Why don't you hear more classical music? What's in the new bands that Bach doesn't have?
I Am Eric Ries, Author of the Lean Startup. AMA
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#92I hear some complaints from academia, at least in my country - don't know if it's valid globally, that they are being more and more regulated and spend too much time applying for grants.
Do you have any opinion on that?
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#93How does Lean model work in case of marketplace? Should you first get good amount of sellers on board before opening the beta version as marketplace ?
Nope, that's almost certain to fail. Why should sellers join if there are no buyers? And if you do convince them, how can you ensure that they will have a good experience on launch day? The only way to test a marketplace is to get a small number of highly-interconnected buyers and sellers to transact in low volume by hand. Think eBay and beanie babies or Facebook just on the Harvard campus. Read PG's http://paulgraha…
In the case of the startup I'm working for, they will join because of the reputation of the founder. His father was such a successful entrepreneur that people will jump over anything with his name. Of course it will not prevent the business to fail miserably, but nobody will listen to me anyway - when I started working here I gave him a copy of your book, but I'm sure it is was stashed somewhere unread. :-)
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#94Hi Erik! good to see you here... What do you think about Design-Driven Innovation? [0] Do you think that it represents an alternative valid method for launching startups?
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#95Hi Eric,
Your last book inspired our own startup http://www.discuss.io. Discuss.io provides marketers on-demand webcam interviews with millions of potential consumers. We help marketers from startups to the fortune 500 "get out of the building" and get user stories BEFORE they code. I would love to get your feedback on what you have built. I'll set you up with a free account if you ping help@discuss.io
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#96http://bit.ly/theleadersguide+ - nice, seems like you have got few hundred of visits thanks to this in last 2 hours. This is actually handy when estimating what impact front page have on products featured here.
Hey that's cool. I completely forgot about that feature of bitly.
If you want to track click stats but don't want to make it public, try my "lean startup" - http://taveo.net/
I usually describe it as bit.ly + Google analytics.
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#97I was wondering if you had any advice for hardware startups?
I'm currently exploring the idea of integrated-circuit spectroscopy, and have the physics/simulations down but the capital required to fabricate the chips and iterate on the designs is quite high.
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#98Good AMA! Enjoyed your non-canned responses.
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#99This is the book that really gives me lots of motivation and ideas. A great book to train yourself to be an entrepreneur.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agree and would also get rid of grayed out comments that are down voted. "I don't think anyone needs an AMA from me" Actually I would find that fascinating.
I'm pretty sure HN has already asked me anything worth knowing about me. Except maybe "how much does NSA pay you to shill for them on HN". ($39.54/wk)
Matasano Security, the company you founded, was acquired by NCC Group for $13 million in cash. You probably saw a good chunk of that money, and one would assume you'd be well off enough to not work for $39.54/wk. Why do it anyway?