Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

When creating a new market, expect to spend as long as two years before you manage to get traction with early customers, but enjoy the utter lack of competition. I am continuously coaching people to get out and see what is really going on. Tom Peters called the Management By Walking Around - MBWA. What kind of market are you in?

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

This simple three-part framework underlies almost all discussions about technical design today, and it was clearly on display in the recent debates over technical debt. This includes the designers as well as the engineers and product managers. 1] For more on SBCE, see this MIT Sloan Management Review article.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 14, 2009

These founders have not managed, to borrow a phrase from Steve Blank , to create a scalable and repeatable sales process. Eric, I have Steves book and wish I had it for 1 couple of my earlier startups where the framework would have helped our team get on the same page. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

It has to be found and managed. Personally, the framework Ive found most helpful is MTVs "create, share, validate" feedback loop. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? Yeah, weve got that. Leverage is work, though.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Because it has an RSS feed, one could also use "Unresolved Hoptoad Errors" as a metric influencing the continuous deployment system. There are several good unit testing frameworks for Rails, each with their own devotees. Theres a drop-in Rails plugin but this service could be used with any language.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Having had a number of years to try and answer this question at cocktail parties and social gatherings of all kinds, I thought Id try and expand on his framework a little, and then try and use these answers to help make suggestions for those who are trying to get people to buy virtual goods. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Software development is all about managing complexity and the bigger and more mature the codebase gets, the more complex it gets. The new process let us manage the velocity of change in the codebase low, keeping the resistance manageable. Continuous deployment: A key component of speed is to keep pushing out work.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 1, 2009

Q: Does the Lean Startup framework work efficiently within a company of 2-3 people (think small)?" A: yes, yes, yes Q: Does the Lean Startup framework work efficiently within a company of 2-3 people (think small)?" Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. A: yes, absolutely.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 22, 2009

At this meeting, we would present our goals for the cycle, all the raw results wed managed to collect, and our conclusions about what was next. Instead of these dead-ends, use the problem and solution team framework and then: pivot, dont jump. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. 15comments: chrislunt said.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Managing these situations is hard for any company, but potentially lethal for a startup. The theory is that there is some truth in both camps, and the right way to manage the disagreement is to sprinkle a little bit of both into our plans. To the people being managed that way, it feels like the boss is being capricious or arbitrary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 6, 2008

I managed to convince myself that the solution to all of our companys problems were contained in that book, and that if we just faithfully executed a marketing campaign around the principles therein, wed solve everything. We were excited by each new discovery, and each iteration we managed to move the conversion needle a little bit more.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 13, 2009

We didnt manage todo that yet. I think it comes down to managing risk. You create an entire framework of understanding and action based on your product/idea that sets it in motion in a self-sustaining way. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Its just impossible. we are never ready.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

In a few cases, they are clearly smart people in a bad situation, and Ive written about their pain in The product managers lament and The engineering managers lament. The last thing you need is a manager telling you how to do your job. If youve ever been abused by a bad manager in your career, its easy to become traumatized.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

In the meantime, I hope some of you will find the lean startup a helpful framework. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science? The only efforts a new product team should be expending are those that lead to validated learning about customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Accurate - if youve ever been managed by task-tracking software, youll relate to the feeling that you either have to spend ludicrous amounts of time posting updates or the information goes stale. While simple, it is easy to manage. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But I think the value in this framework is that it can help make overall business decisions that require thinking about the whole rather than just one of the parts. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Amazing lean startup resources Is Entrepreneurship a Management Science?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

PHP can do what no other language or framework can (albeit django). The proliferation of high quality, best practices frameworks - such as CakePHP (rails for PHP), Zend Framework (my personal favorite), Simfony and Seagul just to name a few. and Rails as a web framework. Keep HTML HTML and Javascript Javascript.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

a guide for hackers) (This post was inspired by a conversation with Nivi from Venture Hacks , but is otherwise not his fault) There has been a proliferation of frameworks and metaphors lately that are designed to help startups avoid the all-too-common fatal mistake of failing to find a market. Expo (and a call for he.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Each experiment is like a little mystery, and if you can get into a mindset of open-mindedness about the answer, the answers will continually surprise and amaze you. A few days ago I open-sourced a framework for split-testing, A/B testing or continous optimization. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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