Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

How to Enchant Your Customer - How to Change the World , November 23, 2010 I love to do business with small businesses—in-store, online, for myself, for others, for pleasure, for work—it doesn’t matter to me. Put likable, competent and passionate people on the front line. 17, 2009 and before Jan. This doesn’t make sense.

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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. Labels: product development 5comments: new york web development company said. it is very helpful for me.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? September 8, 2009 6:12 PM Geoff Hsaid. September 8, 2009 6:25 PM dbsaid. September 9, 2009 12:36 AM Richard Tibbetts said. September 9, 2009 5:05 AM Roger Toennis said. Agree with all your points.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. There are many articles by many experts ( myself included ) extolling the virtues of listening to customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. March 25, 2009 9:16 AM Jesse Farmer said. March 25, 2009 9:19 AM Eric said.

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Steve Blank

MAY 4, 2009

In an early stage startup, instead of sales being up front, the point departments are likely to be product development and customer development. Later on in this same company’s life, sales will become the pointy end and product development moves to a supporting role. I loved to compete against these companies.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

For other products, customers are generally shopping for virtual goods in some kind of catalog. If you have a non-trivial amount of goods for people to buy, they are going to have to find ways to sort through them to find the ones they want. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

After quitting my job and starting Sorced , I spent a few months validating my business concept by creating the product mockups and doing customer development. The Alchemist Series: Customer Development and Metrics. Pitch 2009 is a unique startup competition open to early-stage ventures globally. Santa Clara, CA.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. No lying 3 Pitch the technical puzzles attempting to solve 99.9999% of non-technical founders/co-founders get 2 out of 3 of these points wrong. How To Get There. Meebo doesn’t even work right on Chrome or Opera. Thanks Scott F.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. This technical debt is the non-strategic result of doing a poor job. Please comment!

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