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Lessons Learned: Customer Development Engineering

Startup Lessons Learned

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. Its a nice complement on the product engineering side to his customer development methodology.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

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. (So Labels: customer development , lean startup 8comments: Amy said.

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

Startup Lessons Learned

Beware the new hire who has "extensive experience" in startups or big companies - using a different growth driver. Make sure you test to see if they are truly open minded, because otherwise you risk them banging their head against a wall, trying to use the tactics that worked so well in their previous company. Bring your questions.

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Lessons Learned: Just-In-Time Scalability

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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. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

If not, whos going to insist we switch to free and open source software? For example, how are you going to explain that component drive architecture like.NET isn't going to work for cross platform open open source business models? April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Massive proprietary databases?

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

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Expo San Francisco 2009 The current macroeconomic climate presents unparalleled opportunities for those that can thrive with constrained resources. 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.

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Lessons Learned: Principles of Lean Startups, presentation for.

Startup Lessons Learned

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). Customer development. What is customer development?

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