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Speaker Lineup for the 2013 Lean Startup Conference

Startup Lessons Learned

So we spent some time iterating--leanly, we thought--on the revenue model. There were a number of reasons: the users (from whom net promoter scores averaged 9.5! Lean validation. So we spent a couple months building the thing. We put together a small salesforce to sell it…. And no one bought it. Challenge #2: Technical Debt.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

If youre making revenue, you should be finding ways to grow it predictably month-over-month; if youre focused on customer engagement, your product should be getting more sticky, and so on. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. And if you neglect maintenance, you may not have a business left at all.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, and more ► January (6) Lo, my 18891 subscribers, who are you?

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How to conduct a Five Whys root cause analysis

Startup Lessons Learned

The net effect of all this was to make new engineers incredibly productive right away – in most cases, we’d have them deliver code to production on their very first day. " paragraph have the heading "Training New Hires", above the "Returning to the meeting itself." It's just a thought.

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10 years of entrepreneurship

Startup Lessons Learned

We were focused on revenue, but we didnt understand that revenue is not important for its own sake in an early stage company. Of course, those were the days when 12 year old, 80% market share, $200mm, 30% net profit companies were the ones going public. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to.

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 22, 2008 Net Promoter Score: an operational tool to measure customer satisfaction Ive mentioned Net Promoter Score (NPS) in a few previous posts, but havent had a chance to describe it in detail yet. Net Promoter Score NPS is a methodology that comes out of the service industry.

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Lessons Learned: Cash is not king

Startup Lessons Learned

To increase the number of iterations you have left, you can either increase cash on hand (by raising money or increasing revenues), reduce burn rate, or increase the speed of each iteration. Even if it helps optimize one stage, if it slows you down somewhere else, it might not be a net win. Were talking PayPal -sized variations.