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Why Continuous Deployment?

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, June 15, 2009 Why Continuous Deployment? Of all the tactics I have advocated as part of the lean startup , none has provoked as many extreme reactions as continuous deployment , a process that allows companies to release software in minutes instead of days, weeks, or months.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

For example, one angel investor reportedly invested in several hundred social networking ventures employing this philosophy. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Towards a new entrepreneurship ► 2009 (88) ► December (4) Continuous deployment for mission-critical applica.

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

Customers found it confusing and it turned out to be at odds with our fundamental value proposition (which really requires an independant IM network). Labels: agile , continuous deployment , customer development , events , listening to customers , slides 3comments: Sean Murphy said. Talk about waste.

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Building a new startup hub

Startup Lessons Learned

I spent most of my time with TechStars, who were my hosts for the trip. And they expose the startups to a vast network of mentors, none of whom get paid for their involvement. Inspiring ideas: real-time biz metrics; safe continuous deployment; A/B split testing. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Lessons Learned: The three drivers of growth for your business.

Startup Lessons Learned

What those sites have in common (despite their very different audiences) is that something is causing their customers to become addicted to their product, and so no matter how they acquire a new customer, they tend to keep them. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. This has led to exponential growth.

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Lessons Learned: Throwing away working code

Startup Lessons Learned

I was constantly coming up with arguments to save it: that we couldnt be sure that the feature wouldnt be useful later, that maybe some customers liked it even though most didnt, that it wasnt consistent with our company values to become a proprietary IM network. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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Pivot, don't jump to a new vision

Startup Lessons Learned

Ive spoken in some detail about a specific pivot that we went through at IMVU , when we decided to abandon the instant messaging add-on concept, and switch to a standalone instant messaging network. We went through another pivot when we switched again from instant messaging to social networking.