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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

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Their product definition fluctuates wildly – one month, it’s a dessert topping, the next it’s a floor wax. Their product development team is hard at work on a next-generation product platform, which is designed to offer a new suite of products – but this effort is months behind schedule. Great post! Great post!

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Lean Startup fbFund wrap-up

Startup Lessons Learned

Yet, I think this definition is too important to leave out. davemcclure : amazing concepts on Continuous Development => "Cluster Immune System" @EricRies #LeanStartup @fbFund [link] dalelarson : Because most features take longer to argue and prioritize than to build. Use some customer development to find out.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

To do that, we add specific speed regulators, like integrating source control with our continuous integration server or the more elaborate dance required for continuous deployment. It definitely can be useful to judiciously take on small amounts of debt. One last thought. Small batches rule. How do we debug them?

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Lessons Learned: A hierarchy of pitches

Startup Lessons Learned

Now there was nothing wrong with their analysis: anyone who invents a technology as sophisticated as The Transformers is definitely going to make a lot of money. If you find yourself getting asked non-key questions, try to use your answers to steer the conversation back to the key questions.

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It's a startup, not a spreadsheet

Startup Lessons Learned

Unfortunately, most decisions that confront startups lack a definitive right answer. For example, say that your business model calls for a 4% conversion rate – as ours did initially at IMVU. After a few months of early beta at IMVU, we discovered that our actual conversion rate was about 0.4%.

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The Lean Startup Workshop - now an O'Reilly Master Class

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The response so far has been nothing short of overwhelming, and I want to especially thank those of you who participated in the survey and customer validation exercise that helped shape this event. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? For now, Id like to ask a favor.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

So I generally feel right at home in these conversations. So let’s turn our attention from what may happen in the future to what is definitely happening in the present. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.