Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

The CPU utilization on all our front-end servers went to 100% why did the CPU usage spike? Each time, we use the defect as an opportunity to find out whats wrong with our process, and make a small adjustment. His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 29, 2009 Embrace technical debt Financial debt plays an important and positive role in our economy under normal conditions. I hope to show why lean and agile techniques actually reduce the negative impacts of technical debt and increase our ability to take advantage of its positive effects.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 8, 2015

In its first two chapters, the book argues that while digital technology have rocked our worlds, the fundamentals of strong brands have not changed. Should brand marketers “bow to algorithmic salvation”, allowing data and process to ride roughshod over inspiration and creativity? Strong Brands Still Matter. Courtesy of Tim Vandevall.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment?

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Steve Blank

JUNE 15, 2009

But this story is not about Convergent. Convergent Technologies When I was in my 20’s I worked at Convergent Technologies , a company that was proud to be known as the “Marine Corps of Silicon Valley.” It was a brawling “take no prisoners,” work hard, party hard, type of company. It’s about entrepreneurship and family.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Some of our most passionate early adopters were using IMVU’s user-generated content capabilities to create illicit content. Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. This probably sounds illogical. Let me give an especially painful example.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Some ecosystems are stable, others malign, and others grow and prosper.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 3, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 3, 2009 Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up Last week I had a real blast meeting with the companies at the fbFund incubator at Palo Alto. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. Without further ado.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 14, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, May 14, 2009 The Lean Startup Workshop - now an OReilly Master Class My rate of posting has been much lower lately, and this is mostly due to preparations for the upcoming Lean Startup Workshop on May 29. I have a lot of good news to report on this front. You can click here to learn more.

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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. I really enjoy reading stories of how people have tackled this problem. Data storage is becoming a specialized function, delegated most often to relational databases.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Revolutions in our context, almost always fail. Step 4: Standard Attribution Models. I'll say this again at the very end… As a Marketer or an Analyst, there is nothing you'll attempt that will be more complex and challenging than what you are about to read in this post. Including data. It seems hard to believe.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Rather, we pay all our attention to a few key questions we ask every candidate, each aiming at uncovering a single key point: is this someone we really want to work with? Rather, we pay all our attention to a few key questions we ask every candidate, each aiming at uncovering a single key point: is this someone we really want to work with?

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

How to stay lean and iterate quickly while you’re building a two sided marketplace, especially when “network effect” and “critical mass” are the two main focuses? Maple Butter. Search for: Videos. You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind. Start today.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 23, 2014

by Andrew Sobel, author of “ Power Questions: Build Relationships, Win New Business, and Influence Others “ During your career you’ve heard or read lots of advice on networking. And chances are you’ve picked up a subtle, underlying message: More is better. This superficial view of networking just doesn’t, well, work.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Chapter 4: Brand Identity Design: the Building Blocks of Your Brand Identity. Chapter 4: Brand Identity Design: the Building Blocks of Your Brand Identity. This is the most comprehensive guide online to creating a strong brand identity for your business or organization in 2019. Table of Contents. Chapter 1: What is Brand Identity?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Multiple attempts followed by multiple failures. How To Get There. Tweet View Comments Guest Author Sep 20, 2009 This guest post was written by Meebo CEO Seth Sternberg. It is the first in a series of posts he’s writing about the decisions a young entrepreneur needs to make when she/he is first starting a business.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 22, 2009

I have no personal knowledge of computers nor does anyone in our organization have any appreciable knowledge. It had nothing to do with the subject I was looking for, so I read it, chuckled, put it back in the file and kept leafing through the other papers. About a minute later I did a double-take as it hit me what I had just read. (I’ll

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Thursday, August 20, 2009 The Promise of the Lean Startup Im honored to have a guest post on GigaOm to introduce the concept of the lean startup to their audience. The ultimate goal of a lean startup is to identify where its vision intersects with what reality can accommodate. Now for my request.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Its important not just for historical reasons, but because we are often called upon to take sides in current debates that impact the way our region and industry will develop. Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, November 11, 2008 Where did Silicon Valley come from? Its useful to look back to understand how we got those advantages.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 8, 2018

The Association of National Advertisers’ CMO Talent Challenge Playbook highlights success stories from marketing training investments: After Unilever rolled out a training program to 5,000 marketers in 2016, it reported a “35% uplift in knowledge” and “96% uplift in confidence.”. Within marketing departments, an estimated 4.2%

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ConversionXL

MAY 29, 2019

Nonetheless, here are the numbers for the median performers in our two datasets. What does it take to grow a YouTube channel? Is a channel more than the sum of its video parts? Or will a strategy that focuses on videos alone increase subscribers? This post tries to answer those questions. 5000 are also floundering.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, May 1, 2009 Lean Startup webcast post-game Wow, what an incredible turnout for webcast this morning, right on the heels of a phenomenal crowd at startup2startup last night. Its been a great twelve hours for the lean startup! In a future post, Ill attempt to unpack this definition in detail.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Facebook, at last count, has 1.5 billion monthly active users. YouTube has 1.2 billion users (watching 6 billion hours of videos!). Instagram has an estimated 400 million users. Those are some big gigantic numbers! I believe that every human with time to spare, and a connection to the web, should be on social media. The benefits are numerous.

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