Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. This is why companies often get out-competed by former employees (Palm vs Handspring to name just one), even though the upstart lacks all of the familiar resources, tools, processes, and support they used to have. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. Greater discipline during boom times offered more flexibility during lean years. And getting it right during the lean years, Bain reports , has a massive impact on companies’ growth rate after things improve: ( Image source ).

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Product managers have the exciting responsibility of establishing the goals, roadmap and tracking metrics of their product (among many other duties), and also the less-glamorous but equally-important task of taking care of all the blocking and tackling required?—?from customers, other employees, books, blogs, social media, news?—?and

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

Department Mission Statements – What am I Supposed to Do Today It wasn’t that we somehow had inherited dumb employees. 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.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

We use the lean planning methodology to figure this out. Outline key milestones and metrics. Register for a domain name that matches your business name. Do you need full-time, part-time, or freelance employees? Interview and hire employees. Test your business idea and do market research*. List your management team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We'll be discussing the Lean Startup movement, the upcoming conference, and whatever else you decide you want to ask about. Throughout the hour (from 10am-11am) we'll be picking people to win free tickets to the Lean Startup Conference on December 3. There are several ways to tune in: In the Bay Area, tune your radio to 88.5

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5 Warning sign? Say 40 years = 20 years real direct experience. At best. ~ Is 20 years enough?

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Up and Running

JUNE 23, 2015

She was initially drawn to Wirth’s passion for the cause of maternal health, but she also came to see that the two of them were well-matched for a business partnership because their skill sets were so complementary. The Lean Startup by Erik Reis. ” At this point, they have launched products in over 40 countries.

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leananalyticsbook.com

AUGUST 19, 2012

Lean Analytics Book. The One Metric That Matters. One of the things Ben and I have been discussing a lot is the concept of the One Metric That Matters (OMTM) and how to focus on it. That doesn’t mean there’s only one metric you care about from the day you wake up with an idea to the day you sell your company.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

What are those metrics? Andrew : If you are a travel company right now, I think you’re seeing very specific metrics dropping. As a result of that, all of those metrics go up. In a lot of the startup conversations I’ve been having, if you lean too far that way, it doesn’t resonate with people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Its easier to believe in a glorious future when you have only zeroes, for everyone: founders, investors, and employees. No vanity metrics should be looked at. However, a commitment to quality alone is not enough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 30, 2018

While doing research for his extraordinary new book, Great at Work , Morten Hansen studied more than 5,000 managers and employees in corporate America to identify the key practices that explain why some perform better than others. Top performers found a third way: they matched their passion with purpose. That’s no surprise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

Then I wouldnt have the chance to work with the incredible employees and mentors from whom I learned so much. Because the people performing the task had the vision that most exactly matched users' subconscious needs. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. for Harvard Business Revie.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

If you want to put together a strategic plan to map out your business’s growth potential, you might consider a Lean Business Plan. But know that a Lean Plan shares all of the same components of a traditional business plan—it’s just shorter. Milestones and metrics that you’ll need to hit to be viable. Milestones and metrics.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Given the number of funding resources available today, you shouldn’t have too much of a problem getting that initial start-up cash, especially if you focus on a lean business model or MVP route to market. What kind of location matches your strategy? Are you going to be hiring employees? You can do it even if you start from home.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Here, the “public” includes your customers, prospects, your employees, vendors, and others who connect in any way with your brand. There are three parts to a good competitive analysis: (1) defining the metrics and identifying the competitors you’re comparing, (2) gathering the data, and (3) the analysis.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

MARCH 11, 2014

How many employees would a medium-sized business have in your definition? Jason: If I’m managing my whole business with this tool, I don’t have 100 employees. you can’t have one employee because meetings are just too easy and you don’t really have them formally. You can’t have 5,000 employees.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 30, 2018

Blasting ads on TV does cause a teeny tiny micro percentage to buy insurance – a fact provable via Matched Market Tests, Media Mix Models. All of these metrics will cause surveys to be sent via various mediums to people who've seen the TV ads, the banners on Facebook, and the video ads on YouTube. Why not global maxima?

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

What most founders don’t realize is: Every stage of a startup requires a different set of metrics and milestones and founder skills. And thanks to Ann Miura-Ko of Floodgate (my first Lean LaunchPad co-instructor) for her suggestions. What is some of the critical metrics that matter? Number of employees? 2M in 18 months.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2021

I have a team of recruitment experts who parse through the profiles of candidates and find the best match for the client according to their love type. Through my business, I want to add as much human element in the selection of a life partner as much as I can to be able to find successful matches. 20- Turn my business into a passio n.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

If we don’t enjoy working with someone - an employee, a partner, whomever - we’re just not going to do it. Sure, we employee lots of amazing people whom we trust to help us make it great, but as Founders we still own and control the final product. Don’t work with people you don’t love. It’s that important. It’s that important.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And I also think about regulation.

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Reid Hoffman

JUNE 8, 2021

We can either try to step forward and be progressive and really try to lean forward, or we can get dragged in the future. The burden [should] just be that we care; that if we learn something, we improve it, and that we don’t only use single output metrics and its growth at all costs. And I also think about regulation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

And really this was a focus on, what is the minimum viable thing we can do to serve these groups, connect the donors, restaurants, and hospitals, and be able to get them to efficiently match? Eric Ries : Give us some more vanity metrics, if you would. And Venmo, obviously wouldn't have been able to do it without Venmo, worked enough.

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 3, 2012

Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Lean Marketing Tips: Increasing Lifetime Value With Email Campaigns – [link]. Interesting article about teaching employees & Google’s approach – [link]. Not a good metric for small business – [link].

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2014

A part of reason for this mis-match in value delivered is that there is a natural evolution that needs to occur. Leaving people skills and capabilities aside, it is the work the employee does that makes them a Squirrel or a Ninja. the instinctive response of the Squirrels is to go grab the most obvious metrics and start partying.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

There is a stark difference between both types of employees. They mix/match examples from online, and then try and piece it together to fit their needs. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? January 16, 2009 6:11 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Every behavior is learned because the brain… What the brain does really, really well, the primary function of this three and a half pounds of fat we carry inside our skulls everyday, our brain, what it does really well is pattern match. But absolutely I think to expect it to just be on the employee is a little bit narrow.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Or, rather, more offensively to Facebook and Google employees, less offensive to.NET developers, though the underlying message is the same.). All it needs is multi methods and pattern matching and it would be the coolest language ever. The depth of your ignorance is only matched by the shallowness of your knowledge on the subject.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 4, 2018

A more complex real-time prediction occurs billions of times worldwide every millisecond in matching certain types of digital advertising. For most clients, Futurety starts by identifying the key business question—not a specific metric or visualization. A simple predictive analysis is your arrival time in Waze. Outside vendors.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Success Metrics. In my Oct 2011 post, Best Social Media Metrics , I'd created four metrics to quantify this value. I believe the best way to measure success is to measure the above four metrics (actual interaction/action/outcome). It can be a brand metric, say Likelihood to Recommend. It is not that hard.

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