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? ) In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. Looking forward for your future posts.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 20, 2009

When I read the funny names of these microwaves devices… Backward wave oscillators, TWT’s, Magnetrons…long silent memories came back. Another piece of trivial: the road that is the side-entrance (during business hours) to Agilent Corporation HQ in Santa Clara is named “Terman Lane&# after Terman.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 9, 2012

TLDR: Brant Cooper and Patrick Vlaskovits , authors of The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development are back with a new book called The Lean Entrepreneur. Since then, Brant and Patrick have been tireless advocates for the whole Lean Startup movement. Illustrations by FAKEGRIMLOCK. You can pre-order it starting today.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I want to especially recognize Vivek Wadhwa and Brad Feld for their leadership.) Now, whenever I screen resumes, I ask the recruiter to black out any demographic information from the resume itself: name, age, gender, country of origin. I already advocate cross-functional teams as part of the lean startup methodology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

One of the most common questions I get about the lean startup methodology is, "but what about Steve Jobs ?" So how do you reconcile his success with the lean startup, which seems to suggest the opposite?" Plus, the premise of the question misunderstands the lean startup, too. And he doesnt shy away from big-bang launch events.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We have in our partnership a gent by the name of Barry Fidelman who puts us all to shame with his intensity. » Dig for Leadership - Stories that try to make the world a better place. , AKPC_IDS += "1128,"; (No Ratings Yet) Loading … Posted in Leadership | Tagged [.] tags: vc entrepreneurship) [.]

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SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

had two occasions recently to review products which had clear market leadership. think many of the fundamentals behind the lean startup are things you likely have been practicing for a while. But let's remember, unitasking has a downside too — namely, what works for one person slows down others. Twittering.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Small Business Legal Issues: Trade Names, Logos and Trademark Law – [link]. Lean Marketing tips: not-for-profit edition – [link]. That was my idea – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

At times I wanted the engineering team to produce features to support our sales efforts to I occasionally leaned on them a bit. Eventually I had a head of Product Management – the best I ever worked with named Tim Barker – politely say to me that this wouldn’t fly any more. I did this. Tim had a great solution.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 11, 2019

If you lack leadership skills or poorly manage your company’s time and resources, it is likely your business will be left behind. Organizational and leadership management (Enhance your management capabilities). All aspiring entrepreneurs need to do is buy a domain name and register their new company online. Future Uncertainty.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 21, 2010

These posts and videos are about design, startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! The Evolution of Big-Name Logos – [link]. How To Name Your Company – [link]. 3 Rules for Building Features in a Lean Startup – [link]. micah says not for all – [link].

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2021

Every leading position in business requires a demonstration of diverse skills and leadership styles. I would describe my leadership style as individualized, and balanced. This is why I take on a leadership style that revolves around goals. I'd describe my leadership style as being consciously inclusive.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 9, 2009

This year, marketing need to provide sales with 40,000 active and accepted leads, company and product name recognition over 65% in our target market, and five positive product reviews per quarter. We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.),

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2013

Only the worst “bully bosses” make it a practice to scream at an employee, or call him abusive names, or threaten to fire him the next time he makes the coffee too strong.) First, a little background: I teach my clients there are three default roles that people lean toward — Victim, Rescuer, or Persecutor. Quite the opposite, in fact.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 19, 2009

A large number of these customers had mailed back their registration cards (this was pre-Internet) with their names, phone numbers, job titles, etc. All with names, addresses, phone numbers, job titles; all wonderful data longing for human contact. This was a company that had sold 15,000 graphics boards and monitors to consumers.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

These companies would take our computers and put their name on them and resell them to their customers. He even remembered the names of their wives and kids and some details about schools or events. (I I couldn’t believe it, here we were wasting precious time and the dumb sales guy is talking about other stuff.)

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 5, 2009

I worked at Multiflow, a name you’d recognize, ending up running the OS group. Reply Karma in the Lean Startup Era , on January 28, 2010 at 5:26 pm Said: [.] He was my role model at Convergent, mentor at Ardent and partner at E.piphany. Future posts will have some Ben stories.

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Steve Blank

JULY 20, 2009

Zilog Zilog was my first Silicon Valley company where you could utter the customer’s name in public. This post, which is divided in two parts, is the story of the first time it happened to me. Zilog produced one of the first 8-bit microprocessors , the Z-80 (competing at the time with Intel’s 8080 , Motorola 6800, and MOS Technology 6502.)

