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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. The same has been true of an unfortunate number of startups, they manage to generate a lot of hype, raise a lot of money, and sometimes make some of their investors, employees, or founders rich. See Validated learning about customers for more info.

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Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Startup Lessons Learned

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. There are three stages: We start with ideas about what our product could be. How about documentation that nobody reads? the data on a regular basis.

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Thank you

Startup Lessons Learned

I am grateful to everyone who helped make this event a success, especially my co-organizers Charles Hudson and David Sachs. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. All video from the conference is available for free at Justin.tv

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Lessons Learned: Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile

Startup Lessons Learned

They take things like unit testing, design documents and code reviews more seriously than any other company Ive even heard about. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? What is customer development? ScienceDaily: Corporate culture is most important.

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Lean Startup fbFund slides and video

Startup Lessons Learned

Slides are below: The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Edit: I finally got YouTube upload working, which has better embedding options than MobileMe. If you want to see the original video, use the link above.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what's changed since.

Startup Lessons Learned

We owe a lot to this seminal document. When it becomes possible to build products "live" with customers, the cycle time changes and design becomes a much more dynamic process. Every time we execute a product pivot - changing some elements of our vision but not others - we change the very purpose of the product being designed.