Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 5, 2010

While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

is an elegant way to model any service-oriented business: Acquisition Activation Retention Referral Revenue We used a very similar scheme at IMVU, although we werent lucky enough to have started with this framework, and so had to derive a lot of it ourselves via trial and error. Expo SF (May. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. This includes the designers as well as the engineers and product managers. August 8, 2009 6:08 AM Phil Winkler said.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

We tried to provide a framework for startups to think about what activities should be outsourced and why. Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. The key is to get the outsourced team locked in for the long term and to build your own lean/agile culture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth. Tactics were discussed out of context, and there wasnt an overarching framework for figuring out what works for what kinds of companies, industries, and stages of growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. It has to be found and managed. Personally, the framework Ive found most helpful is MTVs "create, share, validate" feedback loop. Yeah, weve got that. Great post!

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

For those of you who have been following the discussion, a Lean Startup is Eric Ries ’s description of the intersection of Customer Development , Agile Development and if available, open platforms and open source. Reply links for 2009-11-02 « Blarney Fellow , on November 2, 2009 at 5:10 pm Said: [.]

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 22, 2009 Pivot, dont jump to a new vision In a lean startup , instead of being organized around traditional functional departments, we use a cross-functional problem team and solution team. Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, March 13, 2009 Dont launch Heres a common question I get from startups, especially in the early stages: when should we launch? March 13, 2009 1:50 PM dan simard said. March 13, 2009 2:14 PM Alan Pinstein said. Alan March 13, 2009 2:18 PM alon said. We didnt manage todo that yet.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 1, 2009 Lean Startup webcast post-game Wow, what an incredible turnout for webcast this morning, right on the heels of a phenomenal crowd at startup2startup last night. 2009 05 01 How To Build A Lean Startup Step By Step View more presentations from Eric Ries. May 3, 2009 4:45 AM Eric said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 You buy virtual goods Jeremy Liew has a great piece in the WSJ about the central mystery of businesses that make money selling virtual goods: Why do People Buy Virtual Goods? February 17, 2009 10:17 AM Tobias Lampe said. February 19, 2009 5:23 PM Maryam Asif said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 1, 2009 The Steve Jobs method Image via CrunchBase Its been a long time since I did a post that was primarily a link to another blog with commentary, but I came across something today that I really want to share. In the meantime, I hope some of you will find the lean startup a helpful framework.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 5, 2009 The curse of prevention Beware! Managing these situations is hard for any company, but potentially lethal for a startup. The theory is that there is some truth in both camps, and the right way to manage the disagreement is to sprinkle a little bit of both into our plans.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I also want to explain that it is possible to have a truly agile work environment based on small, autonomous teams. Wooga was founded 2009 with a vision that by 2020, everyone will be playing games. Normally as a company grows this changes as management layers are added, and work simply becomes less efficient. Being agile.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. So, both split-testing and customer feedback have their drawbacks.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The last thing you need is a manager telling you how to do your job. If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

We had all the tools in place but we didn’t actually practice agile development. No fancy tools needed here — it’s about the mentality, attention to detail, and the actions that foster agile development, not the tools & systems you set up in place to facilitate this. While simple, it is easy to manage.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But I think the value in this framework is that it can help make overall business decisions that require thinking about the whole rather than just one of the parts. Thanks a lot for writing this :) January 16, 2009 8:05 AM Chris Hopf said. June 18, 2009 11:20 PM JakeRsaid. For example, lets say you have a viral ratio of 1.4.

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market-by-numbers.com

DECEMBER 7, 2009

This driving force, in turn, greatly determines the array of products, customers, industry segments, and geographic markets that management chooses to emphasize more or emphasize less Here is a subset of driving forces Robert discusses: Product Company pursues a strategy based on a single product and its off-shoots.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

net is the only framework in which you can build an app for all the major mobile operating systems (iphone, android, wp7). And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) First of all,NET is a “framework”, not a “language” as you have said in your post. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. January 16, 2009 2:54 AM DROCKsaid. Also, PHP is the new BLACK [link] January 16, 2009 9:24 AM Anonymoussaid. PHP can do what no other language or framework can (albeit django).

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

signup, upgrade, trial pricing Zuora – online subscription management FeeFighters – find the cheapest credit card processors HealPay – Collections made easy Customer Support Tender – support, knowledgebase tool for your site GetSatisfaction - conversations between companies / customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, February 12, 2009 What is a market? (a Here your challenge is to convince that manager that you really can do the job at such low cost. February 12, 2009 3:30 PM Neil said. February 13, 2009 2:05 PM kareem said. February 13, 2009 4:12 PM Brant Cooper said. great analogies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

A few days ago I open-sourced a framework for split-testing, A/B testing or continous optimization. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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