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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, October 4, 2008 About the author ( Update January, 2010: This post originally dates from October, 2008 back when I first started writing this blog. Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) My first time at your blog.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Names have, of course, been changed to protect the innocent: Hope youre well; I thought Id relay a recent experience and thank you. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

As the CTO/VP Engineering, I was the worst offender. Pivotal Labs doesn't carry "Pivot" in its name by accident. Ajay January 24, 2010 6:15 AM Matthew Ogston said. I'm glad there's a 'name' for this part of the process Eric. February 9, 2010 3:16 PM Anonymoussaid.

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Smarticus — 10 things you could be doing to your code right now

Startup Lessons Learned

Of the techniques he mentioned, I think four are fundamental and critical for any lean startup: TDD (or the even more politely named TATFT ) Continuous integration Automate your deployments Collect statistics The tools to help you do these things are getting better and better every day, but dont confuse tools with process.

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Andrew Chen: Growing renewable audiences

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It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. It strokes your ego.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

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We would pretty much bid on any phrase that was "[name of competitive product] chat" and variations like that. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. We tried obvious competitors as well as long-shots.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because - lets face it - PHP can be pretty painful. Which makes them exactly the kind of programmers companies should want to hire.

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