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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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

If you read these quotes, you’d think they were from a CEO who just took over a company facing disruption from agile startups and a changing environment. And his company has 2 million employees. Instead the focus is on global and rapid maneuver capabilities of smaller, dispersed units to “increase agility, speed, and resiliency.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 13, 2020

Research shows that a right-sized office boosts productivity, increases employee satisfaction, and helps companies attract and continue to develop high-level talent. But those silver linings only materialize if due diligence is done with regard to employee preferences. Take engineers, for example.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 15, 2017

When organizations are small (startups, small teams in companies and government agencies) early employees share a mission (why they come to work, what they need to do while they are at work, and how they will know they have succeeded). It wasn’t that I had somehow inherited dumb employees. I wasn’t surprised.

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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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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 8, 2021

There are countless strategies to consider employing here, including search engine optimization (SEO), pay per click (PPC) advertising, email marketing, and even traditional advertising are all viable options. . Adaptability/Agility . Marketing/advertising channels. Memorability. Few startups are successful from the outset.

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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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YoungUpstarts

MAY 9, 2017

Lean is a methodology that can be applied to all disciplines of knowledge work to increase business efficiency, agility, and visibility. Research shows that 95% of organizations do not start as Lean organizations – they implement Lean after identifying a need for better agility, visibility, and efficiency. Lean Transformations.

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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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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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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 3, 2013

We have seen the rise of the cloud, the shift away from PCs to new mobile computing platforms, and the emergence of Big Data and Analytics as a core enabler of business agility. In this new world, employees, not the CIO, choose their applications, and these applications reside either directly on a mobile device or in the cloud.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. The Agile Board. Always seek input.

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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. In the first 4 weeks, our team got out of the building and spoke with employees at 42 different companies.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The introduction of remote employees opens your business to an influx of new talents and skill sets. Evaluate your potential developers’ knowledge, experience, and the skills listed on their software engineer resume. While app development can be very beneficial, that’s only true if it’s done the right way.

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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. Resources may be CRO’s, CPT consultants, IP, Financial or Human resources (regardless of whether they’re consultants or employees.).

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 8, 2023

It also improves employees’ productivity by allowing them to focus on vital business operations. Chatbots can answer questions and accept payments while your employees establish partnerships. Most startups are driven by high-end technology, innovations, and agile testing, with the help of which new trends are being born.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2020

However, this doesn’t kill the traditional network engineering but will enhance collaboration between the application and networking teams. This situation means engineers will have to retain and embrace the automation culture. SASE supplants SD-WAN.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 14, 2017

by Amanda Setili, author of “ Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets “ Polarization is a common problem for companies trying to make smart and agile strategic decisions. In our age of disruption, you must be agile and courageous. Hint: That should be all companies.)

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Transformify

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The first was a shakeup in our software engineering team, which was originally based out of New York City. Adeel established a team in Lahore and we all did Agile training together to formalize a working relationship. In this case, other than our software engineering team in Pakistan, we hadn’t yet worked with anyone remotely.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 30, 2013

Employees had a different concern – they simply wanted more clarity on how to continue to be involved, since formal rules of engagement ended with the bootcamp. We should have asked for a broader innovation time off and incentive policy for employees, managers, and executives. We needed a for a Proof of Concept center.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 23, 2020

I am looking to reopen offices in a smaller capacity when it is safe to do so and when my employees are comfortable with returning. I am listening to my employees and asking for their opinions on how to implement positive changes to make significant improvements to our future work environment. Thanks to James Bullard, Sound Fro ! #7-

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Steve Blank

JULY 25, 2011

Scientists and engineers as founders and startup CEOs is one of the least celebrated contributions of Silicon Valley. ESL, the first company I worked for in Silicon Valley , was founded by a PhD in Math and six other scientists and engineers. It might be its most important. ———-. Cold War Spin Outs.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. With 115,000 employees Apple can barely get annual updates out for their laptops and desktop computers.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 24, 2016

It wasn’t that Microsoft didn’t have smart engineers working on search, media, mobile and cloud. The best are agile and know how to pivot – make a substantive change to the business model while or before their market has shifted. With 115,000 employees Apple can barely get annual updates out for their laptops and desktop computers.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2015

Whether it’s heading downtown to meet a client, flying across the country to attend a conference or just simply heading to grab a cup of coffee, many entrepreneurs and small business owners — as well as their employees — are constantly on the go. Additionally, Eyal was one of the first employees of Old Lane, a $5.5B to be productive.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

One of the things he mentioned was that when it came to decision-making he still tended to think and act like an engineer. Since every situation is unique, there is no perfect solution to any engineering, customer or competitor problem, and you shouldn’t agonize over trying to find one. That’s why startups are agile.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 4, 2017

That’s why it’s smarter to embrace the agile approach and constantly test your idea on the market to learn about the needs and desires of your target. Building a well-organized team of competent and dedicated employees is critical for the life of your startup. Choose the right location. Let’s talk about scaling first.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 11, 2021

There will be less employees and more solopreneurs. Advertisements, search engines, and social media all provide businesses with the opportunity to grow brand awareness and gain influence in the market. The future of entrepreneurship for the vast majority is like ‘freelancing'. Thanks to Richard Burner, Goals Marketing !

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 12, 2012

Agile Management. On this blog, you’ll read about great ideas for becoming a more agile manager. The Agile Executive. Find out how you can take good employees and make them great ones with posts from Never Mind the Manager. Hospitality managers can find great ideas and insight for improvement through this blog.

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Transformify

MAY 28, 2018

About us At Scopic Software, we have over 250 employees in over 30 countries all comfortably working from home/remotely. Though we’re a big team overall, each project is made up of small teams to remain agile and maintain good communication. sockets, TCP connection) • Shader programming • Unreal Engine.

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bijoor.me

MARCH 26, 2014

Employee Engagement. Agile Development. 1: Software Defined Datacenter Users : Infrastructure Engineers. into Application Containers Examples : Google App Engine , Heroku Buildpacks , CloudFoundry Buildpacks. 4: Model-Driven PaaS Users : Business Engineers. Adventure Travel. Bike Tours. Content Marketing.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Instead of using infrastructure of the 1990s with wording from the 1970s, companies should let their employees be their spokespeople and hire through word of mouth. QA can look at stuff built just hours before and give feedback by the time the engineers return to work. International Companies Acting Like Local Shops.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 31, 2009

Yet startup companies have traditionally used this model to manage and pace not only engineering but also non-engineering activities. The flaw in this thinking is that “first customer ship&# is simply the date when engineering thinks they “finished” the 1.0 Product Development Diagram 1. Where Are the Customers?

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Steve Blank

MARCH 29, 2010

In my last post I described my approach to one of the three classes I teach at Stanford in the engineering school: Fundamentals of Technology Entrepreneurship. For example, when we taught the value of getting out of the building and agile development, we had Eric Ries talk about the Lean Startup.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Can an established organization with a recognized brand, proven revenue stream and an employee count in the hundreds or thousands embrace these principles? TheLadders’ subscription model has proven to be successful and the company has enjoyed solid growth with the employee count crossing 400 recently.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

Lean Methodology consists of three tools designed for entrepreneurs building new ventures: The Business Model Canvas – to write down all the hypotheses about a new business; Customer Development – a process for testing those hypotheses outside the building; Agile Engineering – to rapidly build minimal viable products to test product/market fit.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Capability: Focus on customer innovation and agility. A market-oriented organization doesn’t focus on internal budget allocations and power struggles between functions, but remains customer obsessed, external data driven, and measured on their rate of innovation and agility. They focus on anticipating customer needs before the crisis.

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