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by robmay 17y ago
According to the lean startup presentation given by Eric Ries at Web2.0 expo, ( http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009/public/schedule/detail/7... ) one key point is to "1. Identify a profitable business model faster and cheaper than your comp
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by robmay 17y ago
Hi Ryan, If we are going to just play the game of pulling random sentences and saying they are all tied together and show some kind of logical connection to what we each are trying to argue, here are my two: ...The broader idea behind custo
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by robmay 17y ago
Why is no one addressing the key issue that "customer development puts you in constant short-term thinking mode."?
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by robmay 17y ago
Hi Patio, As an example problem (I wrote the original post), we strongly suspected users wanted encryption of their backed up data. But when we talked with initial customers, there were certain things they wanted more that, when built, mad
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by robmay 17y ago
Excellent point. What we found is that the risk with Backupify is technology risk.
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by robmay 17y ago
Mz, actually, Backupify is still going strong. This wasn't a "where we went wrong" post. It was a "we built too short-sighted" post and now scaling is painful.
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by robmay 17y ago
Rich. I tried to distinguish between the ideas behind lean startups and the common perceptions of lean startups as portrayed in most startup blogs. It is the latter I was attacking, which is why I qualified the post at the end.
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by robmay 17y ago
Hi Ryan, I actually did point that out towards the end of the post. My problem is not with the ideas per se, but with the way people treat them in general. Most people equate lean startups with bootstrapping in the startup blogging world