Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Jim Murphy is a long-time agile practitioner in startups. But startups sometimes have trouble applying agile successfully.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It has proven to be a huge customer growth engine, and now has over 100 million members globally. In their recruiting process, they actually have a key insider designated as a “bar raiser” involved in ever interview, to make sure that the bar is never lowered due to any bias or pressing business urgency.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

They seem to know the right mix of skills on their founding team is a hacker, hustler and designer. For example, if you’re building a mobile app, then the key activities are: app software development, user interface design and demand creation skills. But what about for us, a consumer hardware hardware company? Are We Missing A Founder?

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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. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 12, 2017

Everypixel: Stock image search engine. Everypixel is an image search engine for quality stock images. The team at Everypixel asked designers, editors and experienced stock photographers to help them generate a training dataset as an example. PSL: Agile Software Development for Efficient Business.

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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. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Rather than focus the university inward on research, Terman took the radical step of encouraging Stanford professors and graduate students to start companies applying engineering to pressing military problems. With Agile development, used by all startups, updates can occur in weeks or sometimes days, or even hours.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While platforms like Instagram offer a great starting point, the key to differentiation lies in the age-old strategy of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). 9- Design a user-friendly e-commerce website Photo Credit: Brian David Crane Designing a fully functional and user-friendly e-commerce website is critical for an e-commerce business.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 4, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 4, 2010 Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23. Labels: sllconf Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Kent Beck will give the opening keynote at the Startup Lessons Learned conference on April 23.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 13, 2016

A case management system (CMS) is a platform for deploying and designing solutions that assist people attain the right content, and apply analytics for faster and accurate decisions to ensure the business has a better outcome. Agile methodology. Advantages of Agile methodology. Advantages of waterfall. It is easy to manage.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 30, 2014

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Story about one crowdSPRING customer’s logo design experience on crowdSPRING – | Lovin it! Useful Mockups Templates For Presenting Print Designs – crowdspring.co/1jB1A7q.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a 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. And now that we have those structures built and we have the staffs designed, almost all those trades are done.

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View from Seed

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

You always want to be careful with how tightly you schedule things to make sure you stay agile and responsive to evolving business needs, but you also need to make sure your overall journey makes sense and that you’re building things in the right order, as well as taking on risks in a measured way. ” decision.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

” It defined a startup as a “temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” The article describes Lean as the search for a repeatable and scalable business model – and business model design, customer development and agile engineering – as the way you implement it.

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www.bothsidesofthetable.com

MAY 13, 2012

Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering? This time I thought I’d try and address engineering talent. Often I’m asked by startup CEO’s about how to best build an engineering team. This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. Raising Venture Capital. Angel Topics.

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Steve Blank

MAY 6, 2015

Founders assumed they understood customer problems/needs, wrote engineering requirements documents, designed the product, implemented /built the hardware/software, verified that it worked by testing it, and then introduced the product to customers in a formal coming out called first customer ship. Testing Hypotheses.

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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. Ironically it becomes the antithesis of agile. My observation was that the CEO and VP of Engineering were confusing cause and effect. In reality this is a fools choice.

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Andrew Payne

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

One of my first jobs at DEC was writing “design verification tests” for the Alpha (née EVAX) processor. Each was the size of one or two small Agile user stories requiring two or more hours to implement. They’re designing key abstractions that will pay dividends through the life of the project.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

During the first year of the company’s life, I was a fireball – relentless in creating and pursuing opportunities – getting on an airplane at the drop of a hat to fly anywhere, anytime, to get a design win. I worked with engineering to try to find product/market fit ( big endian or little endian ?)

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2011

Over the last decade we assumed that once we found repeatable methodologies (Agile and Customer Development , Business Model Design) to build early stage ventures, entrepreneurship would become a “science,” and anyone could do it. It is a very different skill than science, engineering, or management. George Bernard Shaw.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Productive office space design should foster a collaborative vibe and inspires creative solutions. . Take engineers, for example. Most engineers thrive in open workspaces that don’t contain much more than a whiteboard and enough space to move around and think on their feet. Right-Sizing for the Right Reasons. .

