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

Customer Development 131

Customer Development Engineer San Francisco Developer 131

Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect. At the time no one (including Apple) knew exactly what consumers were going to do with multimedia, it was still pre-Internet. But Apple had planned to announce and demo QuickTime without a way to get video into the Mac.

Video 184

Video Silicon Valley RSS California 184

The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The communication industry gives us the chance to message each other, send meeting notifications, and even engage in live video chats through their app development. There’s no doubt that app development is a popular service that benefits businesses of all types and sizes. Popular examples are Uber, SuperShuttle, and Zipcar.

Developer 95

Developer Offshore Software Developers Software Development 95

Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Steveys Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile : "Google is an exceptionally disciplined company, from a software-engineering perspective. They work hard to keep their house in order at all times, and there are strict rules and guidelines in place that prevent engineers and teams from doing things their own way. Expo SF (May.

Agile 76

Agile San Francisco Software Review Continuous Deployment 76

Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Customer Development is all about gathering a list of what features customers want by talking to them, surveying them, or running “focus groups.” Do you understand you are doubling the amount of work you are going to make for generations of software engineers? And it’s certainly not Customer Development.

Customer Development 284

Customer Development Developer Customer Silicon Valley 284

Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet.

San Francisco 155

San Francisco Technical Cofounder Fractional CTO CTO 155

Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. Lean Startup Circle Boston – Meetup dedicated to the lean startup and customer development methodology. Raizlabs – Mobile Development. Intrepid – Mobile development. Next major event? Future M on Oct 16.

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71