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Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 28, 2009 Continuous deployment for mission-critical applications Having evangelized the concept of continuous deployment for the past few years, Ive come into contact with almost every conceivable question, objection, or concern that people have about it.

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The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development

Startup Lessons Learned

I believe it is the best introduction to Customer Development you can buy. As all of you know, Steve Blank is the progenitor of Customer Development and author of The Four Steps to the Epiphany. I have personally sold many copies of his book, and continue to recommend it as one of the most important books a startup founder can read.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

Startup Lessons Learned

Im working on a future post where Ill share the details of how I used customer development to shape both the content and packaging of this event, so look for that soon. We changed our model to B2B and adopted Agile around 2002. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Case Study: Using an LOI to get customer feedback on a minimum.

Startup Lessons Learned

But other times, the right way to learn is actually to show a product prototype to customers one-on-one. This is especially useful in situations, like most B2B businesses, where the total number of customers is likely to be small. And, if so, will that deception come back to haunt you later? Read on and judge for yourself.

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How to build companies that matter (the lean startup on O'Reilly.

Startup Lessons Learned

In a presentation you gave to one of Steves classes you mentioned how common sense all this customer development stuff seems in theory, but is relatively difficult to pull off on in practice. It would be nice if you could deconstruct why the customer development model is challenging to pull off in practice?

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