Continuous Deployment, Demand, IPO and Technology

Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For eBay, this is caused by the incredible network effects of their business (so-called demand-side increasing returns and supply-side increasing returns). Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Just what is the CTO supposed to do?

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

As Ive written previously , lean startups are built upon three main trends: Technology commoditization. Combined with the technology trends above, it also enables rapid deployment strategies like just-in-time scalability. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Agile software development.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Very few startups fail for lack of technology. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. What is customer development?

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Playing with new technologies. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Seeing whats possible.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But thanks to new distribution technologies like the Kindle, we will soon. Gatekeepers are overloaded.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. That’s what Just-in-time Scalability is all about.

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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Iterate quickly to uncover true market demands. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. I know it's going to help me immensely! August 13, 2009 3:43 AM Robert said. Thanks Eric.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. Worldwide developments based on this research led to modern radio communication, television, and the electronics age.

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Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

Youre not an interviewer per-se but you still need to make a very careful selection of who you go into business with both from a personality perspective and a technology perspective. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Using AdWords to assess demand for your new online. Any advice? Excellent post.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

For example, should we invest a week of engineering time into making our website more failure-proof (which were pretty sure will pay off right away) or into experimenting with a new technology (that might pay off in months, years, or never)? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. What is customer development?

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. As the company grows, hes the go-to person for almost everything technical, and so hes very much in demand. A really good technology executive can notice problems like the ones Im talking about today and address them proactively.

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Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Wed train them on-demand as they came in, and send them into the world (or onto the phones) with written instructions and voter contact data. What I found particularly interesting, looking back, is that the McCain campaign had superior technology, voter lists, and numbers on their side. What is customer development?

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Marching through quicksand

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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

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