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. Good luck, engineering manager. It was painful for a lot of people.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Heres what I do know: The future strength of our economy depends on its ability to create, support, and sustain entrepreneurs. (If If you are somehow not convinced of this point, Ill let Fareed Zakaria explain ) We know who the next generation of entrepreneurs are going to be. Nerds are not entrepreneurs. They are nerds.

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 1, 2009

automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy. By 1931, with the combination of superior financial management and a astute brand and product line strategy, GM had 43% market share to Ford’s 20% – a lead it never relinquished. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 23, 2013

LSC: Tell us about the customer development you did for your book: Alistair: We''ve been thrilled at how Lean Analytics seemed to resonate with founders. We decided to find out, and talked with around 130 founders, entrepreneurs, investors and analysts. The reality, though, is that every company today is a tech company.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Exact dates for all events arent yet pinned down, but heres what Im working on so far: October 28 for a TBA event in Paris, November 2-7 for a series of events in Malmo, Sweden including Øredev , and ending with a workshop at the Martti Ahtisaari Institute of Global Business and Economics at the University of Oulu. Bring your questions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 23, 2009

The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Two Ways to Hold Entrepreneurs Accountable (for Ha. Lean Startup Circle - a mailing list of dedicated and helpful entrepreneurs. If youd like to reserve a spot, please RSVP. Case Study: Continuous deployment makes releases n.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

You cant make these global efficiency improvements until you get clear about the goal of your development process. That leads to a seemingly-obvious question: what is progress in software development? It would be hard to argue against this product development strategy, in general. If a feature worked, wed keep it.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

As a result, sitting here on this plane, Ive been pondering what message I want to deliver on behalf of startups and entrepreneurs. So heres my simple question: What do folks in Washington need to know about the global community of entrepreneurs? So what are good entrepreneur-friendly policies?

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MARCH 13, 2009

Do some Customer Development instead. Figuring this out takes time, and few entrepreneurs have the patience to wait it out, because the business plan does such a good job of explaining what customers are going to think. The problem is that customers dont read your business plan. Help you raise money.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 6, 2008

I see that as an important producer of "energy" and can push up productivity. Perhaps you should think of putting these posts, when they have grown, together into an ebook, a manifesto for growing entrepreneurs? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re an Entrepreneur, you can do it from any place in the world. what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? If you’re a young entrepreneur, than congrats!

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2010

I believe the only way to improve our chances as entrepreneurs is to develop a working theory of entrepreneurship. Sure, when entrepreneurs create startups that grow up into mature companies, they become part of an established industry, with its own ecosystem, norms, partners and best practices.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MARCH 22, 2010

Many of these companies are started by entrepreneurs, and are now household names: Google, Yahoo, eBay and Intel. Like other industries -- from publishing to automobiles -- entrepreneurship is in the process of being disrupted by globalization. The result is a profound democratization of the digital means of production. [.]

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the past, the time to build a first product release was measured in months or even years as startups executed the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. Filed under: Customer Development , Customer Development Manifesto , Venture Capital.

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MAY 9, 2017

The second thing that’s changed is that we’re now Compressing the Product Development Cycle. In the 20 th century startups I was part of, the time to build a first product release was measured in years as we turned out the founder’s vision of what customers wanted. VCs have now ceded more control to founders.

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

A group of Seedcamp entrepreneurs started a startup tools wiki for that purpose, and we thought it would be well suited here. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Great for visualizing work of product development. List of Angel/SuperAngel Investors for entrepreneurs. Codeacademy. Steve Blank.

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