Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Overall, here are the lessons I take from (the imaginary) Steve Jobs: Hold your team to high standards, dont settle for products that dont meet the vision, iterate, iterate, iterate. Be disciplined about which vision to pursue; choose products that have large markets. Will start to pay attention. August 1, 2009 9:33 AM Brij said.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 14, 2021

In this guide, you’ll learn how to differentiate your business and attract your ideal customers by creating a unique selling proposition. How do they differentiate from other competitors (including yourself) and handle objections? A common USP formula is: “We help [AUDIENCE] achieve [TRANSFORMATION] with [PRODUCT/SERVICE].”.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 26, 2018

In our experience, structured customer development work is right up there amongst the most valuable things a founder can do in the early days of their startup. Once you have an idea that feels strong, it’s imperative to speak with customers about it. But good customer development is tough to do.

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Steve Blank

JULY 29, 2013

It’s important to differentiate between ideas that have been or can be patented and ideas thought up late night in a dorm-room. They deal with the daily crisis of product development and acquiring early customers. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 6, 2014

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. Agile is a tremendous advance in reducing time, money and wasted product development effort – and in having products better match customer needs.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 1, 2010

Get to work and add all of these for first customer ship.”. Product development salutes and gets to work building the product. Only after the product ships does the company find out that customers couldn’t have cared less about most of the bells and whistles. No feature lists without facts.

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David Teten

APRIL 1, 2021

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. Customer Development.

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 18, 2010

Lean, when used in the context of lean startup, refers to a process of building companies and products using lean manufacturing principles applied to innovation. That process involves rapid hypothesis testing, validated learning about customers , and a disciplined approach to product development.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

On Sean’s GrowthHackers.com , categories include… So, essentially everything from customer development and onboarding to persuasion and social marketing fall under the umbrella of growth hacking. The key differentiator being the product-level focus vs. the channel-level focus of traditional marketing effort.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Here the key is for your free customers to get value from the site that is greater than the costs they perceive by the fact that youre selling access to them. What differentiates this model from "free serves paid" is that the free users dont need to consciously do anything special to be valuable.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Identity value - This is the strongest source of value of all, and its a little tricky to differentiate from the preceding two sources. This is the benefit you get from incorporating a product into your self-conception. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

We have certain advantages that we are confident will differentiate us, but these may not be apparent if we just released as soon as the basic functionality of our app was ready. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

We knew IMVU would be a socializing platform, and so we decided that we would let our customers interact using their own rules for assigning status, like we do in the physical world. The companies that own those brands work hard to differentiate their offering so that people who wear their clothes will be perceived in a certain way.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). He correctly identifies the three disciplines that have to be represented in a balanced and collaborative manner: developer, designer, distributer. The original name being Abraraccourcix.

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