(Powered by LaunchBit) I must say that I was very surprised when I was asked to speak at the Michigan Lean Startup Conference on May 17th. The lineup includes some awesome speakers and Lean Startup /...
(Powered by LaunchBit) Most startups are so busy racing around that they rarely take the time to evaluate and improve their own processes. It’s unfortunate, because as a startup matures it won&...
(Powered by LaunchBit) In 2007 I wrote a post about what it was like raising a family and starting a company at the same time. Back then my second son, Quinn, had just been born, and I was starting S...
(Powered by LaunchBit) Every so often I go into Apple’s App Store (primarily for the iPad) and look for new apps to try. I’m typically looking for new games – time killers – t...
(Powered by LaunchBit) Negative feedback hurts. It’s easy to take personally and get offended. It’s easy to dismiss too. But negative feedback is a lot better than no feedback at all. The...
(Powered by LaunchBit) HighScore House is one of our portfolio companies at Year One Labs. After leaving Year One Labs, they decided to join 500Startups and go through the 3-4 month acceleration prog...
(Powered by LaunchBit) My history with hiring university students and recent graduates for technical positions has not been a good one. In my first company (~15 years ago) we tried hiring recent univ...
(Powered by LaunchBit) How you differentiate from competitors only matters if it matters to customers. Pick any differentiation you want – pricing, features, target market, market gap, performa...
(Powered by LaunchBit) I got into computers fairly early because of my father. He went back to university in 1986 in his early 40s and did a BSc. in Computer Science. I was 11 years old. Our first co...
(Powered by LaunchBit) These days, most entrepreneurs I talk to understand the importance of speaking with customers before building a full-blown product. They’re getting out of the building. A...
(Powered by LaunchBit) Anyone that’s ever applied for a job has experienced the resume black hole. You apply for a job and don’t hear anything back (you might get an automated “than...
(Powered by LaunchBit) Massive Damage is the location-based mobile game company that graduated from Year One Labs last year. I’ve written about them in the past. Their first game, Please Stay C...
(Powered by LaunchBit) Customers should be rewarded earlier and more often in the relationship they establish with vendors. This is true of any type of customer and any type of business. Keurig does ...
(Powered by LaunchBit) Lean Startup isn’t responsible for the deluge of crappy products being released by mediocre startups. Erick Schonfeld makes that suggestion in his recent post Details Mat...
(Powered by LaunchBit) It’s fairly well understood at this point that performance is a critical aspect of building for the web. Better performance typically means better results (for whatever y...
(Powered by LaunchBit) Watching my two kids play, it’s striking how different they are. My younger son (4) turns everything into a make-believe game. Give him two sticks and suddenly they’...
(Powered by LaunchBit) I joined GoInstant a couple months ago. It’s been a great experience so far. We’ve been signing up beta customers (big and small) primarily in the B2B SaaS space (f...
(Powered by LaunchBit)Startup founders often say to me, “We’re going ahead with this new startup … we’ve identified a gap in the market!” It’s a common refrain exp...
(Powered by LaunchBit)Build, measure, learn.That’s the Lean Startup mantra. It sounds simple, but it’s surprisingly tough to do well. And while it’s designed to eliminate waste and ...
(Powered by LaunchBit)I’ve slept under my desk before.A few times in fact. It wasn’t comfortable, but it was more comfortable than sleeping on my chair or on top of my desk (I’ve tr...
(Powered by LaunchBit)We often measure the “size” of a feature based on how hard it is to build (development time) and how hard it is to use (for end users.)So a “small feature̶...
(Powered by LaunchBit)You know your product best. You know every feature, how it all works, the bugs, nuances and hiccups too. You know what’s coming next in the product roadmap. You definitely...
(Powered by LaunchBit)The goal of a startup is to find a sustainable, repeatable and scalable business model. And so much of a startup’s success is dependent on the early “beta periodR...
(Powered by LaunchBit)In the olden days, most people followed a waterfall method. It involved writing “complete” specifications on exactly what had to be built, how it would be built, how...
Tech startups aren’t in the technology business. They’re in the magic business. I’m not talking about sleight of hand tricks, fooling people with funky props, or pretending to saw o...
GoInstant makes it possible to share the web. That means two or more people can browse the web together, in real-time. I like to think of it like a “3rd web browser” that sits between the...
Most customers tolerate bugs. Most customers tolerate products with missing features that they need (or think they need!) Most customers tolerate the quirks and hiccups that come with new technology ...
I’m just starting the process of changing a great deal in my life. It starts with my professional life, where I’ve taken on a role as VP Product with GoInstant. That’s the catalyst ...
Recently I announced that Year One Labs was mostly complete; at least our active incubation phase. Instead of rehashing that, I’ll just re-publish this part of that post:Year One Labs was the p...
Today we announced the completion of Year One Labs’s incubation phase. I’ve been working on Year One Labs since April, 2010. For those that don’t know, it’s an early stage acc...
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