Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Three freemium strategies Im excited to see so much attention being paid to freemium businesses lately. January 28, 2009 1:46 AM Anonymoussaid. January 28, 2009 1:46 AM do good said. January 28, 2009 1:54 AM startupcfo said. That should be 5% by the way. Great post!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, January 1, 2009 Happy new year When I started writing this blog a few months ago, I wasnt sure if anyone would find it interesting. Heres hoping your 2009 is inspiring and a time of growth. What do you expect for 2009? January 1, 2009 7:36 PM Michael Scepaniak said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Happy blogiversary (my present: a brand new URL) Its official: Startup Lessons Learned has passed the one-year mark. Dave September 9, 2009 11:52 AM johnhaden said. September 9, 2009 5:46 PM Jim Murphy said. Validated learning about customers * 8.0 Cheers, mate.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 6, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Lessons Learned office hours For me, there were plenty of surprises in the survey I conducted a few weeks ago. January 21, 2009 | 6:30 - 8:30PM Battery Ventures 2884 Sand Hill Rd. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 7, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 7, 2009 Fear is the mind-killer Fear is an emotion that slows teams down. As the product matured, they were able to ratchet up the quality to prevent regression on features that had been truly embraced by their customers. link] May 11, 2009 9:04 PM Ian Wilson said. Great post.

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JANUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 11, 2009 CPI > CPC Google revolutionized advertising by popularizing pay-per-click. This model has not translated well to the world of social networking, because customers of social networks engage sites in a different way than customers of search engines.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

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. Still, a startup product development team is a service organization. Were there to serve customers direclty, as well as all of the other functions of the company.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Wanted to add one additional note from the perspective of someone who was intimately involved in developing this system. Most of this code was from a variety of open source PHP projects that were glued together with the shortest path to goal possible. February 11, 2009 8:05 AM Anonymoussaid. What are you waiting for?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. January 5, 2009 9:36 AM Eric said. January 5, 2009 9:49 AM Nathan said. January 5, 2009 5:37 PM spankysaid. January 5, 2009 6:07 PM dodo said. I like it.

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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. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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JANUARY 30, 2009

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.

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JANUARY 28, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, January 28, 2009 Refactoring yourself out of business Let me start out by saying I am a big fan of refactoring , the ongoing process of changing code so that it performs the same behaviors but has more elegant structure. Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups.

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JULY 8, 2011

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