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JULY 28, 2010

If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. Third, the company expected hundreds of amateurs who performed poorly in the game to realize they weren’t good at investing and therefore become customers. in fact only five people converted into paying customers.

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JUNE 22, 2009

Each has its own iterative process: customer development and agile development respectively. In a customer problem pivot, we try to solve a different problem for the same customer segment. When doing intense customer development, the problem team can attain a high level of empathy with potential customers.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2008

All of the incentives described in the article focus on making it easy and highly desirable to launch your product: [He] claimed that launching projects is the natural state that Googles internal ecosystem tends towards, and its because they pump so much energy into pointing people in that direction. What is customer development?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Great article youre now in my rss feeds :) October 2, 2008 4:37 AM kamilski81 said. While reading this article Ive been thinking about my role as "CTO". Hi Eric, Great article - Ive added you to my regular RSS reads. Great article! Wow I think you just wrote my job description for me. Great post, very educational.

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MARCH 22, 2010

Ive quoted from the article extensively below, but I hope youll take a moment and read the whole thing. I believe we have a unique opportunity to pass the Startup Visa Act this year - if we continue to stay focused on delivering the message to lawmakers that this is something their constituents want.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Thats the essence of so many of the lean startup techniques Ive evangelized: customer development , the Ideas/Code/Data feedback loop , and the adaptation of agile development to the startup experience. Creating a company-wide feedback loop that incorporates both customer development and agile development is a challenge.

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DECEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 8, 2008 Continuous integration step-by-step Lets start with the basics: Martin Fowlers original article lays out the mechanics of how to set up a CI server and the essential rules to follow while doing it. Great article. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JANUARY 2, 2010

In a forthcoming article Ive written advocating for the Startup Visa , I wrote this: Like other industries – from publishing to automobiles – entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. Similarly, let me know if youd like to host or attend a simulcast party in your town. Writing a book.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

I had the opportunity to pioneer this approach to funnel analysis at IMVU, where it became a core part of our customer development process. To promote this metrics discipline, we would present the full funnel to our board (and advisers) at the end of every development cycle. Thanks for writing this article.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

This made it easier for ISPs to offer PHP hosting on shared servers, too. Good article, this is exactly the reason Im still primarily a PHP developer rather than Ruby or Python. Nice article. very good article! I personally think that the opinion about PHP in the web-developer community is way too negative.

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JANUARY 2, 2009

The core of the article is my first attempt to articulate the key metrics (in graph form) that I believe demonstrate customer value. When startups ask me what to measure, I always come back to these three as a starting point: Revenue per customer. You can read the article to find out why. Thanks for the article.

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AUGUST 8, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, August 8, 2009 Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and whats changed since then) My recent article on technical debt and its positive uses generated a fair bit of controversy. 1] For more on SBCE, see this MIT Sloan Management Review article. So, in that spirit: thanks, Mitch.

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JULY 2, 2009

Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 15comments: Anonymoussaid. Great article as always, Eric. Great article, Eric. I have one comment on style: could you break up your articles with subheadings? It would make article more approachable initially, and easier to scan when I go back to reference it.

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JULY 29, 2009

To do that, we add specific speed regulators, like integrating source control with our continuous integration server or the more elaborate dance required for continuous deployment. Eric, Great article - provides context and vocabulary for dialog on a very interesting tension in startups. Excellent article.

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AUGUST 1, 2009

I really enjoyed this article, my first time reading any of your stuff. Also SJ's obsession with better taste (positively) contributes to the overall product development process. Thanks for another great article! The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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MARCH 13, 2009

Do some Customer Development instead. Since we hadnt shown him much in the way of progress recently, we actually brought in the article to show off. Great article. excellent article although it breaks the whole concept of Launch now worry later. what happens when newspapers call you for an article?

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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. Its hosted by Kontagent and sponsored by Intel. You can learn more about the event here.

