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Lessons Learned: Product development leverage

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, April 26, 2009 Product development leverage Leverage has once again become a dirty word in the world of finance, and rightly so. But I want to talk about a different kind of leverage, the kind that you can get in product development. Its a key lean startup concept. Yeah, weve got that.

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Old Entrepreneurs Perform Better Than Their Young Counterparts?

Mike Michalowicz

On our community. In the article ” The Case for Old Entrepreneurs ”, Stanford professor and Washington Post columnist Vivek Wadhwa shared a 2008 study researching the backgrounds of nearly 700 U.S. – born CEOs and heads of product development at successful companies, and learned that the average age of successful founders was 39.

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A real Customer Advisory Board

Startup Lessons Learned

Anyone who has worked in a real-world product development team can tell you how utopian that sounds. And, as you can see in my previous post on “ The cardinal sin of community management &# the feedback could be all over the map. Passionate online communities are real societies. It was absolutely worth it.

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How much does it cost to build the world’s hottest startups?

The Next Web

Still, a product is nothing without scalability. You can’t just build a product today, you need to build a venture. And that involves processes, structures, feedback loops, analytics and a community.”. But if you were to replicate the product exactly, all those decisions are made for you.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive written a little bit about the origins of Silicon Valley because I think its important for us to understand how we got here in order to make sure we preserve what is best about our community. The companies I spoke to all agreed that the community there was extremely supportive, especially in the critical ulta-early-stage.

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 8, 2009 What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups? Im writing this post from an airplane headed to Washington DC, where Ill be presenting at the Government 2.0 So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs?

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Datablindness

Startup Lessons Learned

So the product development team was busy creating lots of split-tests for lots of hypotheses. That’s causing the Product Owner and team to spend more time with each other reviewing the results of experiments, which is allowing them to learn and iterate much faster. They’ve learned to see this waste.