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The Principles of Product Development Flow

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Does this sound familiar?

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Its different from selling a product, because it is not part of our regular business practice, is not something that relates to our core competence, and tends not to happen in a repeatable and scalable way. Ill exclude those non- lean startups who basically exist for the purpose of raising bigger and bigger sums of money. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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It should be even more important to the founders themselves, because it demonstrates that their business hypothesis is grounded in reality. This approach is fundamentally non-scalable. These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process.

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Lessons Learned: Five Whys

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His book Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-Scale Production is a fascinating read, even though its decidedly non-practical. Hes a new employee, and he was not properly trained in TDD So far, this isnt much different from the kind of analysis any competent operations team would conduct for a site outage. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: The metrics and levers of engagement.

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The solution for app developers caught in this vicious cycle is to develop competency in positioning. I would bet (although I don't have the data) that for normal (non-hyper-addict) Facebook users, the time between logins is strongly correlated with the number of high-quality notifications they receive. So, in summary: 1.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

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Worse of all, the plaintext codes we were used to sending were considered non-authoritative, since they could be pulled off a third-party network. There's lots of information about performance and metrics out there, as well as a peer expectation that being concerned about those things is an important part of being a competent engineer.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

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I'm a bit late, and this one might be controversial to some, but long-duration non-competes hurt the development of startups by adding friction to the entrepreneurial economy. Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0 It would be good to spread understanding on this issue.

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