2008 Business Plan Continuous Deployment Metrics 
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 8, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Most likely, your business plan is loaded with opinions and guesses, sprinkled with a dash of vision and hope. November 9, 2008 5:40 PM Chris said. etl.stanford.edu November 10, 2008 2:20 AM Saku said. Great post, thanks.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2010
For the many entrepreneurs that send me cold emails asking for me to review a business plan or answer a strategic dilemma: Im much more likely to answer if youve already tried getting an answer on the mailing list. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Youll probably get a better result, anyway.
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Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 2, 2009
The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. My 2008 revenues were over $100k on a 35k inventory. I am chugging along.
Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 5, 2009
Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. If you haven't already, you should check out Discovery Driven Planning.
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. Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. Looking back, that was a special moment.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 3, 2009
Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea. After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
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. You also need to know what each one cares about, which metrics they look at (or studiously ignore).
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