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JUNE 8, 2009

Now that I put on events with official hosts and sponsors, my experience is different. Related articles by Zemanta The Sharp End of the Stick (steveblank.com) Validated learning about customers (startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com) 4comments: mike@dataspora.com said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

See Paul Grahams Why Nerds are Unpopular to learn more) Take a look at this article on a programming Q&A site: How old are you, and how old were you when you started coding? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

What led you to become a subscriber, versus just reading an article and leaving like everybody else? (or, Labels: listening to customers 19comments: Ben said. In order to convince me, Id to see another link to an article here somewhere that I enjoyed. Read some articles, liked what I saw. How did you hear about it?

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APRIL 14, 2009

(For more on how this plays into the process of scaling up, see the Customer Creation stage of the customer development model.) But in the meantime, by iterating on their product with customers, they have a chance to get there on their own. Labels: agile , customer development 15comments: Scott Shapiro said.

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JUNE 5, 2009

An excellent article and responses. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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DECEMBER 7, 2008

Labels: five whys root cause analysis , product development 8comments: William Pietri said. As usual, a fantastic article. In a future article, Id love to see more about what goes into that mentoring process. Another great article. Very nice article, thanks a lot. Great article. Many thanks for posting it.

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MAY 20, 2010

Although the article is a bit me-centric, I think they did a good job capturing the fact that this is more than just the bloggers and writers, but represents a shift in thinking among entrepreneurs all over the world. The article includes comments from Kevin Dewalt and Drew Houston. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JANUARY 4, 2009

Im not talking about high-level abstractions (like an object-oriented view of a customers data). It seems to be taken as a given in this article that youre going to be using relational databases. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? January 5, 2009 5:37 PM spankysaid.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Vivek Wadhwa and his team continue their excellent work investigating the true nature of entrepreneurship. Their recent article suggests that startups led by women are actually more successful, on average, than those led by men. Vivek Wadhwa and his team continue their excellent work investigating the true nature of entrepreneurship.

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AUGUST 24, 2009

Having read your interesting article on the "Quicksand" we authors must wade through to market our work to the public, I was prompted to quote from it in an article title "Gatekeepers" (title borrowed from you) on my Facebook wall and in my blog as part of my promotion for my upcoming novel, "Marathon.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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MARCH 11, 2010

for Harvard Business Review) In the latest article for my series in HBR, I discuss the problem of how to figure out how much process startups should have. for Harvard Business Review) In the latest article for my series in HBR, I discuss the problem of how to figure out how much process startups should have.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 8, 2010 Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Review) The next article in my series on entrepreneurship for Harvard Business Review is live today. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Dont forget to leave a comment.

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OCTOBER 21, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, October 21, 2008 Lean startups vs lean companies Venture Hacks has a great article today on lean startups. I want to take up one of the questions posed in the Hacker News discussion of the article: The question in my mind against most of these efficiency driven programs is simple. Go read it.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Or take a recent TechCrunch article about a startup I wont name: “X billion messages sent since June 2009.&# These articles treat this as a huge number, and it is. It’s possible, but the article doesn’t say. Most of the article is about the features – new and old – of the product.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Labels: customer development 3comments: Anonymoussaid. Thanks for the interesting article. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. If you have further thoughts, please leave them as a comment.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Ive embedded the audio and slides below, but I recommend you c lick through to the Venture Hacks article if youre interested. Eric Check my articles for Start-Up Nation [link] Peace joseph.again February 24, 2009 11:04 PM Clement said. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Take a look and let me know what you think.

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JANUARY 27, 2009

Andrew Chen recently did a great article on the economic model underlying freemium (it includes a detailed spreadsheet, too!). Your article disticly illustrates the models in which one can make free work. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Pretty good deal, right?

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

What sets this approach apart from practices like using focus groups is that companies base product development decisions not just on what customers say they want but on how they vote with their wallets. The key ideas are customer development , the pivot , MVP, and root cause analysis. Read the rest. Read the rest.

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