apply the strategy, we were very open with our company metrics, making all reports generally available and easy to run. When you think a certain feature will give a 50% boost to a given metric, and it only eeks out a 5% boost, you cant spin that as failure. It worked incredibly well for us.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

And now all of a sudden you have got this global market of all these early adopters that have smartphones connected to the Internet, and they can just pick up their things and run with them. So it would seem like they are an antidote to, or at least less offensive than, social/consumer Internet companies are to the public markets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

These decisions cause problems that will challenge you for years, if you are lucky enough to be successful with your product. As the size of your community and economy grows, youll be able to solve them as they arise, as long as you know what to look for. What makes a particular decision key? Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Theres a lot of controversy surrounding NPS in the customer research community, and I dont want to recapitulate it here. Even if you have a very large community, I dont think this number needs to be higher than 100. In other words, we committed the one cardinal sin of community management. Heres how Ive set it up in the past.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, January 2, 2010 Towards a new entrepreneurship When I started writing about the lean startup , my aspiration was to do more than just share a handful of tips and tricks that work for consumer internet startups. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

AgileZen – project management visually see and interact with your work Kanbanery – Simple online team or personal kanban board LeanKit Kanban – Great for visualizing work of product development Kanban Pad – “Nice and lean” and free online Kanban tool Banana Scrum – A tool simple as Scrum itself.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. Then the reality of our problem hit us.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Ning Communities. Startup Metrics for Pirates â?? SaaS Metrics Tutorial â?? On-line Communities. Great for visualizing work of product development. Likelihood of Confusion -trademark, copyright and Internet Law. Google Groups. Forms/Surveys. Google Forms. Survey Monkey. Personal storage. Ad Promotion.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

We were building a community, open to anyone who shared its values, and that mission inspired volunteers and staff to try and reach out to as many people as possible. 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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