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Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 10, 2009
Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Continuous deployment and continuous learning At long last, some of the actual implementers of the advanced systems we built at IMVU for rapid deployment and rapid response are starting to write about it. At IMVU it’s a core part of our culture to ship.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008
We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
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Startup Lessons Learned
NOVEMBER 4, 2008
It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO). Agile software development. Agile allows companies to build higher quality software faster.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
Lean manufacturing , agile software development , and Theory of Constraints are all examples of this idea in action. But notice how many hypotheses are baked into this supposedly simple scenario: we believe we have already solved the distribution problem for our product (or else how could customers try it?).
Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 24, 2009
One is explaining the world as it used to work: the importance of gatekeepers, the scarcity implied by limited distribution, and the resulting quality bar that the industry is so proud of. Mostly it is the time and expense required to create the means of distribution for that industry. It’s just taking some longer than others.
Startup Lessons Learned
SEPTEMBER 18, 2008
For example, we used to be baffled at IMVU by the significant minority of people who would download the software but never chat with anyone. Could this be done on mouse focus, commenting amounts, answer percentages, download percentages, etc? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.
Startup Lessons Learned
JANUARY 12, 2009
Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. As always, Paul is right.
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