Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 13, 2008 Five Whys Taiichi Ohno was one of the inventors of the Toyota Production System. A new bit of code contained an infinite loop! why did that code get written? Most engineers would ship code to production on their first day. Best of luck, Your Software." (OK,

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Sunday, November 07, 2010. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ▼ 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking the Code

AUGUST 3, 2011

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. ► 2008. (11).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009. I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 A new version of the Joel Test (draft) (This article is a draft - your comments are especially welcome as I think through these issues. There was a time when "web content" was considered "not code" and therefore not routinely source controlled. Please leave feedback!)

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008 Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. It also happens whenever you have code that is checked-in, but not yet deployed anywhere.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 15, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, May 15, 2008. Churchill Club 2008 Top 10 Tech Trends. I might suggest a pretty awesome book for understanding the entrepreneurial code, "The Answer." software. (10).

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. Especially for a startup, not taking maximum advantage of free software is crazy.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Friday, October 10, 2008. The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008 Release. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. Posted by Philippe Botteri. at 11:09 AM. Great list!

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Wednesday, February 24, 2010. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ▼ 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? It became harder and harder to separate how the software is built from how the software is structured. If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now A great checklist of techniques and tools for making your development more agile, written from a Rail perspective.

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Cracking the Code

MAY 25, 2010

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Tuesday, May 25, 2010. "10 Free Software Download. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ▼ 2010. (5).

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Kent is a significant figure in the field of software development. To his credit are Extreme Programming , jUnit, patterns, TDD , the list goes on.

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Cracking the Code

JULY 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. It all started on March 31, 2008. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ► 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, March 25, 2010 Speed up or slow down? for Harvard Business Review) Over at Harvard Business Review, Ive been building up a series designed to introduce the Lean Startup methodology to a business-focused audience. In the early days, chaos stayed under control.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: SaaS , software , Venture Capital. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ► 2010. (5). ► 2008. (11).

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 7, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. I am working on a post-mortem of the SaaS 13 Index for 2008, but before getting into these gloomy numbers, I thought I would start the year with something more refreshing. software. (10).

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing , software. In other words, how much of the decline in revenue growth is due to signing up fewer customer vs lower revenues from each new customer.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 27, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, October 27, 2008. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ► 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. on January 1st 2008. 2008 after flirting with the lows in March 09 at -65%. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. Each specialist takes up his part of the spec (UI, middleware, backend) and cranks out code. October 6, 2008 12:17 AM r& said.

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VC Cafe

APRIL 8, 2010

See the March 2010 edition after the jump. FDI, M&A’s WEIGHED DOWN BY CRISIS IN 2009, UPTURN EXPECTED IN 2010. billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion in 2008 and $8.8 billion, 7 percent below 2008 levels ($2.74 The average deal size in 2009 was $40 million, an increase of 21 percent from $33 million in 2008.

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Cracking the Code

MARCH 10, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, March 10, 2008. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ► 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 14, 2011

So much so that getting proactive in stimulating reviews in all the right places must be on the checklist of marketing action steps. Today Google added an interesting twist to Google Maps searches called Descriptive Terms that injects another dynamic – search optimized reviews. 5 Practical Tips for Gett. :

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 23, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, June 23, 2008. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ► 2010. (5). Happy New Year 2010!

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Unveilling of the Bessemers 10 laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS - Winter 2010 Release. Forget everything you learned about software channels. Build Employee Software.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking The Code on Facebook. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 software. (10). ► 2010. (5). State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment. ► 2008. (11).

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Thursday, November 13, 2008. 1st 2008 = base 100) This number compares to the Nasdaq reaching a low point of -46% and currently showing a -40% drop year to date.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 The hackers lament One of the thrilling parts of working and writing in Silicon Valley is the incredible variety of people Ive had the chance to meet. Hes just as comfortable writing code as racking servers, debugging windows drivers, or devising new interview questions.

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Cracking the Code

JANUARY 22, 2009

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. 10K/MMR is very very large for most SaaS players and Netli is unique in that it is at a very low level of the software stack. link] Nirvaha Sales Compensation Software. software. (10).

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Software 2.0: How the use of internet is transforming the software industry. To win in this new space, software companies need new marketing skills. Friday, April 13, 2007.

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Cracking the Code

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Monday, February 25, 2008. The Index reference point starts on January 1st 2008 at 19,187.81 Labels: SaaS , software. Cracking The Code on Facebook. software. (10).

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Cracking the Code

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Tuesday, September 02, 2008. So where does Salesforces profitability stands today compared to the most successful on premise public software companies? Labels: SaaS , software.

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Cracking the Code

DECEMBER 2, 2006

Cracking The Code. Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Cracking the SMB code. Small and Medium businesses have been the holy grail of High tech and software companies for quite some time now, but the quest is far from ending. "If

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

In 2010 I deconstructed the filings for GameFly and Quinstreet. GameFly filed in 2010 and remains in registration, though 2011 has seen a positive start for VC-backed IPOs with 14 in Q1 2011. Kayak Software Corporation. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. 2010 Net Income: $8 million.

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