Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Make sure your domain registrar offers free "website forwarding" if you dont use a hosting service that lets you use a custom domain name in step 2. I recommend using a hosted service like SnapPages. Eric, Excellent article about an essential technique for startups. Ive linked to your article from mine. Expo SF (May.

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JULY 29, 2009

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. Startups especially can benefit by using technical debt to experiment, invest in process, and increase their product development leverage.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

If youre trying to design an architecture to maximize agility, how can that work if some people are working in TDD and others not? Labels: product development 15comments: mukund said. Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. But along the way, something strange happened.

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JANUARY 7, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) Im excited to have just published the first of several articles on entrepreneurship for the Harvard Business Review online. Unlike previous cross-posting Ive done for blogs, where a lot of the discussion happens here, Id like to ask you to take a minute and click through to read the full article.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Luckily, I now have the benefit of a forthcoming book, The Principles of Product Development Flow. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 11comments: Peter Severin said. This is a fantastic article. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. Interesting post.

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APRIL 3, 2019

Optimization is by nature agile: CRO yields new data for the team to prove that whatever the organization did was good or bad. It’s a wave—the agile Tsunami. How to automatically segment people: Intent/Behavior What are the last 10–20 articles someone read on our site? Hosted surveys. You can’t see it.) Actions Purchases.

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JULY 8, 2011

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MARCH 22, 2010

Ive quoted from the article extensively below, but I hope youll take a moment and read the whole thing. Ive quoted from the article extensively below, but I hope youll take a moment and read the whole thing. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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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 economics of these process trade-offs are discussed in the Principles of Product Development Flow.)

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

This made it easier for ISPs to offer PHP hosting on shared servers, too. Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. Nice article. very good article! I personally think that the opinion about PHP in the web-developer community is way too negative.

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JUNE 29, 2020

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MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. Its hosted by Kontagent and sponsored by Intel. You can learn more about the event here.

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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. As usual, a fantastic article.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2009

Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Great article as always, Eric. Great article, Eric. I have one comment on style: could you break up your articles with subheadings? Wyatt - if you are willing to suggest specific subheads for this article, I will add them.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. I think i must have read this article a few times since you first posted it - mainly as a theoretical excercise. Thank you so much for this insight. Ajay January 24, 2010 6:15 AM Matthew Ogston said. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

In a forthcoming article Ive written advocating for the Startup Visa , I wrote this: Like other industries – from publishing to automobiles – entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. Similarly, let me know if youd like to host or attend a simulcast party in your town. Writing a book.

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DECEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008 Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. Labels: five whys root cause analysis , Test-driven development 3comments: Chris said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

Since we hadnt shown him much in the way of progress recently, we actually brought in the article to show off. Great article. We did the same for our company, although your article does an excellent job of identifying a lot of the psychology and "false strategy" that drives many launches. Alan March 13, 2009 2:18 PM alon said.

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JANUARY 2, 2009

The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. You can read the article to find out why. You can read the article to find out why. Thank you for this excellent article. Thanks for the article. Retention cohort analysis.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

I really enjoyed this article, my first time reading any of your stuff. Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process. There are some good anecdotes about Chief Engineers in the Toyota Product Development Book. Thanks for another great article!

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

This gets me into trouble, because it conjures up for some the idea that product development is simply a rote mechanical exercise of linear optimization. You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. Labels: customer development , split-test 7comments: Editor said.

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MARCH 11, 2013

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 28, 2010

Finally, after launch, 30 professional money managers, having read articles on the company, contacted kaChing out of the blue. Finally, after launch, 30 professional money managers, having read articles on the company, contacted kaChing out of the blue. in fact only five people converted into paying customers. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2015

But there’s no guarantee that the places where most social networking happens now will be the same places hosting it in the future. This can help you spot trends more quickly and see search indicators you hadn’t considered before, allowing your brand to react with more agility and better adjust to your users’ needs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

Now that I put on events with official hosts and sponsors, my experience is different. So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. Yet, when I tried other forms of promotion, I’d have to accept their failures when the emails failed to come. Expo SF (May.

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MAY 7, 2009

Interesting article, Eric. This article, like others, has challenged me to think about best practices that I found obvious, a sort of Socratic questioning of the "common sense" that perhaps makes no sense. . Whatever fear-reducing tactics you try, share your results in the comments. Or, if fears got you paralyzed, share that too.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down?

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

What led you to become a subscriber, versus just reading an article and leaving like everybody else? (or, In order to convince me, Id to see another link to an article here somewhere that I enjoyed. Read some articles, liked what I saw. Thoughts on scientific product development Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

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MAY 20, 2010

Although the article is a bit me-centric, I think they did a good job capturing the fact that this is more than just the bloggers and writers, but represents a shift in thinking among entrepreneurs all over the world. The article includes comments from Kevin Dewalt and Drew Houston. Even Marc Andreessen weighs in. Expo SF (May.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

At some level in your system, theres probably code that looks something like this: $connection = new_db_connection("host", port, "dbname"); $statement = $connection->prepare($sql_statement, $params); $result = $statement->execute(); What I propose is that you make your sharding decisions directly at the "new_db_connection" seam in the code.

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JUNE 5, 2009

An excellent article and responses. Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? June 8, 2009 6:11 AM Jason said. Expo SF (May.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding? There are over forty pages of responses from programmers of all ages, and if you just read the stories at random, youll see a clear pattern. . Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Lean startups vs lean companies Venture Hacks has a great article today on lean startups. They quote extensively from two of our most important thinkers: Taiichi Ohno , creator of the Toyota Production System, and Kent Beck , creator of extreme programming. Go read it.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I'll add two ideas: The modern structure of university patent licensing and technology transfer works really well in the life sciences and other fields with expensive product development processes. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Learning is better than optimization (the local ma.

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