Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) Because of IMVUs reputation, Ive also had the opportunity to serve as an advisor or board member for more than a dozen startups. Eventually, I came to summarize these themes with the phrase " the lean startup."

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 15, 2010

Despite Google’s reputation as an innovative company, they seem to me to be counted as one of the last of the old breed. I believe that t he Lean Startup is the first such comprehensive entrepreneurship theory. I believe that t he Lean Startup is the first such comprehensive entrepreneurship theory. Expo SF (May.

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JULY 31, 2009

Need to build a good reputation system to rate both the startups and candidates, and then a matching engine that can make the matching. This is a machine learning problem and it can be solved as long as some relevant signals can be captured in the reputation rating. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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SVPG

JULY 31, 2013

While I am currently a passionate advocate of methodologies like Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, Customer Development and more, I try very hard not to get too attached to, or to be too closely associated with, any particular school of thought or technique. Just as there are still people left out there that built their reputation on Phase Gate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 2, 2008

What I tell most startups we fund is that if someone reputable offers you funding on reasonable terms, take it. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Expo SF (May.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2013

But one of the real advantages from a product point of view is that there’s no legacy to drag along, there’s no revenue to preserve, and there’s no reputation to safeguard. This is why we use Gentle Deployment Techniques including assessing customer impact. That said, we need to do this in a responsible way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

When IMVU instigated a policy of banning users from voicing their thoughts, however, even more damage was done to the company's reputation in the eyes of many. People felt themselves to be subject to censorship, a perception that continues to this day. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May.

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