Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 25, 2009

It will probably be the first time Ill be able to take extensive Q&A on some of the new frameworks Ill be debuting at Web 2.0 Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. The economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.) Customer Development is itself an example of SBCE.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Having had a number of years to try and answer this question at cocktail parties and social gatherings of all kinds, I thought Id try and expand on his framework a little, and then try and use these answers to help make suggestions for those who are trying to get people to buy virtual goods. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Instead of these dead-ends, use the problem and solution team framework and then: pivot, dont jump. Ajay January 24, 2010 6:15 AM Matthew Ogston said. February 9, 2010 3:16 PM Anonymoussaid. April 12, 2010 7:45 AM @hankzy said. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Q: Does the Lean Startup framework work efficiently within a company of 2-3 people (think small)?" A: yes, yes, yes Q: Does the Lean Startup framework work efficiently within a company of 2-3 people (think small)?" Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, A: yes, absolutely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

In this framework, we’ll tend to either invest in the proposed prevention or do nothing. If we’re practicing continuous deployment, we can be confident that we’ll be able to rush an emergency fix into production without risking introducing further problems. How upset will those customers be?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

The only efforts a new product team should be expending are those that lead to validated learning about customers. In the meantime, I hope some of you will find the lean startup a helpful framework. Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

You create an entire framework of understanding and action based on your product/idea that sets it in motion in a self-sustaining way. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It also has the nice side-effect of driving down the batch size of work, but thats for another post) This framework for making progress evident applies to more than just scheduling, of course. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Sometimes, a great hacker has the potential to grow into the CTO of a company, and in those cases all you need is an outside mentor who can work with them to develop those skills. At the end of the day, the product development team of a startup (large or small) is a service organization. Does this sound familiar?

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Seeing the whole Engagement loops are a powerful concept all by themselves, and they can help you to make improvements to your product or service in order to optimize the drivers of growth for your business. Sometimes you have to state the obvious, I guess :) April 28, 2010 2:45 AM JakeR said. It sounds a bit like spam.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

PHP can do what no other language or framework can (albeit django). The proliferation of high quality, best practices frameworks - such as CakePHP (rails for PHP), Zend Framework (my personal favorite), Simfony and Seagul just to name a few. and Rails as a web framework. Keep HTML HTML and Javascript Javascript.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Each experiment is like a little mystery, and if you can get into a mindset of open-mindedness about the answer, the answers will continually surprise and amaze you. A few days ago I open-sourced a framework for split-testing, A/B testing or continous optimization. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. Expo (and a call for he.

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