The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

Furthermore, they are less agile and have longer product cycles that require more documentation and usage assumptions, which still requires an in-house tech to properly manage. In-house development gives you more day-to-day control, and lean software development is far more feasible. Chris Mirabile , Healthy Hand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Products can find sources of validation with impressive stats along a number of dimensions, such as high engagement, viral coefficient, or long-term retention. Go on an agile diet quickly. With a product development team that is not shipping, any agile methodology will surface major problems quickly. Great post! Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

Just like in the world of startups, we can start to use micro-scale pilot programs, executed in lean fashion, to gather real facts for making ROI decisions about new project investment. If they don’t, there are a new breed of lean startups who understand this deep in the bones ready to take their place. 12comments: Dougvs said.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Github - Free public repositories, collaborator management, issue tracking, wikis, downloads, code review, graphs Pivotal Tracker – Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams. Lighthouse – Issue Tracking Tool.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What these products all have in common is the question their minimum viable product is attempting to answer: does this product have high natural retention built-in? These concepts have important implications for any lean startup. These concepts have important implications for any lean startup. It’s probably time to pivot.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. Retention cohort analysis. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. At IMVU, we were terrified by how early we shipped (and charged for) our first product. Funnel averages over time. You can read the article to find out why.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

At IMVU , we would routinely find retention effects that would stem from registration changes and have impact days or weeks later. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? This is why the registration is so important. Expo SF (May.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 4, 2014

These groups are adapting or adopting the practices of startups and accelerators – disruption and innovation rather than direct competition, customer development versus more product features, agility and speed versus lowest cost. It needs the tools and processes pioneered in Lean Startups. This is a big idea. What to Do?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2021

This benefits the employees by giving them a career with a company that cares, and benefits the business by increasing retention. A startup needs to be highly agile and adapt rapidly therefore every one of my employees takes part in shaping the company’s future. Everyone wins. Thanks to Ralph Severson, Flooring Masters ! #5-

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

Revenue is always my preferred measure, but you can use anything that is important to your business: retention, activation, viral invites, or even customer satisfaction in the form of something like net promoter score. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

Lean Methodology Sources. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Part 3- Lean Cust. Steve Blank’s Lean Startup Resources. Lean Startup Circle â?? customer retention, churn reduction, lifetime value. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Agile project management.

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usersknow.blogspot.com

APRIL 30, 2010

You need to have some sort of plan for testing to see how it’s affecting key metrics , whether those are revenue, retention, registration, user happiness, or some other number you care about. It’s not enough to just launch a feature and see if your revenue increases. How to Make Your Product as Awful as a Corporate I.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Gathering real-world feedback from customers is a core concept of Customer Development as well as the Lean Startup. Customer information dissemination is a cornerstone of Lean and agile companies. But what information to collect? Only 57 Questions. Building an Information Culture.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 7, 2008

I think its helpful to think about two kinds of competition for distribution: acquisition competition and retention competition. Retention competition is how you get people to come back to your app. If your app has incredibly strong retention, you will probably do very well with the current PR/new app system of acquisition.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I wrote about this challenge for iPhone developers, in an essay on retention competition : the battle over what icon the user will click when they go to the home screen. Our theory is that the key to long-term retention is creating an engagement loop where the reactivation rate exceeds the rate of fatigue. What do they get out of it?

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

What we have learned is that you have to be agile and test like crazy but every 3 or so releases we have a product expert review the information architecture and experience to specifically unify, clean-up and refactor the sections that need the most help. If you liked this post, please subscribe or follow me on Twitter.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Atlassian: How to Build a Kick-Ass Agile Team. Peter: I’m feeling agile, I’m feeling lean, nice and spry. Jonathan: I don’t know about the agility thing, but you’re looking lean. Peter: …to our topic today, “How to apply agile methodology to your business?”

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Ben's Blog

MAY 15, 2020

In a lot of the startup conversations I’ve been having, if you lean too far that way, it doesn’t resonate with people. Lauren : Yeah, it’s being able to lean into that agility—to shift strategies quickly and adapt. Because if something feels like it’s overly promising, no one’s going to believe it.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Just as.NET is both a lock-in and very restricting, and Java violates both “lean cuisine class hierarchy” and “objects if necessary, but not necessarily objects”, the “we’ll just use XML” mantra deserves to die. This is about the mental agility, inquisitiveness and determination of a coder.

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