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Amazing lean startup resources

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, January 12, 2010 Amazing lean startup resources A year ago, there was no lean startup movement. I continue to believe that the explosion of interest in the lean startup has very little to do with me. Rich also organized the first Lean Startup Meetup right here in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

Steve Blank has devoted many years now to trying to answer that question, with a theory he calls Customer Development. This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Expo SF (May.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Certainly venture-backed startups don’t have this luxury – every business plan has a model in it. This model of joint accountability is at the heart of the lean startup, and is just as applicable to venture-backed, bootstrapped, and enterprise startups. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

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. My startup business (web development) is being shunned by virtually every other potential investor I approached thus far. Expo SF (May.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. for Harvard Business Revie. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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Don't be the Ice Cream Glove

Startup Lessons Learned

Ali G meets with business leaders and investors on Wall Street to learn how to create a new company around a new product idea. After some general lessons, he then proposes his first product idea, complete with flip charts, business plan, and marketing plan. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

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. The Inc story, and many others, does a good job emphasizing its lean-ness. Read the rest. Read the rest.