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. Unfortunately, positioning our product as an "IM add-on" was a complete mistake.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

There is an unspoken rule: to launch a startup, you need to build a product, and to do that you need someone that can write code. They’re getting their first customers with minimal technology, and often no code at all. They’re jumping right in to serve customers in any way possible – heading right for their first paying customers.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 16, 2011

Freshdesk First, Girish Mathrubootham from Chennai, India, pitched Freshdesk , a SaaS company that provides small and medium businesses with on-demand customer support software that offers multi-channel social support. Freshdesk introduces itself as a kind of Salesforce.com for customer support so to speak.

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Steve Blank

MAY 11, 2009

And I got to experience a type of customer buying behavior I had never seen before – the Novelty Effect. Present at the Creation It was early 1991 and Apple’s software development team was hard at work on QuickTime , the first multimedia framework for a computer. And they were right. We knew something our CEO didn’t.

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Software By Rob

AUGUST 24, 2011

Karl is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience who specializes in agile web development and web services integrations. He authors a software development blog at [link]. There comes a time in a software developer’s career where they reach a crossroads and ask themselves, “What next?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 29, 2013

To a small app developer like Gliffy , that means waves of curious customers will soon be searching the Office App Store for new tools. ‘We were thinking, is there any other software package that is larger, worldwide? But Gliffy is hoping for a surge of new customers and downloads as Microsoft opens the Office Store.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

MARCH 24, 2010

Fog Creek explicitly recognizes that many good software engineers have no desire whatsoever to do "management" or to take on a formal personnel management role. One of the purposes of the Fog Creek Professional Ladder is to create a career path with promotions for engineers who simply do not want to do management stuff at all.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Maybe youd like to start with The lean startup , How to listen to customers , or What does a startup CTO actually do? ) 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.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

The otherwise identical homes could be customized with the interior designs, embellishments and personal touch of the owners. Today in the tech industry, we’re entering an era of Levittown software, and the change is important for all businesses. The base product is quickly deployed, cost-effective and customizable.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). Having managed a lot of software development both local and offshore, this is a topic I plan to write more on. Customer Support. Sure Payroll is a good service.

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Startup Lessons Learned

OCTOBER 16, 2013

We work in prototypically four-week iterations, with quality engineers and software developers working in close collaboration. During this period, the Palantir Gotham team grew from five developers to around 35. It wasn’t always this way. So what was going on?

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SoCal CTO

JULY 23, 2012

While I do fill that role at the moment, I'm a little hesitant to refer to myself as a CTO as we still haven't launched a product, acquired a single user, or turned or a penny in profit. How are we going to manage the product roadmap? How will we find and interview developers? How do we motivate and manage developers?

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Now Back to Software Let’s translate this to being a software developer / entrepreneur. Some people excel at not needing social interaction and being extremely productive on their own. It’s not only more productive to capitalize on your strengths, it’s way more fun.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 5, 2018

It really started as an in-house software solution to address the stock woes that I had with my custom t-shirt printing business. Spreadsheets sort of worked for a while but it didn’t scale with my t-shirt business and it certainly didn’t help me to invoice my customers on time or avoid an overstocked situation.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Nudge is a fast pace, but still insightful with real world examples that you can apply her recent issue, talked about the, the idea of getting your customers, your prospects, in the habit of buying from you, or listening to you or following you. You have to balance that because without restaurants you kinda ha not gonna have customers.

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

Blog Blazers: 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets Startup Success Podcast, Open Source For-Profit Startups, One Laptop Per Child 2008, and $19 Usability Testing → The Software Product Myth Micropreneurship , Startups If youre trying grow your startup youve come to the right place. Except for one thing.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 14, 2017

At its heart, DDD outlines an approach to software development with a set of principals and tools. We are focusing on four primary principals from DDD: an emphasis on business value, cross-functional collaboration and a focus on the big picture, all while employing software best practices.

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blog.nahurst.com

JULY 19, 2010

Software developers are a hot commodity right now, and many of them know it, so theyre on the lookout for really stellar business people to partner with, not some run-of-the-mill, me-too idea having, 10k foot synergizer without any concrete sales prospects, marketing ability, or product experience. I am now pulling in 8 figures.

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www.quora.com

JANUARY 16, 2011

As someone who asked this question myself at one point, and someone who started one of the many websites specifically to address this issue, please pardon me and allow me to be blunt by translating this into engineer speak. "Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?" You, a creative guy?

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ConversionXL

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Product leaders often believe it’s cheaper to buy software than build it. You don’t need a large development team or outside capital to build your own software from scratch. Gartner forecasts enterprise software spending will total almost $572 billion worldwide by 2022. But that’s not always the case.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 19, 2018

We launched as Leather Nova with just two specialty leather care products. We wanted customers to know where we specialized, so leather had to be part of the title. When our products took off on Amazon we realized that there was more runway to care for high-end products, but the name Leather Nova was too restrictive.

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

If you want to serve enterprise customers,NET is one of the best ways to do that and do it well. The tools which you find restrictive I consider a huge timesaver (which paying customers tend to appreciate)… they allow me to rapidly prototype and get solutions to customers. It’s so blinded, it’s shocking.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. is what we call the Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Dont wait 4 weeks or more while programmers are "building features" If they cant deploy new features into production at least twice a week, dont use them. Dont aim for the lowest bid.

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