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Thoughts on our three-speed economy and business planning in the 21st century

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These firms have had a significant impact on growth over the last 20 years through the bubbles and crashes they create – e.g. the Long-Term Capital Management crash of 1998, the Dot-Com crash of 2000, and the housing meltdown of 2008.

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

Startup Lessons Learned

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. Take the example of a design team prepping mock-ups for their development team. Give the dev team your very first sketches and let them get started. Today, I want to talk about the reasons smaller batches are better.

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Lessons Learned: The product manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. October 6, 2008 12:17 AM r& said.

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Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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Saturday, February 16, 2008. The CTO should not manage developers. The head of development spends his or her time working to keep the development team on track against a set of product plans. But if it’s wrong, the CTO has solid documentation to review. Daddy, What Does a Chief Technology Officer Do?

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. In order to do this, we have our customer development team work hard to find a market, any market, for the product as currently specified.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. October 20, 2008 9:34 PM Nivi said. October 20, 2008 10:36 PM Nathan said.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

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. What is customer development?