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APRIL 29, 2013

This post was written by Sarah Milstein, co-host of The Lean Startup Conference. Often, in very young organizations, those people are simply the founders. Last year, the co -founders of B ack to the Roots talked about their innovation accounting and how they were ignoring sales metrics in order to grow.

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JULY 28, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, July 28, 2010 Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot (The following guest post is a new experiment for this blog. If you havent seen it, Pascals recent presentation on continuous deployment is a must-see; slides are here. kaChing has been very active in the Lean Startup movement.

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JUNE 2, 2010

As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. As start-ups scale, this agility will be lost unless the founders maintain a consistent investment in that discipline. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Speed up or slow down?

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

Mark Montgomery Founder Kyield Initium VC September 12, 2009 4:21 AM Mark Montgomery said. Eric -- I was very impressed by your two part video series, which rarely occurs these days. Great blog! Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Otherwise it's a great idea. Good stuff. Expo SF (May.

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AUGUST 2, 2008

Its to everyones advantage to let the world think the founders thought of everything. I say this as a founder: the contribution of founders is always overestimated. The danger here is that new founders, looking at existing founders, will think that theyre supermen that one couldnt possibly equal oneself.

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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. When operating with continuous deployment, its almost impossible to have integration conflicts. Every time an engineer checks in code, they are batching up a certain amount of work.

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MAY 31, 2010

Sean Murphy has an excellent and comprehensive roundup of resources about the conference: all of the slides, videos, summaries, notes and write-ups are listed on his blog here. You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv

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JULY 3, 2009

Note: there is video from this event, but its not online yet. I had a flip cam with me, and the organizers captured their own video with a tripod and everything. ericries #leanstartup Another new idea in the section on continuous deployment and the cluster immune system. Without further ado. Danger, Will Robinson.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Thank you very much for the video. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Anyway, thanks to Steve and all of his students - it was a fun and thought-provoking experience.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Labels: agile , continuous deployment 1 comments: timothyfitz said. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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MARCH 25, 2010

blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe via email Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JANUARY 12, 2010

Beyond my own efforts on this blog ( and more ), there is now an amazing variety of resources for lean startup practitioners. When I first started blogging, the startup blogging mafia immediately came to meet me and find out who I was: Dave McClure , Andrew Chen , Sean Ellis and Venture Hacks. Have a favorite who I overlooked?

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JANUARY 7, 2010

Although much of it will sound familiar to readers of this blog, whats new is my first step towards the " new entrepreneurship " that is my goal for 2010. Unlike previous cross-posting Ive done for blogs, where a lot of the discussion happens here, Id like to ask you to take a minute and click through to read the full article.

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AUGUST 26, 2009

If you watch the video/audio below, youll get to see some of the questions I was asked after my presentation. I did my best to capture video and audio; a YouTube playlist and Slideshare slidecast are below: Slides (with audio): 2009 08 19 The Lean Startup TechStars Edition View more presentations from Eric Ries.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2008

VentureHacks did a great summary , which includes slides and video. Instead, we do everything possible to validate the founders belief. Most people cant sustain more than a few of these iterations, and the founders rarely get to be involved in the later tries. On the minus side, that has made it a wee bit hard to understand.

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JULY 5, 2010

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. 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. Well done, Brant and Patrick.

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JULY 30, 2009

Brad Feld also had some thoughts on this event on his blog. Building on this, I’ve recently become fascinated with the notion of continuous deployment , a concept that has been popularized by Eric Ries and others. Weve got slides , video , audio and twitter commentary. For what its worth, I like Silicon Mountain.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2008

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

We spent the rest of our time pretending to work on the assigned homework, but really trying to do interesting side projects, like sending juvenile messages across the school network or building primitive video games. These were primitive open-ended video games created by the players themselves , using simple programming languages.

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JULY 9, 2010

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, July 9, 2010 Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# theory of management At any given time, something like four percent of the US population is engaged in some form of new-company-creation. Are we solving the right problem? We can do better by focusing on process instead of personality.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

This is one of the blog we posted about how some company is doing SEO to promote the website. To help find the right keywords, Ive written an article on my blog Web Startup Help that details How to Do Keyword Research for startups. This post has been removed by a blog administrator. link] November 8, 2008 7:13 PM Jason said.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Continuous deployment and continuous learning At long last, some of the actual implementers of the advanced systems we built at IMVU for rapid deployment and rapid response are starting to write about it. At IMVU it’s a core part of our culture to ship.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Labels: Test-driven development 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?)

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OCTOBER 5, 2008

Ive written about it on our development blog at [link] October 6, 2008 3:34 PM Chris Hondl said. If the team is continually falling behind, it would seem that these teams were no fully aware of their expectations to begin with. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Check out what I am doing at. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Im working on a post that links to those videos too. I immediately started digging deeper and found Steves course handouts ([link] podcast from his presentation ([link] and presentation slides from SKMurphys blog ([link] And yes, The Four Steps to the Epiphany is on its way too ;-). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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MARCH 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, March 16, 2009 Combining agile development with customer development Today I read an excellent blog post that I just had to share. Thats why I prefer to think of them as two co-equals: the problem team and the solution team. Brilliant insights, advice and information on your blog.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2008

Today, when I talk to startup founders, the most common answer I get to the question "do you talk to your customers?" As Seth writes this week in Seths Blog: Listening to the loud people , the most aggressive customers arent necessarily the ones you want to hear from. (For Thanks Eric, your blog has many golden nuggets!!!

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

October 17, 2009 10:34 AM Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Subscribe via email Blog Archive ► 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Expo SF (May.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. If you want to do continuous deployment, youd better be able to certify that build too, which brings us to. For more on continuous deployment, see Just-in-time Scalability. Can you make a build in one step?

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

After an hour with a team talking dirty about deployment, youll know. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable blog comments powered by Disqus Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe via email Blog Archive ▼ 2010 (48) ► October (3) Case Study: Rapid iteration with hardware The Lean Startup Bundle Stop lying on stage ► September (4) Good enough never is (or is it?) Read the rest here.

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MARCH 25, 2009

In keeping with my recent theme of blogging about upcoming events, Im happy to announce that Ill be speaking at Agile Vancouver on April 21. For those of you who subscribe to the blog for substantive content and whatnot, I promise to get back to more regular posts soon. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

It was actually my co-founder Will Harvey who taught me to present this data in the simple format weve discussed in this post. in many cases an example is required - demo, or in my case video guitar lesson along with google ads for quick test data. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Some companies and founders refuse to serve existing customers, and are always lurching from one great idea to the next. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Expo SF (May.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

So what does CTO mean, besides just "technical founder who really cant manage anyone?" I would love to see some blog posts on any experiences you have had with set-based design. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Thats an important job, for sure, and Ive been called upon to do it from time to time.

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