Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Sunday, October 5, 2008 The product managers lament Life is not easy when youre working in an old-fashioned waterfall development process, no matter what role you play. The product manager was clearly struggling to get results from the rest of the team. Lets start with what the product manager does.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 19, 2011

Levels of Agile adoption span the full spectrum across our 6 Scrum teams. The most advanced of these teams, by adhering to the build-measure-learn methodology, has managed to reduce so much waste from their process that they’ve actually become an internal version of a lean startup within the context of our larger organization.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 13, 2017

Traditionally associated with development and product management, agile is a lightweight and, well, agile framework for software development and bringing features and products to market. Before we dive into the marketing applications, however, let’s briefly cover what scrum is and how it came to be. Simple to understand.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

As informed by agile software development , some of the basic ideas behind running a startup the agile way include: Welcoming change. As you can see, most of these are quite common for the startup ecosystem, either due to the specific realities of the marketplace or due to the progressive mindset that most startup founders exhibit.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

As soon as you have more than one product manager, or more than one interaction designer, teams face this question. Alignment with User/Customer. Please note that I’m not referring here to internal customers or stakeholders; that’s below under alignment with business units. Alignment with Development Team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

But there is more to technical debt than just the interest payments that come due. In particular, try these three things: Invest in technical debts that may never come due. Yet there is one silver lining when it does happen: we wind up throwing out working code , debt-riddled and elegantly designed alike.

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SVPG

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Scrum teams can actually be forced into Big Bang releases too. It is still better to push the software progressively, even if you push it incrementally but dark so customers don’t see it. I know it’s counter-intuitive, but this just isn’t how software works. But it’s not limited to Waterfall.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Should you co-found your company with a software development shop? I’ve talked with a number of software development shops who are eager to get into the business of cofounding companies, i.e., getting product revenue and equity instead of just consulting revenue. Vlad is also the CEO at DarwinApps , a software development shop.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The traditional buyer’s funnel relies on linear decision-making, assuming that an audience will move neatly to become a prospect, then customer. Keep in mind, however, that customers won’t necessarily go through these stages in order. For example, Kanban and Scrum are two popular agile project management rituals.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 15, 2011

It's challenging to build, design and deploy software. It's also challenging to attract and retain a loyal community of customers and users. Almost every software engineer I've ever worked with is irrational in how fast they believe they can build software. Use Solid Agile Process for Estimating Development Timeline.

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 25, 2020

As a veteran of many disasters in which improvising in the moment to meet an immediate need led to innovative solutions, Carl has been impressed by how many businesses, small and large, have reinvented the way they serve their customers during the pandemic. Then they've gotten to work. It's member-owned.

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Because then you’d miss out on: Whether it’s better experience to build a complete, tiny startup or to do more in-depth customer development for a meatier problem. So that means stuff like thinking about what a business model might be, it does mean customer development. So I have a question for you, Jason. Patrick: Exactly.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Normally as a company grows this changes as management layers are added, and work simply becomes less efficient. The rest are providing central services like marketing, customer care and localization (20%) or others like HR, PR, Finance, Business Analytics and teams that maintain simple services for persistence of games.

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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.” Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. Decline bids from providers without many great reviews. The translator rejects or approves.

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steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Home Books for Startups Guide Secret History-Bibliography Steve Blank Startup Tools Steve Blank Entries RSS | Comments RSS Email Subscription Get Steve Blank via your RSS Feed RSS - Posts RSS - Comments Categories Air Force (12) Ardent (10) Audubon (1) Big Companies versus Startups: Durant versus Sloan (39) Business Model versus Business Plan (..)

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www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Task Management. Project Management Tools. Customer service. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. Google Custom Search Engine. SW Courses.

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