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. Continuous Deployment is Continuous Flow applied to software.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

Imagine a general manager that has read The Innovator’s Dilemma and related books, and is therefore trying hard to help her organization make a transition to a new product category via disruptive innovation. Still, this manager is going to spend the company’s money, and needs to be held accountable. So far, so good.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy. And yet, when I suggest this practice to hiring managers and recruiters alike, they rarely do it. So why is demographic diversity important?

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Expo (and a call for he. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 30, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, December 30, 2008 Assessing fit with the Wisdom of Crowds When I wrote earlier about how to conduct a good technical interview , I had only a few things to say about how to assess if the candidate fits in with the team, including this: This responsibility falls squarely to the hiring manager.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. First of all, it means that most aggregate measures of success, like total revenue, are not very useful. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. They are closing orders. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Using memcacheds multiget, which allows the fetching of many keys in parallel, I have written code to aggregate all the shard lookups for a given page and prefetch them, reducing the overhead even further. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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