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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 7, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, September 7, 2008 Customer Development Engineering Yesterday, I had the opportunity to guest lecture again in Steve Blank s entrepreneurship class at the Berkeley-Columbia executive MBA program. Can this methodology be used for startups that are not exclusively about software?

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Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Saturday, November 8, 2008 What is customer development? For software, we have many - you can enjoy a nice long list on Wikipedia. But too often when its time to think about customers, marketing, positioning, or PR, we delegate it to "marketroids" or "suits."

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 8, 2008 Waves of technology platforms I still remember the first time I switched to LAMP. It felt like software that grownups were supposed to use, and we didnt qualify. That startup didnt turn out so well, but not for lack of technology. I dont really remember why it didnt work.

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How to Start A New Business in Less Than 50 Hours

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2012

Over Saturday and Sunday teams focus on customer development, validating their ideas and building a minimal viable product. I could have gone to Nice (France) or Minsk or Bergen (Norway), but the event in my hometown was a lot easier to get to. There are more than 80 similar facilitators around the world. "I

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

But by taking advantage of open source, agile software, and iterative development, lean startups can operate with much less waste. I am heavily indebted to earlier theorists, and highly recommend the books Lean Thinking and Lean Software Development. Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

We wanted an agile approach that would allow us to build our software architecture as we needed it, without downtime, but also without large amounts of up-front cost. After all, the worst kind of waste in software development is code to support a use case that never materializes. Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

San Francisco

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

As Ive written previously , lean startups are built upon three main trends: Technology commoditization. It is becoming easier and cheaper for companies to bring products to market, leveraging free and open source software , cloud computing, open social data (Facebook, OpenSocial ), and open distribution (AdWords, SEO).

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

What does your Chief Technology Officer do all day? When Ive asked mentors of mine who have worked in big companies about the role of the CTO, they usually talk about the importance of being the external face of the companys technology platform; an evangelist to developers, customers, and employees. Heres my take.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

He previously co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. I know many people who think that software works like magic, but to me it actually was magic.

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Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 30, 2009

I thought Id share a little bit of that, too: I’ve been interested in different approaches to software development going back to 1987 when – in my first company Feld Technologies – my partner Dave Jilk and I started talking about “semi-custom software development&# (way ahead of its time).

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Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

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. The batch size is the unit at which work-products move between stages in a development process. For software, the easiest batch to see is code. This is easiest to see in deployment.

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On deployment

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Tuesday, September 2, 2008 On deployment My favorite question to ask a software development team is "how do you do a release." How long does the software sit un-deployed? The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? How fast do they iterate?

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Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

Its inspired by the classic OODA Loop and is really just a simplified version of that concept, applied specifically to creating a software product development team. Were a software company, so what we do everyday is turn ideas into code. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

San Francisco

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Before she was an investor, Magdalena founded two electronic commerce companies, CyberCash – a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems, and MarketPay , an embedded payments software company. Technology is a fantastic field if you’re a curious person because there’s always something new to learn.

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The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

The Lean Startup is a practical approach for creating and managing a new breed of company that excels in low-cost experimentation, rapid iteration, and true customer insight. It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0, Labels: events 2comments: Andrew Meyer said. Check out what I am doing at.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

Steve Blank

APRIL 15, 2016

Before she was an investor, Magdalena founded two electronic commerce companies, CyberCash – a pioneer in the secure electronic payment systems, and MarketPay , an embedded payments software company. Technology is a fantastic field if you’re a curious person because there’s always something new to learn.

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Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

I am convinced one of Joel Spolskys lasting contributions to the field of managing software teams will turn out to be the Joel Test , a checklist of 12 essential practices that you could use to rate the effectiveness of a software product development team. Please leave feedback!) They just dont happen.

Software Review

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Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 27, 2009

Im going to be speaking on June 3rd at an event sponsored by the Technology Entrepreneurs Exchange (TeXchange), "the premier networking organization in Texas for business executives and entrepreneurs to meet, exchange ideas and share experiences." It uses principles of agile software development, open source and web 2.0,

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Lessons Learned: Test-Driven Development as andon cord

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, September 1, 2008 Test-Driven Development as andon cord You cannot control what you cannot see, and the hardest part of managing software projects is that the final product is so intangible. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 20, 2008

They just assumed it was the way software companies worked. Unfortunately, threats work a lot better at incentivizing people to CYA than getting them to write quality software. When I first encountered agile software techniques, in the form of extreme programming , I thought I had found the answer. Sound good? It didnt work.

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Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 10, 2008

His post is ostensibly about how often to release new work (whether youre a blog writer, movie star, software team.) I’ve been in the software industry for a long time. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? That’s all fine and dandy.

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Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 2, 2009

My son is planning a software product that will take the mystery out of wikis and make the technology easier for consumers to use. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? I just emailed your article to him and recommended that he take your advice to heart.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

That data is completely consonant with the people I know who are successful technologists today, and similar patterns are documented in each recent wave of technology innovation. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Its this second point I want to emphasize.

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Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

For example, we used to be baffled at IMVU by the significant minority of people who would download the software but never chat with anyone. This is a good sign for you! :) I subscribed because I was inspired by the O'Reilly video, and feel I want to go deeper into the customer development field. So why you?

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

As one engineer recently told me, “Once we had money in the bank and were near-profitable, I think we would have been well-served by increased up-front product and technology planning. Let's consider cases: Can you have a piece of software with good product design and bad technical design? He’s right. Eric, great post.

