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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. We combined three tactics: extensive use of free software, an open platform for user-generated content, and leveraged distribution channels.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Sound good? It didnt work.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

but few step back and really examine the underlying assumptions of startup finance. So heres the question that I pose to you - our startup helps software companies develop a scalable revenue engine in the form of software-specific hardware devices. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

Among those: plentiful financing and nerds , a culture that celebrates both failure and success, and an ethos of openness and sharing. Just to pick one: will software patents, NDAs and trade secrets laws make it harder for people to share knowledge outside of big companies? Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: Refactoring yourself out of business

Startup Lessons Learned

Its an essential discipline of good software development, especially in startups. My most important lesson in refactoring is that small changes, if applied continuously and with discipline, actually add up to huge improvements. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Heres a company I met with recently.