ConversionXL

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Way back in 2008, an obscure SaaS company called Zuora started talking—loudly and endlessly—about the “ subscription economy. Though any single answer might generate just a handful of views and responses, each visitor will have an interest in your industry—and your products and services. They wrote hundreds of articles on the topic.

B2B 133

B2B Marketing SEO Search 133

Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

Customer 167

Customer San Francisco Lean Hockey Stick 167

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. Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team.

San Francisco 167

San Francisco Lean Sweden Continuous Deployment 167

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.

San Francisco 83

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment DC 83

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?

San Francisco 102

San Francisco Lean Continuous Deployment Startup 102

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Managing weekly releases got a lot harder once I started doing customer development.

Continuous Deployment 151

Continuous Deployment San Francisco Lean Wiki 151

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. January 19, 2009 9:45 AM Anonymoussaid.

San Francisco 151

San Francisco Architecture Startup Database 151