Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech and in 2009 he was honored with a TechFellow award in the category of Engineering Leadership. He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I want to thank Techstars for putting this event together and giving me a chance to experience the scene, even if it lacks a name. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Now, in some situations, this over-selling would lead to a secondary problem, namely, that customers would realize they had been duped and refuse to re-subscribe. Go on an agile diet quickly. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage.

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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. The book takes its name from Steves theory of the four stages of growth any startup goes through. Phases of product & company growth.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

It’s easy to overestimate the impact of this kind of traffic because it just feels good to have your name and company featured. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev. It strokes your ego.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. Sounds very similar to agile development which is the way. I owe it originally to lean manufacturing books like Lean Thinking and Toyota Production System. Im a huge fan of small batches as well.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It presents a golden opportunity for small businesses to enhance their brand visibility and drive sales. It will create a strong brand image that will hit users’ minds whenever they encounter your brand name or logo. This agility enables you to make informed decisions, optimizing your advertising efforts for maximum impact.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

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. Real life seldom presents such comparable choices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. I explained it to people this way: agile lets you make the trade-offs visible to whole company, so that they can make informed choices. Even worse, agile wasnt really helping me ship higher quality software.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There are few courses which teach aspiring entrepreneurs the skills (business models, customer and agile development, design thinking, etc.) We’ll build the class around the business model / customer development / agile development solution stack. The end result is not a PowerPoint slide deck for a VC presentation.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 20, 2023

While Silicon Valley remains iconic, cities from Bangalore to Berlin are making names for themselves as hotbeds of tech innovation. Meeting growth metrics, achieving profitability, and ensuring a substantial return on investment are now integral parts of the startup journey.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2009

In a startup context, numbers like gross revenue are actually vanity metrics, not actionable metrics. Luckily, we also discovered that certain other metrics, like LTV and CPA were much better than we initially projected. .&# I think the problem with this approach is not the presence of the spreadsheet, but how it’s used.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Metrics for this depth are rare and only long-term. We might have medium-term goals like “adopting agile methodologies” or “getting everyone on the same page with a project kick-off” as the outcomes for the reader. The metrics for this level are more concrete and objective.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 26, 2009

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned quite a few of these, including these most important ones: having engineers post on the forums in their own name when they make a change routinely split-testing new changes routinely conducting in-person usability tests and interviews Net Promoter Score Each of these techniques is fundamentally bottoms-up.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 18, 2010

This case presents a further complication: desktop software. Ive previously named his post Achieving Flow in a Lean Startup as one of my favorite blog posts of 2009. If you are a start-up with a MVP, there is no better time to adopt a continuous deployment process than the present. Read on to find out. Read on to find out.

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ConversionXL

MAY 22, 2017

As very often happens, to understand the present, you have to know the past. His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. Contact Management: The Beginning. launched a contact management software. Et voilà: the first CRM.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 19, 2009

Much of what I have found effective is counter-intuitive, because it requires investing more effort in each hire - all in the name of efficiency. This is another sub-optimization caused by incentivizing the wrong metric. Expo SF (May. Conference streaming, sponsors, discounted tickets. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 24, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, March 24, 2009 The metrics and levers of engagement, presentation on Engagement Loops for Facebook Developer Garage SF Ill be presenting a talk at the Facebook Developer Garage SF Wednesday evening. You can learn more about the event here. Its hosted by Kontagent and sponsored by Intel.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 21, 2017

My name is Lauren Pawell, and I’m the founder and owner of Bixa Media, a digital marketing agency focused on helping entrepreneurs generate and nurture more leads through their WordPress & Shopify websites. It helps me have the agility to make adjustments on the fly that benefit brands. Thanks to Mark Hughes, C3 Metrics ! #22

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 14, 2020

At G2 , for example, we learned that a query syntax like “free [software name]” can’t be solved with a filter on a category page. Crawl your site on a staging environment with freshly deployed features and compare metrics like crawl depth and internal links to similar pages on the live version of your site. Know the process.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Your brand lives in everyday interactions your company has with its prospects and customers, including the images you share, the messages you post on your website, the content of your marketing materials, your presentations and booths at conferences, and your posts on social networks. Importantly, your brand is not what you say it is.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

