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

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. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Alas, you cant; you have to keep looking for more investors, if only to get this one to act.

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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. Comprehensive means it has to address all aspects of a startups life: marketing and product development, especially. We are living in a transitional moment. But these are still early days.

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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OCTOBER 23, 2010

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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. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Eric, people were PANICKING. Expo SF (May.

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