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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Ive attempted to embed the relevant slides below.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008
The law of large numbers (of customers) says you cant help but make at least some money - your valuation is determined by how well you monetize the tidal wave of growth. Paid - if your product monetizes customers better than your competitors, you have the opportunity to use your lifetime value advantage to drive growth.
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Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 14, 2008
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 14, 2008 How to listen to customers, and not just the loud people Frequency is more important than talking to the "right" customers, especially early on. Youll know when the person youre talking to is not a potential customer - they just wont understand what youre saying.
Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 7, 2008
Thats the conclusion Ive come to after watching tons of online products fail for a complete lack of customers. Our goal is to find out whether customers are interested in your product by offering to give (or even sell) it to them, and then failing to deliver on that promise. We finally settled on a $1.99 Setup a simple website.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 15, 2008
See Customer Development Engineering for my first stab at articulating the theory involved) Ferocious customer-centric rapid iteration, as exemplified by the Customer Development process. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
Scalable systems are no exception - if your assumptions about how many customers youll have, or how they will behave are just a little bit wrong, you can wind up with a massive amount of wasted code. Labels: agile , continuous deployment 1 comments: timothyfitz said. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 10, 2008
This is still an essential practice, especially on the web. There was a time when "web content" was considered "not code" and therefore not routinely source controlled. But if you want to practice rapid deployment, you need to be able to deploy that build in one step as well. Can you make a build in one step? Youd better.
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