Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 4, 2008 Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for Maples Investments Image via Wikipedia Steve Blank and I had the opportunity to create a presentation about lean startups for Maples Investments. Agile software development. How dare you! =) November 4, 2008 10:58 PM IMVU said.

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. October 13, 2008 6:47 PM Luke G said. December 4, 2008 4:43 PM Valto said. . Eric, love the blog. Connect (off)line? Thanks much.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 22, 2008 The three drivers of growth for your business model. Master of 500 Hats: Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp 2008, London) This presentation should be required reading for anyone creating a startup with an online service component. Choose one. This has led to exponential growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. November 9, 2008 5:40 PM Chris said.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 30, 2008 What does a startup CTO actually do? If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. Great piece!

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part one Ive written before about some of the advantages startups have when they are very small, like the benefits of having a pathetically small number of customers. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2011

But the bubble mantra of get “big fast” and “first mover advantage” demanded tens of millions more to create a “brand.” Customer Development , Agile Engineering and the Lean methodology enforced a process of incremental and iterative development. Rules for building a company in 2011 are different than they were in 2008 or 1998.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 31, 2016

We decided to start something we felt would have the greatest positive impact on fellow business owners, an Agile Methodology consulting company. We quit our jobs, pooled our money, and set out to help companies implement Agile – a highly efficient, organized, and empowering way to run your business. 6 – Forging a New Path.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Customers kept demanding that we add this or that IM feature, and we were routinely refusing. We were afraid that this was just the tip of the iceberg, and that once we “gave in&# to these five demands there would be five more, ad infinitum. You can read how well that went in another post here.) Expo SF (May.

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

Finally, we’ll zoom out and assess the big picture: how various categories of company may be impacted long-term, how this crisis compares to 2008 (and what that means for early-stage founders), and the industries and business models that are now prime for growth. Those things all got created in 2007, 2008. Andrew : Right.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

A few of the detailed case studies include: Tech legend Bill Gross building an MVP in 1999 to test demand for online car sales, which grew into CarsDirect.com. As we head into 2013, it's a good time to reflect on how far the Lean Startup movement has come: When I first started blogging in August of 2008, I had no idea what to expect.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Gatekeepers are overloaded. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

It allowed me to assess the market demand for that offline product before I had the final product baked. On-demand utility pricing for services (aka "cloud computing"). Many complex apps can now be prototyped as a simple mashup in order to prove market viability - and this is true beyond just software apps. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

As a consumer internet company with millions of customers, it may seem to have little relevancy for an enterprise software company with only a handful of potential customers, or a computer security company whose customers demand a rigorous audit before accepting a new release. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Periodic or on-demand reports are one possibility, but we can do much better. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? We can learn to see. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 11, 2010

High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand. High-profile startup Friendster had first-mover advantage in the social networking space, but created openings for competitors when it could not scale to meet demand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 29, 2008 The ABCDEFs of conducting a technical interview I am incredibly proud of the people I have hired over the course of my career. The six key attributes spell ABCDEF: Agility. Thats the only way to probe for agility, brains, and the best way to probe for communication.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Getting educated about advertising, agencies, and media buyers I see lots of startups whose business plans revolve around selling high-value ad space to brand advertisers. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. At first glance, this makes a lot of sense.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, November 19, 2008 Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? November 19, 2008 1:48 PM Will Pate said. November 19, 2008 5:57 PM McElroy Flavelle said. November 24, 2008 2:44 PM Eric said. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Hi Eric, Will Pate here. Expo SF (May.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2017

My team and I launched crowdSPRING in early 2008. Xerox, Polaroid, Blockbuster, and other market leaders lost to smaller, more agile competitors because the market leaders assumed that they would dominate forever. See Also: Demand Validation: How to Find Out If Customers Want to Buy Your Product. We were wrong.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? Location: 367 Addison Ave, Palo Alto November 11, 2008 11:43 PM Eric said. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campa.

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Agile VC

MARCH 8, 2012

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). The pipeline of companies in registration has continued to grow.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Many journalists and conference organizers attempt to fill this demand by giving successful entrepreneurs the opportunity to tell their stories: in magazines, on blogs, and on stage. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 4, 2010 Stop lying on stage Entrepreneurs crave information about successful startups, and they should.

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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. Wed never heard of five whys, and we had plenty of "agile skeptics" on the team. November 13, 2008 8:59 PM eisrael said. November 14, 2008 3:19 AM Hitchens said. Good stuff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. Without a doubt, this is the most forward thinking process/solution/methodology/post I've seen in quite awhile. Thank you. I know it's going to help me immensely!

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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. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. Another great article.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

It’s important to note that system I’m about to explain evolved organically in response to new demands on the system and in response to post-mortems of failures. Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. Nobody gets here overnight, but every step along the way has made us better developers. But it worked.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. In other words, you can always invest in process, batch size reduction, and agility as an alternative to preventing a specific problem. In other words, a principled way to combine agility with stability. Many problems are catastrophic only if allowed to fester.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, November 17, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part two In part one , I talked about four different kinds of work that every company has to do: innovation/R&D, strategy, growth, and maintenance/scalability. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. Or what if the features they demand we build are different from the ones we were planning to build? Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

oh, and on the book front, you'll be able to get all of my essays so far in ebook, print-on-demand, and kindle editions - coming soon. I recently met with a two-person-no-funding team that, after some hesitating, jumped in and tried it. They seem to be liking it. (oh, let me know if you're interested) July 3, 2009 8:25 AM Eric said.

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Agile VC

JULY 24, 2013

see Note 1 below re: subprime crisis of 2008-9]. Or to focus solely on getting the lowest valuation as an investor, which by definition will price you out of the most desirable companies which typically have substantial demand for their equity. So why doesn’t the same model work in VC? This produced an obviously bad outcome.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem? In other words, the minimum viable product is designed to answer the question: does the product generate enough demand and margin to support a growing ecosystem? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

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. November 26, 2008 9:23 AM Andrew Meyer said. December 17, 2008 7:45 PM spirink said.

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Cracking the Code

APRIL 13, 2007

The post-internet sales force evolved into a more agile tiered engine, starting with leads generated on the website, followed by a telesales team that would further qualify the lead and assigned it to the proper sales team (telesales for SMB or direct sales for Enterprise). 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 ► 2008. (11).

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