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Tesla and Adobe: Why Continuous Deployment May Mean Continuous Customer Disappointment

Steve Blank

In the last few years Agile and “Continuous Deployment” has replaced Waterfall and transformed how companies big and small build products. But businesses are finding that Continuous Deployment not only changes engineering but has ripple effects on the rest of its business model.

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

This theory has become so influential that I have called it one of the three pillars of the lean startup - every bit as important as the changes in technology or the advent of agile development. Mark Leslie has articulated a very similar methodology to "4 steps to the epiphany" in his "sales learning curve" model which I also find compelling.

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Lessons Learned: The four kinds of work, and how to get them done.

Startup Lessons Learned

This technique rests on three things: identifying the kinds of work that need to get done, creating the right type of teams for each kind, and steering the company by allocating resources among them. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

But, as any startup can tell you, this opens up a tremendous set of opportunities for the rest of us. When I reviewed a recent product development book, it immediately shot up to Amazon sales rank 300. If they don’t, there are a new breed of lean startups who understand this deep in the bones ready to take their place.

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Lo, my 2295 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

If you are willing, please take a moment to fill it out before proceeding with the rest of the post; itll mean less biased results, and youll have a better idea what Im talking about later. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n. Expo SF (May.

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Lessons Learned: Inc Magazine on Minimum Viable Product (and a.

Startup Lessons Learned

Then, the company spends no more than a few hundred dollars marketing the product through search engines and to the contacts in its sales database and LinkedIn. Read the rest. The Inc story, and many others, does a good job emphasizing its lean-ness. Read the rest. There is no way to know for sure.

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Lessons Learned: Don't launch

Startup Lessons Learned

In particular, a marketing launch can help you do three things (courtesy, as is most of my marketing advice, of The Four Steps to the Epiphany ): Drive customers into your sales pipeline. The rest can believe what they want. The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.