Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future.

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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.

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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. Thats why we need continuous integration and test-driven development.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 13, 2022

Unpakt is the first company in the industry that allows users to compare movers and costs in real-time before booking their move online. Unpakt has experienced enormous development, with over one million move books currently available on its site. Thanks to Richard Mews, Sell With Richard ! #14- 14- The Farmstand.

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Steve Blank

MAY 28, 2009

Market Risk vs. Invention Risk - Click to Enlarge For companies building web-based products, product development may be difficult, but with enough time and iteration engineering will eventually converge on a solution and ship a functional product - i t’s engineering, not invention.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

By the end of his workshop, you will know how to apply innovation accounting to truly track the progress of your product. For example, in an enterprise context, moving to continuous delivery can mean making significant architectural changes and changing the culture of development, testing, and operations teams.

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ctotodevelopers.blogspot.com

JULY 11, 2012

The implementation and architecture can also suffer if the team under or over invests engineering time, implementation of standards, or testing discipline in the wrong areas. Left on its own, product owners and development teams just may make debatable and sometimes questionable decisions on priorities or implementation strategy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

In a startup, both the problem and solution are unknown, and the key to success is building an integrated team that includes product development in the feedback loop with customers. 2008 09 06 Eric Ries Haas Columbia Customer Development Engineering View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 25, 2009

Computer hardware companies were faced with their customers asking for low-cost (relatively) desktop computers they had no experience in building. They couldn’t keep up with the fast product development times that were enabled by using standard microprocessors. I was surprised to see that they were in the room.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

It cost us a few hundred thousand dollars to get our app up and running, but none of that was dollars spent on software licenses or professional services. I cant really imagine how much it cost our "grownup" counterparts at other dot-com startups to get their first app up and running. Looking back, that was a special moment.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 17, 2010

And lastly, it removes the engineering team’s ability to find breakthrough solutions that might deliver most of the value at a fraction of the cost. They either had to hire a developer onto the art team itself (unthinkable) or learn those development skills themselves (which was, to be fair, really hard).

Technical Review 164

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 27, 2012

And the rule was we weren’t changing anything about the product architecture until Ben and I agreed. Second, that he needed to recognize that changing the value proposition – the features of the products/services he was offering – was a lot more traumatic for a startup than changing other parts of the business model. .”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2009

In practice, how developers respond to this dilemma is determined by their incentives, which are driven by the culture of their team. Who will ultimately bear the cost of their mistakes? One of the distinctions that has helped at the executive level is to stress that you're reducing the COST of failure, rather then its PROBABILITY.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 22, 2010

SolarBridge will use these funds to accelerate product development as the company prepares for the 2010 launch of the SolarBridge Microinverter, a critical component in an integral, alternating current photovoltaic (ACPV) solution.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

It’s important to invest in good architecture so that your website will scale once customers arrive. If you make that investment, and then customers arrive, and the site stays up, most companies will reward the people who built the architecture and, thus, prevented the scaling problems. Why do they harbor that paranoia?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 14, 2013

Work Design Magazine has 5,000 email subscribers who comprise a variety of audience types within the commercial architecture and design industry. A content-first approach is a lower-cost, lower-risk way of achieving the same. How does lean content integrate into the rest of the lean product development cycle?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2004

I couldn’t agree with him more that while there are cost benefits there are also other factors to consider when moving development offsite. While the number of coders may go down in an IT department, there will be ample opportunity for developers to move up the value chain into design, architecture, and product management.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

Fair enough, and I genuinely believe this is the cost of entry for social media marketing, but let’s look at two other forms of media that relied on similar tactics to get readers & attention: Newspapers. If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? Write Good Content.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

Fair enough, and I genuinely believe this is the cost of entry for social media marketing, but let’s look at two other forms of media that relied on similar tactics to get readers & attention: Newspapers. If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? Write Good Content.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

Fair enough, and I genuinely believe this is the cost of entry for social media marketing, but let’s look at two other forms of media that relied on similar tactics to get readers & attention: Newspapers. If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? Write Good Content.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 4, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, January 4, 2009 Sharding for startups The most important aspect of a scalable web architecture is data partitioning. So far, this is just a summary of what all of us who have attempted to build web-scale architectures considers obvious. Support multiple sharding schemes. Easy to understand.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

I know them right away - we can talk high-level architecture all the way down to the bits-and-bytes of his system. When the architecture needs modifying - why do we need a meeting? Building a good application architecture is not just coding. The "just fix it" mentality is counter-productive here. Just change it.

Software Review 94

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

Fair enough, and I genuinely believe this is the cost of entry for social media marketing, but let’s look at two other forms of media that relied on similar tactics to get readers & attention: Newspapers. If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? Write Good Content.

Social Media 79

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ConversionXL

JUNE 17, 2014

Fair enough, and I genuinely believe this is the cost of entry for social media marketing, but let’s look at two other forms of media that relied on similar tactics to get readers & attention: Newspapers. If I asked you how organized your website information architecture was, how would you answer? Write Good Content.

Social Media 69

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

This is one of the most powerful aspects of web architecture, and it often gets lost in other client-server programming paradigms. Then we could render the whole site with much less latency, bandwidth usage, and server cost. Its design goals arent geared towards efficiency in terms of technical costs. Thanks for the comments.

Continuous Deployment 68

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

This approach is a the heart of breaking down the "time/quality/cost pick two" paradox , because these small investments cause the team to go faster over time. It seems your cluster architecture is one of the key architectural constraints making continuous deployment possible. Five whys helps us keep our cool.

Software Review 167

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

That is just currently a full personal money sucking process, as you're taxed on income and have no business breaks yet, besides supplies, the majority of costs to start up a business have no tax advantages to creating a start up. Biggest thing for me not on your list is more tax advantages to starting up a company self-funded.

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andrewchenblog.com

MARCH 10, 2010

In fact, in many ways talking to your customer and understanding them great detail is often much more powerful before you even go through the product development process. I usually find that it costs about $1-2 per survey completion. Choice architecture is among the most complex worlds one could study. or so per click.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 18, 2010

A 354 percent increase in abuse-related issues like spamming, followed by a 245 percent increase in legal costs dealing people trying to game the system.&# But a more important question to which I don’t have a good answer is whether the Free/Premium strategy leads to better or worse product development. 7 Ed on 08.18.10

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Transformify

MARCH 5, 2020

He leads multiple facets of Parabol’s growth and success by overseeing new talent acquisition, funding and product development. When we needed a new template for the Parabol website, we hired a freelancer to create one, as we didn’t have a constant need to develop websites. For example, take a backend programmer.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The project was so low cost they did not even want to bother with it. Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. All what you said is so true.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Nand changed the culture of the JAIC, bringing in Silicon Valley tools for product development, product management and for the first time a culture that focused on UI/UX, MVPs and continuous integration and deployment. Now the problem is, in the diagram below on the left, this is what our DOD architecture looks like today.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

As a developer, I feel that design/creative is undervalued in the early stages of product development. Notwithstanding examples like Plentyofish, people respond to well designed, well branded products, and that can be important in getting traction early on. I bogged about this recently too - [link] log/201.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In the last five years, there’s been this sort of acknowledgment of the consumerization of the enterprise, which is consumer product development, design methods applied to business software, of which SaaS and cloud and all these things are examples. I can switch to SaaS for less than the cost of the maintenance on the old software.”

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 28, 2009

The engineering team has decided its reached a breaking point, and is taking several weeks to bring it up to modern standards, including unit tests, getting started with continuous integration , and a new MVC architecture. On the other, they already have a team fully engaged on making their product architecture better.

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