Remove 2009 Remove Continuous Deployment Remove Developer Remove Silicon Valley
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

article thumbnail

Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, August 26, 2009 Building a new startup hub Last week, I had a unique opportunity to spend some time in Boulder at the behest of TechStars. Its easy to take Silicon Valley for granted. And do your customer development. August 28, 2009 1:15 PM Derek Scruggs said.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Paul Graham on fundraising

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 2, 2008 Paul Graham on fundraising I have found no better primer on the current realities of starting a new technology company in a startup hub like Silicon Valley than Paul Grahams essays. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, February 22, 2009 Please teach kids programming, Mr. President Of course, what I really mean is: let them teach themselves. Asked to help, I am confident that Silicon Valley and every other innovation center will step up. February 22, 2009 5:54 PM CapnCleaver said. They are nerds.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Using AdWords to assess demand for your new.

Startup Lessons Learned

Oops - there went several precious weeks of development effort down the drain. And if you dont know who your customer is, perhaps some customer development is in order? Labels: customer development , search engine marketing 13comments: Jim Lindstrom said. February 7, 2009 5:40 AM Major_Grooves said. What a great post.

Demand 167
article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Five Whys

Startup Lessons Learned

Wanted to add one additional note from the perspective of someone who was intimately involved in developing this system. When Eric writes, "By the time we started doing continuous integration, we had tens of thousands of lines of code, all not under test coverage." February 11, 2009 8:05 AM Anonymoussaid.

article thumbnail

Lessons Learned: Achieving a failure

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, January 30, 2009 Achieving a failure We spend a lot of time planning. Without conscious process design, product development teams turn lines of code written into momentum in a certain direction. This is why agility is such a prized quality in product development. We can skip the chasm.