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Fear is the mind-killer

Startup Lessons Learned

I spent some time with his company before the conference and discussed ways to get started with continuous deployment , including my experience introducing it at IMVU. Moreover, approaching the problem from the direction that I had intuitively is a recipe for never reaching a point where continuous deployment is feasible.

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Why vanity metrics are dangerous

Startup Lessons Learned

If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. All very reasonable, well designed, well argued. If you never have, you can create your own using Google Finance. All very reasonable, well designed, well argued. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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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. Making UGC work requires good tools, open standards, and proper incentive design. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

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. In fact, this company hasn’t shipped any new products in months. And yet their numbers continue to grow, month after month.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. It might be more precise to categorize them of two kinds of flaws: flaws in implementation, and flaws in design. Im keen on the two-kinds-of-bugs thing.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

My most important lesson in refactoring is that small changes, if applied continuously and with discipline, actually add up to huge improvements. Compounding is not a process that most people find intuitive, and thats as true in engineering as it is in finance, so it requires a lot of encouragement in the early days to stay the course.

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What is a startup?

Startup Lessons Learned

A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty. Startups are designed to confront situations of extreme uncertainty. A startup is a human institution designed to deliver a new product or service under conditions of extreme uncertainty.