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 24, 2009

If you’re a startup raising money or just want to see your name online, there’s not a better blog on the web. Reading this TechCrunch post made me remember the first time I saw someone confront a worldview they didn’t expect. Discovering that your worldview is wrong or mistaken can be a life-changing event.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 6, 2009

The “Good” Student » 14 Responses Shane Rogers , on April 6, 2009 at 1:37 pm Said: The names of ‘secret’ customers is funny. Their code name was UTR (Up The River) in reference to their geographic location up the Potomac River. I used to work for a company located in Arlington, VA that had the CIA as a client.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! 10 tips on finding a great name for your company – [link]. Lean Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses and Startups – [link]. Focus on Enterprise or SMB Accounts?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Startup 101 for Developers – [link]. You Name It: The Biggest [Blanks] in the World! Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Lean Startups aren’t Cheap Startups – [link]. The Most Ridiculous Beer Names Of All Time – [link]. Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself – [link].

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Using my existing skills and resources (including an old domain name), I tested a productized digital PR offer. These days, many agencies start as a lean operation. Inversely, if you’re using the agency model to fund another startup or product, you should probably keep things lean. Image source ).

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

You may know it by its final name. Unintended Consequences – Video Editing As these boards are flying out the door, one of the software engineers at SuperMac got to thinking about what did you do with video once you did get it into a computer – so he wrote the first Quicktime-based video editor which we called ReelTime.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 2, 2009

Finally, since no one would believe a set of benchmarks named after our company, we needed a façade of independence, so we named them after the street the company was headquartered on in Sunnyvale California – they became known as the Potrero Benchmarks.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Appointing Outpost leadership as a temporary assignment leads to weak relations between the innovation ecosystem and the Innovation Outpost and increases the risk of failure. Google just named the organization’s leader. Do we have a Lean Startup Methodology in place? Can we deliver Minimum Viable products? Lessons Learned.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 25, 2013

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Why Startups Are Sporting Increasingly Quirky Names - [link] and tips to name your company – [link]. Interview: Rand Fishkin CEO of Moz on Lean Marketing – [link].

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Steve Blank

APRIL 27, 2009

And 30 years later I was teaching in a building named after him and never knew a thing about him. And now am leading a startup of my own ( [link] ) where we’re students of you and Eric Ries’ lean startup principles. Spooky Music Reading about Terman was like finding the missing link in my career. Play spooky music here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 27, 2013

But the counterpoint comes from a researcher named Kathleen Eisenhardt at Stanford, who did a study of Silicon Valley firms and found that the firms that considered more options were actually faster for three basic reasons. That is a core belief of everyone in the Lean Startup movement. It’s more work, and it’s slower.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2014

How to get big name testimonials and clients. Leadership Team. Work Your Connections To Get That Big Name Client & Testimonial. ” His answer, “I’m a big fan of the lean startup methodology[.] In my interview with Hunter, we discuss: The key responsibilities of a business development professional.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Working at a mighty mid-sized agency provides employees the unique opportunity to grow within their positions and assume leadership roles. We create a culture of leadership through our comfortable environment where everyone from a new intern to the CMO can share ideas and brainstorm with the executive team. My name is Dmitri Oster.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. Mass TLC Unconference: Large annual conference put on by the MA Technology Leadership Council. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. The Grand-daddy. Next major event? Future M on Oct 16.

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

The fact that your client, leadership or colleagues believe something about competitors doesn’t mean it is true. As you are doing your analysis, write down your observations, take screenshots and give them descriptive names to make it easier to browse later. The lean, aggressive ones do. We all have blinders on sometimes.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

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 ). As the recession wrapped up, they had to remind consumers of lean times. Image source ).

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Namely, as many as 50% of them never make it to their fifth anniversary, and around one-third are unable to conclude the initial year of operations. The only way to undercut their efforts is to exercise strategies of cost leadership or differentiation, which translates to slashing the prices or offering something more innovative.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 2, 2022

GumGum now also lists similar clients, including Vodafone and Sprint, a sign of how one big-name client can attract others. The aim is to answer questions and establish trust and thought leadership to progress potential customers down the funnel towards conversion. Is your industry open season or are you up against established names.

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