Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 16, 2020

You still need to: Create quality content on relevant topics that users search for; Make sure search engines can access it; Establish your site as an authority. Enterprise sites are typically bigger, which adds emphasis on technical accessibility, but the basics remain: Can search engines efficiently access your content?

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www.forentrepreneurs.com

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Blog About Log in Register Startup Killer: the Cost of Customer Acquisition In the many thousands of articles advising entrepreneurs on what they have to focus on to build successful startups, much has been written about three key factors: team, product and market, with particular focus on the importance of product/market fit.

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Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Friday, February 20, 2009 Work in small batches Software should be designed, written, and deployed in small batches. Its had tremendous impact in many areas: continuous deployment , just-in-time scalability , and even search engine marketing , to name a few. For software, the easiest batch to see is code.

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View from Seed

MARCH 19, 2015

Engineers and even marketers proudly claim to be “full stack.” Starting in 2009, Savoia began using an approach as an engineering director at Google that helped the tech giant know whether it was about to build the right product for the market … or a product that would flop. Why doesn’t everyone do this?”

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Investors use a consulting CTO for technical due diligence. Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. When to Use a Consulting CTO Time is of the essence in launching a startup company.

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mashable.com

MAY 9, 2011

Hiring the wrong person for key company positions can cost a business thousands — or tens of thousands — of dollars and man hours. When making technical hires, we always reach out to our network of programmer friends and ask them to sit in on interviews and review resumes with us. Have an account? Jesse Davis , Entrustet.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

We’ve heard this from startup founders, product managers, development team leads, CTOs, and others who see their product gaining traction, but simultaneously see performance falling off a cliff. Too often though, it’s the result of performance needs not being properly assessed at the start of work. So, why does this happen?

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Startup Lessons Learned

APRIL 26, 2009

The idea of leverage is simple: for every ounce of effort your product development team puts into your product, find ways to magnify that effort by getting many other people to invest along with you. That engine of creativity has led to a catalog of something like 2 million virtual goods authored by a hundred thousand developers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

A/B Tasty is yet another testing tool designed for the masses, this one hailing from France. Vlad Malik from www.goodui.org gave a review of A/B Tasty: Vlad Malik : “The things I like about ABTasty I like a lot. Can offer much better data due to true user basis then tools like GO or Optimizely. It’s not cheap.

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Up and Running

MAY 6, 2015

The search engines have done a wonderful job of really serving that up. The marketing team wants this video. The web designer’s like, “What do I do?” It really is about in seconds, conveying that through text and design. Those things cost me $5,000, $10,000 a build five or 10 years ago.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

You can learn about customer development, and quite a bit more, in Steves book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. This is a self-published book, originally designed as a companion to Steves class at Berkeleys Haas school of business. Our goal in product development is to find the minimum feature set required to get early customers.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 13, 2009

If we showed the Toyota Production System to an Internet protocol engineer, it is likely that he would remark, "That is a tail-dropping FIFO queue. Reinertsen is keenly aware of what makes product development different from other business functions, like manufacturing, that we sometimes use as a metaphor. First, how big are our queues?

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trada.com

APRIL 7, 2010

Conversely, a willing customer might not have the time to give you consistent feedback in the design stage – they just want the benefits of what you’re offering when it actually works. Fortunately these days there are very low cost ways to organize your communication. Both cannot become efficient without iteration. Great post!

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Company UX leaders are happy to stink less by taking the sub-optimal path of responsive design, rather than create a mobile-unique experience (your customers tend to do different things on your desktop site than your mobile site!). The drilldowns are Keyword, Source (engine) and Mobile Device Branding. CEOs still don't get it.

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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. When they see a problem with the teams process, why dont they just fix it? But when there is a task half-done, its actually slowing the team down. Just change it.

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SVPG

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

You can usually test your idea in a single geography with a single language and payment system, and if things go well, you can do the additional engineering needed for a wide-scale rollout. At established companies, product discovery, with both user and live-data prototypes, is about reducing the risk and cost of innovation.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Some of you out there may find this Google Analytics feature overview to be mostly review. Bonus tip: If you find that segments you’ve created or downloaded from other sources just aren’t fitting, you can (and should) clean house at least every 6 months to reduce clutter that can cost you time. That’s awesome!

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konamoxt.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Understanding these skills is critical to understanding how to hire the right people to flesh out your technology team. We often give the title of “Development Manager&# or “Technical Lead&# to this role. You need these, and hopefully, you can find them in a single person on your team.

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Venture Chronicles

MAY 16, 2012

Everything that SAP delivers must have a migration strategy attached to it, which means they will take longer to deliver products and the cost to develop will be higher. users and only 29m reviews doesn’t suggest a high degree of interaction. SAP knows databases.

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mashable.com

MARCH 7, 2011

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Have an account? Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

Because.NET is designed to extend, not disrupt. NET is designed to tightly integrate with and seamlessly extend the Microsoft stack in extremely powerful but ultimately incremental ways. Some us have evolved past the visual designers. Did you confused the Visual Studio WinForms designer with C#, then accidentally call it.NET?

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

If you’re a business major – go check out the Engineering Society’s monthly meeting. If your school doesn’t already have a student group designed to foster collaboration between groups of students with the skills necessary to get a startup rolling, start one! One’s a PM and the other’s an engineer.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Prestigious London-based Monocle magazine, a global briefing journal covering international affairs, business, culture and design, has chosen Haifa as the city with the most promising business potential for 2011. The lightweight wind turbine is said to reduce installation costs by at least 50 percent.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

They log in to translate the documents, one at a time, marking each finished when done, which sends the file back to the company for review.” Youll estimate time and cost better. Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews.

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