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Some really great stuff in 2010 that aims to help startups around product, technology, business models, etc. 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication?
I’m going to take that thought out into the field and validate it with my customers." I’ve spoken to dozens of customers, I have a validated customer persona, built an MVP to test key behavioral hypotheses, and the data doesn’t back what you’re saying." Customer Validation 101. " OR… "You’re wrong.
This is part of my ongoing posts on Startup Advice. The world has changed much since I started my first company in 1999. As organizations we have become more open and I believe this is great for businesses and their customers. Tim started to change our processes. Back then it seemed foreign.
Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. I did have the wherewithal to visit potential customers and try to understand the pain points that I thought could be solved with our solution. This is a very important to do when you first start a company. Compelling Event.
I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. It was a strange contrast for me having grown up in Northern California where failure seemed to be a badge of honor. I remember this lesson well.
We’re here for Greycroft’s CEO Summit – a gathering of the CEO’s of their portfolio companies with guest speakers covering topics including how to build your team, PR, customerdevelopment, etc. It is the key to “customerdevelopment” that Steve Blank talks about. And market your brand, not your personality.
Article first published as Steve Blank Discusses Origin And Future Of Lean Startup Movement on Technorati. I recently spoke with Steve Blank, author of the new book The Startup Owner’s Manual. He is credited with pioneering the Lean Startup Movement in 2005 via the publication of his bestselling, Four Steps To The Epiphany.
What is Startup Boost , and how is it looking to help early stage startups in Los Angeles? We recently sat down with Matt Stodder , Co-Director of Startup Boost/Los Angeles, and Blake Caldwell , Global Director of Startup Boost, to learn more about the program, what it offers up to startups.
As you might imagine, when you go to the page on CustomerDevelopment , you find the best and the latest content from people like Steve Blank and Vinicius Vacanti. Or looking at issues around Founders you find the great post from Ben Yoskovitz on Founder DNA – How Investors Evaluate Startup Founders.
I started with a Top 10 list for Nivi (at VentureHacks), but I couldn’t cram it into 10 so it became a Top 11 list. In no time after they had researched their market they were up with pilots with local TV stations in 3 key DMAs. This is exactly the reason I like people who present to me to start with their personal bios.
Because of this, I've always tried to stay up-to-speed on how early-stage investors look at valuation of companies. He just post: Establishing the Pre-money Valuation of Pre-revenue Startups. What are they really looking for? What do you really need to prove? is a requirement. It's required reading.
seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.
Friday, September 21, 2012 -- Lean Startup Machine. Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use CustomerDevelopment and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service. See [link] (more)
Our interview today is with Amos Schwartzfarb , the author of Sell More Faster: The Ultimate Sales Playbook for Start-Ups , which comes out tomorrow, Wednesday. We caught up with Amos to learn about his new book, and to gain some tips for startup entrepreneurs on how to figure out when you're actually ready to scale your sales team.
At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# The idea actually came to him from the Yellow Pages business.
The Los Angeles-based operations and security management software service, Replicated has raised $25 million to ramp up its staffing and scale its sales and marketing efforts. “Once we started building on that success. “If you are a company like Puppet, you have hundreds of on-premise customers.”
Sunday, June 10, 2012 -- Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use CustomerDevelopment and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service. See [link] (more)
Saturday, June 9, 2012 -- Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use CustomerDevelopment and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service. See [link] (more)
Friday, June 8, 2012 -- Lean Startup Machine is a three-day workshop where attendees use CustomerDevelopment and Lean Startup principles to validate an idea for a new product or service. See [link] (more)
It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex customdevelopment project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Setting up the business as an LLC or C-corporation can now be done online with low registration fees and minimal risk.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010 -- LeanLA December Meetup: Conquering Madison Avenue as a Lean Startup. Battle stories and lessons learned about how Sharethrough, applying the lean startup process, figured out the advertising landscape and customerdeveloped their way into the door of a myriad of Fortune 500 customers.
So when Google started pushing AdSense (ads for affiliate or 3rd party sites) they had a HUGE cost advantage. Plus, a TweetUp already means a meet up in a city organized through Twitter. In the former case many people scoffed at paying up for Google at IPO. Tiny Speck Online gaming start-up. He’ll pivot.
It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.
It wasn’t so many years ago that starting a new e-commerce business on the Internet was a complex customdevelopment project, usually costing a million dollars or more. Setting up the business as an LLC or C-corporation can now be done online with low registration fees and minimal risk.
It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.
We caught up with Lauren to hear about Hopscotch, and why teams and schools are turning to the company to power their mobile apps. Laurence Sotsky: I started the company about two and a half years ago, with the intent of connecting people to their passions. We got our start in sports, with a ton of mobile applications for sports fans.
The creators of the renowned StartupWeekend — a place where random ad hoc teams work frantically for 54 hours to build a demo of a new business and then complete for fame and fortune — have picked up where StartupWeekend left off and have birthed a new course for entrepreneurs who need to level up called StartupWeekend Next.
These two ads showed how disconnected from their customers these once industry leaders have become. Sadly this is just a single example of what is happening to thousand of companies that are not listening to their respective customers. What IMVU thought was game changing technology was not why customers used the software.
Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles. It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. On Friday evening, the SWLA energy started to brew at the Coloft as participants began showing up around 5:00 PM.
Aliso Viejo-based software developer Smith Micro Sofware said that it has launched a new, design and development service, which will help its customersdevelop their own mobile apps. According to Smith Micro, the service is aimed at B2 enterprises and startups, and help them develop iOS, Android, and Windows apps.
Welcome to the accelerated version of Startup Weekend. Brought back fond memories of my weekend at Startup Weekend. Just like Startup Weekend most had never meet their team mates until the day of, and came together to develop a possible prize winning product in eight hours. All coming to join in on the fun.
It’s your startup, so you can give early partners any title you want, but be aware of potential investor and peer implications. VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. Chief Sales Officer (VP Sales). Chief Brand Officer.
A common initiative I hear from business owners today is their effort to improve the customer experience. To achieve real growth, business leaders need to improve both employee as well as customer experiences. Flexible – listen to allow flex hours and customization. Proactive – timely communication to build trust.
If you’ve ever wondered what your customers think while on your website, you’ll love KISSinsights. If you’ve ever wanted to ask questions to your users, you’ll love KISSinsights. If you’ve ever read a post by Steve Blank or Eris Ries, you’ll love KISSinsights.
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Continuing my series of posts that I’ve been collecting that live at the intersection of Startups and being a Startup CTO : Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March here are the top posts from May 2010. Putting customers first. Legendary customer support. You could just outspend.
I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ?
August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. equity debate.
He wanted to get input from me on what he's doing, and he wants to begin to ask developers what it would take to build his product. I asked some of the same questions I ask in my Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions and then I get to a very common conversation: Me : Do you have specs? Founder : Ummm. what do you mean?
This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. The last couple of years has also seen the huge initial success of Ycombinator, the Lean Startup and many other product driven approaches to going to market. I care about your assumptions going in.
The message was clear, beware of false prophets when dealing with your young and budding startup. This particular evening, we attended the LeanLA meet-up located at Coloft, a swank professional co-op/work space in the heart of Santa Monica, known as the epicenter of the LA startup scene. If not validated, re-state assumptions.
Yesterday I wrote a post about how much capital your startup should raise. That is so self centered it winds me up. Who started this meme? I say define a strategy, test it up front and pivot if you’re not getting the traction you had expected. Validate that you can make money before starting.
Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals.
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