Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below. Talk about waste.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 25, 2011

The benefits of customer and agile development and minimum features set are continuous customer feedback, rapid iteration and little wasted code. But over time if developers aren’t careful, code written to find early customers can become unwieldy, difficult to maintain and incapable of scaling.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They often aren’t great at planning development work.

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2023

In contrast, designing AI-driven enterprise software or building dating apps are comparatively simple problems.) (Understanding and solving homelessness, disinformation, climate change mitigation or an insurgency are examples of wicked problems. Co mpanies also face Wicked problems.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 15, 2017

Recent developments in applications have rendered the firewall outdated and incapable of deciphering the good and trusted from the bad traffic. Agile businesses have moved to the cloud because of its scalability, efficiency and reliability, amongst other benefits. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

The IT process automation should be the primary step in IT operations management, organizational designs, investments and supports. The organizations need to know that IT process automation is not just an add-on tool but a stepping stone towards future of their business development. Challenges of implementing IT process automation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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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 argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Thats more than just drawing architecture diagrams, though. dicing is whats expensive?!

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Hearpreneur

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Seeing the tangible results of our efforts, like a client's business flourishing because of a website we designed or a marketing strategy we developed, is incredibly rewarding. The excitement of learning & adapting to new trends in digital marketing & web development keeps me engaged & inspired.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Expo SF (May.

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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. And this was a huge product, which took years to develop.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

Coupled with A/B testing, customer development, and thinking through business problems in a scientific, hypothesis-driven way, you end up with a powerful cocktail of techniques to build a modern startup in the most iterative way possible. However, there’s the other side of the coin, which is the product design.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The site visits include stops at Square (the payments startup founded by Twitter co-creator Jack Dorsey), WeWork Soma (an amazing co-working space) and Pivotal Labs (leaders in Lean and Agile consulting), along with one more super-interesting location we’ll announce shortly. Needless to say, this is a slow and complex process.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 23, 2016

ARM, a competitor, not only had a better, much lower power processor, but a better business model – they licensed their architecture to other companies that designed their own products. Today that’s built on the premise that an x86 architecture is the one best suited for big data. But it’s not over for Intel.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Their engineering teams didn’t have the expertise using off-the-shelf microprocessors (back then “real” computer companies designed their own instruction sets and operating systems.) They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Our yearly technical design meeting (TDM) brings together Marines to identify and address challenges and issues across the MCISRE.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

To achieve this mission, we established a framework that leveraged Marine Corps tenacity, agility, and adaptability to create a persistent culture of innovation. Our yearly technical design meeting (TDM) brings together Marines to identify and address challenges and issues across the MCISRE.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Operating across varied industries, Fractional CMOs offer a fresh, tailored approach, helping businesses to be more agile, adaptive, and strategic in their planning Questions I ask Nicole Bernard [00:46] What exactly is a fractional CMO? A few are architectural design companies. Nicole Bernard (13:27): Yeah, maybe.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Some CTO’s swear that it is a huge improvement in development timeframes and doesn’t cause performance issues. Your deepest thinkers on technology architecture are seldom good team leaders. They often aren’t great at planning development work.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 21, 2017

They do a great job at building an amazing culture, and they are able to keep a small company feel in terms of speed and agility because they keep the teams small and have basically broken the company up into a whole bunch of companies. Today I own and manage a company specifically designed to help people grow their portfolios.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

The artists on the team had called in the big guns, and VP-level folks were there to explain the importance of certain aspects of the visual design that threatened to be cut. They either had to hire a developer onto the art team itself (unthinkable) or learn those development skills themselves (which was, to be fair, really hard).

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

DECEMBER 10, 2014

We had seen Lightspeed portfolio company Nicira disrupt networking layers 2-3 with an architecture that consisted of highly distributed scale out software elements coupled with centralized control, culminating in an acquisition by VMWare for $1.25B in the summer of 2012.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 29, 2017

Agile Methodology.”. The trend today is for teams and projects to be flexible, adaptable, continuously reassessed and developed to ensure that products and/or companies fit market demand. The initial development rush slows. Implementation/Development. by Quan Heng Lim, Cyber-Operations Consultant at Horangi.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 28, 2009

Even worse, the sad state of product development generally means that the new "features" are as likely to be ones that make the product worse, not better. A typical "new feature" release is, in my experience, about 80% changes to underlying APIs or architecture. In a successful startup, the development team is also growing.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. An Eye for Business Development Your new CTO’s technology vision should fall in line with your overall business strategy.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed the class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. Just like any commercial software, it’s got to be a continuous development cycle.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 11, 2012

We’re a 11+ year old business that specializes in creating marketing websites and user interface design for web apps and mobile apps. Run meetings and present / defend your strategy and design work. Create strategy documents such as personas, information architecture, user paths, and wireframes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you.

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femgineer.com

JULY 18, 2010

HOME About the Femgineer Speaking Engagements Reading List Recruiting Startup Engineers With the startup market taking off, there is always a clamor to find good engineers, developers, and designers. I think its important to keep that in mind rather than always trying to covet a rock star developer with a proven track record.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

If youre looking for resources on getting started, see " Continuous deployment in 5 easy steps ") The goal of continuous deployment is to help development teams drive waste out of their process by simultaneously reducing the batch size and increasing the tempo of their work. How severely is failure punished?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

You dont need to invent a new architecture, and you dont need to even build your architecture up-front. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you? Were in a new wave of platform evolution.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Not being caught up in a corporate management structure gives me the freedom and agility to be at the top of our game. I’ve taken a major risk (both financially & mentally) and surrendered my 15 year career in architecture & design, but my heart and mind are in this project every waking moment.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 1, 2021

Founded in 2009 by JoeBen Bevert, Joby Aviation has been working under the radar at a base in Santa Cruz, California to develop an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft. But Joby’s quest includes even more than the amazing hardware it’s developing. For example, Joby works with the U.S.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

You now run Pilosa, what you describe as “an open source, distributed index designed to help analyze huge datasets at UI latency.” We are also in the process of building a world class management team and a distributed engineering team of the best developers no matter what time zone they reside in. How will it work with Molecula?

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

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