Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

I met one recently that is working on a really innovative product, and the stories I heard from their development team made me want to cringe. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does. This post has been removed by the author.

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JULY 5, 2010

You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest. While the customer development framework of Four Steps is universally relevant, The Entrepreneur’s Guide updates its practices for modern startups. You can easily take from it whatever makes sense for your business, and leave the rest.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

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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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. 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 7, 2008

We run a web development company and we start by creating a splash page very similar to what is describe here. 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.

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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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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. Strategy - startups first encounter this when they have the beginnings of a product, and theyve achieved some amount of product/market fit.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Ive been guilty of this many times in my career - its just so easy to focus on product and technology instead. True, there are the rare products that have literally no market risk; they are all about technology risk ("cure for cancer"). Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers.

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JANUARY 2, 2009

For the rest of us, there is an alternative: to create credibility by building a lean startup. At IMVU, we were terrified by how early we shipped (and charged for) our first product. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Frankly, we were embarrassed by how many bugs, crashes, and defects it had.

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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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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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha.

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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. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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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. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Before I go any further, heres the link to the new survey. Amazon PostRank

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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

This program is designed for people who have a stake in creating great products: engineers, designers, product managers, marketers and businesspeople—from companies of any size. Read the rest here. Read the rest here. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazon PostRank

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

But in reality, most products fail because they are the Ice Cream Glove, that is, because there are no customers who will buy them. Read the rest (and be sure to watch the videos). These videos make an important point: that almost all product ideas sound bad. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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MARCH 23, 2009

In fact, we’re past the point of minimum viable product. This just isn’t a viable product.&# Read the rest of the interview at Venture Hacks. Labels: minimum viable product 5comments: Hazem Awad said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. I particularly like the landing page idea.

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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. They were deploying to production with every commit before they had an automated build server or extensive automated test coverage in place.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

Or it might mean selling a few products on a site like eBay to see how well they perform before ordering in bulk from a wholesaler. 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.

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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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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

One of the sayings I hear from talented managers in product development is, “good enough never is.&# And, most importantly, it helps team members develop the courage to stand up for these values in stressful situations. And the rest is history: Google Maps was a huge success. Ship it.&# Ship it.&#

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Startup Lessons Learned

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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Startup Lessons Learned

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

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. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Amazon PostRank

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

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. Neither can the rest of us (well, except for Matt Cohler). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. In time, success will come. Great post.

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OCTOBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 6, 2008 When NOT to listen to your users; when NOT to rely on split-tests There are three legs to the lean startup concept: agile product development , low-cost (fast to market) platforms , and rapid-iteration customer development. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Whatever learning took place was happening by the product owner; the rest of the team was just heads-down implementing features. Why was a team this smart, this disciplined, and this committed to waste-free product development creating so much waste? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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MARCH 13, 2009

The rest can believe what they want. gave us two years of a beta product to build up the service and the brand awareness. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ▼ 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica. Cannon said.

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 11, 2008

Your challenge will be incentivizing your developers to create, and managing the volume of their output. And what do you do with the rest? Yes, I have had to deal with developers on strike. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. How do you help customers find the best of the best? Amazon PostRank

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