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Startup Lessons Learned
JUNE 8, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 8, 2009 Datablindness Most of us are swimming in a sea of data about our products, companies, and teams. That’s because many of our reports feed us vanity metrics: numbers that make us look good but don’t really help make decisions. Too much of this data is non- actionable.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 17, 2008
Now its time to start to think seriously about how to find a repeatable and scalable sales process, how to position and market the product, and how to build a product development team that can turn an early product into a Whole Product. What is customer development? Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.
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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. It slices, it dices.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
As I evolved my thinking, I started to frame the problem this way: How can we devise a product development process that allows the business leaders to take responsibility for the outcome by making conscious trade-offs? When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer.
Startup Lessons Learned
APRIL 26, 2009
The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers.
A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks
JULY 19, 2010
During a lull in her practice she got a serendipitous opportunity to shift gears completely and ended up leading software product development teams. Indeed, most of the innovations we've made at Smart Bear in the art of code review have already been duplicated by both commercial and open-source competitors. Personal authority.
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. I am basically a one-man shop.
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