Technical Review

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 24, 2009

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. But the same technologies that make life difficult for traditional marketers also offer them unprecedented new opportunities.

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The free software hiring advantage

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Wednesday, February 11, 2009 The free software hiring advantage This is one of those startup tips Im a little reluctant to share, because its been such a powerful source of competitive advantage in the companies Ive worked with. Especially for a startup, not taking maximum advantage of free software is crazy.

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Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 8, 2009

Each company would enroll two leaders in the series, one on the technology side, one on the business side. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. No departments The Five Whys for Startups (for Harvard Business R.

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The Promise of the Lean Startup

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 20, 2009

Heres the excerpt: Today’s high-tech entrepreneurs have at their command more than just the ability to invent new technologies — they have mastered the discipline and the methodology required to harness those technologies in order to serve customers. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what.

Lean

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Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 3, 2009

Refreshing to finally see lean and agile thinking emerge in product/business-floors and not only in technology. Critical also, as the lean company/start-up can not be lean by just using lean principles in IT and not in Product Development/Management - a common misinterpretation of the Toyota Production System.

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Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

Its an academic treatise that tries to answer a seemingly straightforward question: after World War II, why did Silicon Valley become the undisputed leader of the technology world, while Bostons Route 128 corridor did not. Worldwide developments based on this research led to modern radio communication, television, and the electronics age.

Silicon Valley

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Lessons Learned: You buy virtual goods

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Brands are so pervasive that even those people who want to make a statement against it (do you build all your own software from source?) The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? The same is true of brand-name products in almost every category (and it can be measured ).

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The Steve Jobs method

Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 1, 2009

And in some cases, they disregard the results of customer focus groups if they sense that the results are incongruous. Not everything has to follow lean startup and customer development principles, and I write that as a devoted practitioner of both. No new, ground breaking technologies in the iPhone.

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Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

What all these teachers had in common were two things: they were technology early adopters that were willing to take a chance on a new software product, and they all had similar problems organizing their classes and students. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup?

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Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 7, 2008

Its common to find a hacker at the heart of almost any successful technology company. A really good technology executive can notice problems like the ones Im talking about today and address them proactively. Thats the ultimate task for the companys technology leadership. Hire a CTO or VP Engineering. Does this sound familiar?

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What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I started my last company with 100% off-shore resources because I could never have completed Customer Development at a reasonable cost of money or regulatory burden had I employed US Citizens. Thirdly, revamp how intellectual property rights are applied to software and code. So should copyrights and patents on software code.

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Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

For software engineers, I think this absolutely has to be a programming problem solved on a whiteboard. Youre not an interviewer per-se but you still need to make a very careful selection of who you go into business with both from a personality perspective and a technology perspective. What is customer development?

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team. Even if men have an innate advantage at software development, the gap would have to be massive in order to explain why startup after startup has an all-male team.

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You don't need as many tools as you think

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

My favorite instance of this is scheduling software. Accurate - if youve ever been managed by task-tracking software, youll relate to the feeling that you either have to spend ludicrous amounts of time posting updates or the information goes stale. Its another example of the refactoring principle in action.

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Thoughts on scientific product development

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

For example, trying to make server software more scalable. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development ► June (3) What is a startup? Waves of technology platforms The lean startup Customer Development Engineering Greasemonkey compiler Great open source scalability tools from Danga Ideas.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

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OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 12, 2009

Since then, PHP (as part of the LAMP stack ) has really been the dominant development platform, at least in the free software and startup worlds. When we started IMVU in 2004, we could rely on a staggering amount of open source software that jumpstarted our initial product offering. As always, Paul is right. Nice article.

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Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

What I found particularly interesting, looking back, is that the McCain campaign had superior technology, voter lists, and numbers on their side. Our campaigns software tools were pretty poor (dont let the fancy website fool you, the volunteers are working from an antiquated system). What is customer development?

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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Lessons Learned: What is customer development?

Trending Sources

Waves of technology platforms

How to Start A New Business in Less Than 50 Hours

Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Lessons Learned: About the author

Techstars brings The Lean Startup to Boulder

Lessons Learned: Work in small batches

On deployment

Lessons Learned: Ideas. Code. Data. Implement. Measure. Learn

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

The lean startup @ Web 2.0 Expo (and a call for help)

Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 28: Magdalena Yesil and Michael Mondavi

Lessons Learned: A new version of the Joel Test (draft)

Austin: the Lean Startup tour continues

Lessons Learned: Test-Driven Development as andon cord

Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Seth Godin: How often should you publish?

Lessons Learned on Mashable today

Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Lessons Learned: Lo, my 5 subscribers, who are you?

Embrace technical debt

Marching through quicksand

The free software hiring advantage

Introducing the Lean Startup Cohort subscription program

The Promise of the Lean Startup

Minimum Viable Product: a guide

Lessons Learned: Where did Silicon Valley come from?

Lessons Learned: You buy virtual goods

The Steve Jobs method

Lo, my 1032 subscribers, who are you?

Lessons Learned: The hacker's lament

What would you want to tell Washington DC about startups?

Lessons Learned: The ABCDEF's of conducting a technical interview

Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

You don't need as many tools as you think

Thoughts on scientific product development

From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Learning from Obama: maneuver warfare on the campaign trail

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