Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, September 18, 2008 Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? September 19, 2008 2:08 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:25 PM Eric said. Thanks again, Eric September 19, 2008 2:26 PM Eric said. September 19, 2008 2:27 PM gmlk said. September 19, 2008 2:35 PM gmlk said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Warm Regards Sean Murphy www.skmurphy.com September 19, 2008 4:35 PM Eric said. Sure, Id be delighted to.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

I had to laugh when an analyst with Forrester said in the article - As impressive as these results may be, myShape’s approach will probably fail to gain a mass audience unless the company can somehow simplify the measuring process, said Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst with Forrester Research.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

In fact, I would say that over the past few years, it has become harder to produce or find events that will attract a good audience. First - let me say what I consider to be a good audience - interesting people. For me, these are folks who are actively involved in wide variety of technology-enabled businesses.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2010

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. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Labels: product development Speed up or slow down?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 The lean startup Ive been thinking for some time about a term that could encapsulate trends that are changing the startup landscape. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. September 15, 2008 9:19 PM James said. After some trial and error, Ive settled on the Lean Startup.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2021

One of the key metrics of success in Real Estate is having a large market share. In 2008 a study was published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology that links happiness to authenticity, revealing that people who consistently live by their convictions and truths are happier and have higher self-esteem. Photo Credit: Jae Pak.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 2, 2010

Ive written about this before in some detail, but this was an opportunity to try and frame it for a general business audience. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable Beware of Vanity Metrics For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? Five Whys has its origins in the Toyota Production System. Speed up or slow down?

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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? October 1, 2008 2:13 AM archenland said. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. Great piece! Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

kaChing launched a virtual portfolio management game on Facebook in January 2008 and a similar version shortly thereafter on kaChing.com. “We had to ignore them, because they weren’t our target audience – and were never likely to become customers.&# How’d it happen? Which is a nice story. says Rachleff.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Just-In-Time Scalability At my previous company, we pioneered an approach to building out our infrastructure that we called "Just-In-Time Scalability." Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 7, 2023

Tiffani Bova (02:17): Well, let me answer that with a little bit of history because I think especially with an audience that our marketers right, have been doing this for a long time. And we did that all the way back in 2008 and we said it, everyone went, you know, absolutely no way not gonna happen. (03:03):

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Discussion Group Hub - questions/topics are raised via the discussion group and can go out into the blog world to get a more diverse audience - which is now happening with this group. See Supporting New Managers and What Would You Do to Support New Managers? as an example. Im not sure which of these make sense in what case.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Expo to explain the lean startup concept to a larger audience. Im looking for a few people to run ideas by, give feedback, and generally help craft ideas so that they can have the biggest impact on this audience. That was for a different audience and in a much smaller venue, but Id like to use it as a starting point.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Ideas. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Learn I like theory too much. But hey, its what helps me think about problems.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 28, 2008 A hierarchy of pitches Every company will need to pitch itself from time to time. But these students completely failed to address the one and only question on their audiences mind: can you three guys really build the robots of the future? 2comments: King of the Herd said.

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Cracking the Code

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Thursday, November 13, 2008. Lifelock, LinkedIn , OneStop, Perimeter and Retail Solutions) - among a total audience of about 25 people. 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. 1st 2008 with a base value of 100.00 Add RSS feed.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away. You are the ones that consistently blew the audience away. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Seth Godin: How often should you publish? Beware The Need for Critical Mass I’m going to lead with a quote from Seth on this one: “Failing for small audiences is a loud cue that you will fail even bigger with big audiences.&#

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Remember: Engagement is not a metric, its an excuse. ]. The ideal metrics for this desired outcome are Visitor Loyalty & Visitor Recency. You can compute two important metrics: Likelihood to Recommend / Brand Lift. There are a number of wonderful metrics you can use to measure online success of such marketing campaigns.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Philip Morgan: I work primarily with self-employed software developers, so I’m going to pull an example from their world to make this super concrete, and hopefully it’ll be relevant for enough other folks in your audience. That could be a market vertical, or that could be an audience. It works basically the same way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 16, 2008 How to Usability Test your Site for Free Noah Kagan has a great discussion of usability testing which can help get you over the "thats too hard" or "thats too expensive" fear. At Facebook we never did testing or looked at analytics. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. Automated tests make defects visible. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Despite all the energy invested in talking to authors about the size of their platform, very few gatekeepers have a rigorous set of metrics for measuring it. The problem is that there are no other metrics they can look at to judge the content of a book to know if it’s worth reviewing. Is that a lot?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. yeah, its awesome.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2009

And, as usual, I wanted to share some of the audience reaction with my commentary. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. These quotes are, as is my custom, straight from twitter. Articulate, inspirational. jdegoes : Great talk from @ericries last night.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 10, 2008 Marc Prenskys Weblog: Cell Phones in Class Marcs writing has been a huge influence on me in thinking through the consequences of the way the current generation of "digital natives" is educated. Are todays kids apathetic? Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, September 6, 2008 Greasemonkey compiler Ive been incredibly impressed by Greasemonkey , the Firefox add-on that lets you easily extend the browser with simple Javascript. Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Not crossing the chasm What does life feel like in the chasm ? Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. How do you plan for it?

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 4, 2017

You also need to understand your audience. Describe and/or quantify the problem to help your audience understand that a change needs to happen. The members of your audience are investing in you and your team as much as they are in your company. Use any metrics that demonstrate the traction your startup has made in the market.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 14, 2014

If you've read my first book Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, you know that I've advocated this strategy since 2008! Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. There are four reasons, again from Web Analytics: An Hour A Day, from 2008 (!):

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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. Please leave feedback!) Startup Lessons Learned - the Conference (April 23. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. In other words, they have learned to grow renewable audiences. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. Thank you for your simple, insightful explanation of why that is the wrong metric to use.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Now that you've been to Austin (and I sat in the audience), I can comment on the high quality of the presentation. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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