Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? When we build products, we use a methodology. Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. November 9, 2008 5:40 PM Chris said.

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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 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. We try to take advantage of that phenomenon twice if possible.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, November 6, 2008 Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile I thought Id share an interesting post from someone with a decidedly anti-agile point of view. Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Similar results apply in product management, design, testing, and even operations. When operating with continuous deployment, its almost impossible to have integration conflicts. Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Small batches reduce overhead.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 25, 2013

by Dan Adams , author of “ New Product Blueprinting: The Handbook for B2B Organic Growth “ As a B2B supplier, you can approach new product development one of two ways. You’ll see it with fresh eyes, and as a result, you’ll discover where your company and its products can really add value.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage. The biggest source of waste in new product development is building something that nobody wants. Leverage product development with open source and third parties.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important. .

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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www.informationarbitrage.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly But I am doing this from the vantage point of an investor / Board member, not an operating executive. In fact, they generally just get in the way.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.) Heres an excerpt: In a previous article, we called Toyota’s product development system the “second Toyota paradox.&# Labels: product development 5comments: new york web development company said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2010

In management jobs related to operations – that is, the people tasked with actually making and distributing physical products – this kind of thinking is now considered ludicrous, thanks to a century of progress. Probably not; it’s much easier to blame the particular person who made the mistakes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Thats a perfectly reasonable reaction, given that most releases of most products are bad news. Even worse, the sad state of product development generally means that the new "features" are as likely to be ones that make the product worse, not better. Its likely that the new release will contain new bugs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

For example, lets say you dont have an operations team, and so youre still getting paged late at night when servers crash. Is it time to make your first operations hire? Returning to our example of the beleaguered founder who still has the pager, before hiring an operations guy, try promoting someone from within to take on the job.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

Simple Agile Product Development. How to Kill Projects and Develop Agile Programs Pa. Trying to Develop a Death Star or a Flux Capacitor. Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality. ► 2008. (21). . ► 2011. (14). ► November. (1). Top Ten Attributes of Agile Platforms. ► October. (2).

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Lean startups vs lean companies Venture Hacks has a great article today on lean startups. They quote extensively from two of our most important thinkers: Taiichi Ohno , creator of the Toyota Production System, and Kent Beck , creator of extreme programming. Thanks for the response.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Every conversation about fund raising should start with what your current operational needs are and the stage of your business. As anyone raising money in April 2000, September 2001 or September 2008 can tell you that. How much capital do I need to run my business effectively right now? they make it incrementally harder to fund raise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 18, 2010 Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events The following is a case study of one entrepreneurs transition from a traditional development cycle to continuous deployment. Many people still find this idea challenging, even for companies that operate solely on the web.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

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. We stand on the shoulders of giants: customer development, the theory of disruptive innovation, the technology life-cycle adoption theory, and agile development.

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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 technical interview is at the heart of these challenges when building a product development team, and so I thought it deserved an entire post on its own.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

One large source of waste in development is “double-checking.&# For example, imagine a team operating in a traditional waterfall development system, without continuous deployment, test-driven development, or continuous integration. When a developer wants to check-in code, this is a very scary moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

these devices all need human instruction to enable correct and desired operation. @drhowarddrfine: the goal of the project is *not* to turn *everyone* into programmers but to introduce a vital skill that's applicable to all walks of life and professions. Expo (and a call for he.

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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. FYI the surveymonkey link isnt operational. November 24, 2008 2:44 PM Eric said. Hi Eric, Will Pate here.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 27, 2022

John also spent several years at The New York Times Company at NYTimes.com running strategy, marketing, and operations. He was part of the management team that was instrumental in launching NYTimes.com’s first digital paid product and the acquisition of About.com. John Jantsch (02:20): Yeah. So let's go.

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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. His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. why didnt operations get paged? and so forth.

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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. At first glance, this makes a lot of sense. 1 comments: Desoja said. This blog is very informative for me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Heres a representative view from an actual Amazon customer review : We all know how to operate our own entertainment center, but what happens when you have to explain it to your babysitter, mother-in-law, or your wife? Combining agile development with customer developm. Before this remote, I had a Sony RM-AV3000.

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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? Hewlett and David Packard, who in 1938 began developing their first product, an audio oscillator, in this garage. Location: 367 Addison Ave, Palo Alto November 11, 2008 11:43 PM Eric said. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

Pretty soon you’re chasing your own tail a little bit because you’re not operating against a clear, long-term vision of what you’re trying to accomplish. Combining agile development with customer developm. Don't launch Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

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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. Nice post. Brookeside can do that.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008 Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. December 10, 2008 6:37 AM Anonymoussaid. March 26, 2010 8:42 AM ankur aggarwal said.

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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. Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. I want to focus here on one particular strength: the ability to operate semi-autonomously.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. And instead of design, engineering, QA, and operations we have a solution team implementing a startup-centric version of agile development.

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betashop.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The only thing that matters is how good your product is. At Fab, our virtual product is our website & apps, our physical products are the merchandise we sell, and our experience product is our operations and service. Getting all 3 parts of our product right is everything. All the rest is noise.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

Fifty of its manufacturing activities and 70% of its consolidated revenues derive from global operations. The BIRD Foundation promotes collaboration between Israeli and American companies in various technological fields for the purpose of joint product development. Israel Corporation is Israel’s largest holding company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

The idea was that these two people would operate as a unit, with the mentors job performance during this period evaluated by the performance of the new person. Because this was such a big cultural change for most new employees, we didnt leave them to sink or swim on their own.

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