Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 8, 2009

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 29, 2010

My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs. By creating a space for your startup community to congregate and share new ideas, youre enabling a new kind of economic growth. My hope for this conference is that it will benefit the global community of entrepreneurs.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

You are doing the startup community a great service by sharing your insights via your blog. 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? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

MUDs made the essential truth about software into a powerful metaphor: that code is magic, giving those who wield it the ability to create new forms of value literally out of thin air. We also learned that law is code , and that leadership was needed to build thriving communities in a digital age. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 15, 2009 Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management. Testing the new Disqus comment system The recent and overwhelming influx of comments on The cardinal sin of community management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We'll have IDCEE conf on October 28-29, [link] If you could come any other day we'll organize small event at #kievstartup community. Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0 September 18, 2009 12:21 PM max said. Any chance seeing you in Kiev, Ukraine? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

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? Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

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? Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

In particular, we would cover customer development, continuous deployment, minimum viable product, and actionable metrics. In between sessions, this cohort of companies would have the opportunity to act as a learning community, sharing what theyve learned and supporting one another as they try to put the techniques into practice.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

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? Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 27, 2009

We're keeping ourselves free for the community that has helped us build our product; premium vs basic seems wrong to us. I also work for a startup and we have been grappling with the same problem ever since we went public. You have pretty much captured our thought process; we do think we have found a way out of this. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

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? Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

I would recommend periodic surveys, along with some kind of forum or other community tool where the most passionate customers can congregate. Im Community Manager at VenCorps, co-host of commandN. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Either way, Ive been a happy subscriber ever since. Hi Eric, Will Pate here.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

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? Support the Startup Founders Visa with a tweet Testing the new Disqus comment system Gov 2.0

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bhargreaves.com

MARCH 7, 2010

The reasons why I am not a big fan of development shops are too numerous to go into here. In brief, startups succeed because there is strong alignment of interests among all parties, especially with the people who are actually building the product. Actually any shop that does agile development with daily and weekly releases should.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Heres the short version: hire people from the online communities that develop free software. Beyond the quality of the candidates themselves, Ive noticed three big effects of hiring out of free software communities: You can hire an expert in your own code base. Ive had the good fortune to see this first-hand. Submit patches.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? 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.

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SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 1, 2010

The scene is the siren song of the innovation community. Meet the New Enterprise Customer, He’s a Lot Like the Old Enterprise Customer - Ben's Blog , November 15, 2010 Meet the new boss. New York, California different toilet, same s#@t. The scene will kill you. same as the old boss. The Who, Won’t Get Fooled Again.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 3, 2009

You can still see these early manifestos thanks to the wayback machine: [link] [link] We did that not just out of principle but because it served a very specific purpose: giving early adopters in our community a reason to invest in our success and give us strong feedback. Combining agile development with customer developm.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

And passionate players are often the backbone of game communities – especially online. A great product enables customers, developers, partners, and even competitors to exchange their unique currencies in combinations that lead to financial success for the company that organizes them. Expo SF (May.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 4, 2015

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. But if your company has its own social channels, you benefit from knowing exactly what is being said about your company at any point in time.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

These decisions cause problems that will challenge you for years, if you are lucky enough to be successful with your product. As the size of your community and economy grows, youll be able to solve them as they arise, as long as you know what to look for. What makes a particular decision key? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 22, 2008

Theres a lot of controversy surrounding NPS in the customer research community, and I dont want to recapitulate it here. Even if you have a very large community, I dont think this number needs to be higher than 100. In other words, we committed the one cardinal sin of community management. Heres how Ive set it up in the past.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

This is just like a startup to me, complete with distribution and product development challenges, ecosystem design and many, many customers. Ive been blown away by the level of demand you all have expressed in having a forum for the whole community to come together and share what were learning. Details soon, I promise.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

The number one reason I keep coming back to PHP is that it has overwhelming community support. Ive written elsewhere that success in creating a platform is "becoming a function not of the size and resources of the company that builds it, but of the size of the community that supports it." Lets start with some circular reasoning.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Make sure that new hires understand your rate of innovation. You are small and agile, which means you have a high rate of innovation and growth, and with that comes work! Not Embracing Agility. "If is the largest independent online news site dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. This probably sounds illogical. Then the reality of our problem hit us.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Obama understood the two concepts that are essential for building a high-performance, highly adaptable, agile organization: 1) rapid iteration and 2) clear values-based objectives. The risk of incorporating a bunch of brand-new volunteers is much lower if you have good analytics about their performance. Expo SF (May.

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