Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 31, 2010

When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. When I first encountered customer development , it was considered pure lunacy by mainstream entrepreneurs and VCs. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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MARCH 27, 2009

In fact, every single lean transformation documented in books like Lean Thinking took place in the midst of serious external threats. This is why I constantly stress the need to set specific, actionable targets for new product initiatives or new feature split-tests. The hardest costs to cut are those that are embodied in sacred cows.

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JULY 6, 2009

Slides are below: The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. Say you're not creating a product but doing a service? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JUNE 17, 2010

The art team would often be involved in the specification phase of a new feature, since they were responsible for the look-and-feel of the product. But according to the theory, this should have been covered by the various specs and documentation we were rigorous about producing. This led to some pretty bizarre situations.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. I documented the lesson plans etc on [link] March 4, 2009 5:25 AM Eric said. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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JULY 3, 2009

The Lean Startup fbFund Edition View more documents from Eric Ries. 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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AUGUST 8, 2009

One of the topics that raised heated debate was whether I had conflated technical design with product design , because I made the admittedly counter-intuitive claim that sometimes good technical design actually leads to increased technical debt. The argument itself got me thinking a lot about design and its role in building products.

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APRIL 7, 2010

There are often counter-intuitive changes in customer behavior that depend on little details. In fact, the curse of product development is that sometimes small things make a huge difference and sometimes huge things make no difference. Over many years, we’ve learned a lot about what customers want.

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OCTOBER 20, 2008

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. He has a good team, and theyve shipped a working product to many customers.

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DECEMBER 6, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, December 6, 2008 The four kinds of work, and how to get them done: part three Those startups that manage to build a product people want have to deal with the consequences of that success. Having early customers means balancing the needs of your existing customers with the desire to find new ones.

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JANUARY 12, 2009

When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. Add onto that the incredible amounts of infrastructure code that we reused, and we were able to bring our product to market months earlier. In most cases, simple changes are simple to make.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

PayPal, under the leadership of David Marcus and Bill Scott, re-defining and re-engineering itself by embracing Lean Startup to improve the product experience. This doesn't mean pointing to the product and describing the product's value, but rather the marketing provides value itself. It's a big tent.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

First, SlideShare is a fantastic product (that I use on a regular basis) and an impressive company example of Lean Startup practices in action. If your company is using minimum viable product , you’ve probably said the same thing yourself. Early this year, SlideShare launched custom channels.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, September 11, 2009 The cardinal sin of community management Once you have a product launched, you will the face the joys – and the despair – of a community that grows up around it. There are many articles by many experts ( myself included ) extolling the virtues of listening to customers.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Youd better be able to speak their language and translate what your product does into benefits that they understand. Education Guideline Book (1st Edition) Sep 2006 View SlideShare document or Upload your own. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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