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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Yet other agile principles suggest the opposite, as in YAGNI and DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork. Reconciling these principles requires a little humility.

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Lessons Learned: The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the time

Startup Lessons Learned

You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. But where do those ideas come from in the first place? Expo SF (May.

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Lean Startup at Scale

Startup Lessons Learned

That is, once you’re no longer a small company and you have some success, how do you execute and continue to grow through innovation? One good example is the way in which we''ve adjusted the length of different phases of our agile sprints. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work.

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The Lean Startup at SIPA follow-up

Startup Lessons Learned

Loved it and great speaker, but disagree with portrayal of agile only dealing with known problems #leanstartup Im really interested in perspectives on this point. For example, the agile practice of an in-house customer or product owner that can make authoritative prioritization decisions seems like it doesnt translate very well to startups.

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Lessons Learned: SEM on five dollars a day

Startup Lessons Learned

And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup.

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Lessons Learned: Getting started with split-testing

Startup Lessons Learned

Each experiment is like a little mystery, and if you can get into a mindset of open-mindedness about the answer, the answers will continually surprise and amaze you. A few days ago I open-sourced a framework for split-testing, A/B testing or continous optimization. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.