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 20, 2011

They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S. 63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks , turning laboratory ideas into formidable startups. government agency that supports research in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. billion U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

These tools—Customer Development, Agile Engineering, and Business Model design—became the lean start-up methodology , a rigorous approach to testing hypotheses and building prototypes, and, on the basis of data and evidence, adjusting or pivoting to a variant of the original hypothesis.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

We think teaching teams a formal methodology around the Lean Framework (Business Model design, Customer Development and Agile Engineering) is a natural evolution of how successful incubators/accelerators will build startups. Here’s the story of one such team; Jonathan Wylie, Lakshmi Shivalingaiah and the Evoke team.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 20, 2019

Startups tend to put a premium on being “agile,” but that doesn’t always work – and certainly won’t replace the effective collaboration a business needs to grow. For example, we worked with a company and observed that each release required eleven engineers. The newly-promoted engineer often has no managerial experience.

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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. Engineers love to build, solve tough problems, and make progress. When to start recruiting? Sweat equity or salary?

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Steve Blank

APRIL 16, 2013

” It defined a startup as a “temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.” The article describes Lean as the search for a repeatable and scalable business model – and business model design, customer development and agile engineering – as the way you implement it.

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Technical Review Lean Venture Capital Customer Development 219

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

MARCH 25, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, March 25, 2009 The Lean Startup at Agile Vancouver April 21st A surprising number of respondents in the latest Lessons Learned survey hail from one of the flourishing startup hubs in Canada. Combining agile development with customer developm. And when did there get to be 3000 of you?

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Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Imagine someone pouring crazy glue into your car engine, that’s how a bad team can affect an organization. It can augment, Lean, Design Thinking or Agile approaches. Gregg Fraley has designed and lead team training workshops for two decades. R&D or Engineering teams. Master Trainer Gregg Fraley of GFi.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2014

It has three parts: a business model canvas to frame hypotheses, customer development to get out of the building to test those hypotheses and agile engineering to build minimum viable products. Tells you how to design new ventures with it. Value Proposition Design is a “must have” for anyone creating a new venture.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 31, 2018

In many respects, it’s the leanness, flexibility and agility of startups that help them become successful,” he says. Oftentimes, they have a much closer connection to end users, thus finding it easier to connect the dots to design user experiences that matter. Feng Shui is much more than just a philosophy.

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Up and Running

MAY 3, 2021

For those not in the know, SEO refers to search engine optimization. This is the practice of helping a website appear higher in search engine results pages (SERPs) for keywords related to their specific product, service, or niche. An SEO business, then, is one that offers this practice as a service.

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

On the infrastructure side, Epic owns ‘Unreal Engine’ the second most popular 3D graphic engine, and creator of MetaHumans, a digital twin rendering software that can be used to create hyper realistic characters to ‘populate’ the Metaverse. The largest and most popular 3D engine has big plans for the Metaverse.

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Steve Blank

JULY 13, 2021

With Lean LaunchPad, we were going to toss teaching the business plan aside and try to teach students a completely new, hands-on approach to starting companies – one which combines customer development, agile development, business models and pivots. Lean-driven (hypothesis testing/business model/customer development/agile engineering).

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Steve Blank

JUNE 26, 2014

Agile Engineering” to have teams prototype, test, and iterate their idea while discovering if they have a profitable business model. Activities cover clinical trials, FDA approvals, Freedom to Operate (IP, Licenses) software development, drug or device design, etc.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 24, 2018

IoT also impacts organizations by creating new positions and job descriptions such as Chief Internet of Things Officer (CIoTO), IoT Architect, IoT software engineer, Business Designer, IoT Stack and platform Developers and more. It’s the kind of flexibility the IoT needs: an appetite for change and agility.

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