Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. After all, if you already have an all-male startup, you’re already at a disadvantage when it comes to hiring the very women that could fix that imbalance.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

It’s entirely possible for the startup to be a massive success without having large aggregate numbers, because the startup has succeeded in finding a passionate, but small, early adopter base that has tremendous per-customer behavior. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

(Steve calls this just Customer Validation , but I like to emphasize the learning aspect, so I accept a far more awkward phrase.) First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development. Things started to slip. Things started to slip.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Each kind of shard just maps to an appropriate kind of URL: customer://1234 (id) forums://master (vertical) log://January/2008 (date) You can even do more complex schemes, like having groups of IDs all map to the same URL in a bucket system, although I recommend keeping it simple whenever possible.

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