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Lessons Learned: Combining agile development with customer development

Startup Lessons Learned

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. In most agile development systems, there is a notion of the "product backlog" a prioritized list of what software is most valuable to be developed next.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup: a Disciplined Approach to Imagining, Designing, and Building New Products.: Eric, if youre looking for any help as a "customer advisory board", Id love to do anything I can to help. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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New conference website, speakers, agenda

Startup Lessons Learned

Each part of the program is organized around one phase of the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop and begins with a keynote address from a heavy hitter: Steve Blank on Customer Development, Randy Komisar on "Getting to Plan B" and - a third person, not-yet-announced-but-extremely-cool-trust-me. Is design important to lean startups?

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months. People talk about funding funding funding, bootstrapping, etc.,

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

Stan Gloss , co-founder of BioTeam , consultants that design computer systems for life sciences companies. You can bootstrap it. You can learn from your customers. They have to think outside of their own back yard, get really active and make trips out to San Francisco or to New York to build some very important relationships.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 40: Stan Gloss and Matt Armstead

Steve Blank

Stan Gloss , co-founder of BioTeam , consultants that design computer systems for life sciences companies. You can bootstrap it. You can learn from your customers. They have to think outside of their own back yard, get really active and make trips out to San Francisco or to New York to build some very important relationships.

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Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases non-events

Startup Lessons Learned

Ash Maurya is the founder of WiredReach , a bootstrapped startup that he has been running for seven years. Recently, he was bitten by the lean startup bug and has started writing about his experiences attempting to apply lean startup and customer development principles. Read on to find out. Things started to slip.