Startup Lessons Learned

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. You need to make sure you dont get away from trying bold new things, using some combination of your vision and in-depth customer conversations to come up with the next idea to try.

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JULY 29, 2009

Leverage product development with open source and third parties. For example, early on at IMVU, we incorporated in tons of open source projects. Darn good - I have struggled in relevant conversations with our in house move to scrum/agile. One last thought. path hence urgently pushing to release asap.

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MAY 22, 2009

This is the thinking that allowed us to overcome our fear of continuous deployment at IMVU. Thanks so much to everyone who made the trip to SIPA and participated in the conversation, as well as to SIPA and HP for hosting me. Eric, do you have any discussions planned for the co-founding dynamics of a successful lean startup?

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

And then we would use that simple analytics system I mentioned to monitor the conversion rates of customers from each campaign. You mention "we had also built a simple cohort-based analytics system" Is tihs a commercial/open source systems. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Beyond just those who will be hearing about the lean startup for the first time, Im expecting to shake a lot of hands and have a lot of interesting side conversations. In Computer Science research, it is often better to open source an innovation than to go through the process of protecting it and then licensing it to a new startup.

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DECEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, December 7, 2008 Getting started with split-testing One of the startup founders I work with asked me a smart question recently, and I thought Id share it. If youre a founder or top-level executive, have the courage to be wrong in a very public way. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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