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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

Its power is matched only by the amount of confusion that it causes, because its actually quite hard to do. In a lot of cases, this requires a lot of energy invested in talking to customers or metrics and analytics. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. It certainly took me many years to make sense of it.

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Join the Lean Startup discussion at Web 2.0 Expo for free

Startup Lessons Learned

Ill do my best to match deserving people up with appropriate sponsors, and Ill be glad to recognize those that give on the blog and at the conference itself. Startup Visa update ► February (5) Kiwi lean startup + Australia next Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business) Beware of Vanity Metrics (for Harvard Business Rev.

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Lessons Learned: Validated learning about customers

Startup Lessons Learned

Every board meeting, the metrics of success change. Time-to-complete-a-sale is not a bad metric for validated learning at this stage. Perhaps they’ll be able to hire someone especially skilled in the marketing skills needed to find this positioning. And yet, their investors are frustrated.

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No departments

Startup Lessons Learned

The team hired only the best and the brightest. This feedback is a nasty trap, and it’s just how this room full of otherwise rational adults wound up in a screaming match about rounded corners. The team hired only the best and the brightest. I once worked at a startup with an exceptional functional department system.

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Good enough never is (or is it?)

Startup Lessons Learned

No vanity metrics should be looked at. Again, the answer is derived from the hard-won wisdom of the scientific method: making specific, concrete predictions and then testing them via experiments that are supposed to match those predictions helps scientists train their intuition towards the truth. No vanity metrics should be looked at.

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Not crossing the chasm

Startup Lessons Learned

In a subscription business, maybe your attrition starts matching your acquisition, balancing like magic. Or your cost of customer acquisition just magically floats up to match your customer lifetime value. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Nothing seems to matter. we dont talk enough about how it feels.

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The Lean Startup Tokyo edition

Startup Lessons Learned

For one, it doesnt match my experience having worked with some true visionaries at all. My belief is that what makes product visionaries awesome is their ability to have radical empathy for their customers, and then to rigorously hold teams accountable for building solutions that match that standard.

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