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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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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Behind Every Great Product

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In this model, the product manager is really a backlog administrator. Lots of CEO’s tell me this is the model they’re in and it’s not working. If you think the product manager job is what’s described in a Certified Scrum Product Owner class, you almost certainly fall into this category.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, IMVU’s early business model was made possible by Paypal’s easy self-serve and open access payment system. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. July 30, 2009 1:29 PM jkorotney said. Things like "where is the design time?"