Comments on Lessons Learned: The Lean Startup at SIPA follow-up

Thanks for that presentation. I am the founder of ...

2009-06-26T06:12:00.034-07:00

Thanks for that presentation. I am the founder of online-marketplace amprice, where we work for four years without substantial founding raising our marketshare from year to year.

We started with an out-of-the box solution until our growth were showing us, that we really need our own solution to have scalable marketplaces. Under the laughter of several people we started coding and presented some months later our new, unique system, which is the most multifunctional marketplace worldwide. Today we are number three in Germany, starting now our internationalization.

If you don't have financial power during your growth, you have to be patient, everything needs more time.

We were learning a lot from our members. They are testing, they are claiming, if something is not as good, as they need it. And we listen and work on that issues.

There is one important point: If you do not have the funding, you have to be much more creative and you need a complete different management. Search for people, who stumbled once in their life, they will contribute themselves to the company and work much harder, than many high-ranked professionals. Kick everyone, who is not rowing in your boat, you dont need politicians, you need workers, who do their job without discussing everything to an end. That is one of my learnings building up amprice.

Markus

Eric, I continue to follow your work along with S...

2009-06-01T09:37:37.690-07:00

Eric,

I continue to follow your work along with Steve Blank's with great interest. We're doing our best with this startup (my 4th) to follow the 4 Steps in combination with your development approach.

There seems to be a hole/gap with the approach though (unless I've missed it - that's completely possible - and wouldn't be the first time), with the integration of the Customer Development and Product Development processes.

To be more exact, with enterprise products in particular, WHEN to build-out the bulk of the MVP is a particularly tricky question to answer in addition to the always thorny WHAT comprises the MVP.

I'm really uncomfortable taking a half-baked MVP to a potential enterprise customer when I'd like them to consider using this application as a core part of their business. It just doesn't resonate with me. And, again in the enterprise context, I'm not sure you can get away with a bug-riddled application, even when you say it is only in development...

I'd really like to make the leap to getting more (we did it with the concept/mock-ups) early feedback to reduce the chances of failure, but I'm having a hard time accepting this is the way to go with an enterprise product.

Any material you can point me to or advice you can provide would be most appreciated.

Keep up the great work.

I could not make it to the presentation. I would l...

2009-05-27T09:48:51.107-07:00

I could not make it to the presentation. I would love to see the recording if it is there.

Was the presentantion recorded?

2009-05-24T08:32:31.517-07:00

Was the presentantion recorded?

Hi Eric, I'm a big fan of you and Steve Blank! Yo...

2009-05-23T11:05:50.740-07:00

Hi Eric,

I'm a big fan of you and Steve Blank!
Your ideas are very inspiring and sound :)

Could you please help me on an issue?
What's the best open source platform to design 3d avatar environments for a webapp?
( I'm not trying to compete with IMVU, it's a different kind of idea that I'm trying out!)

Thanks,
Alexandre Gomes

Eric, do you have any discussions planned for the ...

2009-05-23T00:28:17.160-07:00

Eric, do you have any discussions planned for the co-founding dynamics of a successful lean startup? The insights on customers and deployment methodologies have been fascinating, and I would like to hear your thoughts on co-founders & their relationships playing in to the other topics (for example, do you have the same 'no lone founders' rule that many of the incubators seem to adhere to?).

Also, would you be interested in doing a case study on a fledgling startup? Obviously we don't want TLS to turn in to a reality TV show but I would appreciate the opportunity to watch your methodologies being applied in real-time.