Everyone has railed against these practices ( including us , many times), but it still seems that much of the industry is focused on short term metrics and surface level changes. With agile development cycles and uncertain monetization models, they live and die by data and experimentation. Image Source.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 11, 2013

Jubenville, co-authors of “ Zebras and Cheetahs: Look Different and Stay Agile to Survive the Business Jungle “ Odds are, you’ve watched one of television’s many popular survival shows. just to name a few. Determine metrics (How will each person measure, record, and report their progress?). by Micheal J.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

This commonly occurs when an organization makes a conscious decision to optimize for the present rather than for the future. For entrepreneurs out there who are building metrics-driven products but also committed to a great user experience, I would love to hear when and how you pay down the product design debt. Please comment!

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Up and Running

MAY 23, 2016

The importance of a domain name. For Gabriel Kuperman, founder and CEO of CuePin, finding a good domain name was a key part of his branding strategy. If you find the domain name you want is taken, Gabriel suggests turning to a domain marketplace that sells premium domains. Pick a name for your business.

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www.ere.net

JULY 15, 2012

It might surprise you to know that the average recruiter cannot name the distinct steps in the recruiting process, nor the goals or common failure points for each step. Common reason for failure: no metric or feedback mechanism to measure the percentage of applications that were routed to the wrong job. Browse Articles by Tag.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

MVP, despite the name, is not about creating minimal products. In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Without further ado, the video: Slides are below: Minimum Viable Product View more presentations from Eric Ries. Some caveats right off the bat. Thank you.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

If youre a startup investor, and you support the goals of the Startup Visa proposal, wed like you lend your name to our efforts. If youre a startup investor, and you support the goals of the Startup Visa proposal, wed like you lend your name to our efforts. You can read about the latest iteration of the proposal at StartupVisa.com.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 3, 2018

Corporate Agility. Transparency correlates to agility (Does your CEO know how many tests you ran last month?). Map out each lifecycle stage and variations, and name each. Work hard to define meaningful product metrics – enabler of team success. gyalif great presentation about AI #CXLLive pic.twitter.com/L4b7pqIl6o.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Prescriptive analytics The digital analytics metrics you need to know How to use analytics to improve marketing campaigns Define your mission, goals, and KPIs Set key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure marketing performance What to look for in a digital analytics product 9 tools for your digital analytics stack 1. Descriptive analytics.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, July 13, 2009 The Principles of Product Development Flow If youve ever wondered why agile or lean development techniques work, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald G. Reinertsen is the book for you. This is not for the faint of heart.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. At this meeting, we would present our goals for the cycle, all the raw results wed managed to collect, and our conclusions about what was next. Leading up to a pivot, each cycle, despite our best efforts, the metrics werent good enough.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2009

For those whove heard it, it contains a length discourse on the subject of agile software development and extreme programming, including its weaknesses when applied to startups. As Im pontificating about agile, I see the name Kent Beck in my peripheral vision. Eric Names matter. There is a dark side to naming.

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Occam's Razor

JULY 22, 2013

Then there is Agile for engineering. My solution to these problems was to create a simple framework we can use to put our customers first, evaluate our marketing programs, and right-align our view of success (metrics). I believe it has to do with choosing the wrong success metrics. And really the list is too long.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. In fact, we know so much that we already know what they will care enough about (namely, the product’s quality – as opposed to, say, missing features). No vanity metrics should be looked at.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

The same is true of brand-name products in almost every category (and it can be measured ). Kent Beck keynote, "To Agility, and Beyond" Six streaming locations Interviews ► March (7) New conference website, speakers, agenda Two new scholarship programs for lean startups Speed up or slow down? Expo SF (May.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Heck, thats what it says right there in the agile manifesto. In a lot of cases, thats just a fancy name for revenue or profit, but not always. Labels: agile , continuous deployment , lean startup , product development , Test-driven development 4comments: Nivi said. But, unfortunately, startups cant afford to adopt that standard.

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