Startup Owners Manual
The Startup Owner's Manual is the indispensable "how to" reference for any startup founder, investor, entrepreneur or educator, incorporating a decade of hands-on learning about how great startups are built: A detailed, step-by step walk through putting Customer Development to work Uses the business model canvas to monitor Customer Development progress Plus a wealth of detailed information on how to get, keep, and grow your customers Need academic or bulk orders? Please contact terri@kandsranch.com “As a co-founder, I now feel empowered to have a fundamentally different conversation with investors, customers and partners.
How Not to Die
August 2007 (This is a talk I gave at the last Y Combinator dinner of the summer. Usually we don't have a speaker at the last dinner; it's more of a party. But it seemed worth spoiling the atmosphere if I could save some of the startups from preventable deaths. So at the last minute I cooked up this rather grim talk. I didn't mean this as an essay; I wrote it down because I only had two hours before dinner and think fastest while writing.)
How should a startup founder value her time?
Almost no startup founder values her time properly. Consultants know exactly what their time is worth: their hourly rate. As they say, it’s how much “the market will bear.” When a consultant intentionally doesn’t work for an hour — whether to be with family or to work on a new startup — they’re clearly giving up an hour of potential earnings. If being a consultant is your goal, this is indeed how you should value your time. But when you’re in a startup, the math is completely different.
Newsletter
Hi Leaders! Welcome to Fall! We have amazing opportunities ahead of us in the next 90 days to grow or even double or triple our current business! Our business is really simple. We have to do two things.
Lean Startup
Lean startup is a methodology for developing businesses and products. The methodology aims to shorten product development cycles by adopting a combination of business-hypothesis-driven experimentation, iterative product releases, and validated learning. The central hypothesis of the lean startup methodology is that if startup companies invest their time into iteratively building products or services to meet the needs of early customers, they can reduce the market risks and sidestep the need for large amounts of initial project funding and expensive product launches and failures.[1][2]
15 Primal Ways to Savor the Holiday Season
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The startup skill set
I went to LeanCamp London last Sunday. It was a blast - there were a lot of interesting people to meet, and one of the highlights was, of course, seeing Eric Ries answer a whole bunch of questions very intelligently and entertainingly. Another key highlight, for me, was my own "workshop" talk, judiciously titled "Lean Startup Skill Set". Was it really specifically lean? Perhaps not, but it's a skill set that will help any entrepreneur trying to build a startup, particularly those that use Lean methods.
Having a Money Meltdown? 7 Prescriptions for Peace
EmailShare 609EmailShare This is what life does. It throws its arm around you when you’re pregnant with your first kid and says “Hey Sugar.
Make space for your future to show up
You want the dream job on the other side of the country? But they’re not hiring yet. Never mind that. Get your affairs in order so that you could move on short notice.
Holocaust survivor : The Two-Way
hide captionAlice Herz-Sommer in July 2010. 'The Lady in Number 6'/AP Alice Herz-Sommer in July 2010. There are many remarkable things to say about Alice Herz-Sommer, who until her death in London on Sunday was thought to be the world's oldest survivor of the Nazi Holocaust.
15 Thoughts That Will Lead You To Success
Success is a very complex phenomenon that cannot be summed up in a few sentences. To achieve success you must strive very hard to meet your goals, and that requires big ideas and an indeterminate will to execute them. If you were to ask any successful person or motivational coach about how to achieve success, then their first piece of advice would most probably be to “think positively.”
Leaders are Found, Not Created in Network Marketing and MLM
Another valuable lesson I learned from Mark Yarnell in his book Your First Year in Network Marketing is that “MLM Leaders are found, not created.” It took me many years to finally figure this out, but I understand it now. In today’s world, not everyone is a leader.
3 Ways To Attract Grateful Customers
You've heard of satisfied customers ... but grateful customers? Those are the customers you really want. Here's how to get them. August 27, 2013 Most businesses don't tend to think of customers as grateful.
40 Magnificent Quotes By The World's Most Successful Billionaires
Enter the minds of 40 top Billionaires from around the world and learn how the top 1% are able to reach success and grow their bank accounts to the 9 digit mark. From Bill Gates to Mukesh Ambani, these billionaire quotes are priceless for anyone who aspires to be successful. I hope you find massive inspiration from this collection of billionaire quotes. Bill Gates Business Magnate, Investor & Philanthropist
