Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, April 14, 2009 Validated learning about customers Would you rather have $30,000 or $1 million in revenues for your startup? Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. And what of the product development team?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? 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.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

They live their purposes inside out, and everything else falls into place, always returning to the purpose that made them visionaries to guide the brand and its product development when things get difficult, markets change, or downfalls occur. Balance is key in the principle of leveraging the mind’s and body’s conjunctive power.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

But first I think we need to save the product manager from that special form of torture only a waterfall product development team can create. Labels: product development 8comments: Vincent van Wylick said. This post has been removed by the author. This post has been removed by the author. Nice write-up.

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ConversionXL

MAY 1, 2017

Past Product: Lackluster Marketing Causes Growth Stalls, Too. These pitfalls are not limited to product development. One of the biggest challenges for companies in continuing to pursue growth is breaking out of the bounds of currently successful ways of operating; the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Customer development is a parallel process to product development, which means that you dont have to give up on your dream. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers. March 14, 2009 8:34 AM Can Sar said. April 11, 2009 1:22 AM CeeTee said.

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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. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

February 7, 2009 5:40 AM Major_Grooves said. May 6, 2009 3:03 PM Ivan Acosta-Rubio said. We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. June 22, 2009 6:30 AM Anonymoussaid. June 28, 2009 2:51 PM beorn said. Great post - I think Ill try this.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Eric, Any thoughts on how forum feedback fits into customer development and agile product development? Youve probably addressed this in the past, but I continue to be blown away by how fast Blizzard reacts to noise in their forums and rapidly makes fixes to the product. February 13, 2009 4:05 AM Eric said.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2009

This series of posts is a brief explanation of how we’ve evolved from Product Development to Customer Development to the Lean Startup. The Product Development Diagram Emerging early in the twentieth century, this product-centric model described a process that evolved in manufacturing industries.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

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. February 22, 2009 5:54 PM CapnCleaver said. February 22, 2009 10:14 PM Aleks said. February 23, 2009 2:22 AM Clement said. February 23, 2009 9:23 AM Clement said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. June 8, 2009 8:28 PM Geoff said. Too much of this data is non- actionable.

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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. Perhaps all of the above.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 19, 2009 Lean hiring tips In preparing for the strategy series panel this week, I have been doing some thinking about costs. For example, lets say you dont have an operations team, and so youre still getting paged late at night when servers crash. January 21, 2009 6:39 AM Kevin Merritt said.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Smart Execution is the secret sauce of the growth and marketing operating system Clare Price has created that has helped so many businesses achieve clarity, confidence, and control of all their marketing functions. The answer: Smart execution. Questions I ask Clare Price: [1:26] What is your backstory and entrepreneurial journey?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

I feel like “conversion rate optimization” is in 2013 what “social media marketing” was in 2009. Not because they have a conversion problem but because they never really nail the product or how to market it. So What is Customer Development? The Problem With Traditional Product Development.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 28, 2009 Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications Having evangelized the concept of continuous deployment for the past few years, Ive come into contact with almost every conceivable question, objection, or concern that people have about it.

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

I believe its important that product teams be cross-functional, no matter what other job function the product champion does. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Its even more critical in lean startups when they need to manage growth.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Top management was trying to coordinate all of the operating details (sales, manufacturing, distribution and marketing,) across all the divisions and the company almost went bankrupt that year when poor planning led to excess inventory (with unsold cars piling up at dealers and the company running out of cash.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 4, 2009 Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you? 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? Great post.

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Steve Blank

MAY 18, 2009

We agreed that all her founding CEOs seemed to have the same set of personality traits – tenacious, passionate, relentless, resilient, agile, and comfortable operating in chaos. It’s why all of you operated so well in the unpredictable environment that all startups face.” And that’s just to get started.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 20, 2017

Your business works as intended if you can attract customers that fit into the context of your operation. Your Product Plan must fit into context of your overall business mission. I’m never surprised when I see product development driven by engineers proceeding at top speed developing the next cool thing.

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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. ► 2009. (36). Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality. . ► 2011. (14). ► November. (1). Top Ten Attributes of Agile Platforms. ► October. (2).

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 23, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 23, 2009 Venture Hacks interview: "What is the minimum viable product?" 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. March 30, 2009 8:40 PM illscience said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Lean startups operate by a different standard. aka "how you get to product/market fit.") Toyota employs something called "set-based product development" where they develop multiple versions of a product at once. Lean startups operate by a different standard." Experimentation is not necessarily waste.

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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. 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. link] May 11, 2009 9:04 PM Ian Wilson said.

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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. Labels: hiring , product development 5comments: TedHoward said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 9, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, April 9, 2009 Built to learn Its been an exhilarating ride since the Web 2.0 So instead of having sales, marketing, and business development, we have a problem team implementing customer development. Andy April 10, 2009 9:57 AM Eric Santos said. April 11, 2009 3:50 PM Tina said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

The chart below shows the company’s strong financial performance from 2009 to the present. This presents the second interesting scaling take-away of the Akamai story: when you achieve product-market fit, it’s ok to have some waste in order to grow fast. In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

FYI the surveymonkey link isnt operational. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. November 19, 2008 5:57 PM McElroy Flavelle said. Hi Erik, Im a independent games producer based in Vancouver. November 24, 2008 2:44 PM Eric said.

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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. Agree with all your points. Current rules are good enough now.

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