Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

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. Read the rest. Come to TS in Boston! Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Stay tuned for more details.) Amazon PostRank

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OCTOBER 4, 2008

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Read the rest here. Read the rest here. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Amazon PostRank

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OCTOBER 5, 2008

The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. So why are they having so much difficulty?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

If we don't get a certain amount of signups on that splash page, we don't develop the rest of the site becuase they will not have any customer. 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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MAY 31, 2010

You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) You can read the rest of his posts on his blog : Introduction , Part 1 , Part 2.) Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv Amazon PostRank

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FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, February 16, 2009 Continuous deployment with downloads One of my goals in writing posts about topics like continuous deployment is the hope that people will take those ideas and apply them to new situations - and then share what they learn with the rest of us.

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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. No logins, no codes, just raw uncensored internet access. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean 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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NOVEMBER 8, 2008

For the rest of us, we need to get some facts to inform and qualify our hypotheses ("fancy word for guesses") about what kind of product customers will ultimately buy. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Ive been guilty of this many times in my career - its just so easy to focus on product and technology instead.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

Heres my favorite part: If youve got a team, part of the team should obsess about the backlist, honing it, editing it and promoting it, while the rest work to generate (as opposed to promote) the frontlist. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0,

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AUGUST 24, 2009

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. But for the rest of us, who create content because we care passionately about having an impact on the world, we need to rethink the process by which we do it. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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MARCH 4, 2009

If you are willing, please take a moment to fill it out before proceeding with the rest of the post; itll mean less biased results, and youll have a better idea what Im talking about later. It connects to the internet to automatically download the necessary codes. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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MARCH 11, 2010

Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - Read the rest: For Startups, How Much Process Is Too Much? - 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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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Before I get to go home, I am doing a full week of events on the east coast in New York and Boston: five events in five days - if I survive. This is a designated web2open hybrid session - which means you can attend for free even if youre not attending the rest of the conference. The Boston event at MIT on the 19th is already sold-out.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. Read the rest of Entrepreneurs: Beware of Vanity Metrics at The Conversation on Harvard Business Review. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Dont forget to leave a comment. Amazon PostRank

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APRIL 12, 2010

Read the rest here. Read the rest here. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. If youre thinking of attending the Web 2.0 If youre thinking of attending the Web 2.0

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Read the rest (and be sure to watch the videos). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. We act as if the biggest risk to startup success is that the technology won’t work.

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MARCH 23, 2009

Read the rest of the interview at Venture Hacks. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. We’re not moving in the right direction. This just isn’t a viable product.&#

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

2gov.org will take care of the rest. 2gov.org will take care of the rest. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. The Geeks are doing their part. Amazon PostRank

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MAY 7, 2009

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.

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MAY 17, 2009

What about the rest of us? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Heres their write-up of the event: We have heard that recessions are the best time to start your own startup.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Journalists have the highest obligation to ask these kinds of questions, and conferences organized by journalists ought to be the exemplars the rest of us look up to. Journalists have the highest obligation to ask these kinds of questions, and conferences organized by journalists ought to be the exemplars the rest of us look up to.

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MAY 5, 2009

Watch the rest here. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Third customer comes in, same thing. You start to see these patterns and you’re like, okay. Amazon PostRank

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Read the rest. Read the rest. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Tell your Startup Visa story Speaking 2010: Webstock, GDC, Web 2.0, Amazon PostRank

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NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Silicon Valley is nearly 100 years old.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Read the rest of the article here. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. It is a truly fun place to work. This article also appeared on BusinessWeek.com. Amazon PostRank

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JULY 31, 2009

Who wants that stuff posted on the internet? The broadcast nature of joblink doesn't seem necessary/useful to me but I can see how the rest are useful. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Using it to recruit takes less than a minute. The actual exchange of information occurs in private, in email.

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JULY 9, 2009

Id been on the internet since I was playing MUDs as a kid, but by 1999 I felt Id already missed the boat. If Id bought just a handful of the "best of the rest" domain names that were available at the time (for a whopping $70 each), I probably could have just retired right then. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. After all, how would Craig Newmark’s life (and the rest of ours, too) be different today if he had waited to build something with a high-quality design before starting his famous list? And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. Ship it.&# Ship it.&#

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MARCH 13, 2009

Here was our experience at IMVU, which I have seen replicated at many other consumer internet startups. The rest can believe what they want. 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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AUGUST 1, 2009

Even if SJ has some unique "process" that enables him to come up with killer products (I suspect he is just wired differently from most people and probably has no real idea of how he does it to a point where it is teachable), that doesn't mean that the Lean Startup/Steve Blank's ideas etc have less of a value for the rest of us.

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OCTOBER 6, 2008

The site hung on to its design philosophy of being an island cut off from the rest of the Web, and paid the price. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. But none of that happened.

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DECEMBER 30, 2008

When doing the post-interview team meeting, it was common for the first opinion expressed about a candidate to become the prevailing opinion of the rest of the team members. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. The engineering team varied from 5-8 people, with a variety of skill-sets and personalities.

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OCTOBER 11, 2009

Whatever learning took place was happening by the product owner; the rest of the team was just heads-down implementing features. Whatever learning took place was happening by the product owner; the rest of the team was just heads-down implementing features. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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OCTOBER 11, 2008

And what do you do with the rest? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Your challenge will be incentivizing your developers to create, and managing the volume of their output.

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